Jumat, 23 Desember 2016

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i have a very special son and wish the best for him. one day he told me he had decided to become a catholic and to join opus dei. he had come acrossthe message of st josemarã­a i’m not catholic. who is st josemarã­a? i approached the tabernacle,

knelt down, and said: lord, if you don’t need my honour,what do i want it for? for you to offer god your ordinary work in a way that’s pleasing to him,do it better each day, with a more upright intention,with greater effort and affection, thinking not only of yourselfand your loved ones, but of the whole of society,of other people. you say it’s difficult, but i know it’s what youare doing since you have a big heart.

st josemarã­a escrivã¡ said: “many great things depend— don’t forget it — on whether you and i live our lives as god wants.” these are important words,they make you think. one could say that he was the saint of ordinary life how can we live if we are not in love? otherwise i don’t understand it.

i live because i’m in love. if not, life wouldn’t be worth living. i’m crazy. i’ve been called crazy more than once and i don’t care at all.they’re right. i agree with those who say i’m crazy. so: i want you to be crazy with love. my son started to change after becoming a member of opus dei.

the first change was that he tookan interest in others and was a lot more cheerful than before. we cannot live without love. you all have deep desires to do great thingsand to put your heart in those things. when i was at school, i used to think thatwe could change things by joining a group of people,people of my sort of age, who were politically active,extreme left-wing, and the methods to use

were organising marches, fighting the police, throwing stones,setting fire to cars, and sorting things out above all by violence,by bashing others, the law of the strongest. then i happened to watch a film of st josemarã­a escrivã¡,the founder of opus dei. it was in spanish.i don’t speak spanish. i didn’t understanda word he said – not a word.

but at the end of the film, miraculously, everything became clear. i was seeing beneath that cassock a heart which made him fly up to the heights, and i understood that my lifeto put it bluntly had been that of a farmyard animal. with open arms to embrace everyone: those on the right, those on the left,those in front and those behind. everyone, absolutely everyone!

we cannot close our arms to anyone. we cannot be wedded to one party. we cannot talk in terms of warring factions – warring is anti-christian. nor of disputes. we talk about getting on with one another. we talk about exchanging viewsso as to come to an agreement. but… fighting? hating one another? no! for me, the message of st josemarã­a

is something that unitesbecause it brings together people who can havethe most diverse ways of thinking but share one fundamental idea, which isconcern for the good of neighbour, and, building on that, one thing,which st josemarã­a always proclaimed: to serve our neighbour. god asks us to practisethe virtue of charity and so we love each other for the loveof jesus christ, for the love of the church, for the love of all people.we want to do good to everyone. we are not a little closed group:

we are open to all. i went towards the electricity generator and a flame burst out into my face and sent me flying several metres. my daughter got hold of me and took medirectly to the monkole hospital. i found a priest there who gave me some bookletson the life of st josemarã­a, and i began to see that the people therepractised that spirit of order, discipline and sanctity,the spirit that gave them

the strength with whichthey ran the institution. put your heart there and you will softenthe life of many people who are alone, helpless, who never receive an affectionate word,or a smile, or a loving glance. your heart! my son and i have always got on very well. when he joined opus dei, he opened his heart to god and that had an influenceon our communication.

now we are more united in the sense that we can feelthe love at all times. because we want peace,peace in the world, peace in our own country,peace in the family, peace with our conscience…we take up the struggle. peace is a consequence of war. i am always preaching the same thing. and when we have peace, we have joy, which is a christian gift.

we are here on earth for a reason, for something which is not our selfishness. it’s to live for our future happiness, being happy already down here. our aim is to have someone in each village, in each community, someone who is a good sonor daughter of god, someone committed, who encourages initiatives,both material and spiritual.

we had to be trained, educated. what for? to help themget a higher standard of living and place education at the heart of developmentin the face of poverty. you need to get people to do things: not just give them things,not just tell them things, but help them to do things themselves.

we need to go out and give such training to that group of people,because it’s not just one person, but each village,it’s 35 or 50 people, and then your workhas a multiplier effect, because it doesn’t just affectone person but many. and who should we thank for that? st josemarã­a. you shouldn’t look at a person from just one point of view, but overall, as a whole,

and the message of st josemarã­a allows me to put all my resources, both human and spiritual, at the service of others. this message allows one to use all worthy means for dealingwith the control of hiv. so that’s the joy i have: to see many souls all round the world, of all races, of all tongues,

who feel like you, who look with clean eyes, who know how to forgive, how to excuse others,how to live together with everyone. i had an idea of politicsas an exercise of power, but after i met josemarã­a i learnt that, right from the start, work is meant to be sanctified, and that politics should aim at the proper redistributionof the benefits of work.

