Prayer of the heart Sunday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time, come Holy
Spirit, to give me your ever new life. Fill me with the astonishment
of a child to admire the world and life that does not get me used
to life that will let me be surprised every morning, because, behind every
thing of your love, my God, help me to recognize that routine resists,
because everything is new every day, because there is always something that is
beginning. Take all my life Holy Spirit and he will fill with the eternal
novelty of your love that this day will not pass in vain and I will
be able to discover the message that you have today for my life. Come
Holy Spirit, Amen today we celebrate Saint Fermín, Bishop of Pamplona, the
Gospel of Saint Mark chapter six verses one to six. At that time Jesus
went to his people in the company of his disciples. When Saturday came,
the sign began to enrage the crowd that heard him. She wondered astounded where
this one gets all this, what wisdom is that which they have taught her
and those miracles of their evil ones. It' s not this one.
The carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, Joseph Judas
and Simon and their sisters were not well with us here and this was scandalous.
Jesus made him despise a prophet more than in his land, for among
his relatives and in his house I cannot do any miracle there. He only
healed some sick people by imposing his hands and was surprised by their lack of
faith and toured the villages around teaching. Lord allow me, by your grace,
to recognize you in this meditation. I trust in You, in Your
word, which has revealed to me that, despite my weaknesses, I can
approach You to be healed and redeemed by Your love. Lord Jesus, help
me to know you more so I can love you more. We Christians have
this freedom to judge what happens outside of us. But to judge we will
make known well what happens outside of us. How can this be done that
the Church calls knowing the threads of the times. Times change is characteristic of
Christian wisdom. To know these changes, to know different times and to know
the signs of the times. What does one mean and what does the other
mean, because we hear many comments. I' ve heard that what happened
over there is this. What' s happening is something else. I'
ve read this and I' ve been told this, but I' m
free. I must make my own judgment and understand what all this means.
It' s a job that we often don' t do. We settle,
we calm down, I' ve been told. I' ve heard.
People say I' ve read and so we' re calm. Instead,
we should ask ourselves what the truth is, what the message is the
Lord wants to give me with this sign of the times, why a prophet
cannot be admitted into his own land. Christ will give us an answer for
the lack of giving up people in this case, from his relatives we find
it difficult to believe in a person who has lived together for a long time
that we yara comes to give reactions of life, but he is not the
carpenter' s son, as so many miracles come out of his hands.
We need to ask insistently for the grace of faith, because faith is an
immense gift of God and it is worth more than life itself, for only
with it can man direct his existence to eternal destiny, even if he does
not see, even though thick darkness surrounds him, although he is beaten by
doubt, even though fear dominates him, because he is overwhelmed by discouragement,
since he lives just by faith. Faith was the strength in his pilgrimage through
this world of all those men of God, and it will continue to be
for all those who desire and want to go in the footsteps of Christ Faith
is not a mere feeling of God' s presence. It is walking,
suffering to fall and standing up trying to be telling God who we do not
see with those material eyes, but yes with the eyes of faith, for
if we see things as we want, then it will cease to be done
and it will be certainty of what we want to see. In short,
faith is trusting God and trusting him. So let us say Christ with humility.
Sir, I believe, but it increases my little faith. You acknowledge
and honor Jesus daily that I have been continually elated in prayer and before making
an important decision, ask yourself what is the example that Jesus Christ gives me
in the Gospel to transact to imitate him. Lord Jesus, what importance do
I attach to your word? She' s the compass in my decision-
making, in my strength. When the setbacks appear, help me to look
for you in attentive and fervent reading. That writing living book, where I
can learn to know you love you and follow you from the blessing that the
father bless you and with the idea of faith the son, with the happiness
of forgiveness and mercy and the Holy spirit, with the peace in your heart
and the blessing of God, Father son and Holy spirit, sit upon you
and remain always amen