2.fast Sunday A Mt 17,1-9

2.fast Sunday 2020

Introduction

We like to wish each other good luck or good luck because we all desire to be good and to be happy. Today’s gospel describes us the happy moment of the apostles. Such a happy moment that the Apostle Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, we are well here. If you want, I will build three tabernacles here: one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah. “And these words of St. Peter are proof that the Lord Jesus can be the source of joy and happiness for man. Please think about it together. that Jesus led the apostles to a high mountain, led them out of the rush of the world into seclusion, ripped them out for a moment from earthly worries, led them into silence and there in infinite silence and intimate proximity to the apostles filled them with joy and happiness. He still wants to be a source of joy and happiness for people today, but no longer in the human body, as ever at Mount Tabor, but in his Holy Spirit.

We learn about this from a well-known event when a weary long way dropped to the curb of a well near Si char and when the apostles went to buy food into the town, a woman came to take water and the Lord spoke to her and said. Water, it will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks from the water I give him will not thirst for ever. ”(John 4,1314). In these words of Jesus, water from the earth well means earthly pleasures. Earthly pleasures are temporary and cannot satisfy a person. The water offered by the Lord Jesus is His Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is the source of true joy and true happiness that will never pass away and that can forever satisfy man, man will never be thirsty.

Yet many people seek the source of joy and happiness only in earthly pleasures. And so much so that today is scholarly called “consumer-oriented” and popularly “enjoyable time.” Some are looking for happiness in wealth, others in a socially favorable position, others in entertainment and inactivity, others in drink and others in sexual pleasures. Look with me at the man who is 53 years old today. When he was 24 years old, he married 20 years old, they had three daughters and after a 16-year-old marriage he said to her: “I lost my relationship with you, I have to divorce you.” And a 40-year-old married a twenty-year-old who has one daughter with her, and after a 12-year-old marriage, he said to her: “I lost my relationship with you, I have to divorce you.” And the 53 – year – old begins marriage with the third twenty – year – old. This man is representative of today’s consumption. He seeks only one goal in marriage – his own sexual pleasure. Do you approve such an egoistic martial life? Imagine what human society would look like if all spouses were like this.

Therefore, Jesus, who loves people, offers us a completely different way of happiness, offers us his love. His love does not know egoism, his love is far from cynical selfishness, his love means to live here for others, that is to say to a husband to live here for the happiness of his wife and his children, to a wife to live here for the happiness of his husband and his children. And that love is the work of the Holy Spirit Jesus gives us. And Jesus therefore puts us in the hearts of His Holy Spirit because He wants the source of joy and happiness to be within us, in our hearts, so that we are not dependent on circumstances and the situation outside us so that we may be happy and rich or poor, whether we are high or simple, whether we are healthy or sick, whether we are single or bound by marriage. For when the Holy Spirit of Jesus constantly dwells in us, he makes us happy even in the difficult and painful moments of life.

Look with me for such a painful moment in the life of Dr. Forrey’s favorite writer. He had a cute 9 – year – old daughter Elisa. She didn’t like dinner on Saturday, she said she had a headache on Sunday and couldn’t go to church, she was sick on Monday morning and couldn’t go to school. My parents thought she had something to do with her stomach. She said on Tuesday that her throat hurt until the doctor finally found diphtheria. After a few days, she began to choke. They called parents. Her eyes were closed, she was breathing quickly, her heart telling her. Her father was kneeling and praying. She died in his prayer. It was sudden, unexpected, overwhelming. The doctor ordered the body to be buried immediately. Nobody could come to the funeral. Elisa’s sisters and brother could only look at her burial.

Medics ordered the house to be disinfected and so far, the whole family had been isolated from people. His father, a religious, deeply religious Christian, was so overwhelmed by this tragedy that he couldn’t say a word. Finally, in a settled cry, he exclaimed, “My Elisa, oh my Elisa!” And as he himself writes in his book, at that moment he felt a great comfort in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit filled him with so much devotion to God’s will and so much joy that he had never experienced such a joyful moment in his life. Behold, when the Holy Spirit of Jesus fills man with joy and happiness at such a tragic moment, how much more can it be for us a source of joy and happiness in our normal, every day, everyday life !? Well, the famous Segneri says “What greater could our heart desire than God to dwell in us?”I am with you,” God said to Isaac, when he wanted to please him fearing the Philistines. “I am with you,” God said to James when he wanted to please him on his way to a far home. “I am with you,” God said to Moses, when he wanted to strengthen him in the difficult task of bringing the Israeli people out of Egypt. “I am with you,” God told Jeremiah when he wanted to encourage him to tell the truth even to hardened people. Conversely, if someone turns away from God, what happiness can there be? Is it not the greatest misfortune? Was it not to lose strength at Samson to leave God? Didn’t Manasseh forsake God? Didn’t Saul leave God in Saul? Did not the loss of the priesthood at Heli leave God? Didn’t Solomon abandon God mean losing all happiness? And let us add to this: Do not, in our times, abandon God and indulge in pure enjoyment, is it not to lose true joy and true happiness? So, brethren and sisters, let us be led today by the Lord Jesus – as once the apostles to the mountain of transformation – into seclusion, into silence and outside the noise of the world, and this year’s fasting, by holy mass, by holy communion, let us open ourselves wide for the Holy Spirit of Jesus to achieve true joy and true happiness in this world and in eternity.