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Prayer of the heart. Sunday of
the fourth week of Lent see holy spirit,

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creative spirit, visit the souls of
your faithful and fill with divine grace

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the hearts that you yourself created.
You are our comforting gift from God,

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the highest source, living, fire, charity and spirit to anointing. You

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spill on us the sites. You
the finger of the hand of God,

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You the promised of the Father,
You who put on our lips, the

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treasures of your word kindle with your
light our senses, infuse your love in

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our hearts and with your perpetual help, strengthen that weak flesh Glory to God,

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Father, there is the son who
rose again and the comforting spirit endless

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proselytes. Amen today we celebrate St
Mari Eugenia de Jesús Villeretti de brou founder

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of the Congregation of the Sisters,
of the Assumption for the Christian Education of

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the Girls. The Gospel of St
John, chapter three verses, fourteen to

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twenty- one. At that time
Jesus told Nicodemus the same thing that Moses

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raised the serpent in the wilderness.
Thus must the son of man be raised

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up so that everyone who believes in
him may have everlasting life. God loved

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the world so much that he gave
up his only son so that he would

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not deserve any of those who believe
in him, but that they might have

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eternal life, for God did not
send his son into the world to judge

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the world, but that the world
might be saved by him. Whoever believes

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in him will not be judged.
He who does not believe is already judged

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because he has not believed in the
name of the only son of God.

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The judgment consists in this that the
light came into the world and that men

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preferred the darkness of light because their
works were evil, for everything that works

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perversely detests the light and does not
approach the light so as not to be

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accused for its works. Instead,
the one who realizes the truth approaches the

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light so that it may be seen
that his works are done according to God.

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Thank you, sir, for your
love. I want to do good

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according to your truth. Let this
prayer increase my faith my confidence and my

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filial attitude of love so that my
attitudes and behaviors grow in love. Jesus,

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help me to draw near to your
light so that I may enlighten my

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whole being and radiate it to others. Everything becomes meaningful when you find this

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treasure that Jesus calls the Kingdom of
God, that is, God who reigns

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in your life, in our life, God who is love, peace and

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joy in every man and in all
men. This is what God wants.

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That is why Jesus has given himself
to die on the cross to free us

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from the power of darkness and bring
us to the Kingdom of life, of

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beauty, of goodness. The joy
in reading the Gospel is to find Jesus

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and have this Christian joy, which
is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

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The joy of having found the treasure
of God’ s Kingdom transpires, you

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see, the Christian. He cannot
hide his faith because he perspires in every

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word, in every gesture, also
in the simplest and most daily breaths the

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love that God has given us through
Jesus. The book of numbers tells us

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the long pilgrimage of the Israeli people
through the desert during their forty years.

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In the end, they reach Mount
New, across the Jordan, before entering

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the promised land the Bible. He
tells us that Jesus died there. There

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he died very well. This book
also tells us, among other things,

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all the rebellions of the Israelites against
God and against Moses for not giving credence

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to his promises and for murmuring corda. Then God refers us to the Bible.

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He sent them snakes to punish the
rebels. Many were bitten and after

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a deep fiber frin, they died
before this panorama. Moses, at the

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request of the people hour b and
in response, the lord commands him to

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make a bronze serpent and place it
on the staff. All who suffered a

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snake bite just by seeing it would
heal Jesus Christ. Our Lord in today

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' s gospel evokes this biblical passage
as Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness.

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Thus it is necessary that the son
of man has risen so that everyone

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who believes in him may have everlasting
life. He is clearly already telling us

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about his passion and his next orchard
on the cross. He will also be

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lifted up on the earth and placed
on a staff as a sign and cause

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of our salvation. Even so that
he contemplates with faith the crucified and you

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truly accept him as redeemer will obtain
eternal life, But Christ wants to make

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clear the motive of his father,
of his passion and of his death on

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the Cross, the infinite love of
the father towards us to give us his

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only son, to redeem you from
sin and, on the other hand,

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that also the total freedom with which
the son will give himself death for the

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love of man. No one will
take my life. He' ll say

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in another passage. It is I
who give it for myself, for I

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have the power to give it and
to return and take this purpose again.

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I remember a very beautiful story.
It is said that on one occasion a

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man was sailing on a sailboat along
with his er and a friend of his

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son, along the Pacific coast.
Suddenly there was a strong storm that prevented

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them from returning to the mainland.
The waves became so fierce that the father,

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despite being a man of experience,
could not keep the float. The

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boat and the waters of the Ocean
dragged the three of them violently. The

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father, in his frenzied fight against
the sea, managed to grab a rope,

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but immediately had to make the most
terrible decision of his life to which

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of the two boys to throw the
other end of the rope. He had

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only a few seconds to make up
his mind. The agony of the decision

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was much worse than the onslaughts of
the waves. He looked at his son

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and he didn' t scream I
love you very much, my son,

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and he threw the rope at his
son' s friend. In the time

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that it took the friend to get
to the sailboat, he rolled in a

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bell. His son disappeared under the
strong oraxes of the darkness of the night

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never managed to find his body.
Perhaps this real story can help us understand

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how difficult it must have been for
God to give up his son to save

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us, which is almost impossible to
believe if it weren' t for that

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son' s friend to be each
one of us. I repeat, that

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son' s friend was each of
us. During the beautiful celebration of the

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Easter Vigil, the Church puts on
the lips of the priest who proclaims the

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proclamation these moving words of what would
not serve to be born if we had

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not been rescued. What incomparable tenderness
and charity to rescue the slave who gives

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the son. That' s no
more, no less. We are getting

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closer and closer to Lord A'
s Passover, the celebration of the mysteries

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of the passion, death and resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ. May we,

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day after day, enter into that
prayer and meditation with immense devotion and

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faith and in all that it meant
for Christ to go to the Cross for

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us, what infinite love and generosity
on his part to die in your and

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mine place, to return our friendship
with God and open through the gates of

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heaven. And may this meditation lead
each one of us to choose to live

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in the light and not in the
darkness, as Christ asks us in today

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' s journey, that is,
to lead an authentic life of grace and

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to banish forever the sin of our
life in all its forms and manifestations of

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the blessing that God, mighty bless
you with all manner of heavenly comings so

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that you may be irreproachable saints in
his presence, pour out upon others the

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riches of his grace or build with
the word of truth and with the gospel

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of salvation. And make you rich
with the beloved brother and blessing of God,

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all- powerful father, son,
and holy spirit, come down upon

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you, and abide always.