What a prayer of heart wednesday of the seventeenth week of ordinary time. Come
Holy Spirit, so that I may find wisdom in the midst of my limits,
discomfort and weariness, for the sun that sets is as beautiful When I
am healthy as when I am sick. Help me to appreciate the beauty of
things beyond my moods. Help me enjoy what you give me in the middle
of my troubles. Come Holy Spirit, teach me to live, because many
times I can only look at what worries me, what I lack, what
I dislike, as if there was nothing more than that. Today we celebrate
St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, the Gospel of St Matthew,
chapter three and verses forty- four to forty- six. At that
time Jesus said to the people. The Kingdom of Heaven resembles a treasure hidden
in the field. Whoever finds it, hides it again and full of joy,
will sell everything he has and fulfills the field. The Kingdom of Heaven
also resembles a merchant in fine bitches who, finding one of great value,
will sell everything he has and buy it? The Kingdom of Heaven also resembles
a merchant of fine bitches who found great value, as I said, will
sell everything the purchase has. Pope Benedict sixteen commented, showing himself what the
treasure of the Christian is. It is important that they be created. He
said that favorable conditions are believed in the Church so that they can flourish so
much if it is in generous response the call of God' s love.
A central element must be the love of the word of God through a growing
familiarity with sagra writing, a person prayer and as an attentive and constant community,
in order to be able to feel the divine call in the midst of
so many voices that fills daily life, but above all, that eucharistia at
the vital center of every vocational path. It is here that God' s
love touches us in the sacrifice of Christ, the perfect expression of love,
and it is here that we learn time and time again to live the great
measure of God' s love. The great measure of God' s love,
word, prayer and Eucharist are the precious treasure to understand the beauty of
a fully spent life. To the Kingdom. So far, Pope Benedict'
s pat, it has always seemed to me the most normal thing for a
man to do everything within his power to get them, for the dog or
the most valuable treasure in the world. That' s what he did.
Chalice had no work and economic problems were beginning to give up more and more
his family. One night he dreamed that under the bridge that united the city
with the rest of the valley, there was a treasure. At dawn he
got up, went to the bridge and began to finish the police saw him
digging and ran away all his intentions. Poor Chalice, after an attempt to
avoid a sincere answer look I dreamt that under the bridge there was a treasure
and so I came here. One of the cops with irony answered him.
How can you believe this? I also dreamed that under my house, one
of a Chalice had a hidden treasure. You think I' d believe it.
Chalice fell, returned to his house, dug and found the treasure.
The problem is not to seek the treasure, but to know where the treasures
that God has prepared for our life and what your treasures are. You consider
your marriage life and your children to be real treasures. Or you don'
t realize the gift God has given you, because you only feel the tiredness
and sweat that you produce to remove the earth to enjoy them. You have
ever experienced the value of Holy Mass and confession, or the laziness of rising
up a few minutes before Sunday has hidden it from you. They' ve
hidden it, because if you really encourage them, your heart will be there.
Where we put our hearts, we turn that into treasure. The bad
news is that it is not always the right place and we let the heart
be filled with treasurers who only take peace away from us because they are material
and are spent and produce disaction and failure. But it is the question of
freedom not to let ourselves be possessed that is material and not rather our masters,
because material wealth can occupy the heart and generate a growing desire to have
more of an authentic dependence. On the contrary, the sordid one that the
Lord speaks the gospel to us and that we must get it by selling everything
is the one that is really worth it, because it does not separate it
from God. Every Christian personally and the entire community of believers can experience true
freedom by sharing material and spiritual goods with those who are most or most in
need. This is the Christian way of life that testifies to the true trust
of the parents solid for the civication of love, for where there is theuro
bustro, your heart will be there. It is very careless what suggests that
Ara Rubick, founder of the movement of the eyepieces, or the work of
Mary, to free us from slavery, to have said why you did so
much Jesus in that we disengage ourselves from goods until it becomes an indispensable condition
to be able to follow him, because the first wealth is of our existence,
the true treasure that he wants us free with the soul clean of any
attachment and any concern for himself to be able to truly love with all the
heart, the mind and the forces. He asks us to renounce possessions,
because he wants us to open ourselves to others. The easiest way to give
up, to give up is to give to God by loving him and to
show that love Let us love our brothers and sisters willing to play everything for
them. Although it may seem to us that we do not have much wealth
to put in common. We have affection in our hearts to give cordiality,
to externalize, joy, to communicate, we have time to put prayers,
inner riches to exposure and sometimes we have things books clothes, vehicles, money.
We must not reason too much. It' s just that I may
need it on this or that occasion. Everything can be useful. But in
the meantime, if we heed your thoughts, many friends will infiltrate your heart
and become more and more and more demanding. Let' s not try to
have just what we need. Let us not lose God by keeping money or
something else that we cannot pre- empt. Put your heart into what'
s really worth. Family, children, wife, husband, parents, but
above all in God. I take advantage, before finishing that meditation that we
celebrate today, of Saint Ignatius of Loyola to give you a prayer of his
that can help you. Do you say yes, sir, do you know
me? Lord you Me, you know better than I know myself your spirit
soaks all the moments of my life. Thank you for your grace and for
your love. What a spill on me. Thank you for your constant and
gentle invi tand to let you into my life. Forgive me for the times
I' ve used another invitation and closed myself away from your love. Help
me that in this coming day I may recognize your presence in my life that
I may open myself to you, that you may work in me, to
your greatest glory. Amen from the blessing, that the goodness of the mercy
of God the Father has the heart, that the gaze of God, of
the love of God the Son, penetrates into your soul and purifies you from
any want that can separate you from God, the love of God the holy
spirit, grants you the peace that you need and that the cell of Mary,
mother of God and our mother caresses and protects you, and that the
strength and sense of that gospel does not answer. The Lord led you to
heaven the blessing of God, father, son and holy spirit, descend upon
you and abide always amen