the great michelangelo used to say: “i am still learning,” and i had that phrase put up in my own studio to remind me of this idea of continuingto grow in formation and in research. i found the same sentiment in st josemarã­a, that although we are very small, nevertheless with the help of god and our own humility

we can do great things,just as michelangelo succeeded in doing. you will look after all the detailsfor the sake of love. it’s wonderful that the simplestand most beautiful message that st josemarã­a gave us was that we could find beautyand therefore god, in little things. it’s mind-blowing – it’s like giving a nameto this search of mine, which is the longing for god which everyone has within them.

because in opus dei any kind of work can be sanctified. any honest work can be sanctifiable and sanctified and a means of sanctity. it’s the same whether it’s manual workor intellectual work. it’s the same! the work with greatest value is the onecarried out with the greatest love. do things with a lot of love and your workwill be of greater value than anyone else’s.

it’s a message that gives meaning to our life. think: why are we working all the time and why are we trying to improveall the time? for ourselves?that seems pretty empty to me. you will lose your motivation after a month,or even after a week. if you do it for love,it lasts your whole life… when my son joined opus dei,many people were surprised because they thought it was an organisation

full of rules; but my son followed his wayby listening to his heart. god is in our daily life. in our moments of each day, today, tomorrow, yesterday,the day before, and the day after tomorrow. he is in our lunch and our dinner. in our conversations and our tears and our smiles. he is in everything. god is a father.

if we want to go to him,we can find him at any moment. he is so close to you that he is within you, giving supernatural life, height, colour and taste, interest and joy, to your life. god is there. i want to be a son of god,i want to talk to god, i want to act as a man who knows he has an eternal destiny,

and besides… spend his lifedoing as much good as he can: understanding others, excusing them,forgiving them, getting on with them. were i to get discouraged at the outset,i couldn’t encourage them to keep going on. the strength i have comes preciselyfrom the teachings of st josemarã­a, and with this effort which we shouldalways put into our work to accompany people – all of that gives me a bit of a boost. but sometimes people are already at worn outby the difficulties we are facing in our country. despite that i alwaysencourage them, telling them

that even if they don’t understandthese things we’re undergoing, it’s all going to work out well,that we are children of god, that we always have to fight to carry onand we will win through in the end. ever since my son joined opus dei, my conversations with him have made me think about the meaning of life. i think that the teachings of the church

enriched my life making it possibleto understand the great questions life poses. questions which we oftendon’t have good answers to, like the meaning of life. if you call on an individual heart, if you knock hard at an individual heart, it sometimes sounds hard,but that’s because it’s made of bronze, a heart of bronze which melts into tearsif placed close to the fire. many people are confused

about st josemarã­a’s idea of suffering. i am open to understanding the true meaning of suffering. god is not an abstract idea. he is not a far-off being. he is better than a good mother. he does not rejoice in our misfortune but in our good. when you take a knifeout of the hands of your

little child, or some matcheshe is playing with, because you’re afraid he’ll hurt himself, and the little child complains, he complains becauseyou’re treating him badly, taking away his toy. we have a vision basedon this world, and therefore we only see the tapestry from behind, where it’s all full of knots. and we don’t understand

that happiness comes later, that this passes away,like water through our fingers. all this is very short. “tempus breve est”says the holy spirit, the time for loving is very short. i’ve been through a long illness, a cancer of the colon – it’s in the difficult moments when your neighbour,

that “other person” or your spouseor your friend show the love they have for you, that is, by helping you or giving you some simple advice or coming to provide you with something you lack, it’s then that i think that love truly shows itself in times of suffering. tell them

that god in heaven is their father, and that the time for loving is short, that they should show their love here and that love is shown in suffering. i’ve been greatly helped by being able to offer this suffering for my husband’s conversion. today i’m happy because he understandsand sometimes he wakes me up and tells me it’s time for the rosaryand usually we pray it.

i’m filled with admiration to see you all, everywhere in the world. people have kicked awaythe lord’s teaching and his seed. it’s been kicked everywhere,to all lands and races, and everywhere it has taken root. so yes, i am filled with admiration.it seems i am looking at – how shall i put it? –a wonderful, charming film, full of bright colours. nothing is lost. i have to do better

where i am, with the little that i have. what i have learnt from st josemarã­a is to aim high, and to say, “think how it depends on you, leave a mark, don’t let your lifebe a barren one, you can change the rules of the game, either on your own or together with othersbut you first of all.” sow peace and joy everywhere. don’t say a hurtful word to anyone.

go arm in arm with those who think differently from you. never mistreat anyone. be brothers and sisters of everyone, sowers of peace and joy. i am very grateful to god because my faith gives meaningto everything i do in my life, because it gives me joy and peace, and because i can pass it on to others.

as a mother i can see, hear and feel that my son is happy. happy in his lifeand happy in his choice. and that’s whyi am happy with his choice.

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