{"id":1395,"date":"2009-03-30T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:59:06","slug":"homily-in-english-from-brazil-the-plentiful-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2009\/03\/30\/homily-in-english-from-brazil-the-plentiful-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Homily in English from Brazil: The Plentiful Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Sostenes Vieira is learning English at Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova in Brazil. Here is a homily from his second mass he celebrated in English. He talks about water, the pool at Bethsaida and the water that Ezequiel saw flow out of the Temple.
\nThe Plentiful Water<\/strong>
\nby Father Sostenes Vieira, New Song Community. <\/p>\n

Anyone knows that water is important to us and even though someone doesn\u2019t know it as well, or hadn\u2019t thought about it in its mind, surely he\u2019ll feel thirsty, when he has no water to drink. Unfortunately, maybe you are living this lack\u2026 are you thirsty? \u2026why are you like this? For what reason? Or For Whom are you feeling this thirst? I have good news for you\u2026 There\u2019s an existing God that said:”whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give will never be thirsty”. And He\u00b4ll do this tonight, I hope it happens to every one here, may all of us drink, be purified and quenched through this Plentiful Water: \u2026 let it rain, open the floodgates of heaven<\/p>\n

In Ezequiel 47, through the prophet, God shows his strength, and his grace toward us. The place where the Jews had their temple was a tough and rough place, they lived a huge drought. But our God was making a promise through Ezequiel 47, in other words, from the temple of God a plentiful water shall pour out to bear life. Yes, truly our God is a God of promise, It is “our stronghold” (Psalm 46), truly He\u00b4s faithful. From his temple will flow out a Plentiful Water able to quench any thirst in our lives.<\/p>\n

Thus Jesus could show it with that crippled man on his mat or better, He could pour it in him. That man had three thirsts: love, cure and a right place.<\/p>\n

Love: He couldn\u2019t arrive there alone, he needed some people to carry him there, but it\u00b4s sad that they hadn\u2019t capacity to wait for the water being stirred to help him fully, surely he didn\u2019t need only a “magic” water, but what he needed more was Love, so he said “I have no one”. Surely many people, unfortunately are living the same thing\u2026 are alone. We can\u00b4t put anyone down, exactly because nobody can\u2019t survive alone.<\/p>\n

Cure:, At that, the man guessed that a god from greek mythology could cure him, he is called Aesculapius, god of health, because the pool of Bethesda is a pagan place dedicated, to believe in lies and mythos\u2026 sons and daugthers, Only Jesus could cure him and us truly.<\/p>\n

Right place: while that man was in the wrong place he couldn\u00b4t know Jesus deeply, he “did not know who He was!” Because I must be in a right place if I really want to know who is Jesus. It was in the temple he could receive a deeper cure: “Look, you are well; do not sin any more,
\nso that nothing worse may happen to you.” Now he\u00b4s cured fully out and in, it\u00b4s called “holiness” . Now that man met Jesus in a right place: in the temple, the temple out of which flows the Plentiful Water: Jesus.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we must long always for this Plentiful Water, that gives me love, cure and guides us to the right place, the only place that we can quenche our thirst.<\/p>\n

let\u2019s ask Jesus: “Let it rain, open the floodgates of heaven upon us” Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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