Holy Spirit...

Fifteen minutes with the Holy Spirit

Do we know everything?
Holy Spirit, did I know all of you, God, of divine mysteries? Because sometimes it seems like I know everything and I have nothing more to discover. But I realize that You are inexhaustible and your treasures beyond any imagination.
Help me, Divine Spirit, to be wiser and realize that there are many lessons that I still receive from you, for your wisdom is infinite, and as I advance in the way of holiness, You want me to go revealing your divine secrets .
Life-giving Spirit, give life to me, I'm like dying every day because I do not life lessons and inspirations I get from you. Teach me to be obedient to your inspirations, because I know that my sanctification, and even my salvation, depend heavily on the docility have your motions.
You want to surprise me, Spirit of love, for your knowledge and treasures are inexhaustible, and no danger that I exhausted, but always have something new to teach me and teach me more and more, for me, to my turn, teach and transmit to my brothers, who both need the wisdom, not to perish in the way of life.
I love you with all my heart Holy Spirit, the sweetness of my soul, my life and comfort food of my mind and my spirit!

Difficult...

Difficult but ... ahead!

Proclaiming, loud and clear,
the Lord is the center of our history,
that without Him, all raves and is destined to fail.
Advertising, word and deed,
the Lord is the source of our energy,
is not what happened yesterday,
it is not an idol with a simple tunic and staff.
That the Lord is more than legend.

Difficult but ... Forward!
Teaching that a heaven awaits us.
Recalling that, in God, we are brothers.
Screaming that forgiveness can only hate.
Working for the land,
is a picture of what awaits us in eternity.

Difficult but ... ahead!
Aware of our sins and miseries.
Becoming roads and wrong attitudes.
Returning to the dispersion and confusion.
Praying that, what we say and act,
Divine inspiration is not just human.

Difficult but ... ahead!
That Jesus goes before us along the way,
when the wind pushes us in the world will stop,
encourages us when our feet are slow,
up when we fall off our faces,
forgives our sins weigh us down.
That Jesus wants us flesh.
That Jesus is aware of our mud.
That Jesus knows we are not gods.
That Jesus, trust our weak hands.

Difficult but ... ahead!
Always on!
In our task of being Christians.
In our desire to proclaim the sky.
In our efforts to make Christ known.
In our dilemmas and anxieties.
Always, always, go ahead!

P. Javier Leoz

Reflection...

Kill the error, erring love

Four crazy days.
The popular song says, "For four days we will live crazy. For four days you have to have fun you crazy. "
Is there a song more mundane than this? Because it is impregnated with the spirit world, telling us that we go well in this world because this world is all there.
Instead Christ has told us that we must resign ourselves and follow the way of the cross, of self-sacrifice of ourselves. So who loves the world also can not love God.
Who wants to enjoy this world and accept its top, you will lose eternal life, since he says the Lord who loves his life in this world will lose it, and whoever loses his life here, the gain for eternity. They are not just words, but it is the truth that tells us the very Word of God.
How do we live? It's time to take stock of how we are living lately. Because with technological advances and conveniences that everywhere we offer makes us forget this truth, that only save those who enter through the narrow gate and walk the narrow way, as others will be grass infernal abyss .
How different is what we are told the media, especially television, in ad campaigns and programs, is not it?
Open our eyes because the devil is an angel of light and would have us believe that everything is the same, and that you can walk with one foot on the right track and with the other foot in the wrong way.
You can not compromise with God and the devil because they are irreconcilable, as irreconcilable are the sons of God with the children of darkness.

Message...

spiritual message

Until the reunion.
This life is very sad for the separations. Our relatives and friends die and we are being left alone. But this is only temporary, it will arrive the day of eternity, where we will be forever reunited with our loved ones and there will be weeping, mourning or separation, but only happiness and joy without end.
But some may think, what if one of my loved ones is doomed, I can be happy in heaven without his presence?
Here on earth we can get an idea of ​​what it is to see God. But we know that when one sees God, he forgets everything else. And if a loved one is condemned, when we are in Heaven not miss him, but we desentenderemos it forever, because it will become a devil, who hates God and forget it forever.
It is difficult to understand in this world, so while we are here on earth, we must do everything possible and even impossible, for our loved ones to be saved all. But have no fear of not being happy in heaven because missing any of us, and to see God and enjoy him, captures both our attention and our love, everything else does not matter. Besides those who are in Heaven God's love, and know that everything God has decreed fair.
Pray the Rosary every day, with family, so that none of our beloved relatives and friends lost. But we know that if lost, as we will be reunited in heaven those who have stood the test of life, with an unspeakable joy and perfect, that nothing and nobody can tarnish at any time or in any way.

Ordinary time...

Sixteenth week of Ordinary Time

Cycle B

1 st Reading the Book of Jeremiah 23, 1-6

Psalm 22, 1-6

2 nd Reading Letter of Paul to the Ephesians 2: 13-18

Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark 6, 30-34

The Gospel of this Sunday, is short. Only five verses. At first glance, these verses seem to be a brief introduction to the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves in the desert (Mk 6.34 to 44). But if this Sunday's liturgy has separated from the rest, it means that these lines are picking up something very important, that may not serve notary if only to introduce the miracle of the loaves.

