Prayer of the heart Saturday of the twelfth week of ordinary time, come Holy
Spirit, to give me your ever new life. Fill me with the astonishment
of a child to admire the world of life that I do not get used
to in life that let me be surprised for every morning, because behind everything
is your Love, my God help me to recognize that routine does not exist,
because everything is new every day, because there is always something that is
beginning. Take all my life Holy Spirit, and it will be from the
eternal novelty of your Love that this day will not pass in vain and I
will be able to discover the message that you have today for my life.
But, Holy Spirit, amen today we celebrate the solitude of St Peter and
St Peter and St Paul apostles the Gospel of St Matthew, chapter sixteen verses
thirteen to nineteen. At that time, upon arriving in the necessary region of
Philippi, to his questions, to his disciples, who the people say is
the son of man. They answered some that John the Baptist, others that
thou wouldest, others that thou wouldest, one of the prophets, and I
ask him, and you, who shall say that it is I, if
Món, Peter, thy good word, saith unto him, Thou art,
the Messiah, the son of the living God Jesus, answered him blessedly,
Simon the son of Jonah; for that hath not been revealed unto thee by
any flesh and blood, but by my father. What are the heavens.
Now I tell you, Thou art, Peter, and upon the stone I
will build in my church, and the power of hell shall not melt it.
I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, what you
do on earth will be bound in heaven and what you untie on earth will
be loosed in heaven. SSS, Peter, answer thou art, the Christ,
the son of God alive at once. Jesus pronounces the solemn declaration that
he defends once and for all you give the role of Peter in the church
and I, in my turn I say to you You are, Peter,
and on this stone I will build my church. To you will I give
the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatever you bind on earth will be
bound in heaven and whatever you bind on earth will be loosed in heaven.
The three metaphors Jesus uses are in itself very clear. Peter will be the
foundation of the rock rock on which the Church building will rest, he will
have the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to open and close to whoever he
deems appropriate. And finally, he may bind or loose, that is,
he may say or forbid whatever he deems necessary for the life of the Church
which is and remains Christ' s. It is always the Church of Christ.
It is not the Church of Peter Christ. Ask your apostles who the
people say I am puts this question only after they have completed their mission of
teaching what the Father has told you. The case could be said to be
already on the table and now it is time for the trial to be delivered.
However, people who have seen and heard all the evidence necessary to recognize
him as messiahs do not end up understanding and their designs, their signs.
It is as if a veil covered their eyes and prevented them from giving a
sure and convincing answer. You are the Christ, the son of the Rio
God. For Peter, as for Paul, later on, Christ is an
authentic enigma, difficult to say, for example, what Peter would think when
he saw his teacher walking on the waters or what feelings would run away in
his heart. Then, when he hears of Christ about you I will fix
my church and later he tells him apart from my satan this mysterious one.
Having seen it we would understand better with the eyes of the faith given to
us by the father. As long as the c is not the oxygen of
our life, we will be able to recognize Christ as Glysiah. That is
why Christ says to Peter, blessed you Peter, because this has not been
revealed to you by any man, but by my father, who is in
heaven, the gift of faith is what the Father does to Peter, not
because of Peter' s merit, but because of his personal qualities was a
fisherman, but because of God' s own goodness. It is the gift
or most precious and it is to recognize Christ as a messiah, as the
true light to guide our steps towards eternal life. And thanks to c Peter
and Paul they will find the strength to carry out their mission on earth.
Make a special prayer for the Pope today. For example, this one I
copy you, Mr Gelling Father, almighty and merciful saint that you have placed
Pope Francis at the head of your church. I pray you, bless him,
enlighten him, and send forth your angels to go before him. Pour
out your holy spirit upon him. I will grant a fesoid like the rock,
so that it can confirm us in it and we will always remain in
the truth. Give him the wisdom that comes from your throne face so that
his word may be posture, his humble heart, and his wise decisions.
Make him surround himself with good collaborators. Proclaim the Catholic faith to a dying
world at a time and time, so one will recognize your child. Take
care of the little ones, the poor and the weak and protect the sheep
from the wolves. Lead him along the path of commands so that he will
do what is pleasing to your eyes and always and on every TV Glory that
goes most holy, protect you especially and interpret for him all the saints.
Amen. Saul was a Jew trained, prepared and fulfilling the law. Saul
is in charge of reminding us well by reading today' s Mass his exceptional
Jewish résumé, son of Alumnus, I have done, this and the other
a blameless guy. Moreover, his work as a persecutor of Christians does not
spring from his wickedness, but from his zeal for upholding law and orthodoxy and,
in the midst of the vortex of his relentless struggle for the purest Jesus,
the Nazarene breaks into his heart by throwing a question at him why you
persecute me is the question he asks, which points to the depths of Saul
' s heart or what is behind your struggle. Saul does not, why,
God, sure, Jesus comes into our life and touches it the depth
of what we love. Jesus comes and disassembles us with an uncomfortable question that
frees us from our farce, from our false discourse, from our deception.
Jesus comes to free us from our own struggles, from those we face to
safeguard ourselves by a thousand clothed with God who are unarmed. Saul asks him
what he has to do to recognize a gentleman whom he does not know how
to name yet. At first, we should not be afraid not to know
how to recognize Jesus many times, but we should listen to the hollow of
our hearts to what challenges him, overwhelms him, makes him uncomfortable, displaces
him. That which we don' t know how to name presents Sometimes suddenly
it can be Jesus the Nazarene. Saul asks what he should do. Just
like us, always thinking that following that man is doing what to do.
Saul only knows how to comply. He' s a professional complimenter, an
untiring chardor in law enforcement. Saul asked what to do. Jesus Christ invited
him to be a son like him of God. The saulo of the law
became the saulo of love, the saulo of prestige gave way to the saulo
of service, the saulo of persecution gave way to the saud of worship.
It is only in the same way that he gives way to the sau and
I know that he took care of Christ you from the blessing that God,
Fathers, will accompany you in your heart, take care of you, make
you strong, joyful and faithful. May God son, make you feel his
warmth, his tenderness and his mercy, and give you his heart a heart
that in your heart any inquietud that can make you suffer that your Holy Spirit
deduces you in intelligence, strength in your heart renewed spirit and desire to love
with all your heart that Blessed Mary swallows in give her mother' s warmth
and her loving and tender embrace and St Joseph takes care of you with a
father' s heart, in the name of the father and son and of
the Holy Spirit amen