00:15How 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
00:48father
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 rests.
01:23The 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 strong relationship with him through writing and through
01:40the
01:40of the prayer. That is, as we have been repeating, we continually
01:48You, and I as godfathers to some people, are responsible for the
01:55continuous evangelization of children, godchildren, and children, and we are ultimately responsible for the
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 everywhere
02:19God
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
02:37TRUE
02:38we will be able to give what we do not have
02:42we will be able to instruct others on the path we ourselves do not know
02:47we will be able to make disciples of Jesus
02:51to our children, to our children, to our stepchildren, we who are not really them, that is not possible
02:58For there to be a second and a subsequent generation, it is necessary that it be established that
03:07I implement what is called discipleship; that is, I train one person, this person trains another, and so on. That's why
03:13Jesus the
03:14Master, if 12 were chosen to teach them everything related to the new life, it says in Mark in the
03:23Chapter 3, starting from verse 14, and 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 passed it on to the next generation
03:40In other words, Jesus didn't have a contingency plan; if this one failed, then everything failed.
03:48So the disciples were in charge of continuing the work; today you and I are the ones who are responsible for continuing the work.
03:56charged in a very special way, as Pope Saint John Paul II says in the
04:06Parents are the first evangelizers and are responsible for the following
04:13Each generation, each of us has to train a disciple, but each of us then
04:23First we have to be disciples, but we won't be able to do that if we don't listen to the Lord.
04:34The disciple's most important mission is to listen to his master; the disciple must learn to live
04:43And then pass on what we've learned to others, and what we learn from Jesus is precisely the gospel.
04:53A very beautiful passage in the Gospel of Luke where we see the importance of knowing the word and
05:01Experience it in chapter 11 of Luke, starting from verse 27. Jesus hears a woman tell him well.
05:10Blessed is the one blessed by the womb that held the child and the breasts that fed you, and Jesus answers
05:18Rather blessed are those who hear the word of God and put it into practice, for they will have children.
05:25Any woman, any womb can have a baby, but not Mary. The Virgin Mary is not big.
05:33Because she had Jesus in her womb, that alone would make her great, but Jesus praises her because she is the woman
05:41who hears the word of God, even though it is complicated and difficult because who knows if they understood our word well?
05:50Holy Mother, and because for her many of the words that today have meaning for us
05:55Her words of resignation didn't make much sense to her because they are words that a woman who doesn't...
06:04Women couldn't even enter the synagogue, no, no, no, they didn't study the sacred scriptures properly because that wasn't
06:10It was her job, etc., but nevertheless, despite all this, Maria responds with a generous yes, yes, I'll go.
06:18to
06:18Do what you say, let it be done as you have told me; the word is fulfilled in me.
06:24Jesus
06:25She praises her mother because she listens and does what the scripture tells her, meaning we have to put her
06:35Through the work of the apostle James, James practically dedicates his first chapter to talking about this topic of the
06:44The person who does not put into practice the word that they hear but remain there
06:53In other words, it's not going anywhere, that's why the church is returning to the word, but
07:03that the word
07:04Don't just stay in a book like this, or don't just stay in a sentence, but
07:12let him stay
07:12Words and prayers must be transformed into action; for this we must distinguish
07:24Two fundamental activities for the disciple are prayer, which we will see today as meditation, and...
07:38On the other hand, the study of the word is also known as divine lesson and the
07:46another one like
07:46the study of the word, but let's look a little bit at the lesson, that is to say, the lesson
07:54The lesson means, or we could translate it as, prayerful reading, the prayerful reading of
08:04The word, that is to say, the word ceases to be simply a word and will now become a
08:13prayer
08:14It is prayerful reading, that is, I am praying but while I am praying I am reading and so that word
08:22It becomes a word that begins to have meaning in my own life and can now become
08:29This action has therefore been the oldest and most common way in which prayer is done through meditation
08:38about
08:39What Jesus did, what Jesus said, primarily can be meditated upon; one should meditate on the entire Word.
08:46But we are mainly interested in the part about the Gospels.
08:53This reading, as I was saying, becomes a prayer and forms the foundation of our entire lives.
09:02The word of God, through meditation, is fixed in the heart, and by being fixed in the heart
09:09is going to
09:10It will become something very important, it will become attitudes, that is, it will become part of everyday life.
09:17I learn to respond, I learn to do things in a natural way, this way of acting, this way of
09:26Thinking about these attitudes stems directly from an action of God that has to do with prayer.
09:34that is directly joined with the word while in prayer the word of God mysteriously goes
09:42speaking to the soul, and from there it will naturally drive the will of each one of us.
09:51And that's what it means to act Christianly. What do I have to do to be a good Christian?
09:59Acting Christian so that my conduct is Christian is very easy, brother, meditate on the word.
10:06Prayer, meditation, and God are two things that come together; we cannot, believe me, brothers, we cannot be
10:18Christians, if we don't have prayer, we can't do anything; that's why we need to have a space in our day for it.
10:31Dedicated exclusively to prayer and meditation on the word of God, there will be another space
10:39To study it, as we saw in our previous topic, we must study it and get to know it.
10:44to love her, etc., but so that everything we said in the previous chapter really makes sense
10:52We need to pray, and we'll talk about this in the next chapter. See you later.
11:00See you in the next video!
