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\nLet<\/span><\/strong> us imagine that we could possess everything. All our earthly dreams would come true, and we would succeed in everything. Let’s strive to unleash our imagination and manifest our desires. Let us have what we would like. Let us achieve everything we want in owning property, the qualities we would like, and the people we would like to be with. Despite all this “happiness”\u2014and perhaps precisely because of it\u2014we would realize that the more we have, the faster we can have what we want, and the more desire would begin to consume our hearts. We would discover what it means to desire and not have. We will never have everything, and for what purpose?<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span><\/strong> Lord Jesus wants usvery concretely manifest, from the very beginning, to focus our desires on what fulfills, heals, elevates, and gives true meaning to life. It is the acceptance of the essence of life in the acceptance of God. However, there is a certain “law of resistance” within us that leads us to want to achieve everything. We want what God offers, but also what the world offers and what the corrupt part of our “self” suggests to us. Jesus clearly tells us that such achievement is not possible: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.” We must reject this corruption of our egoism out of love for life, let it suffer, and also let it die. The cost is the loss of Christ’s life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let<\/span><\/strong> us look at our lives, at the tendencies of egoism that are very concretely manifested in them\u2014in our relationships with those closest to us, in our thoughts about others, and even in the way we view ourselves. Let us put it in the hands of Jesus Christ in a moment of silence. In our words, let us ask that He grant us the strength to stop the lust of the eyes, the flesh, the pride of life, and the acceptance of offers that would distance us from the source of life. Let us ask the suffering Savior to willingly choose the suffering of losing egoism so that we may open ourselves to receiving love for God and neighbor.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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