Prayer of the heart Saturday of the tenth, tenth week of ordinary time.
Holy Spirit, You make clear to me everything that illuminates all the ways to
reach my ideal, You who give me the divine gift to forgive and forget
the evil that they do to me and that in all the moments of my
life you are with me. I want, in this short dialogue, to
thank you for everything and to confirm that I never want to separate myself from
you, however much material illusion, to frighten you and all my loved ones
in perpetual glory. Thank you for your mercy to me and mine. Thank
you, my God. Today we celebrate St Mary Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament,
The Evangelius of St Matthew, chapter five verses, thirty- three to
thirty- seven. At that time Jesus said to his disciples. You heard
that the ancients were told. Thou shalt swear falsely, and do thy vows
unto the lord: for I say unto you, Swear not at all,
neither by heaven, which is the throne of God, nor by the earth
which thou hast cast from his feet, and by Jerusalem, which is the
king' s city, nor by thy head Swear, that thou canst not
see one hair unto you black white. Just say yes or no. What
happens from there comes from the evil one. John Chrysostom commented on this text
by saying that God chose us by faith and has marked the seal of inheritance,
of future glory. We have to accept that the way of our redemptions
also our way, because God wants free creatures, that he freely says yes,
but it is above all and first his way. We are in his
hands and now in our freedom to follow the path opened by him. We
go along that path of redemption together with Christ and feel that redemption is realized.
We contemplate in our lives the action of the three people of the most
holy trinity. The father who has chosen us before the foundation of the world,
has thought of us and created us the son who has redeemed us with
his blood and the promise of the Holy Spirit pledge to use attention and future
glory. Therefore we are to trust in God and thus understand that you will
not perjure, for the Lord does not need our oaths to know that we
will fulfill. This is the text, the first text of St John'
s Christ, the comment I have made and I follow him prefers that we
strive until we achieve our purpose, no matter how many times we fall.
He knows better than ourselves. Our heart knows that we are cebile, it
knows that we will fall, but it also knows that we will rise again
if what we do we are doing for it. He also invites us to
trust fully in his love. We can' t change anything about our body,
but he can do everything in it. All physical pain, it changes,
it takes all its value. We will no longer suffer its meaning.
Now we can join the suffering of Christ the Cross. Why does God not
take away suffering from us, perhaps because he loves us so much, that
he wants to associate us more with his own suffering. We, suffering so
little things compared to what he suffered for us, help him to save so
many men who do not know him or have turned away from him trust in
God. I remember an old nice story that cut me off years ago,
a catechetic catechism catechism. They say that a mountaineer prepared himself for several years
to conquer her with cauco. His desión for the feat of grace that knew
all the risks, made his journeys and companions in search of glory. Only
for him began to climb and the day was advancing. It was getting late
and later and recklessly, he did not prepare for camping, but decided to
keep going up to the top. That same day, the night soon darkened,
fell heavily on the height of the mountain and nothing could be seen at
all. Everything was black zero visibility there was no moon and the stars were
covered by clouds. Climbing up a cliff about a hundred meters from the top,
he slipped and fell down the air. He was falling at a dizzying
speed. There could only be swift spots so dark that they passed from the
same darkness and had the terrible feeling of being solved by the grave. He
kept falling and in these distressing moments he passed through his mind all the times
and times a method of his life. He thought he was going to die,
but suddenly he felt a very strong shot that almost two of them were
leaving, at least any experienced mountaineer had nailed, at least sorry, as
any experienced mountaineer had nailed security stakes with gandados to a very long rope that
tied him to the height of his waist. In these moments of quietú suspended
by the air, seeing absolutely nothing in the midst of the terrible darkness,
I only want to shout at him. Help me, my God, help
me, my God, with a sudden, deep voice from heaven. He
said what you want me to do. He answered. Save me, my
God God asked him you really want me to save you. Of course,
my God answered. Then he said," God cuts off the rope that
holds you" It followed a moment of sentency, restlessness and one man held
tighter. The rope and began to think about God' s proposal. The
next day, the team, the rescue team that led to his search,
found him dead, frozen, grasping hard with both hands for the rope that
hung only two meters from the ground. The climber was unable to cut the
rope and simply trust God. This is the story, as I tell you,
catechetical with the apostles, like the apostles in the fresh miracle. We
must trust God, trust that he tells us what is best for us.
It gives us what we need. With our struggle we do not seek to
provoke pleasant feelings. Many times we' ll have them other than a little
test. It may make us discover that we are looking for ourselves with more
s u ns than we imagine, but in themselves, as a sign that
the saluchas are effective We will not warn, for example, to experience discouragement
in the face of a temptation to which we do not give in, but
which persists to feel annoyance because something is difficult for us and so we reason.
It should not cost us to notice discomfort, because delivery does not bring
us in a sensitive way to the rodeador we would like. We must fight
in what we can fight without giving ourselves a head against what our evil mastery
brings us. Feelings are not totally subject to our will and we cannot expect
them to be given. We must learn to abandon ourselves, leaving the result
of our struggle in God' s hands, because only confidence in him overcomes
those concerns. If we want to be high sea fishermen, we have to
take the inaltum boat where we don' t do it. Pie We have
to regain the desire to search for references, to experience runs. We are
moving forward, but to achieve this, it is crucial to rely on contrition.
Simon and his companions followed the Lord' s Council and gathered a great
deal of fish, so many that the nets were broken from the fruit of
that audacity others who came to help him and the two boats were filled so
much that it is almost a day. Such extraordinary abundance led Peter to warn
of God’ s closeness and to feel and worthy of such familiarity. Get
away from me, sir I' m a sinful man. However, a
few minutes later left, all things followed him and were faithful until death will
have blessing, that the goodness and mercy of God will accompany you. The
parents gave you in the heart that the gaze and love of God and see
you penetrates in your soul and purifies you from any intito and lack that you
can separate yourself from God, that the love of God, Holy Spirit,
grant you the peace that you need, that the tenderness of Mary, the
mother of God and our mother caresses and protects you and that the strength and
cilence of St Joseph will separate you. Lord, lead you to heaven and
God, father son and Holy Spirit, saying it, come down upon you,
and abide always Amen.