SpiritualSharing November 2007
Spiritual Sharing November 2007
Thu 20071101
* The experience in Holy Land is not as intensive or emocional as maybe I was expecting. I feel myself tired. Maybe, a need some more sleep to be ready to enjoy. This is not quite a touristic trip. I feel that I need more sleep to recover. Perhaps too many activities, too many places. That's fine.
* About the comments of Mxxx today when visiting the place where Jesus said to Peter that we would be the head. About those three times in which Jesus asks Peter whether he loved Him. Jesus asks the first two times with the word "agape" which means inconditional love. The love that gives everything, the whole person. Peter responds positively with the word "filia" which is the love of a friend. The third time, Jesus asks witht he word "filia" and Peter responds afirmatively with the same word. Perhaps this is the most Peter can give Jesus: the love of a friend (he had previously denied Jesus three times). Jesus asks with the same word used by Peter so that he can respond positively.
* About the postcard I sent to Axxx. He is in the midst of the passion. Difficulties, lack of sence, problems with his partner, lack of understanding, lack of being understood, lack of being respected in one's own rythms. I thought of Axxx when we visited the Mountain where the Beatitudes where proclaimed. Of how Jesus says that the more we are poor or we suffer or we lack of food or we are in difficulties, the closer we are to Him. This is so hard to see within the passion, the suffering periods. I was myself imbedded in a similar situation six months ago and it was so hard (my situation is still a lot weaker than his). I thank my dearest Lord to be with me in those moments even if I could not realize of His presence. I pray especially for Axxx today, so that he can realize of Your presence, my dearest Lord.
* About the answer of my little Axxx. He is willing to kiss me again. Willing to know how I feel during this trip, sharing experiences.
Fri 20071102
* About reading the book of Ruth. Of how emocional I became this morning reading it. It is a very short book (hardly four pages), such a beautiful story. I'm not supposed to be enjoying this reading when visiting the Holy Land. I should be marvelled at those texts about the life of Jesus. However, this is what my dearest Lord is giving me: dryness and coldness when looking at the Holy places and warmth when reading the story of Ruth.
* My dear prayer for Jxxx Bxxx and especially for his wife. He lost a 30-year-old son a few months ago. His wife is devastated. However, he is rather fine. He told me that whenever he thinks about his son, he feels like weeping but he's been able to come to this trip and be very normal and follow the dynamics of the whole group. He's strong and fortunately he is not devastated. I gave him a recording of the talk Exxx Hxxx and I gave two years ago about the experience of encountering the Lord. Exxx shared her experience of encountering the Lord through the acceptance of the death of her husband and a few months later his 30-year-old son. She was indeed devastated and shared her experience of encountering the Lord through this situation. My talk was about the experience of encounering the Lord thought the acceptance and integration of my sexual orientation.
* He is now listening to my talk. I'm here in a little corner of a hotel, praying for Jxxx, so that my dearest Lord gives strength to his wife and to him. So that they may encounter the Lord through this horrible situation. I remember some of the things in my talk that might help them. About that hard but wonderful message of the prophet Isaiah: "my ways are not your ways". About starting to think that what I think is best, is not necessarily the best. That my dearest Lord might have other plans different from mine. May Your will be done, Your paths accomplished, for You are our dearest Lord and You take care of us.
Ruth 1,11-18:
Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why should you come with me, when I have no more sons to become your husbands? Return home, my daughters. I am now too old to marry again. Even if I hope to have a husband tonight and give birth to sons, would you remain unmarried waiting for them to grow up? No, my daughters. I won't share my lot with you, for it is too bitter. Yahweh's hand has been raised against me!"
Again they sobbed and wept. Then Orpha kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law returns to her people and her gods. You too must return. Go after her."
Ruth replied, "Don't aske me to leave you. For I will go where you go and stay where you stay. Your people will be my people and your god, my God. Where you die, there will I die and be buried. May Yahweh deal with me severely if anything except death separates us." Realizing that Ruth was determined to go with her, Naomi stopped urging at her.