These verses reveal a characteristic of Jesus that has always attracted attention and continues to call: his concern for the health and training of disciples, his warm humanity towards the poor people of Galilee and his tenderness toward people.

These aspects of Jesus that the Church proposes to work this Sunday, we serve to prolong this behavior of Jesus in our relationship with others.

Mk 6.30: Review of the apostolic work.

6.31 to 32 Mc: Concern of Jesus for the rest of the disciples.

Mk 6.33: People have other criteria and follow Jesus.

Mk 6.34: Moved with compassion, Jesus changed his plan and caters.

From these verses emerge 2 important points:

- They offer a portrait of Jesus' disciples forming.

- Indicates that proclaim the Good News of Jesus is not just a matter of doctrine, but especially welcome, kindness, tenderness, availability, revelation of God's love.

Jesus was new leaders, committed to his disciples in the mission and used to suddenly take a quieter place to rest and do a review. He worried about their food and rest, because the work of the mission was such that they had no time to eat.

Moved with compassion, Jesus changed his plan and caters, resignation to rest and began teaching, Jesus is moved by the suffering these people abandoned "because they were like sheep without a shepherd" (cf. Ps 23). When Jesus realizes that people without a pastor, he begins to be and guide the crowd through the desert of life.

And people could sing:

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall want

He makes me lie down in green pastures,

He leads me beside still waters

And restores my soul "(Ps 23.1-3a).



To meditate and pray

In our time, we reject, as if it were a slave, adherence to revealed truth, but we are willing to make us servants of the "myth" of the day. We feel as oppressive obedience to authority, but servile subjects We are the leader in fashion. We demand individual liberty and then, paradoxically, fail to live without being part of a herd.

What these leaders pursued in reality?

We need to ask him not to end up scattered, disbanded, exploited, exploited, subject to the personal desire to be someone.

Today as yesterday, the real exercise of power is service, and who owns it is authentic guide for others, to the extent you are willing to give his life for them, and "have-to" them.

We ask you Lord, for the powerful of this world, for kings and all with different titles that have the responsibility to guide others. Help them live their task as a service to others: do not mislead their flocks with demagogic speeches, which did not disappoint with promises and bad examples or operating them into believing that work for the good of all.

And to whom we trust you, help us out of our passivity, as you know give us rest and engage in missionary work to welcome our neighbor's needs, and proclaim the Good News in word and deed to all who around us.

Brother Fernando Fortunato OSB.


Have a good weekend
Regards

Rays of Faith...

Rays of Faith

We will never have enough.
We will never have enough faith, but every day we increase it, because faith can grow more and more, until the heaven and the vision becomes, in contemplation of Reality, of God himself, so there is no longer will require faith.
But without faith you can not please God without faith and you can not live happily in this world, and even sometimes can not even simply living, then you must not only grow in faith, but we must learn to take care because she is like a delicate little plant can be dried, and may suffer the weather, and if you do not know we care and exposed to frost and storms and winds, then we lose.
There are storms and winds that come with life. The difficulties, problems and misfortunes, and they can not avoid, and what we should do is take these things to grow in faith and trust in God and his goodness.
Knowing that God exists and that is good, and that if you allow something in our lives is for our sake, but for now we do not understand.
But what we do is we take care of bad readings, the influences of people without faith, that is around us and also abound in the media, especially television and film. Because these are the storms and winds that we must be careful because they can kill our faith.
Take care of our faith, because it is a priceless treasure and a gift from God, but also a free response of man to God. And without faith life becomes hopeless.
The world is bad because faith is dying more and more, and atheism is gaining ground. So over time we will see things more terrible and abhorrent because the man without faith is becoming more a demon.

Real friends...

Real friends

Why is it important to have real friends?
There are questions so easy that sometimes do not know how
answer, because I lack words. Or maybe I left over.

One day I came across the sea, and were
chatting. I asked him about my doubts, but he
followed his own, coming and going.

When I left him to return to daily life,
the echoes of our meeting echoed in my heart.
I turned to where he was, and his words were recorded in me:

"I need to be transparent,
I said, because I want you enjoy my background.
The wonders that is within me,
are for you, so when you see the trash,
Cover me, I hide, not me.

I need the rocks,
I hit them, I want you back
where I come from, but different, with more force, the better.
Then my water is ponded much longer
and go further.

And what about the wind, seems not to notice, but it's there.
It is the caress of my waters, which makes me different
every day even though my water always reach the same place.
The breeze makes me feel each moment as an opportunity
New, every one of my little ripples you see in the distance,
is the smile of feeling close.

Finally there is the beach.
Now I am caress, I take little memories
and she also makes the holes to stay with some
part of me, and we mix every time I fall in it,
seems to want to catch me there, but I always loose ...
Each follow our roads
and while she seems still, I get along
some of the sand over the world.

Look at the horizon there always awaits you
a new day, a new friend, new life ... "

P. Alvarez Benigno Lake S.J.