Prayer of the heart. Sunday of the fourth week of Lent see holy spirit,
creative spirit, visit the souls of your faithful and fill with divine grace
the hearts that you yourself created. You are our comforting gift from God,
the highest source, living, fire, charity and spirit to anointing. You
spill on us the sites. You the finger of the hand of God,
You the promised of the Father, You who put on our lips, the
treasures of your word kindle with your light our senses, infuse your love in
our hearts and with your perpetual help, strengthen that weak flesh Glory to God,
Father, there is the son who rose again and the comforting spirit endless
proselytes. Amen today we celebrate St Mari Eugenia de Jesús Villeretti de brou founder
of the Congregation of the Sisters, of the Assumption for the Christian Education of
the Girls. The Gospel of St John, chapter three verses, fourteen to
twenty- one. At that time Jesus told Nicodemus the same thing that Moses
raised the serpent in the wilderness. Thus must the son of man be raised
up so that everyone who believes in him may have everlasting life. God loved
the world so much that he gave up his only son so that he would
not deserve any of those who believe in him, but that they might have
eternal life, for God did not send his son into the world to judge
the world, but that the world might be saved by him. Whoever believes
in him will not be judged. He who does not believe is already judged
because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God.
The judgment consists in this that the light came into the world and that men
preferred the darkness of light because their works were evil, for everything that works
perversely detests the light and does not approach the light so as not to be
accused for its works. Instead, the one who realizes the truth approaches the
light so that it may be seen that his works are done according to God.
Thank you, sir, for your love. I want to do good
according to your truth. Let this prayer increase my faith my confidence and my
filial attitude of love so that my attitudes and behaviors grow in love. Jesus,
help me to draw near to your light so that I may enlighten my
whole being and radiate it to others. Everything becomes meaningful when you find this
treasure that Jesus calls the Kingdom of God, that is, God who reigns
in your life, in our life, God who is love, peace and
joy in every man and in all men. This is what God wants.
That is why Jesus has given himself to die on the cross to free us
from the power of darkness and bring us to the Kingdom of life, of
beauty, of goodness. The joy in reading the Gospel is to find Jesus
and have this Christian joy, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
The joy of having found the treasure of God’ s Kingdom transpires, you
see, the Christian. He cannot hide his faith because he perspires in every
word, in every gesture, also in the simplest and most daily breaths the
love that God has given us through Jesus. The book of numbers tells us
the long pilgrimage of the Israeli people through the desert during their forty years.
In the end, they reach Mount New, across the Jordan, before entering
the promised land the Bible. He tells us that Jesus died there. There
he died very well. This book also tells us, among other things,
all the rebellions of the Israelites against God and against Moses for not giving credence
to his promises and for murmuring corda. Then God refers us to the Bible.
He sent them snakes to punish the rebels. Many were bitten and after
a deep fiber frin, they died before this panorama. Moses, at the
request of the people hour b and in response, the lord commands him to
make a bronze serpent and place it on the staff. All who suffered a
snake bite just by seeing it would heal Jesus Christ. Our Lord in today
' s gospel evokes this biblical passage as Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness.
Thus it is necessary that the son of man has risen so that everyone
who believes in him may have everlasting life. He is clearly already telling us
about his passion and his next orchard on the cross. He will also be
lifted up on the earth and placed on a staff as a sign and cause
of our salvation. Even so that he contemplates with faith the crucified and you
truly accept him as redeemer will obtain eternal life, But Christ wants to make
clear the motive of his father, of his passion and of his death on
the Cross, the infinite love of the father towards us to give us his
only son, to redeem you from sin and, on the other hand,
that also the total freedom with which the son will give himself death for the
love of man. No one will take my life. He' ll say
in another passage. It is I who give it for myself, for I
have the power to give it and to return and take this purpose again.
I remember a very beautiful story. It is said that on one occasion a
man was sailing on a sailboat along with his er and a friend of his
son, along the Pacific coast. Suddenly there was a strong storm that prevented
them from returning to the mainland. The waves became so fierce that the father,
despite being a man of experience, could not keep the float. The
boat and the waters of the Ocean dragged the three of them violently. The
father, in his frenzied fight against the sea, managed to grab a rope,
but immediately had to make the most terrible decision of his life to which
of the two boys to throw the other end of the rope. He had
only a few seconds to make up his mind. The agony of the decision
was much worse than the onslaughts of the waves. He looked at his son
and he didn' t scream I love you very much, my son,
and he threw the rope at his son' s friend. In the time
that it took the friend to get to the sailboat, he rolled in a
bell. His son disappeared under the strong oraxes of the darkness of the night
never managed to find his body. Perhaps this real story can help us understand
how difficult it must have been for God to give up his son to save
us, which is almost impossible to believe if it weren' t for that
son' s friend to be each one of us. I repeat, that
son' s friend was each of us. During the beautiful celebration of the
Easter Vigil, the Church puts on the lips of the priest who proclaims the
proclamation these moving words of what would not serve to be born if we had
not been rescued. What incomparable tenderness and charity to rescue the slave who gives
the son. That' s no more, no less. We are getting
closer and closer to Lord A' s Passover, the celebration of the mysteries
of the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. May we,
day after day, enter into that prayer and meditation with immense devotion and
faith and in all that it meant for Christ to go to the Cross for
us, what infinite love and generosity on his part to die in your and
mine place, to return our friendship with God and open through the gates of
heaven. And may this meditation lead each one of us to choose to live
in the light and not in the darkness, as Christ asks us in today
' s journey, that is, to lead an authentic life of grace and
to banish forever the sin of our life in all its forms and manifestations of
the blessing that God, mighty bless you with all manner of heavenly comings so
that you may be irreproachable saints in his presence, pour out upon others the
riches of his grace or build with the word of truth and with the gospel
of salvation. And make you rich with the beloved brother and blessing of God,
all- powerful father, son, and holy spirit, come down upon
you, and abide always.