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00:15Well, as I mentioned in our previous video, it's essential that on one hand we have
00:22Our study and, on the other hand, our prayer. I wanted to dedicate more of this video than
00:28Regarding the study, which is important, we'll see if we can talk about this, but the most important thing is
00:33That's what I'm telling you right now. And that's why I'd like to dedicate this last video practically to...
00:39Let's do an exercise so that later you can do it and see that it's not
00:46It's not as difficult as we sometimes think. It simply requires time first, and then certainly
00:53With a little practice, we can develop it. So, what?
01:01What are we going to do? Let's first look, as we were saying, the first thing to do is look for a
01:09a place where we could be alone for at least half an hour, where we could
01:18to be our space and our place. Sometimes it will be in the early morning, sometimes it will be in the
01:24Finally, remember that you can't use other people's time. Your wife's time is yours.
01:30Your wife's time is for your children, your work time is for your work.
01:34So you have to find a moment that's yours, and that's sometimes where the problem starts because
01:39Do we want to use the wife's time to pray, or the children's time to pray, or the time
01:43The work to pray. There's always someone who says, "No, miss, I'm not available for anyone," and then you get involved.
01:48to pray. No, of course not, your office is for working, not for praying. So, think.
01:54Right now, if you have a little piece of paper or something there, think about it, or just think about it. Where do you think...
01:59Where could you do it? Where could you be alone for half an hour, quiet, just you, without anyone
02:06Nobody bother you? Where could you be? Very well. Let's see which way we go now.
02:20Let's take a drink. Maybe, I'm going to meditate on a passage of scripture that may be random or that
02:28It could be by following a gospel, or I would be interested in working on a direct aspect of my
02:36life. What would I like to change? What would I like to learn more about from a deeper perspective?
02:40God himself, from his word? Yes? Then I'm going to choose the first one right now, which would be
02:48Simply select a theme. I mean, a passage. I'm not going to go into a whole theme to avoid complicating things.
02:54More. That's sometimes a little more difficult. I'm telling you, we have to have everyone's list.
02:58the verses that can be found, because some will be in Mark, others in Luke, others in
03:02Matthew, etc., etc. Here I'm going to take, quite simply, I'm going to take chapter 10 of
03:09Mark, and I'm going to read what's known as the story of blind Bartimaeus, right? Jesus who heals
03:15This blind man, whose name is, or what the Bible calls Bartimaeus, is mentioned in verse 46.
03:24Next. From there, it talks about this, this, this, this text, right? So,
03:31Okay, we've located it. If you have your Bible there, please take it out. Now let's read.
03:39Sincerely, yes? Very good, you've got it, you've already gone and gotten your Bible. Very good, we have ours there now.
03:46Bible. What are we going to do now? Well, we're going to invoke the Holy Spirit, as we were saying. We're going to ask Him,
03:52And we will ask the Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit and fill our hearts, fill us with light and
03:59Grant us wisdom so that we may understand deeply the word we are about to read.
04:06Light, science, and wisdom to know what you want, what pleases you, and what is perfect. All this
04:15We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, who is God and lives and reigns forever and ever.
04:21Centuries. Amen. And so, with this we begin, we have now entered the
04:28presence of God. I tell you, you can look for other texts that might help you
04:33so you can feel more comfortable. There are many ways to invoke the Holy Spirit. There is a very beautiful prayer of
04:39Saint Thomas, who invoked the Spirit before praying. And if you see that it's one
04:46of
04:46The principal teachers in theology, all the wisdom they drew from Holy Scripture is
04:53Wonderful. So, very good, what are we going to do now? We want to say, the fifth step is to do a reading
05:02Please pay attention, okay? We hope the text isn't too long and contains everything that needs to be said at any given time.
05:08me
05:08I would like, therefore, to meditate. I will read for you the text from Mark. It says,
05:19They arrived in Jericho, that is, it's talking about Jesus and his disciples. Later, when Jesus
05:28Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, came out of there, accompanied by his disciples and quite a few people.
05:35A blind beggar was sitting by the roadside. When he learned that it was Jesus of Nazareth who
05:42As he was passing by, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Many rebuked him, telling him to stop.
05:54He would be silent, but he cried out even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
06:04Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called the blind man, saying to him,
06:13Come up, get up, the master is calling you. He threw off his cloak, got up quickly, and
06:24He approached Jesus. Jesus, addressing him, said, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man answered,
06:34Teacher, let him see again. Jesus said to him, go, your faith has healed you. And immediately he saw again.
06:48and followed him along the road. This is the text from Mark. We have read it, I have tried to give it the
06:58intonation, so that we could begin to, well, introduce ourselves, as we were saying, into the
07:06St. Ignatius' method, right? Now let's represent ourselves, if you'd like to do so, close your
07:14Look, if you'd like to do it, and if not, well, that's fine too. But if you want to do this exercise
07:20Together with me, we'll keep it brief, right? We'll only spend the half hour you mentioned.
07:25So, to try and get our bearings, right? So, if you're looking at the scene, there's Jesus, he's leaving Jericho,
07:32He's blind, he's on the road, just as you imagine, he's blind, just as you imagine, he's sitting down,
07:37There are many scenes, representations that we have seen in different paintings and so on, how do you see it?
07:42Can you imagine? What's happening? Yes? Who's on the scene? Well, they're there, I can see the
07:47Disciples, what can you see? Are the disciples there? Where are the disciples? In the back? In the front? Where are they?
07:54Martimeo? Many people are coming with him, what are they doing? They follow him, they shout to him, they listen to him, Jesus
08:02Does he speak, doesn't he speak, right? Now, try asking yourself, why do they do it? Right? I mean, why do people
08:12Why are people following him? Why are they walking with him? Why are the people who saw him in Jericho now...