Thu 20071108
* My most tender prayer for Cxxx. This is my last prayer for her. She doesn't need it any more. May we know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart. She's got already such a wise heart. She was ready, she knew the shortness of her life and gained so much wisdom of heart. She is now with the wisest, she does not need any more to worry about the shortness of her life, for she has achieved to receive the true wisdom of heart. Thank you very much, Cxxx, for you taught me to know the shortness of my life and so, gain wisdom of heart. Now, my prayer is for the whole family, especially for Axxx. May the presence of my dearest Lord be with them all, so that they achieve Your comfort and consolation.
In manos tuas Pater
comendo spiritus meum.
(In Your hands, I give out my spirit)
Jesus, remember me,
when you come into your kingdom.
Confitemini, Dominum, quoniam bonum.
Confitemini, Dominum, Aleluya.
(Trust the Lord, for He is good)
Ved de cuán poco valor
son las cosas tras que andamos
y corremos,
que en este mundo traidor
aun primero que muramos
las perdemos:
de ellas deshace la edad,
de ellas casos desastrados
que acaecen,
de ellas, por su calidad,
en los más altos estados
desfallecen.
Coplas a la muerte de mi padre
Jorge Manrique
See of how little value
are the things towards we walk and run,
which in this cruel world
still before we die,
we loose:
for them our years undone,
for them disastrous situations
which happen,
for them, for their quality,
from the highest states
they surrender.
Mon 20071112
* Thank you my dearest Lord for this weekend. Too many things done but they were worth.
* About helping out Jxxx with the cleaning ot the attic. That was quite a lot of work. However, we could finish and now things are getting so much better.
* About the meeting on Friday night with the people from CRISMHOM to prepare the last details of the talk about Homosexuality and Christianism in the Christian Network general Assembly. I had met Axxx to have dinner and go to see a movie. I changed plans to attend the meeting. He was disappointed but didn't say much. I asked and he told me. He accepted it. It was only dinner in the end. About the simple comment from his grandmother: "hay más días que longaniza" (there are many days). He talked to me about patience with this little proberb. I listened to him, for he spoke with authority: he is being patient.
* About calling Alxx to go to the celebration liturgy at the Christian Network. At first he told me that it was late (I called him to late) and we would not have enough time. However, in the end he called me back and we went. We were late but not too much. He got out of home and we were all pleased to see each other at the celebration.
* Thank you very much for the afternoon with Axxx. I cooked for him and invited him to come home. About the little prayer we did together in front of the piano. Maybe he didn't interpret it as a prayer but for me it was.
* About calling my aunt on Sunday night. I haven't seen them this weekened. I have been perhaps too busy. However I called them. It was a good idea. We talked for a bit and I guess that being in contact is helping my aunt deal with my grandmother.
Tue 20071113
* Yesterday I sent a message to Axxx with my last prayer for Cxxx. It was emotional to read it again. May this prayer or some other start to move Axxx. May he discover who You are.
* My prayer for Axxx. May he continue in Your presence. May he realize that You are there. He is alone. May I put the subtle company of a friend around him.
* I visited Jxxx Lxxx yesterday. He is worried for Axxx. I was moved by his compassion and pity for Axxx. He talked to him on the phone. I could see how released he felt after the phone conversation.
Wed 20071114
* If I had to summarize the encountering moments during my pilgrimage to the Holy Land, they are not so much related with the Holy places themselves.
* About Jxxx, my room mate during the Holy Land trip. He has lost his older son three months ago. He was working in a construction, a deposit fell on top of him and he died. He told me that he felt very sad whenever he thought of his son. However, he was sure that he was with the Most High and could not be any better. His wife was devastated. She could not get out of home. Jxxx, however, was fine. It was possible to talk to him, he laughted and enjoyed the presence of the other people from the trip. He had found a deep peace somehow.
