Reflection...

Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
Second Reading 1, Book of Exodus 16, 2-4. 12-15
Psalm 77, 3-4BC. 23-25. 54
2 nd Reading Letter of Paul to the Ephesians 4: 17. 20-24
Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John 6, 24-35
"I say and I recommend on behalf of the Lord, do not come like the heathen, who are led by the frivolity of his thoughts and mind are obscured. They are separated from the life of God through ignorance and obstinacy, and having lost the moral sense, have given to vice, wantonly committing every kind of impurity.
But that's not what you learned from Christ. " (Eph 4, 17-20).
The pagan abandon life, we asked the Apostle Paul in the 2nd reading, is to reject one's own self, ill will that holds captive the truth, or emptiness of thought. Means freedom from all that life away from human reality, thought and willed by the Creator to find again as a gift a heart sensitive to all calls of goodness, truth, beauty.
"Listen, son, the precepts of the Master, and incline the ear of your heart gladly receives the advice of a godly father, and stick to it really. So come back for the work of obedience to Him from whom you were away. " (Prologue of the Rule of St. Benedict).

"If today you hear his voice, harden not your heart." (Ps 94.8).
In the Gospel of John, Jesus calls us one thing: adherence to God's plan is, "what God expects of us is to believe in him whom he has sent." (V 29).
The crowd like many of us today, waiting for a particular sign and loud, to recognize Jesus as the prophet of messianic times. Jesus really, truly gives us the new manna, because their food is much higher than the parents ate in the wilderness, he gives eternal life to all. But only he who has faith can receive that gift. The real food is the gift of the Son, the Father offers us men, because he is "the true bread from heaven." (V33).
Whoever adheres to Jesus, gives meaning to your life and get your own happiness.
"Download your concerns in the Lord and He will sustain you" (Ps. 55.23). What worries you? Why are you troubled? He who has made deals with you. The already took care of you before you were born did not take care of you now, you're what he wanted you? Do not take care of you who "makes his sun rise on good and bad and sends rain on the just and unjust? (Mt 5.45). Does desentenderá you leave, you leave him alone you, you're right and you live in the faith? Instead, he crowns you with benefits, it helps, it gives you is what is necessary, defends you from adversity. Granting you gifts to comfort you persevere, quitándotelos corrects you lest you be consumed. The Lord cares for you, rest assured, you hold that you have done: you will not fall by the hand of your Creator. (Augustine, Commentary on the Psalms, 38.18).
Brother Fernando Fortunato OSB.
Have a good weekendRegards

Reflection...

From sinners to saints

Have mercy.

We must have mercy on all men, because if we have been great sinners, then we know from experience how weak we are men to temptation. If we are righteous, then we know the wisdom that resides in us, how easy it is human nature to give in to temptation!

When we see someone who sins, think: Maybe that person has suffered much in his life and reacts well, perhaps he lacked love.

There are thousands of mitigating that God can know and that we do not know, and therefore we should not judge because we do not know why people act one way or another.

Always remember that if we have the grace not commit grave sins and faults and is not only our merit, but because God sustains us with His grace, so that if He left us from his hand, fall into the sins more severe and humiliating.

Learning from the Blessed Virgin, purest creature that being hated sin, but did not judge the sinners, and was compassionate and loving to everyone, and even if Satan himself asked her forgiveness, she would forgive him, something that will never happen because the devil never humble as it is confirmed in sin and pride.

Let us also good to all, compassionate and remember that what we are today we might not tomorrow, because as the Apostle says: He who stands take heed lest he fall. And do not judge the sinners, for whom today is a great sinner, maybe tomorrow will be a great saint.

Queen - 'I Want To Break Free' (Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert)

Gospel of the day...

Friday 3/AGO/12
Gospel of the day

Mt 13, 54-58.

Lack of faith.

Upon reaching his people, Jesus began to teach people in the synagogue, so that all were amazed. "Where did they come from, say, the wisdom and the power to do miracles? Is not this the carpenter's son? Does your mother is called Mary? And are not his brothers James, Joses, Simon and Judas? And do not live among us all his sisters? Whence come all this? ". And Jesus was to them a source of scandal. Then he said: "A prophet is despised only in his village and his family." He did not do many miracles there because of the lack of faith of those people.

reflection:

Today's Gospel says. "He did not do many miracles there because of the lack of faith of these people." And we should care that we do not happen the same. Because in these times of apostasy should care for and strengthen our faith in God, since faith is everything to the Christian. It is a time when faith is tested and we must pray unceasingly and ask God to increase us, and make acts of faith, such as frequently pray the Creed, and above all be humble, and that where there is no pride no faith.

Let us ask Our Lady's grace every day we have more faith and trust in God and in her, because without faith, life is hopeless.

Jesus, Mary, I love you, save souls.

God...

Why look to God?

What seek you?
I was wondering ...
What do I get to follow you?
I was questioning ...
Why I do your will?
I replied ...

And today, being alone and thousands
above problems,
Today when I thought my friends
I have left,
but just today when I feel,
and I am busy
come to my mind the answers
to these questions, for in
problems, no matter how
I have failed you, you are still strong with me.

And between the fatigue
I feel your arms hold me.
And amidst the bustle of every day
and the problems that beset me,
I hear your sweet voice whisper in my ear ...
"Quiet, I'm with you"

And now I realize that all
worthwhile, and that those doubts
were but traps of my enemy
to keep your comfort, your peace, your company.

Thank you Lord that despite all
my doubts, I received in your breast,
and if you questioned,
you said smiling:
"Quiet, now reach one of those days."

Signs of the time...

Signs of the Times

Suffering.

As we approach the great events of the end times, increasing the suffering for all, because in the crucible of suffering ever experienced before mankind reborn to new life, after having passed the awful trial awaits you now .

We are in what is called the "Great Tribulation", and while this great tribulation the lives every man in this world, for all human life is a great tribulation, it is also true that we are now collectively in the Great Tribulation, where the power of evil will reach its peak until the Virgin crush, with the power of God, Satan and all his followers. But while this is shaping up, get older suffering for all. Suffer not experienced by men, because the grain of wheat must fall to the ground and die to give new life.

We see that many people who do not have an exemplary life, but scandalous for them and they apparently have no suffering. What happens is that they are agents of evil, and this prevents them suffer in this world, while the good makes them suffer greatly. What happens is that the first will have to torment in Hell for all eternity and so in this world of pain rescues, but it comes in good, which makes them suffer in a thousand ways.

It's time to give ourselves to Mary, that we consecrate ourselves to her Immaculate Heart, because times will be increasingly difficult and hard, and we need the maternal comfort of Mary.

Come Lord Jesus!

John Lennon - Jealous Guy [version de Imagine Sessions] (subtitulos en ...