08:20goes out with
08:20Him? What did they hear there? What caught their attention so much that they followed him? Their
08:26disciples, perhaps, and a little indifferent, because, well, they're just going to move to another
08:29So, what's going on in that place? Now, check out this view you're in.
08:40Keeping it within your heart, check yourself if you're in the scene, if you are, if you see yourself
08:49personified in one of the characters, there the Holy Spirit is already working in your soul,
08:57It is making you, it is identifying you with Bartimaeus, with one of the disciples, with the person
09:04who tells him, "Get up," from the people who are with him.
09:11Who are you? Where are you? Or no, you're nobody. Maybe you're just a spectator. You're watching.
09:18The whole scene. You're seeing how he left, how they accompany him, the blind man who shouts at Jesus, and Jesus doesn't
09:24He ignores him, then finally listens, and tells him to call him. Anyway, where are you? Are you...
09:31Looking at the scene?
09:32Or are you part of the scene? That's important. And that's where the Holy Spirit is already present.
09:40It is already working in your heart.
09:43If you're one of those in the scene, now see what you're doing, okay? And what about this that you're facing?
09:54Now, as St. Ignatius says, ask yourself, what feeling does this scene awaken in you?
10:04If you are the blind man, how do you feel when Jesus ignores you? How do you feel when Jesus...
10:11calls?
10:16How do you feel when Jesus asks you what you want him to do for you?
10:25And what do you answer him? The blind man on the scene said to him, master, let him see, let him see again.
10:31What would you ask for if Jesus asked you, "What do you want?"
10:35Let yourself be taken over by the scene, let the Holy Spirit begin to navigate within you, now release the
10:44row and let the Spirit blow into your heart and start checking what you feel.
10:53Are you drawn to any feelings? Is there anything that catches your attention?
11:03Now is the time to enter into loving dialogue.
11:08Lord, why aren't you listening to me? Let's suppose that's what attracted you, isn't it?
11:13You felt really bad because you were yelling at him, Jesus, son of David, and people were saying, shut up.
11:19And he kept shouting, right?
11:22And it seems that he doesn't listen to you, it seems that your only chance to save yourself, to see again, has passed.
11:31Lord, why don't you listen to me when I speak to you?
11:36Today I feel like this, Lord.
11:38I've been asking you, I don't know, for my wife, my mother, my father, I don't know.
11:41And you don't listen to me, I don't know where I'm leading you.
11:45I'm just saying whatever.
11:47But this, this is not written anywhere but in your heart.
11:51It is something with which God wants to begin a dialogue with you today.
11:56It is an action of the Holy Spirit.
11:59This is not a human action.
12:02Yeah?
12:04Enter into prayer.
12:06Enter into dialogue with Him.
12:11Once you feel that this dialogue is over, that you have spoken with Him,
12:18Now, from this loving conversation you've had with Him,
12:22What inspires God in my life?
12:26What should I do?
12:27Perhaps you feel that I haven't listened to you because...
12:32Maybe I should...
12:35Maybe he listened to me, and I didn't even realize it.
12:39Perhaps He already called me, but with the noise of the people who are with Him,
12:43I haven't heard it.
12:48What should I do?
12:50How should I respond to this dialogue?
12:54To this loving, internal, profound instruction that God has carried out in my life.
13:00As?
13:03It's the action.
13:04Now, you are going to propose your actions.
13:08So, what should I do?
13:11We have already read, we have already meditated, we have already prayed.
13:17So, what does this inspire in me?
13:22And this, then, is what we are now going to write in our notebook.
13:32Now we are going to say, during my prayer, the Lord told me, did not tell me, did, did not do, etc.
13:39What happened in there? Write it down.
13:43And try, within that, to find the most significant points of it.
13:49so you can bring them with you throughout your day.
13:53This morning, during my meditation, I was reading Saint John,
13:57which is the first reading I am preaching on right now.
14:00The First Letter of Saint John.
14:03And believe me, half an hour isn't enough for me.
14:07It is true that, well, I don't just do the reading,
14:12but I have a Bible commentary that I use for help, etc.
14:15And, of course, I go much deeper into the dialogues,
14:19about the words, why he said it, where he said it.
14:22So, of course, I need to go deeper in my own life,
14:25But also because that's what I'm going to preach.
14:28I cannot preach what I do not even understand, and therefore, what I do not even live.
14:33So, I have to find the meaning of my life
14:35to actually tell others.
14:38You will have to do the same with your godchildren.
14:41Exactly the same.
14:42Or with your child.
14:44We cannot talk about what we do not know.
14:47We can't sell a product that we haven't even tested.
14:51That's why it's so important that this meditation becomes a part of your life.
14:56And from there we will change our hearts and our whole lives will be transformed.
15:04Get out of your prayer.
15:05We would end our prayer with an Our Father, a Hail Mary, and a Glory Be.
15:09And now we begin our day.
15:13I assure you that when you start doing this you will feel and notice a change
15:20tremendous in your life, tremendous.
15:23That's why I'm inviting you, Dad, Godfather, you who are watching me in this video,
15:31Listen to these words of the Lord.
15:34Do what I tell you today.
15:38If you are truly interested in your child's happiness,
15:43The only and best way you're going to achieve it
15:48by teaching him to be a good disciple,
15:51For this, he must read the word of God.
15:54and he has to pray.
15:56If you encounter these two, you will have serious difficulties in your life.
15:59and it will be very difficult for him to achieve complete happiness.
16:03Thank you, see you in our next chapter.
16:06See you soon.