Prayer of the heart Thursday of the Easter Octave of Resurrection. Come Holy Spirit,
without you there is no life worth living. Therefore, from my doubts,
fears, transannies and librities, I want to invoke you come Holy Spirit,
to water it that you are. Dry Come to strengthen what is weak,
come to heal what is sick. Transfer me, restore me, renew
me with intimate and fruitful ration. Today we celebrate Saint Benedict Massarare, among
the Gospels of Saint Luke. Chapter twenty- four vesicles thirty- five to
forty- eight. At that time he told loriscipulos what had happened to them
along the way and how they had recognized Jesus from the breaking of the bread.
They were talking about these things. When he presents himself to Jesus in
the midst of them and tells peace to you full of fear by surprise,
they thought they saw a phantom cynic. He told them why you are alarmed,
why doubts arise within you, look at my hands and feet. It
' s me in person beating me and realizing that a ghost doesn' t
have carri and bones like you hear I have. And having said this,
he showed them his hands and his feet, and since they had not just
wanted for joy, they were still amazed, and he said to them,
" You have something to eat" They offered him a piece of roast fish.
He took it and ate before them and told them this is what I
told you while I was with you that everything written in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and psalms about me had to be fulfilled. Then he
opened their understanding to understand the scriptures, and thus he added, and it
was written in messiah, and he shall suffer from the dead. On the
third day and in his name will be preached the conversion and the predon of
sins to all peoples, beginning with Jerusalem, you are witnesses of this he
comments to Pope Francis, He, on the evening of Easter, opens the
minds of the disciples to the mystery of his death and resurrection and tells them
you are Tensive of all this. The apostles who saw with their own eyes
that this resurrected man could not silence his extraordinary experience. He had shown himself
to them so that the truth of his resolution would reach all through his witness,
and the Church has the task of prolonging this mission in time. Every
baptized person is called to bear witness with the words and with the life that
Jesus has risen, that Jesus is alive and present among us all, we
all have, we are all called to bear witness that Jesus is alive.
We can ask ourselves, but who is the witness, the witness one that
has seen, that remembers and counts to see remember and so are the three
verbs that describe the r of nra and the vision. Dismissal is one that
has seen, with objective eye, that has seen a reality, but not
with indifferent eye, has seen and let itself be involved by event. That
is why he remembers not only because you know how to reconstruct the events in
a precise way, but also because those facts have spoken to him and have
captured his deep sense. Then the witness counts not in a cold and distant
way, but as one who has stopped questioning and since that day has changed
gives life. The witness is one who changes his life. The content of
Christian witness is not a theory, it is not an ideology or a complex
system of precepts and prohibitions or a moralism, but it is a message of
salvation, a concrete event. It' s more like a person. He
is Christ, risen, living and only saved from all. He can be
witnessed by who he is, a personal experience has been made of him in
prayer and in the church through a path that has its foundation in baptism,
its nourishment, it is madness, its seal in confirmation, its continuous conversion
into penance so far a worthiness of Pope Francis. Joy, as good is
itself diffusive, is allowed you always got the job that you were looking for
your son Pasol that more difficult solved a problem that was at work. Then
you feel happy and you want everyone to find out and go out with you.
That' s what happened to the faint Maus and the other cyps in
the first encounters with the Risen One. They have recognized the Risen Christ and
want everyone to rejoice with them. They have become missionaries, apostles of the
Gospel. The fruit of recognizing Jesus is always the same. Joy. For
nothing we remember that smile of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who learned to recognize
Jesus in her neighbor to meet Christ. Don' t let your pending things
distract you from your purpose by devoting more time to prayer and to the resurrected
dialogue Jesus. Like the disciples, I sometimes see the fulfillment of your Holy
will as something disproportionate to my strength. My illusions, influenced by my selfishness
and pride, do not allow me to discover what I really must do.
I want to be faithful and correspond to your love. That is why I
ask for the intercession of Mary, your most holy mother, so that,
like her, she will never doubt your divine providence and let your grace act.
These Easter memories we can meditate on with these other testimonies of the resolution.
The holy women tomas the apostles are like flashes about a reality that will
always overflow us and that make us glimpse what Christ expects this risen to expect
from us. It is always he who takes the initiative and who manifests himself
freely choosing whomever he wants. He wants to be recognized and shows signs to
achieve it, but does not force anything let his interlocutor find his answer in
freedom. This encounter breaks in such a way all the conceptions about life and
death that each one must make a whole journey of recognition, fear, doubt,
joy, incredulousness, commotion, adoration. Some of the disciples get it,
they don' t get forgiveness. Each reveals his inner dispositions and we
understand that the decisive thing to advance toward him is love. Once recognized,
Jesus reveals that he is no longer dead, but alive. Speak walks,
eats that he is still the same but different master of the limitations of this
world. Jesus records his resolve and the son history of Israel in the Holy
Scripture and invites us to read them and understand them in the light of the
Paschal event. In addition, he leads from the visible to the invisible,
from the physical contact, to the signs of the sensitive presence, to the
sacraments in which he will surrender himself and, above all, to the locrest
of his interlocutors. Understand that Jesus is more than the Messiah, my lord,
and my God exclaims all, all these encounters end with a mission sending.
Jesus trusts in each one the responsibility to count this encounter with him and
to bear witness to the good news of salvation. Jesus thus forms the heart
and intellect to bear witness to him before the Holy Spirit of strength to do
so. All these apparitions of the risen Christ thus reflect a personal encounter with
him. Each of us is called to them by the sacrans in prayer and
in all our lives. Jesus is always our contemporary and we too are called
by him to take up the same challenge as his first witnesses, you Say,
the blessing God the Father, who, by the resolution of his only
begotten son, has redeemed you and given you witness of the adoption filar Os
Colme with the joy of his blessing, Christ who placed retention or held perfect
freedom. May I grant you to share in the eternal inheritance and you,
raised by baptism, by faith, through a holy life, may come to
the heavenly part and the blessing of God, almighty father, son and holy
spirit, saying about you and always accompany you amen