* I thank my dearest Lord, for what was happening to Jxxx is the work of Your hands. It is wonderful to contemplate it. How such a difficult situation can be full of the peace of your presence? Jxxx let your presence be with him. He said that he was not doing anything especial, no effort to let You get into his life. But You were there. He was very thankful too. He had been for years a little distant from the jesuit community. However, now the support from this community was very important.
* Another couple had also lost a son. This last one committed suicide. Of how harder this situation is. Jxxx told me about this situation. He considered himself fortunate because he could find himself peaceful. He had no doubt that his son was with the Most High. However, this other couple found it a lot more difficult to be peaceful. "What did we do wrong?" they were asking themselves.
* About a whole family coming to the Holy Land trip. The parents, two daughter and a son, the boyfriend of one of the daughters, the husband of the other. The father is got cancer. It was beautiful to contemplate the beauty of this whole family taking the opportunity to do this trip together.
* About the comment Jxxx Lxxx told me: "the people are those who move us". Not so much the Holy places or intelectual thoughts. They Holy places I visited in Israel didn't move me by far as much as getting in contact with these people, with their situtation in life, with their joys and difficulties.
Mon 20071119
* This was an intense weekend. My brother was very happy because he finished ordering his house. I helped him the whole Saturday morning. It's been a process that lasted for two years. Now it is almost complete.
* About the CRISMHOM meeting on Saturday. The leader of the meeting was late and I led instead. It was very moving for me. It was about the Pentecost reading, when the Holy Spirit was given to the disciples. I asked a little more detail to our priest who was there. He answered something that I had heard before from him. However, I realized of how important and deep it was on that meeting. People started to share after him. I was encouraging everyone to share, especially those who were new. About the comment of Exxx. It was very simple but probably the deepest (he was giving out a piece of his heart) that I have ever heard from him. Another person sharing about his dark night after a car accident where other people had died for this person's not very conciencious driving. Of how he recovered. Jxxx was also moved. He was asking for forgiveness to some people. He reminded us that our group was created the day before Pentecost. He was thinking of us a lot when he was preparing the meeting.
* After the meeting we went to have dinner. I was really tired. However, I went for a little drink after dinner. I enjoyed that moment. I found Jxxx at that place who was bringins us a christian to join us.
* About going to mass with Axxx. We both enjoyed the mass. It was about the Church as our Mother and the Church being every single one of us being a loving mother. We went for a drink after the mass. His crisis continues but we didn't speak about it. We shared some moving films that we saw at the gay festival. Moving films. Perhaps not always very politically correct but full of human feelings, loving situations, sometimes so extremelly dificult. We also talked about receiving the Holy Spirit. I shared some experiences I have had or heard about. I hope this is the best I can do for Axxx. Thank you my dearest Lord for You were so present.
* I went to have lunch with my family on Sunday. My mother gave me as a present the book that Cxxx and Txxx have been using to pray: "Show me your face" from Carlos García Vallés. About a little conversation I had with my mother when I asked her about how Txxx was (his husband passed suddenly away a few weeks ago). She is having a hard time but now she can pray. She uses the book my mother gave me all the time. My mother told me about the love Pxxx (the husband of one of Txxx's daughters) had for her and her husband and how he expressed that in a spiritual retreat.
Mon 20071119
* About going to the meeting at my jesuit community. At the end I found Pxxx (the husband of one of Txxx's daughters). We exchanged emails and phone numbers. I told him about the writing of the recently passed away Cxxx ("The experience of an illness") and send it to him that night.
Wed 20071121
* I was sick on Tuesday. I ate something that went wrong. I was so cold that night. I had to put more blankets. By three in the morning I vomited the dinner and started to feel better. I could not go to work the following day. I sent a message to my boss at work to tell him I was not going. He answered back telling me to recover, take a rest and not to come to work in the afternoon. I thanked this message.
