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Prayer of the Heart Sunday of the
Fourth Week of Easter, Oh, Holy

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Spirit Love of the Father and the
Son, always inspire me what I must

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think, what I must say,
as I must say, what I must

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silence, how I must act,
what I must do for the glory of

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God and good of the Souls and
my poor sanctification. Holy Spirit Give me,

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sharpness to understand, ability, to
retain, method and faculty, to

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learn, subtlety to interpret, grace
and effectiveness, to speak also right,

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at the beginning of direction, to
provide and perfect, to finish amen.

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Today we celebrate St Anselm of Canterbury, bishop and doctor of the Church.

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The Gospel is from St John,
chapter ten verses eleven and eighteen. At

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that time Jesus said, I am
the good shepherd, the good shepherd of

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life for his sheep. The wage- earner, who is neither shepherd nor

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owner of the sheep. Go come
the wolf abandons the sheep and flees and

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the wolf wreaks havoc and scatters them
and is that still wage earner does not

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care about the ears. I'
m the good shepherd I know mine,

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and mine know me, just like
the father. He knows me and I

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know the father. I give my
life for the sheep. I also have

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other sheep that are not of this
fold. These too I have to attract

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and they will listen to my voice. There will be only one flock and

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one shepherd. This is why the
father loves me, because I give my

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life so I can get it back. No one takes it from me,

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but I have it freely. I
have the power to deliver it and I

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have the power to get it back. This command I have received from my

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father Jesus is the good shepherd.
The sheep listen to his voice and follow

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him. A pastor who speaks the
tongue of his people makes himself understood,

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tells the truth, the things of
God. I never deal with God'

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s things, but he says them
in such a way that he teaches people

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to love God and so they follow
me. Who I like to follow,

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To those who tell me about things, to those who talk about abstract things

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or moral casuistics, to what they
say about God' s people, but

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they have no faith and negotiate everything
with the political, economic powers to those

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who always want to do strange things, destructive things, wars called deliberation,

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but in the end they are not
the way of the Lord. What is

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the question, What makes us meditate
on prayer and ask God, Father,

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to help us approach Jesus to amaze
us of what he himself tells us.

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In some countries, Easter Sunday is
the Good Shepherd’ s Day. It

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is also celebrated on Holy Thursday,
the day of the priests. Thank God,

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the Church has many very holy priests
at all altitudes of the world,

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but some of our enemies have rabidly
co- fabulated to attack them with slander,

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to discredit them and publicly tarnish their
good reputation and reputation. It is

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true that in some priests they have
not been worthy of their condition. But

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you can' t take everything for
the part. But if Christ himself was

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persecuted and slandered, we cannot expect
a different fate for his live priests did

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not warn him. The disciple is
nothing but his master. If they call

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the master Beelzebub or prince of demons, the more he throws away his house,

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if he slanders us or unjustly slanders
us, it is a sign that

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we go the same way that our
lord followed. It is true that some

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have failed and this is a great
pain for the mystical cupro of Christ,

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for priests are also human beings,
fragile and sinful, and we must do

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justice and publicly acknowledge that good priests
are, fortunately, the vast majority almost

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all and behave with good shepherds,
following the example of Jesus Christ, good

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shepherd all of us, in the
most diverse circumstances of life we have had

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used holy priests who have helped us
to stand, despite the difficulties. To

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them we owe the perseverance of our
faith and our Christian vocation. I remember

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with great affection and I am sure
that you too, dear reader friend,

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the figure of priests who have left
an indelible mark of existence, because they

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have known to be like Christ,
good shepherds, shepherds with all that means,

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and also good true pastors, friends
and companions in the life of St

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Francis de Sales. That ineffably kind, sweet and kind bishop people used to

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say how good God should be,
when the bishop of Geneva is already so

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good and it is told that an
unbelieving man of 19th century France around the

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year. In one thousand eight hundred
forty he was invited to visit Father John

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Mary come and known as the Holy
Curé of ars despite having gone against his

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will. After meeting him, he
exclaimed. Today I have seen God in

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a man of St Joseph Mary tell
many events of heroic charity. I remember

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one of thousands lived charity with great
delicacy in the fifties, during the renovation

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work in the house of Retiro to
die the old near Segovia. One of

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the workers was robbed on a train
trip to Abadrid. His wife was waiting

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for a child. He was robbed
of everything he had saved to pay for

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the clinic' s expenses and the
newborn' s trousseau. When San José

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María was in r or NR and
commissioned an architect member of OPUSDA and Fernando

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de la Puente to reimburse that worker
for the sum they had stolen from him,

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adding a generous donation. It is
also impressive the testimony that in Arrus

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personally, a few years ago,
a Mr Tadeus Contrunsski, then Apostolic Administrator

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of European Russia and Archbishop of Moscow
Emeritus today told that Perry is a city

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in two rural areas and during communism
there were concentration camps there. A Lithuanian

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sacedote named Sigitas Tankevicius, or the
metropolitan bishop of Caunas, was still in

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detention there in the 1980s. After
Holy Mass, Rusie was invited to visit

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the cemetery. They carried a teratumba
of the first priest who had worked in

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that city dead in the 19th century. People told him for sixty years we

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have remained without church and priest,
but there was this tomb and during the

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holidays we came here and prayed about
this tomb we even confessed our sins.

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None of us have known the priest
who is buried here from him. We

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only know what our grandparents have told
us. And yet, during those or

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the sixties, invisibly, he has
been present among us as if he had

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left the earth to teach us to
be faithful to our Christian vocation. Thanks

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to this tomb we have preserved the
faith that is now reborn and strengthened thanks

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to God. In our church there
are many holy priests and like these we

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have whole regions and gazes of examples
priests who full of love for God and

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others, wear their lives in silence
and hidden, like the candle of the

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Blessed Sacrament, which is consumed day
and night in a continuous self of love

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and worship of Jesus Cabaristia. We
priests also have to tell him of your

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prayer and show support so that the
Lord of all may be given the gift

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of holiness and perseverance in vocation.
We must also pray for priestly vocations so

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that God, the owner of the
harvest, sends to his church many holy

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priests according to his heart. Good
shepherds like Jesus, What a good shepherd

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who gives to life for his sheep
gives you the blessing, may the goodness

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and mercy of God, Father fill
your heart, may the gaze of love

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of God, son penetrate your soul
and purify you from any restlessness and lack

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that can separate you from God,
may the love of God, Holy Spirit,

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grant you the peace you need,
may the tenderness of Mary, mother

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of God and our mother caress and
protect you, and may the strength and

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simplicity of St Joseph, our father
and lord lead you to heaven and the

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vision of God, Father son and
Holy Spirit, feel upon you and accompany

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you always amen