every Sunday at 19h will be celebrated a Mass in St. Peter student
Carthusian
(21 rue Valade).
You may have heard this song on the radio in Cali who keeps repeating "it's when happiness ..." Who of you wants to be happy? .... No one protests, because my question is silly, everyone wants to be happy, all men seek happiness. They do not even try it, it looks at all costs, to be honest sometimes when you look at it is even said he looks anyhow. Go into the street and ask the question to anyone, big rugby player (15 of France's supporters, if available), the grandmother to the market, the mainstay of pub, the kid who leaves school, the mother pushing a pram, they will all answer the same thing, "of course I'm looking for happiness," but does not go away immediately after they have asked, stay a few moments before them, because this response is not sufficient. They are older than you, they have more experience he should know where to find happiness, you and you are interested to know where he hides his happiness, how to live happily. So here are some answers they could help you: young lolita will tell you that Star'Ac to watch and learn to sing like Beyonce, the young layabout who haunts the banks of the Garonne, you say that happiness is to spend his Saturday afternoon to count the seagull in the new bridge, (you can watch a little surprised, because you'll have fun that does not at all), another will tell you that happiness is on Saturday night to go spend the night at the aposia, returning exhausted on Sunday morning and dragged up stade2 (you look at even more surprised because you Sunday is your favorite day then you will not lose to drag the bottom of your bed), a third will tell you that it's a family gathering, and the oldest, the wisest may be silent and not give you an answer their smile.
All that you do not advance much in your quest to find happiness and get you eventually lose your temper if you do not tell you where he is that damn happy because all these little pleasures in two balls What you proposed so far they do not just, you know what you're looking for is a real joy, great happiness, a happiness that could fill a lifetime.
So there you need a real specialist in happiness, someone who touches on the subject: Jesus Christ, then you have a real pro, you're in good hands, then come listen.
You heard from the beginning of the Mass all these allusions to Joy "my mouth shall declare your praise," "I am full of gratitude for one who gives me strength" Rejoice with me "and later in this parable they did not look happy this father and son. It may be that happiness is all men want, it is perhaps in this gospel that page seems to gladden the heart.
You saw this boy: he had everything to be happy, a father who loves him, a house to live, friends and now he prefers to leave everything to seek happiness (and yes he too, like everyone else). Then he goes, he bought property a few small pleasures, but when he has no money to pay them well and it runs like a tassel, although unfortunate, but you feel comfortable with happiness that we buy what is not true happiness. Then he remembers the good times, the happiness of quiet time, free time for happiness, when he was at his father with those who love him, he remembers, and then it rises with the fear of being taken a thrashing father, but hey it still prefers it like to live in poverty in the midst of the pigs, he returned with his father in which he asks forgiveness, forgive me for having the head a little hard. and the father is neither one nor two, it's party. That's happiness, it surprises you, it is in any case that the happiness that Jesus offers us a free happiness, a happiness that goes straight to the heart to fill it.
I told you that Jesus is a specialist in happiness, he knows where the source, he knows how we are coupons, he knows how we relate this story and he just told us that just the user manual of happiness.
Happiness is quite simple actually, happiness is being loved and loving in return, it is the happiness of knowing love and be with loved ones. Now we know that in our lives there are a thousand things that prevent us from love, hatred, resentment, lies, jealousy, backbiting list would be long. In a nutshell this is what the church calls sin is a scary word, a word you do not use too and this is normal because this word conceals us spoil, disfigure us, that plague us from the inside, that prevent us from loving. and we leave room for these sins in our lives unless we are able to love. They do their work in our heart, they gradually separate us from others and from God, they make us withdraw into ourselves, we shall justify ourselves, we say: "It's not me who started; anyway it is his fault, and then what's the point of asking forgiveness in any case he will not forgive me, or I'm too ashamed ... "apologies that we say and that ultimately prevents us from loving. Faced with these sins (and each of us has his own, or that the who does not cast the first stone) there are two possibilities: either
you say that it is still something of priests, a well-crafted speeches to give us a bad conscience, in this case Jesus can do anything for you, at least he will not force you hands, you remain free to keep watching the pigs eat the pods, you are free to live crawling in the mud
either you like the prodigal son (c is the user manual of happiness earlier, a fairly simple instructions you'll see) you get up and say "Father forgive me." Just that, but it must, you must get up and you go to your Father in heaven. You must get up, meaning that you must leave your sin, the sin that keeps us on the ground, which makes us crawl in the mud (Satan loves to see us crawl), but we are not made to crawl, we are made to walk upright, free and straight, that's how God made us, that's how he wants us. Once standing he must ask forgiveness and then what we ask forgiveness, but we shall, immediately, as it is, without quibbling, no haggle he expected it, forgive us, for we filled with joy, fill us with his gifts, he pitied to see us so unhappy, as in the song we waited, he waited for us to do the first step is the one that costs, all other it is God who makes them.
But it is perhaps not yet clear and happiness you start to see where he is, you see just how you come near but the road is not very well marked, then the Holy Church Our mother gives us that second reading: "The saying is sure to be welcome without reservation! -That is St. Paul who says so! -Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners "and how? : Thanks to these ambassadors, St. Paul, the apostles first, it is they who have received from God the ministry of reconciliation, they are the ones who received the power to forgive sins. But you tell me that it makes you look good e because St. Paul, died, yes, he is dead but his successors are still alive, the ministry, is transmitted through, our priests, these ambassadors of Christ have received this power of Jesus to reconcile us with God!
Looking for happiness, like Cali, like all our contemporaries, we do not deplete the roads dead end, will confess our sins, and whenever we need it will receive the forgiveness that frees us from our chains, this forgiveness is changing lives and a height of happiness that lasts only one that God offers us. And when ye have found him remember that many of our contemporaries have rejected God in their lives and they are desperately seeking happiness without really find it (may be there is there a cause and effect). Maybe God by abandoning what one loses his heart is full, leaving one who forgives us we forget the path of forgiveness, losing sight of the Servant we lose the sense of service, away from Him who loves us like no one knows, leaving the source of all joy is allowed to dry up the joy in our hearts.
So maybe he comes back to us Christians to tell people of our time: "you are looking for happiness? look, look better, seek God and there you will find happiness "
" honor and glory to the King eternal, invisible to the one God and immortal for ever and ever! "Amen
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