Prayer of the Heart Sunday of the Third Week of Easter Oh Holy Spirit Love,
of the Father and of the Son, Always inspire me what I must
think, what I must say or how I must say it, what I
must silence, how I must act, what I must do for Glory,
for God, for the Souls and for my own sanctification. Holy Spirit Give
me. Accuracy to understand, ability, to retain, method and faculty,
to learn, subtlety to interpret, grace and efficacy to speak, Give me,
right, the beginning, direction, progressing and perfection, at the end
of Amen. Today we celebrate St Lidia of Esquirem the Gospel of St Luke.
Chapter twenty- four, vesicles thirty- five to forty- eight.
At that time the disciples told of what they had seen, but had passed
along the way and how they had recognized Jesus from the bread they were talking
about those things. When Jesus appeared in the midst of them and said peace
to you filled with fear of surprise, they thought they saw a ghost and
told him why you were alarmed, for his Gerud is within you to look
at a thousand hands and my feet. It' s me in person palpad
I realized that a ghost has no flesh and bones like you hear I have.
And having said this, he showed them his hands and feet as they
had not just wanted for joy and were still amazed. He told her you
have something to eat. They offered him a piece of roast fish peace.
He ate it and took it and ate it in front of them and told
them. This is what I told you as they were covering with you that
all things were written by the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms about
me to be fulfilled. Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures,
and thus he added, the Messiah will suffer from the dead. On the
third day and in his name will be preached the conversion and forgiveness of sins
to all peoples, beginning with Jerusalem, you are witnesses of this. He,
on the evening of Easter, opens the mind among the disciples to the
mystery of his death and resurrection and tells them you are witnesses of all this.
The apostles who saw the risen Christ with their own eyes could not silence
their extraordinary experience he had shown himself to them so that the truth of his
resurrection could reach OAll through his testimony. In fact, the mission of the
apostles and ours is to be witnesses of Christ’ s resurrection. It is
up to us to manifest with our life that Christ has risen. The Church
has the task of prolonging this mission in time. Every baptized person is called
to bear witness with the words and with the life that Jesus has risen,
that Christ is alive and present in our midst. All of us are called
to bear witness that Jesus is alive. We can ask ourselves, but who
is the witness? The witness is one who has seen, remembers and counts
seeing, remembering and counting. They are the three verbs that describe identity and
mission. The witness is one who has seen with objective eye, has seen
a reality, but not with indifferent eye, has seen and has ceased to
be involved by the event. That is why he remembers not only because he
knows how to reconstruct in a precise way the events that have happened, but
also because those facts that have spoken to him and he has grasped the deep
meaning, then the witness counts not in a cold and instant way, but
with one as one who leaves himself, who has let himself be questioned and
since that day has changed his life. The witness is one who changes,
who has changed his life. The content of Christian witness is not a theory,
it is not an ideology, a complex system of precepts and prohibitions or
a moralism, but it is a message of salvation, a concrete event.
Moreover one person is Christ, risen, living and the only savior of all.
He can be witnessed by those who have made a personal experience of him
in prayer and in the church through a path that has its foundation in baptism,
its nourishment, its locustcy, its seal, in the confession, its
continuous conversion, in penance. True joy is contagious, because good is diffuse,
by itself, unstoppable and expands. The person who rejoices, who is
happy, transmits it for all his pores, said Cova Francisco at the Evangeli
Gaudion Asstation. An evangelizer should not have a permanent funeral face. Let us
receive and increase the fervor. It is the joy of the one who has
found a meaning in his life, although sometimes it is not easy. String
of Pope Francis and Christians, whose action seems to be that of one who
more or more pasque, long faces, repressed joy, an apparent sadness.
If the Christian does not rejoice, he is not a Christian, because the
joy of the Christian is anchored in God, he rests in him, says
the Porbre Francisco, but I recognize that joy is not lived in the same
way in all stages and circumstances of life, sometimes very harsh. It adapts
and transforms and always remains, at least as an outburst of light that is
born from the personal certainty of being infinitely loved, most loved of all.
The certainty of being loved has us on the way saves us from the sadness
caused by pain and loss, because it is true that we do not always
find dream peace, the worries of life, misfortunes and crosses, tears and
moments of difficulty influence us and erase our smile. That' s what happened
to the books of maus Aris known Risen Christ and they want everyone to rejoice
with them. They have become missionaries, apostles of the Gospel. The fruit
of recognizing Jesus is always the same. Joy. For nothing, we remember
that smile of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, for example, who learned to recognize
Jesus in her neighbor. Says Isaiah, strengthen your weak hands, strengthen your
hesitant knees, tell the heartless cowards be strong. Do not be afraid to
look to your God who brings the requital people come, he will make reparation
and save you. The blind will take off, the blind' s eyes
will open, the deaf' s ears will open. He' ll jump
like a deer, the lame one, the dumb one' s tongue will
sing. It is our mission to make present the kingdom of God, the
mercy of God that comes, he comes to save us and his salvation is
expressed in almost invisible signs. You don' t talk about the news of
the little miracles. Those slow and unknown compressions didn' t give to make
a movie. Sometimes it doesn' t cost. We find it difficult to
appreciate the miracle of a life given in silence. Discreetly we must understand that
a hidden life makes sense by describing it in some way. We could say
I changed diapers. That changing diapers is like touching God to listen to children
a miracle to lift them every morning and to be fierce to the usefulness of
work is something worthy of admiration. The daily love expressed by gestures and words
is a work of great value, a work of art. God becomes flesh
in everyday life. His peace comes to reign in hearts silently. Jesus,
like the disciples. Sometimes I see the fulfillment of your will as something disproportionate
to my strength. My illusions influenced by my selfishness and pride do not allow
me to discover what I really must do if I want to be faithful and
reciprocated to your love. That is why I ask the intercession of Mary,
her most holy mother, so that, as she never doubts her divine providence
and let your grace act. I gave you the blessing that God, Father,
accompany you in your heart. Take care of you, make you strong,
joyful and faithful, may God, son, make you feel his tenderness
and mercy. Remove from your heart any anxiety that can make you suffer that
God, Holy Spirit, tells you of that intelligence out of the heart renewed
spirit and determination to love with all of him, that Blessed Mary make you
felt her mother' s color and her embrace to Moors and tender and St
Joseph take care of you with his father' s heart in the name of
father, son and Holy Spirit Amen