The Lord is truly risen, alleluia! It is a joy to celebrate the experience of that crying and despair passed because someone took all the pains to make us happy people! This is the grand experience of God’s love for us.
Every where saints who visited the Holy Land, found one of the strongest places in the Holy Sepulchre and we know that it is empty, because the Lord is risen!We the ministry of Obra De Maria [Work of Mary], have carried from house to house this Risen Jesus, that even with difficulties we realize that death is not the end at all, because of a God who loves us and makes us each day to give a different answer.
In communion with the Canção Nova Community, we are today waging a great battle against evil. We are all missionaries doing the Work of God in the lives of others, as it says in the Psalm “I ask only one thing: to dwell in the sanctuary of the Lord” he says. This is our joy: we are missionaries and we are sure that the Lord is with us in our mission.
“Any experience with the resurrected should be joyful”, as Pope Francis says in his encyclical: “Joy of the Gospel.” That which is of God, my brothers, remains forever! This is His love toward us. We know that the disciples were also brought to the courts, but Gamalieu, one of the priests said: “Let them keep for that which is of the Lord remains forever.” Beloved, this is the experience that our beloved Pope has challenge us with, to live the “culture of the meeting.”
One of the cases that have caused grief are the weddings that will have been sanctified forever, but only for a time. Many do not think about being married forever, but “even when it works out,” No! Seek that which is eternal. When we are happy to announce to the world that we live in, so must be the proclamation of the Word of the Lord, we are glad to announce it.
“Where I am, my Lord is always with me,” the phrase of St. John Chrysostom. This is a fact, wherever we are, even in times when we are at Calvary and we want to abandon the cross that awaits us, but we like the Lord say, “Father, not mine be done, but thy will.”
We must carry on with our lives and take Jesus everywhere. Do not help your brother to fall into the hole, but contribute that he may be saved. If we are here, brothers, because someone called us and preached to us, do the same. Being Catholic is to witness Jesus in the joy of realizing that there is a better place for us. “In a last moment God surprises you,” said the Pope Francisco here in Brazil. God is so, my brethren, the more we announce more He does in us. The experience we have with the Lord to transform us.
Our intimacy with the Lord in prayer is not just getting to his knees, but help sufferers. We are called to be in solidarity Christians. Jesus spent during his life, for many villages, never tired to heal and release these people. Because we like him, announce us the Christ who lives and transforms us.
We are the extension of God’s love for humanity. Love is to resign yourself to the other to make him or her happier. You look ahead and think we can do better. In striving to make each other happy we too will be happy. Write a new experience the joy of the risen Lord.
Jesus always wants our best and our joy. Pray more that you may leads others and yourself to desire to be holy. The Church will only be young when the young becomes Church.Turn to the Lord, for we have a place here that awaits you. Sadness is not the end of everything! Make room for the joy that comes from God.
Vandilson Padre de Sousa Lima