Our Lord is relying on us, with our limitations,
to do so much good that is already being done throughout the whole world and in this country specifically;
in this great country of the United States so much has already been done,
although we are truly just beginning.
Ask our Lord for help to see persons and events with the eyes of our Lord.
You recall that prayer of our Father that it would be good for us to pray often,
asking our Lord, Jesus, may I see with your eyes.
The Church throughout its history has gone through many crises, but has always gone forward. Why?
Because as our Lord said: “I will always be with you until the end of the world".
The Church is fundamentally Jesus Christ,
and the Church as a whole is the Body of Christ.
What we have to do is to pray a lot for the Pope
because all these things weigh heavily on his shoulders and thoughts.
It’s very good to have good humor…
It’s not just the case that God treats us as though we were his children.
He truly makes us children of his,
adoptive children but true children.
With his Grace
He unites us by the power of the Holy Spirit to the only-begotten Son of God,
the Second Person of the Trinity, who became man for us: Jesus Christ.
Hence for us to be daughters and sons of God is the same as identifying ourselves with Christ.
Our Father used to say that the most divine reality in our life is to forgive,
and he opened his heart spontaneously for us:
“I haven’t needed to learn how to forgive because our Lord has taught me how to love".
We can ask our Lord for this in our personal prayer,
that He teach us to love so strongly that we don’t even need to forgive.
Increase our faith, si Deus nobiscum, quis contra nos?
Supernatural optimism because we have the means.
It is the Lord who supplies them to conquer in our personal struggle,
to be fruitful in our apostolic work.
¿Which are these means?
We already know: the only means, the only weapon is prayer.
So we need to be cheerful. We have to always be happy.
It’s wonderful to recall how our Lord, when speaking with the apostles, tells them
that his great desire is
“that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full".
In reality, the act most proper to freedom is to love.
Therefore it’s important to teach people how to be free,
realizing first of all what freedom truly is,
because freedom is not simply the ability to choose…
Freedom is aimed above all towards the good,
and love is what impels us towards the good.