* About the phone call from Exxx. He had read the notes I sent him about the spiritual exercises of the past May, at the hardest moment of my crisis at work that I suffered with him. This was a few days before he left the bank because he could not stand the situation any longer. He was willing to answer my email but did not find time to stop and write. However, he called me to ask and share his own views about this particular way to see life.
Fri 20071123
* This coming Sunday is the last day of the liturgic year: "Jesus, King of the Universe". I was reading the gospel for Sunday. It is the text where Jesus is crucified. About my dearest King of the Universe. His most glorious moment is precisely that in which He is the most given; the moment in which He is crucified. The throne is the cross. His staff is the weapon used to trespass his heart. My dearest Lord, this is so out of human nature.
* "The Lord will reign for ever and will give his people the gift of peace".
* Thank you for the celebration of Thanksgiving day yesterday night. It was beautiful. It's always been. Many reasons to give thanks for. I thought it was next week. I had to hurry up but I could cope with it. It was nice the presence of Pxxx and Rxxx. I was moved by Lxxx Bxxx and Pxxx.
Fri 20071130
* Last Monday my mum suffered a choking attact after the mass at my jesuit community. I went with dad to the hospital. After a few hours my mother was well again. Too many activities, emocions, permanent coughing. I don't know. The doctors haven't reached yet a conclusion. My dad was very worried. He thought that he was about to loose mum. A warning perhaps. Let me not take the important things for granted. May we still know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart.
* About the message I sent to Axxx. I sent him a little poem dedicated to the child Jesus. This time I was thinking of Axxx. I was very moved when I wrote this message.
Ver llorar a la alegría,
ver tan pobre a la riqueza,
ver tan baja a la grandeza
y ver que Dios lo quería.
¡Gran merced fue en aquel día
la que el hombre recibió.
¡Quién lo viera y fuera yo!
See the happiness crying,
see the richness so poor,
see the greatness to low
and see how The Lord loved him.
Great gift it was that day
what man received!
Who could it see that and it be I!
Thu 20071101
* The experience in Holy Land is not as intensive or emocional as maybe I was expecting. I feel myself tired. Maybe, a need some more sleep to be ready to enjoy. This is not quite a touristic trip. I feel that I need more sleep to recover. Perhaps too many activities, too many places. That's fine.
* About the comments of Mxxx today when visiting the place where Jesus said to Peter that we would be the head. About those three times in which Jesus asks Peter whether he loved Him. Jesus asks the first two times with the word "agape" which means inconditional love. The love that gives everything, the whole person. Peter responds positively with the word "filia" which is the love of a friend. The third time, Jesus asks witht he word "filia" and Peter responds afirmatively with the same word. Perhaps this is the most Peter can give Jesus: the love of a friend (he had previously denied Jesus three times). Jesus asks with the same word used by Peter so that he can respond positively.
* About the postcard I sent to Axxx. He is in the midst of the passion. Difficulties, lack of sence, problems with his partner, lack of understanding, lack of being understood, lack of being respected in one's own rythms. I thought of Axxx when we visited the Mountain where the Beatitudes where proclaimed. Of how Jesus says that the more we are poor or we suffer or we lack of food or we are in difficulties, the closer we are to Him. This is so hard to see within the passion, the suffering periods. I was myself imbedded in a similar situation six months ago and it was so hard (my situation is still a lot weaker than his). I thank my dearest Lord to be with me in those moments even if I could not realize of His presence. I pray especially for Axxx today, so that he can realize of Your presence, my dearest Lord.
* About the answer of my little Axxx. He is willing to kiss me again. Willing to know how I feel during this trip, sharing experiences.
Fri 20071102
* About reading the book of Ruth. Of how emocional I became this morning reading it. It is a very short book (hardly four pages), such a beautiful story. I'm not supposed to be enjoying this reading when visiting the Holy Land. I should be marvelled at those texts about the life of Jesus. However, this is what my dearest Lord is giving me: dryness and coldness when looking at the Holy places and warmth when reading the story of Ruth.
