Prayer of the heart. Thursday of the fifth week of Lent holy spirit.
I believe in you I hope in you I love you Only you deserve the
worship of the human heart and it is only before you I must bow down
only you are the glorious lord with a beauty that I cannot even imagine.
So, sir, don' t let me give anything as if I were
a god, because no being or anything in this world is worth so much.
I recognize you as master lord of my life, allow me to lose
the serenity and joy of things that are not worth so much. Today we
celebrate St Nicholas of Flow in Switzerland. The Gospel is from St John,
chapter eight verses fifty- one to fifty- nine. Really, at that
time, did Jesus tell the Jews? Really? Verily I say unto you,
Whosoever keepeth my word shall not see death for ever? The Jews told
him. Now we see clearly that you' re in mode. Abraham died
for his prophets too and you say whoever keeps my word will not taste death
forever. You are more than our Father, who died also the prophets died
for whom you have. Jesus answered if I should morify myself my glory not
day anything. It is my father, whom you say is our God,
even though you do not know him. I do know him and if I
said or knew him, I would be, like us, a liar.
But I know him and keep his word. Abraham, your father, leaped
with joy thinking of seeing my day, and saw it, and was filled
with joy, and the rivers told him not all. You are not yet
fifty years old and I have seen Great Jesus tell you in truth. I
tell you the truth before it will have existed. I am then they took
lost stones in them, but Jesus hid and left the temple. Lord I
want to be to say your word and have a moment of intimacy with you
in prayer. I believe I hope and love you give me your light so
that I can keep the silence necessary to hear what you have to tell me
today. Lord help me to increase the life of grace and always live according
to it. The Gospel of John not only provides a sort of tachygraphic transcription
of the words and the way of Jesus, but, by virtue of the
understanding obtained by remembering, accompanies us beyond the outer aspect to the depth of
the word and events. That depth that comes from God and leads us to
him. The Gospel is just as I remember, and that means it conforms
to the reality that has happened and is not an epic composition about Jesus,
an alteration of historical events. Rather, he truly shows us Jesus as he
was, and precisely in this way, he shows us who was not only,
but is the one who at all times can say prisoner. I am
sure that before I was born, I am this Gospel shows us the true
Jesus and we can use it calmly as a source about Jesus. The Pharisees
were the doctors of the law. They knew the writing, the prophecies,
they fulfilled all the precepts, they wore philacteria hanging and they constantly remembered that
the Lord was the only God. They remembered him being at home and going
on their way down and up. These Pharisees who are so familiar with the
law were accused by Jesus of not knowing God, the author of the law,
whom you say is your father. You don' t know him.
It is to be seen that today too we run the risk of turning Christianity
into a series of laws and norms and precepts of Christianity. It' s
a lot more. It is first and foremost the revelation to man of the
mystery of God, of Christ, son of or God. It would be
a shame if we were concerned to fulfill your Christian duties, forgetting about Christ,
like the Pharisees, fulfilling the law and not knowing God, on the
one hand. On the other hand, when one knows God, when he
becomes his friend, then the desire to please him in everything is born spontaneously,
to fulfill his will with delicacy. Jesus Christ, says I know him
and keep his word. First you know him, then you keep your word.
It is good for us, then, to know God in order to
fulfill his will. Be faithful to his laws and precepts. When we hear
someone complain that Christian morality is very demanding, when we reveal ourselves internally to
some difficulty it entails, it will not be because we have emptied Christ'
s Christianity, It will not be that we are trying to live the law
without knowing deeply God, author of the law. In God' s love
and monkeys, let us know Christ. We' ll all get a lot
easier and easier to carry. Check your activities to find out what place God
occupies in your life. Lord Jesus, who can easily deny you the right
place in my life, I do not want to allow myself to return for
his transitory and fleeting to know, to devote the greatest and the best time
of my life to the service of others for your sake. That is why
I thank you for this moment of prayer that makes me recognize, thank and
evaluate the use that I am giving to all the talents with which you have
enriched my life, especially to use in my time. Then, the blessing
that the goodness and mysticism of God, Father, has the heart that the
gaze of love of God made me enter into your soul and purify you from
any uneasiness and lack that can separate you from God, that the love of
God, Holy Spirit, grant you the peace that you need, that the
tenderness of me more and the mother of God and our mother caresses and protects
you and the strength and is encircled by St Joseph your father, Lord You,
lead to heaven and come to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
You, kindle upon you and accompany you always Amen.