1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:07,400 Prayer of the Heart Sunday of the Fifth Week of Easter, Oh, Holy 2 00:00:07,599 --> 00:00:14,279 Spirit Love of the Father and the Son, Always inspire me what I must 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:19,440 think, what I must say, how I must say, not that I 4 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:23,280 must shut up, what I must act, what I must do for the 5 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,239 Glory of God, well of the Souls and my own sanctification. Holy Spirit 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:32,399 Give me. Accuracy to understand, ability to retain, method and faculty to 7 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:37,479 learn, subtlety to interpret, Thank you and effectiveness to speak. Give me, 8 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,920 right at the start, direction, progress and perfection, at the end. 9 00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:48,799 Amen. Today we celebrate St Louis Mary, Griñón de Montfort, the 10 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,759 Gospel of St John, chapter fifteen verses, one to eight. At that 11 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:59,560 time Jesus said to his disciples. I am the true vine and my father 12 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,640 is the farmer. Every branch of mine that beareth no fruit plucketh it up, 13 00:01:03,799 --> 00:01:07,799 and every one that beareth fruit pruneth not, that it may give the 14 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:12,840 fruit. You are already cleansed by the words that I have spoken to you, 15 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,640 but you do it to me and I to you. As a branch 16 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,879 it cannot bear fruit on its own unless it abides in the vine, neither 17 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:23,799 can you. If you do not remain in me, I am the vine 18 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:27,439 you, the branches that remain in me and I in him that bear abundant 19 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:32,959 fruit, for without me you can do nothing. He who does not remain 20 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 in me is blind outside like the branch and dries up and one gathers it, 21 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,920 throws it into the fire and burns if you remain in me and my 22 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,599 words that seem in you ask what you desire and it will be done. 23 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:51,560 With this my father receives my glory, with which you bear fruit, so 24 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:57,319 six disciples, my many diciples. Lord You have told me that if I 25 00:01:57,359 --> 00:02:00,840 am not attached to the vine, I do not pout the fruit. I 26 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,120 know that you are that see and that prayer is the burn to you. 27 00:02:06,239 --> 00:02:09,719 Help me in this meditation to know you more to be closer to You that 28 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:16,479 I cannot separate and that you can never separate me so that I can bear 29 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,439 much fruit of love in my life, Lord that I never part from you. 30 00:02:23,039 --> 00:02:27,240 To accomplish this we must remain united with Christ. His words are the 31 00:02:27,319 --> 00:02:32,719 basis of our effectiveness. I am the vine your branches, for without me 32 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:39,879 you can do nothing. He also calls us today to a greater A greater 33 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:46,479 love, because he invites us to a permanent conversion of the heart. He 34 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,759 calls us a greater union with him in his Church, for that is where 35 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,240 we find him, and union with Christ in his Church is the essential condition 36 00:02:54,319 --> 00:03:00,000 of all our apostolic significance. We have heard the good news of salvation and 37 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:06,960 embraced it with joy, bearing fruits of justice and holiness of life. But 38 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:10,159 it is important that the grace of faith be developed in us and in all 39 00:03:10,159 --> 00:03:15,879 customers with the help of God and lead us to a deeper knowledge of the 40 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:22,280 person and message of our Lord Jesus Christ. The need for systematic catechesis is 41 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,159 one of the greatest needs of the Church at this time. It is a 42 00:03:27,199 --> 00:03:31,520 great challenge for all of us, as Catholics, as laymen, it is 43 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:38,560 called, Pope John said for an individual and collectively II to face this challenge. 44 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:44,080 Among all the opportunities we have open for the exercise of the individual bet, 45 00:03:44,759 --> 00:03:49,680 the family occupies a place of paramount importance. The family can provide an 46 00:03:49,719 --> 00:03:54,599 effective response to the secularization of the world. The family has a special charism 47 00:03:55,120 --> 00:04:02,319 to transmit the faith and to be and to stimulate in its development an initial 48 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:08,840 evangelization within the intimacy of the family that individuals can find the opportunity to give 49 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:13,840 a personal witness of Christ' s love. Parents have the right and duty 50 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:18,120 to catalyze their children. He has the privilege of being the first to teach 51 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:24,079 his children to pray in the words of John Paul II. I would like 52 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:29,079 to encourage parents to say, in their role as educators of children, they 53 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:35,560 are the first catechists and the best that great task have and what challenge to 54 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:41,160 teach their children to love God, to make lovelessness, an idea of their 55 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,879 life and by the grace of God that easily accept some families to fulfill the 56 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,680 mission of being primum seminarium. The germ of a vocation to the priesthood is 57 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,879 nourished through family prayer, the example of faith and the support of love. 58 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,360 So far from the words of Pope John by II, also quoting John Palurmer, 59 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,279 Jesus is the vine Through him, as the lymph of the tree, 60 00:05:04,519 --> 00:05:09,920 brings to the branches the love of God himself, the holy spirit is so 61 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,480 We are branches and through this parable, Jesus wants to make us understand the 62 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:20,959 importance is united to him. The branches are not self- sufficient, but 63 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:27,120 depend entirely on the vine in which the spring of their life is found. 64 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,399 Thus it is for us Christians inserted with autism into Christ, we have freely 65 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:41,120 received from him the gift of eternal life and can remain in communion with Christ. 66 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,439 Christ wants me to be united with him, not only so that it 67 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:50,800 may be so that I may demand myself alive, that is, in the 68 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,879 life of Grace, but also so that my witness as a Christian may be 69 00:05:55,879 --> 00:06:00,639 true and coherent. My prayer must be to want to fill me with God 70 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,199 and then be able to convey it. Seek to join God throughout this day 71 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:12,240 so that he will act through You in each of your acts. Jesus make 72 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:17,920 me not afraid to be a true Christian. Eh knowing that all he asks 73 00:06:17,959 --> 00:06:24,759 of me is to always serve together with YOU and that the reward you give 74 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:30,160 me is you yourself who do not want to flee sacrifice and renunciation as long 75 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,399 as it is more and more similar. To You I gave the blessing, 76 00:06:34,639 --> 00:06:38,920 that the goodness and mercy of God, Father, has the heart that as 77 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,120 the love of God, Son, they see the slope in your soul and 78 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,040 purify you from any restlessness and lack that can separate you from God, that 79 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,680 the love of God the Holy Spirit grant you the peace that you need, 80 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:54,120 that the tenderness of Mary, Father of God and our mother caresses and protects 81 00:06:54,199 --> 00:06:57,519 you, and that the strength and confinement of Saint Joseph, our father, 82 00:06:58,199 --> 00:07:00,759 Lord Thee, lead to heaven and the mission of God, father, son 83 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:04,959 and holy spirit, descends upon you and accompanies you always Amen.