* My dear prayer for Jxxx Bxxx and especially for his wife. He lost a 30-year-old son a few months ago. His wife is devastated. However, he is rather fine. He told me that whenever he thinks about his son, he feels like weeping but he's been able to come to this trip and be very normal and follow the dynamics of the whole group. He's strong and fortunately he is not devastated. I gave him a recording of the talk Exxx Hxxx and I gave two years ago about the experience of encountering the Lord. Exxx shared her experience of encountering the Lord through the acceptance of the death of her husband and a few months later his 30-year-old son. She was indeed devastated and shared her experience of encountering the Lord through this situation. My talk was about the experience of encounering the Lord thought the acceptance and integration of my sexual orientation.
* He is now listening to my talk. I'm here in a little corner of a hotel, praying for Jxxx, so that my dearest Lord gives strength to his wife and to him. So that they may encounter the Lord through this horrible situation. I remember some of the things in my talk that might help them. About that hard but wonderful message of the prophet Isaiah: "my ways are not your ways". About starting to think that what I think is best, is not necessarily the best. That my dearest Lord might have other plans different from mine. May Your will be done, Your paths accomplished, for You are our dearest Lord and You take care of us.
Ruth 1,11-18:
Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why should you come with me, when I have no more sons to become your husbands? Return home, my daughters. I am now too old to marry again. Even if I hope to have a husband tonight and give birth to sons, would you remain unmarried waiting for them to grow up? No, my daughters. I won't share my lot with you, for it is too bitter. Yahweh's hand has been raised against me!"
Again they sobbed and wept. Then Orpha kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law returns to her people and her gods. You too must return. Go after her."
Ruth replied, "Don't aske me to leave you. For I will go where you go and stay where you stay. Your people will be my people and your god, my God. Where you die, there will I die and be buried. May Yahweh deal with me severely if anything except death separates us." Realizing that Ruth was determined to go with her, Naomi stopped urging at her.
Thu 20071108
* My most tender prayer for Cxxx. This is my last prayer for her. She doesn't need it any more. May we know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart. She's got already such a wise heart. She was ready, she knew the shortness of her life and gained so much wisdom of heart. She is now with the wisest, she does not need any more to worry about the shortness of her life, for she has achieved to receive the true wisdom of heart. Thank you very much, Cxxx, for you taught me to know the shortness of my life and so, gain wisdom of heart. Now, my prayer is for the whole family, especially for Axxx. May the presence of my dearest Lord be with them all, so that they achieve Your comfort and consolation.
In manos tuas Pater
comendo spiritus meum.
(In Your hands, I give out my spirit)
Jesus, remember me,
when you come into your kingdom.
Confitemini, Dominum, quoniam bonum.
Confitemini, Dominum, Aleluya.
(Trust the Lord, for He is good)
Ved de cuán poco valor
son las cosas tras que andamos
y corremos,
que en este mundo traidor
aun primero que muramos
las perdemos:
de ellas deshace la edad,
de ellas casos desastrados
que acaecen,
de ellas, por su calidad,
en los más altos estados
desfallecen.
Coplas a la muerte de mi padre
Jorge Manrique
See of how little value
are the things towards we walk and run,
which in this cruel world
still before we die,
we loose:
for them our years undone,
for them disastrous situations
which happen,
for them, for their quality,
from the highest states
they surrender.
Mon 20071112
* Thank you my dearest Lord for this weekend. Too many things done but they were worth.
* About helping out Jxxx with the cleaning ot the attic. That was quite a lot of work. However, we could finish and now things are getting so much better.
