Prayer of heart Thursday of the fourth week of Easter. Oh, holy spirit,
love of a father and told him always inspire me what I must think,
what I must say, how I must say, what I must silence,
how I must act, what I must do. For the Glory of
God, well of the Souls and my own sanctification. Holy Spirit Give me,
acuity to understand, ability, to retain, method of tra faculty,
to offend, use to interpret. Thank you and efficiency to speak. Make
me right, at the beginning, saying, as you progress and perfect,
finish amen. Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Mark. Evangelist. His
gospel says the number sixteen chapter, sixteen verses, fifteen to twenty. At
that time Jesus appeared to the XII and told the whole world and you proclaim
the Gospel to all creation and believe that this news will be saved and that
it will be assisted to believe will be condemned. Those who believe will be
accompanied by these signs, cast demons into my name, speak new tongues,
take snakes in their hands, and if they drink a deadly poison, it
will not hurt them. Put your hands on the sick and they' ll
be healthy. After speaking to them, his Lord Jesus to the temple and
be all the joy of God, they went to proclaim the Gospel everywhere and
the Lord cooperated by confirming the word with the signs that accompanied them. Lord
You call me to dedicate myself to preaching your Gospel what a privilege, to
be able to contribute to the extension of your kingdom. To achieve this,
I need to increase my faith and charity. Therefore I ask that this prayer
be the means to strengthen my conviction to be a true disciple and apostle of
your love. Woe where, Lord to know, to reciprocate with love and
service to others to the gift of your redemption. We found ourselves on the
Mount of Olives, in the same place where forty days earlier, Jesus was
delivered up by one of his disciples and where all the others abandoned him.
But things have changed and are no longer the same apostles before the resolution has
changed us and Jesus realizes this. That' s why it gives them a
new mission. To preach the gospel to all men, to raise up faith,
to transmit salvation through baptism. Hence the mission of the apostles after the
resolution and our other Catholics today are those resurrected apostles. It is true that
in our day we have abandoned Christ many times because of this Jesus, but
it is Jesus who does not care. He calls us to appear to the
Gospel with a quality ardor that compels us to transmit to others the truth we
have found. It will give us the strength to be both word and deed,
a fer good witness to the Gospel. What makes us, however,
different from the apostles? We have the Hignocé the same charity to Ivautrina,
the same God, but we lack his love of Christ, which led him
to consider all rubbish and dung compared to Christ. According to an ecclesiastical attraction,
Mark also called John Mark. Possibly John is the author of a gospel
and the interpreter who translated Peter from his preaching in front of the auditoriums of
the Greek bullet. He was the son of a certain abanía whose house in
Jerusalem was opened the early Christian community, cousin of Barnabas, probably as he
of Styrpe priestly affirms, on the one hand, of the tradition that Mark
would never have been heard personally to the preaching of the lord but on the
other, but on the other, many have wanted to discover him in that
boy who fled naked and the garden of Jessemaní, episode that only the gospel
and to him attributed refers, Perhaps he has known the group of followers,
without becoming likely disciple. At the beginning of the expansion of the Gospel,
Paul and Arab left Jerusalem for Antioch, taking Mark with them. He accompanied
them in their first missionary missionary enterprises to Chipri and Pereges, from where he
returned for unknown causes. Berrabe, eager to bring Christ with them very again.
When the Apostle was planning a second trip, he found the opposition of
Paul, who left alone. Marco then continued to see once again to Chipé.
However, Mark who appears next to Paul in Rome, but it is
belief that he was Ivory disciple of Peter, who confirms this assumption by calling
him his son. It is his first letter, the Gospel attributed to him.
In addition, he continues to be very scornful to whom it is called
that of the discourse of Peter and have kept to us the Book of the
Acts of the Apostles. We know nothing of their later existence. Timothy’
s second letter points it out among the companions of this disciple of Paul,
according to a data collected by the historian. I am of cease, as
the fourth Chivo did, more or less the Church of Alexandria would have had
him as founder his last years and, instead of his death, they are
unknown. Today is a day of conversion. Let' s not wait any
longer. We invite these apostles, those quoted, and we ask for that
faith and that love that will also make us light and fire, in the
darkness of the world, to proclaim the gospel with your witness and doubting others,
taking the example of Mark that we celebrate today. Lord Jesus, in
order to evangelize, I need to have you in the midst of my life
and this involves having you present throughout the tube of the world, all day,
in my various activities, to become a person of prayer and action that
can present the beauty of your love with naturalness and joy, with cunning and
constancy, so that on me, all that above all my testimony, is
a help so that others can know you and follow you. He' ll
tell you venice. May the goodness and goodness of God, Father, have
in your heart that my fairy, love son and God, son of entering
into your soul and purify you from your restlessness and lack that can separate you
from God, may the love of the Holy Spirit grant you the peace you
need, the tenderness of Mary, mother of God plus our weaving perish and
may the strength that simple to Joseph your father. Lord, lead to heaven
the mission of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, making upon you
and always accompany you Amen