"Blessed is she who believed in the words of the Lord" (Lk 1:45)
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In the midst of disappointment, suffering and persecution of the present time, the celebration of the Assumption invites us to look to Mary as a sign of sure hope and to live in this world constantly oriented to things eternal. Faith in the Lord's presence that sustains our way and love that fills the heart of God's presence and makes it closer to people's needs, allow human beings to provide hope in the realization of the promises of God for the faith ' whole man gives himself up to God to accept what He has made known. For the faith of Mary completes the work of Salvation: come to us the Son of God is her faith that Mary is blessed: blessed because he believes the Word of God the first beatitude, that fundamental belief in the promise, which allows the Lord to live "today" in the believer who listens to him. The blessedness of Mary is shared by every believer who listens and does the Word. The word should be welcomed as it truly is, as "the Word of God at work in you believers" (1 Thess 2:13).
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life experience:
BELIEVE IN 'LOVE OF THE FATHER
One day, going to college, I went from a church. I was there when it comes up to me in prayer as he limped, a boy dressed in rags and with a very heavy backpack. E 'ask for a' charity. I get up and go together to the door to not disturb people sitting in the pews.
There he opens his situation: he was missing three days to join a community of recovery, but had no money to eat or know where to go to sleep. He also showed me a nasty wound in his leg.
I had with me just enough money to buy a book for an exam and eating in the canteen. I turned toward the altar and with faith: "Jesus - I said to myself - you know that the money I need, but I think the love of the Father ...." I took them and I have given to the boy, whose face lit up. Even outside the church he continued to thank me ... Then I went right, and passed the morning without thinking about it the incident.
At noon, in the canteen, I use with my tray and handed over my ID card to the cashier, who gives me a receipt printed with "O €". Why? You ask me if I had made the application for the scholarship. I answer yes, but I was not entered on the list. She said, "You lost my bag, but at least you have assigned the granite table throughout the year."
I hear a "thud" to the heart: the Father up there had not even waited two hours to return ...
Stefano (Padova)