* About the meeting on Friday night with the people from CRISMHOM to prepare the last details of the talk about Homosexuality and Christianism in the Christian Network general Assembly. I had met Axxx to have dinner and go to see a movie. I changed plans to attend the meeting. He was disappointed but didn't say much. I asked and he told me. He accepted it. It was only dinner in the end. About the simple comment from his grandmother: "hay más días que longaniza" (there are many days). He talked to me about patience with this little proberb. I listened to him, for he spoke with authority: he is being patient.
* About calling Alxx to go to the celebration liturgy at the Christian Network. At first he told me that it was late (I called him to late) and we would not have enough time. However, in the end he called me back and we went. We were late but not too much. He got out of home and we were all pleased to see each other at the celebration.
* Thank you very much for the afternoon with Axxx. I cooked for him and invited him to come home. About the little prayer we did together in front of the piano. Maybe he didn't interpret it as a prayer but for me it was.
* About calling my aunt on Sunday night. I haven't seen them this weekened. I have been perhaps too busy. However I called them. It was a good idea. We talked for a bit and I guess that being in contact is helping my aunt deal with my grandmother.
Tue 20071113
* Yesterday I sent a message to Axxx with my last prayer for Cxxx. It was emotional to read it again. May this prayer or some other start to move Axxx. May he discover who You are.
* My prayer for Axxx. May he continue in Your presence. May he realize that You are there. He is alone. May I put the subtle company of a friend around him.
* I visited Jxxx Lxxx yesterday. He is worried for Axxx. I was moved by his compassion and pity for Axxx. He talked to him on the phone. I could see how released he felt after the phone conversation.
Wed 20071114
* If I had to summarize the encountering moments during my pilgrimage to the Holy Land, they are not so much related with the Holy places themselves.
* About Jxxx, my room mate during the Holy Land trip. He has lost his older son three months ago. He was working in a construction, a deposit fell on top of him and he died. He told me that he felt very sad whenever he thought of his son. However, he was sure that he was with the Most High and could not be any better. His wife was devastated. She could not get out of home. Jxxx, however, was fine. It was possible to talk to him, he laughted and enjoyed the presence of the other people from the trip. He had found a deep peace somehow.
* I thank my dearest Lord, for what was happening to Jxxx is the work of Your hands. It is wonderful to contemplate it. How such a difficult situation can be full of the peace of your presence? Jxxx let your presence be with him. He said that he was not doing anything especial, no effort to let You get into his life. But You were there. He was very thankful too. He had been for years a little distant from the jesuit community. However, now the support from this community was very important.
* Another couple had also lost a son. This last one committed suicide. Of how harder this situation is. Jxxx told me about this situation. He considered himself fortunate because he could find himself peaceful. He had no doubt that his son was with the Most High. However, this other couple found it a lot more difficult to be peaceful. "What did we do wrong?" they were asking themselves.
* About a whole family coming to the Holy Land trip. The parents, two daughter and a son, the boyfriend of one of the daughters, the husband of the other. The father is got cancer. It was beautiful to contemplate the beauty of this whole family taking the opportunity to do this trip together.
* About the comment Jxxx Lxxx told me: "the people are those who move us". Not so much the Holy places or intelectual thoughts. They Holy places I visited in Israel didn't move me by far as much as getting in contact with these people, with their situtation in life, with their joys and difficulties.
Mon 20071119
* This was an intense weekend. My brother was very happy because he finished ordering his house. I helped him the whole Saturday morning. It's been a process that lasted for two years. Now it is almost complete.
* About the CRISMHOM meeting on Saturday. The leader of the meeting was late and I led instead. It was very moving for me. It was about the Pentecost reading, when the Holy Spirit was given to the disciples. I asked a little more detail to our priest who was there. He answered something that I had heard before from him. However, I realized of how important and deep it was on that meeting. People started to share after him. I was encouraging everyone to share, especially those who were new. About the comment of Exxx. It was very simple but probably the deepest (he was giving out a piece of his heart) that I have ever heard from him. Another person sharing about his dark night after a car accident where other people had died for this person's not very conciencious driving. Of how he recovered. Jxxx was also moved. He was asking for forgiveness to some people. He reminded us that our group was created the day before Pentecost. He was thinking of us a lot when he was preparing the meeting.
