Prayer of the Heart Sunday of the Fourth Week of Easter, Oh, Holy
Spirit Love of the Father and the Son, always inspire me what I must
think, what I must say, as I must say, what I must
silence, how I must act, what I must do for the glory of
God and good of the Souls and my poor sanctification. Holy Spirit Give me,
sharpness to understand, ability, to retain, method and faculty, to
learn, subtlety to interpret, grace and effectiveness, to speak also right,
at the beginning of direction, to provide and perfect, to finish amen.
Today we celebrate St Anselm of Canterbury, bishop and doctor of the Church.
The Gospel is from St John, chapter ten verses eleven and eighteen. At
that time Jesus said, I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd of
life for his sheep. The wage- earner, who is neither shepherd nor
owner of the sheep. Go come the wolf abandons the sheep and flees and
the wolf wreaks havoc and scatters them and is that still wage earner does not
care about the ears. I' m the good shepherd I know mine,
and mine know me, just like the father. He knows me and I
know the father. I give my life for the sheep. I also have
other sheep that are not of this fold. These too I have to attract
and they will listen to my voice. There will be only one flock and
one shepherd. This is why the father loves me, because I give my
life so I can get it back. No one takes it from me,
but I have it freely. I have the power to deliver it and I
have the power to get it back. This command I have received from my
father Jesus is the good shepherd. The sheep listen to his voice and follow
him. A pastor who speaks the tongue of his people makes himself understood,
tells the truth, the things of God. I never deal with God'
s things, but he says them in such a way that he teaches people
to love God and so they follow me. Who I like to follow,
To those who tell me about things, to those who talk about abstract things
or moral casuistics, to what they say about God' s people, but
they have no faith and negotiate everything with the political, economic powers to those
who always want to do strange things, destructive things, wars called deliberation,
but in the end they are not the way of the Lord. What is
the question, What makes us meditate on prayer and ask God, Father,
to help us approach Jesus to amaze us of what he himself tells us.
In some countries, Easter Sunday is the Good Shepherd’ s Day. It
is also celebrated on Holy Thursday, the day of the priests. Thank God,
the Church has many very holy priests at all altitudes of the world,
but some of our enemies have rabidly co- fabulated to attack them with slander,
to discredit them and publicly tarnish their good reputation and reputation. It is
true that in some priests they have not been worthy of their condition. But
you can' t take everything for the part. But if Christ himself was
persecuted and slandered, we cannot expect a different fate for his live priests did
not warn him. The disciple is nothing but his master. If they call
the master Beelzebub or prince of demons, the more he throws away his house,
if he slanders us or unjustly slanders us, it is a sign that
we go the same way that our lord followed. It is true that some
have failed and this is a great pain for the mystical cupro of Christ,
for priests are also human beings, fragile and sinful, and we must do
justice and publicly acknowledge that good priests are, fortunately, the vast majority almost
all and behave with good shepherds, following the example of Jesus Christ, good
shepherd all of us, in the most diverse circumstances of life we have had
used holy priests who have helped us to stand, despite the difficulties. To
them we owe the perseverance of our faith and our Christian vocation. I remember
with great affection and I am sure that you too, dear reader friend,
the figure of priests who have left an indelible mark of existence, because they
have known to be like Christ, good shepherds, shepherds with all that means,
and also good true pastors, friends and companions in the life of St
Francis de Sales. That ineffably kind, sweet and kind bishop people used to
say how good God should be, when the bishop of Geneva is already so
good and it is told that an unbelieving man of 19th century France around the
year. In one thousand eight hundred forty he was invited to visit Father John
Mary come and known as the Holy Curé of ars despite having gone against his
will. After meeting him, he exclaimed. Today I have seen God in
a man of St Joseph Mary tell many events of heroic charity. I remember
one of thousands lived charity with great delicacy in the fifties, during the renovation
work in the house of Retiro to die the old near Segovia. One of
the workers was robbed on a train trip to Abadrid. His wife was waiting
for a child. He was robbed of everything he had saved to pay for
the clinic' s expenses and the newborn' s trousseau. When San José
María was in r or NR and commissioned an architect member of OPUSDA and Fernando
de la Puente to reimburse that worker for the sum they had stolen from him,
adding a generous donation. It is also impressive the testimony that in Arrus
personally, a few years ago, a Mr Tadeus Contrunsski, then Apostolic Administrator
of European Russia and Archbishop of Moscow Emeritus today told that Perry is a city
in two rural areas and during communism there were concentration camps there. A Lithuanian
sacedote named Sigitas Tankevicius, or the metropolitan bishop of Caunas, was still in
detention there in the 1980s. After Holy Mass, Rusie was invited to visit
the cemetery. They carried a teratumba of the first priest who had worked in
that city dead in the 19th century. People told him for sixty years we
have remained without church and priest, but there was this tomb and during the
holidays we came here and prayed about this tomb we even confessed our sins.
None of us have known the priest who is buried here from him. We
only know what our grandparents have told us. And yet, during those or
the sixties, invisibly, he has been present among us as if he had
left the earth to teach us to be faithful to our Christian vocation. Thanks
to this tomb we have preserved the faith that is now reborn and strengthened thanks
to God. In our church there are many holy priests and like these we
have whole regions and gazes of examples priests who full of love for God and
others, wear their lives in silence and hidden, like the candle of the
Blessed Sacrament, which is consumed day and night in a continuous self of love
and worship of Jesus Cabaristia. We priests also have to tell him of your
prayer and show support so that the Lord of all may be given the gift
of holiness and perseverance in vocation. We must also pray for priestly vocations so
that God, the owner of the harvest, sends to his church many holy
priests according to his heart. Good shepherds like Jesus, What a good shepherd
who gives to life for his sheep gives you the blessing, may the goodness
and mercy of God, Father fill your heart, may the gaze of love
of God, son penetrate your soul and purify you from any restlessness and lack
that can separate you from God, may the love of God, Holy Spirit,
grant you the peace you need, may the tenderness of Mary, mother
of God and our mother caress and protect you, and may the strength and
simplicity of St Joseph, our father and lord lead you to heaven and the
vision of God, Father son and Holy Spirit, feel upon you and accompany
you always amen