Padre Louis Rojas - 12 de abril (en español)

St. Philip Catholic Church: Peace be with you. It is the first gift or gift that He gives us after we have Before, do be afraid. It was one of the words that used more than many other phrases. With these two things, He calls us, He invites us, and He says, Karen, do doubt, be true. Today, many people that believe things that were saying a few centuries ago. That wasn't true who died on the cross, someone who appeared, that was another spirit, that it wasn't the person that believe is Jesus. Listening to the comments of things, they are saying that we have to accept the evidence When they have investigated, listening, what we reading these Sundays, is their apparitions to their different disciples, in some parts it apostles, in others it says disciples, what does it more than the eleven apostles? It's a difference. We are disciples of Jesus. We are not apostles, maybe because He hasn't sent We are not formed, maybe some are a little more than others. I am still in formation so that He sends me as a disciple, an because that's the word A disciple is one who is seeing, who is... listening, that He is learning what God wants from me. And clearly, listening, leaving time for Him to to us in our hearts. Outside, is there someone that the Lord speaks to directly? Well, I don't know. There have been people like that. Who knows if there are today. But He calls us, He invites us. If we the scriptures with all sincerity, we hear what it tells us. It's just telling us what it people in their time when these scriptures What was God's ⁓ people When He rose and appeared. Remember, it wasn't just the eleven who saw Him. 500 people saw Him in those 40 days that He was with us before ascending to Heaven. So it's not just word of these People who were with him, the Romans and the Jews, believe that they stole the body of Jesus. And now they are proclaiming, hey, he But they believe him because they hearts closed, their minds blocked. This is how we should be if we are really full of this... of that joy that this time gives us. The difficulties, the problems, the wars, envy, all those things continue to But above all that, at this moment, it the joy that we must have. Because if we believe that Jesus resurrected, we accept the testimony of 500 people, then we must be happy. The promise that He made then was fulfilled in Him and it will be in us. Also, that day, you the cassock that the Father lent me to celebrate with you. And the Scriptures said it, the mercy of God, the forgiveness that God He us the sacrament to forgive. Oh, I speak to God and I say, forgive me. Yes, it's fine. How nice. Because you're that He has forgiven you. How have people after they all that crap they have? And the Father, at the end, says, through the ministry of the Church, I... How does one if he feel renewed, if he doesn't feel with love the strongest among the mercy of God? Who knows what happened there? That's where the mercy of God is physically in our lives. The same happens when we the Lord. When we here to the altar, we as the first reading to celebrate with the word, listening to that word so rich, so strong, so beautiful, which is the word of God. And then, more precious than all that, we receive I'm senior propio, but to be a casimita de los catholicos no creen. ⁓ it's a symbol. It's a representation. It's time in error. It's time in pecado. Que es no lo que creemos. Y, oigan, del tiempo de los discípulos, estamos haciendo lo mismo hoy. Venimos, escuchamos la palabra de Dios, y entonces... the the body, which the body of Christ, which is given to the body of Christ, the Church. Our Church has stopped doing that. It has been, and it what the Church teaches us. But we, as Thomas, we do believe until we Brothers and sisters, this day must be full! Everybody. Hello, everybody. ⁓ A few years ago, the church said no. That's not the greeting we give when we get together to celebrate. The greeting we is what Christ gave us, peace. with you. And what happens after that? We ask that you forgive us the sins we have committed. If we have vinyls Vinyals only forgive themselves when we I confess. If there mortal they don't forgive And what is mortal What does that word mortal Something that takes our lives away, something that kills us, to receive the grace of God in our lives. So if we're not living well, well, yeah. We are in that sin. That's what this day calls us to think, to recognize. Those three things that it gives today. gives us peace, gives us forgiveness, it gives us eternal That's this day And if we are not convinced, we really have doubts. Well, brothers and sisters, I only present to the Church has presented for almost two thousand years. Oh, maybe I an hour and a half to be talk more. No. The Lord invites us to think about that. How is my life with God? How am I with my brother, with my sister? How do I my faith? Because that's what we have to do. Live the faith we believe. or what are we doing? Why we here? I know some will say, my mom is forcing me. I don't want to there, but she brings Well, mom, dad, you have to help your children, they understand why we're here, what we're doing here. That's not what teachers teach in the classroom. You have it for seven days, twenty- Almost 24 hours a day. They have for an hour, two hours. When they start teaching, it's like 15 minutes at times. How do you want them to faith like that? If you don't do I'm talking little bit seriously because that's problem we have in the community. And it's responsibility of the parents, first of all, to teach them, help their children understand, know God. And if he is doing it, then his sin will be forgiven. That's how simple it brothers and sisters. Just as you say, get your batteries and start working as you Don't say, uh, uh, uh, Let's proclaim our faith again. The basics of our faith. It's everything that is our faith, but the basics. to help us understand how our faith is. The skeleton is what we in the Mass, not the total It's that we have an idea of what we believe to continue putting flesh on those bones of faith. But remember, faith doesn't work well if we have hope. We have love. Hope and love are like the rubber that helps us put this faith together so that grows and lives in our lives.