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00:00How are you, my dear brothers and sisters? I'm back with you again in this wonderful course that has prepared us.
00:21to be authentic followers of Christ and thus be able to prepare the next generation for
00:26that they may be too. I remember a phrase that has always impacted me: "I want to be like Jesus."
00:35Because my son wants to be like me. Since children always want to be like their parents...
00:42It is very important that you prepare yourself to be a good Christian so that your son, seeing his father, will be a good Christian.
00:48A good Christian wants to be a good Christian so that, seeing his godfather who...
00:54He who presented him at the baptismal font, the one who introduced him to the path of faith, is also a true follower.
01:01of Jesus Christ. We already saw in our previous topic the importance of the word in our
01:08life. I would like to talk to you a little bit about the topic in this other video.
01:16of prayer. Prayer is the other fundamental pillar upon which all of it rests.
01:24The life of a Christian. If we truly want to be good disciples of the Lord, we do not...
01:32What can we do if we don't maintain a firm relationship with him through writing and through the
01:40of the prayer. That is, as we have been repeating, we continually
01:48You, and I as a godfather to some people, are responsible for evangelization.
01:56It continues in children, godchildren, and children, and we are ultimately responsible for it.
02:06Evangelization in the world of the next generations, I was recently telling you what will happen with these
02:11children, the next generation, when they no longer believe in God, when in their schools, in the world, and in everything, God
02:19He is completely absent; he has to be vividly present in our homes because of what
02:27On the contrary, we're going to lose them, we're going to lose them, and as I've always said and have said before, right?
02:37we will be able to give what we do not have
02:40we will be able to instruct others on the path we ourselves do not know
02:46we will be able to make disciples of Jesus
02:50to our children, to our stepchildren, we who are not really them, that is not possible
02:57For there to be a second and a subsequent generation, it is necessary that it be established that
03:07What is implemented is called discipleship; that is, I prepare one person, then prepare another, and so on.
03:13Jesus the teacher did choose 12 to teach them everything related to the new life, as it says in Mark.
03:23Chapter 3, starting from verse 14, and he called them to be with him and then sent them out to preach.
03:30That is, he called them to be with him, to see him, to learn from him, to become his disciples, and
03:37Then they'll pass it on to the next generation. In other words, Jesus didn't have a contingency plan if he...
03:45This one fails, then everything has already failed.
03:46Then the disciples were in charge of continuing the work
03:52Today, you and I are in charge in a very special way, as the Pope says.
04:00Saint John Paul II, in the family consortium, says that you, the parents of families, are the first
04:09Evangelizers are responsible for the next generations; each of us has to train one
04:19disciple, but each one of us then first has to be a disciple, but we won't be able to
04:29What will we do if we don't listen to the Lord? One of the most important missions of a disciple is to listen to his Lord.
04:39The teacher, the disciple must learn to live and then pass on what he has learned to others, and what
04:48What we learn from Jesus is precisely the gospel; there is a very beautiful passage in the gospel of Luke in
04:56where we see the importance of knowing the word and living it in chapter 11 of Luke, starting from
05:05Verse 27 Jesus hears a woman say to him, "Blessed is the womb that..."
05:13He stopped and said, "The breasts that fed you," and Jesus replied, "Rather, blessed are those who hear the voice of the Lord."
05:21They follow the word of God and put it into practice by having children, because any woman, any womb, can have children.
05:28A baby, but Mary, not the Virgin Mary, isn't great because she had Jesus in her womb, that alone would make her great.
05:36She is very great, but Jesus praises her because she is the woman who listens to the word of God, and even though she is
05:45complicated and difficult because who knows what our Blessed Mother understood well and because
05:51For her, many of the words that for us today have meanings of enunciation
05:56They didn't make much sense to her because they're just words that a woman, well, women don't...
06:04They couldn't even enter the synagogue; no, no, no, they didn't study the sacred scriptures properly because that wasn't their function.
06:11etcetera, but nevertheless, despite all this, Maria responds with a generous yes, yes, I will do it.
06:18What you say, let it be done as you have told me; the word is fulfilled in me. That is why Jesus praises his
06:26Mother because she listens and does what the scripture tells her, that is, we have to put it into practice
06:35The apostle James practically dedicates his first chapter to talking about this topic of the
06:44A person who doesn't put into practice the word they hear but stays there, that is, doesn't move on.
06:54That is why the church should return to the word, but the word should not remain stagnant.
07:05only in a book like this or don't stay in a sentence but stay
07:13Transform words and prayers into action; they must result in action. To do this, we must
07:24We will distinguish two fundamental activities in the disciple, which is prayer, which we will see today.
07:35as meditation and on the other hand the study of the word, the first is also known as a lesson
07:43divine and the other as the study of the word, but let's see a little bit about the lesson, that is to say
07:52The lesson, the lesson means, or we could translate it as prayerful word, is the reading
08:03praying of the word, that is to say, the word ceases to be simply a word and will now become
08:12In a prayer, it is prayerful reading, that is, I am praying but while I am praying I am reading
08:20And so that word becomes a word that begins to have meaning in my own life and can
08:28Turning this into an action has therefore been the oldest and most common way in which it is done
08:37Prayer meditating on what Jesus did, what Jesus said, mainly what can be meditated on, should be
08:45We meditate on the entire Bible, but we are primarily interested in the Gospels.
08:52This reading, as I was saying, becomes a prayer and forms the foundation of our entire lives.
09:01The word of God, through meditation, takes root in the heart, and by taking root in the heart, it will...
09:10It becomes something very important, it will become attitudes, that is, it becomes life
09:16In my daily life I learn to respond, I learn to do things in a natural way, this way of acting
09:25This way of thinking, these attitudes, come directly from an action of God that has to
09:32See with the prayer that is directly joined with the word, being in prayer the word of God
09:40Mysteriously, it goes to the soul, and from there it will drive the will of each one of us.
09:49naturally, and that's what's called acting Christianly. What do I have to do to be a good person?
09:58Christian to act Christian to act Christianly so that my conduct is Christian
10:02It's very easy, brother. Meditate on the word of God. Prayer and meditation are two things that go together. We can't...
10:15Believe me, brothers and sisters, we cannot be Christians without prayer; that's why we need
10:27to have a space in our day dedicated exclusively to prayer and meditation
10:36There will certainly be another space to study the word of God, as we saw in our
10:42The previous topic requires studying, getting to know, loving, etc., but for everything we said in the
10:47For the previous chapter to truly make sense, we need to pray, and we will discuss this throughout the next one.
10:57See you in a bit.