* After the meeting we went to have dinner. I was really tired. However, I went for a little drink after dinner. I enjoyed that moment. I found Jxxx at that place who was bringins us a christian to join us.
* About going to mass with Axxx. We both enjoyed the mass. It was about the Church as our Mother and the Church being every single one of us being a loving mother. We went for a drink after the mass. His crisis continues but we didn't speak about it. We shared some moving films that we saw at the gay festival. Moving films. Perhaps not always very politically correct but full of human feelings, loving situations, sometimes so extremelly dificult. We also talked about receiving the Holy Spirit. I shared some experiences I have had or heard about. I hope this is the best I can do for Axxx. Thank you my dearest Lord for You were so present.
* I went to have lunch with my family on Sunday. My mother gave me as a present the book that Cxxx and Txxx have been using to pray: "Show me your face" from Carlos García Vallés. About a little conversation I had with my mother when I asked her about how Txxx was (his husband passed suddenly away a few weeks ago). She is having a hard time but now she can pray. She uses the book my mother gave me all the time. My mother told me about the love Pxxx (the husband of one of Txxx's daughters) had for her and her husband and how he expressed that in a spiritual retreat.
Mon 20071119
* About going to the meeting at my jesuit community. At the end I found Pxxx (the husband of one of Txxx's daughters). We exchanged emails and phone numbers. I told him about the writing of the recently passed away Cxxx ("The experience of an illness") and send it to him that night.
Wed 20071121
* I was sick on Tuesday. I ate something that went wrong. I was so cold that night. I had to put more blankets. By three in the morning I vomited the dinner and started to feel better. I could not go to work the following day. I sent a message to my boss at work to tell him I was not going. He answered back telling me to recover, take a rest and not to come to work in the afternoon. I thanked this message.
* About the phone call from Exxx. He had read the notes I sent him about the spiritual exercises of the past May, at the hardest moment of my crisis at work that I suffered with him. This was a few days before he left the bank because he could not stand the situation any longer. He was willing to answer my email but did not find time to stop and write. However, he called me to ask and share his own views about this particular way to see life.
Fri 20071123
* This coming Sunday is the last day of the liturgic year: "Jesus, King of the Universe". I was reading the gospel for Sunday. It is the text where Jesus is crucified. About my dearest King of the Universe. His most glorious moment is precisely that in which He is the most given; the moment in which He is crucified. The throne is the cross. His staff is the weapon used to trespass his heart. My dearest Lord, this is so out of human nature.
* "The Lord will reign for ever and will give his people the gift of peace".
* Thank you for the celebration of Thanksgiving day yesterday night. It was beautiful. It's always been. Many reasons to give thanks for. I thought it was next week. I had to hurry up but I could cope with it. It was nice the presence of Pxxx and Rxxx. I was moved by Lxxx Bxxx and Pxxx.
Fri 20071130
* Last Monday my mum suffered a choking attact after the mass at my jesuit community. I went with dad to the hospital. After a few hours my mother was well again. Too many activities, emocions, permanent coughing. I don't know. The doctors haven't reached yet a conclusion. My dad was very worried. He thought that he was about to loose mum. A warning perhaps. Let me not take the important things for granted. May we still know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart.
* About the message I sent to Axxx. I sent him a little poem dedicated to the child Jesus. This time I was thinking of Axxx. I was very moved when I wrote this message.
Ver llorar a la alegría,
ver tan pobre a la riqueza,
ver tan baja a la grandeza
y ver que Dios lo quería.
¡Gran merced fue en aquel día
la que el hombre recibió.
¡Quién lo viera y fuera yo!
See the happiness crying,
see the richness so poor,
see the greatness to low
and see how The Lord loved him.
Great gift it was that day
what man received!
Who could it see that and it be I!
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