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Rufus&#39; Preachings</title><subtitle type='html'>Para Cura Interior e Libertação - For Inner Healing and Deliverance, transcrições das palestras do Padre Rufus Pereira, padre exorcista autorizado e pregador da Renovação Carismática</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.padrerufus.net.br/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4673730688005127676/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.padrerufus.net.br/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4673730688005127676/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05586001792145512776</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>238</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4673730688005127676.post-1020238639857688827</id><published>2015-02-23T21:32:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2015-02-23T21:33:22.968-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="007 Driven to Repentance"/><title type='text'>007 Driven to Repentance</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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Jesus was passing by when he saw a man sitting collecting taxes, a man called Matthew. Jesus told him “Follow me”. Matthew stood up and followed him. Sitting at the table with him, there were a lot of taxes collectors and other sinners. Jesus had taken many sinners and tax collectors sitting among his disciples. When the Pharisees noticed this they asked “Why is that Jesus eats with the tax collectors and the sinners?” Jesus heard this and said &amp;nbsp;“It is not the healthy people who need me, are the sick who need me.” Later they learned it “I want the mercy, not the sacrifice. For I have not come for those who are just, but I come for the sinners.” This is the word of God, word of salvation. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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My dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus. We just heard proclaimed one of the most remarkable stories in the Bible. The call of the publican Matthew decided to be a disciple of Jesus, because today we are celebrating his feast. And at the same we have heard proclaimed the centrality of good news God´s love for us and Jesus. And as I heard the deacon proclaim the gospel so clearly and so forcefully it reminded me of another Matthew and I would like therefore to tell you the story of this modern Matthew.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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One of my favorite books during my seminary life was a book written by the former Archbishop of Bombay and the title of the book was Saints for Sinners. &amp;nbsp;And there were about 20 or 25 stories of great sinners who became great saints. Beginning with the story of Mary Magdalen and of Matthew, proceeding with the famous story of Augustus and Saint Ignatius Loyola. But today I am going to tell you another story. About 20 years ago, in 1980, maybe in 81, I was asked to preach a retreat to the priests of East Malaysia. It was at a diocese called Miri and there were 25 priests in that diocese, 20 priests were foreign missionaries from England, from Australia, from America, belonging to that famous missionary congregation called the Fathers of Mill Hill, Mill Hill, that is the name of the place where it started. And 5 priests were local priests, either Chinese or tribes. And the bishop of that place was a former professor in Singapore seminary. He was a Chinese and he was a professor of Liturgy in that seminary. So when I received his invitation to preach a retreat to the priests of that diocese I was filled with joy and enthusiasm. Because it was the first time I was going to go to East Malaysia and my heart was filled with zeal to give this retreat. But when I went to that place of Miri, I was told it was a 5 day retreat, but on the first day there would be a champagne party to toast the preacher, was myself. And then in the middle of the retreat there would be a football match between the Bishop team and the Vicar General. And the retreat would end with a big dinner in a five star hotel. I said “Well, this is a jolly good retreat.” &amp;nbsp;But I was very angry in my heart because I wanted to use all the time of those 5 days to preach the word of God and to change and renew those priests.&lt;br /&gt;
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Anyway the retreat began with the champagne party. And all the priests were in the big room of the Bishop´s house and the Bishop filled his glass with champagne and he raised it up to toast the preacher. And at the moment he raised that glass, that glass burst into a million pieces, like a fountain of little piece of glass filling the room everybody got a shock, wondering what had happened, wondering if someone had thrown a stone through the window. But the whole place was closed and it was fully air-conditioned. Anyway the Bishop took another glass and filled it and toasted the preacher and then he also had the football match. And I was the goalie for the Bishop´s team and you may not believe it but we won. On the second day of that retreat, the Bishop came to see me he often says after the retreat that the only person that was really touched and changed by the retreat was him, but that was not quite true, all the priests were touched one way or the other. A few priest were touched very much but it was true what he said the one that was most touched by that retreat was the Bishop himself as the word of God already proclaimed on the first day touched his heart, crept into his heart, moved him deeply. He came on the second day to make his confession. And how did he make his confession? The Bishop of the diocese, he prostrated himself on the ground, he put his forehead on my feet, and from there he made his confession. Crying out, with deep tears and up rise all his sins. Well, I never had before or afterwards anyone making a confession in that way and then I knew afterwards how he was searching for a solution for his diocese, his diocese was filled with all type of troubles. Himself said he was a broken man. He did not know what to do with his priests over the diocese. He had no hope for the future, but when he heard the word of God proclaimed with power he knew that in Jesus was the solution. And that solution would begin only with a deep experience of repentance and a conversion of heart.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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The retreat was over. I had to more weeks to go in his diocese, to give programs in different parishes. And the Bishop canceled all his appointments and for the next two weeks he came with me to every place I went to. He would listen carefully to every word I was saying and take down notes. He would introduce himself by saying to the people “I am not your Bishop now I am father Rufus disciple.” Suppose I was going into the garden, he would come running after me, he would say “Where are you going?” &amp;nbsp;I say “No, I am not running away. I am here.” And for two weeks he came with me from place to place. And after that we had a concluding Eucharist in the Cathedral and as I was about to give my last homily, I told the people “I am not going to speak to you now, your Bishop is going to speak to you because he has been with me for two weeks and he knows all that I would say to you.” &amp;nbsp;So I went and sat down. And then the Bishop came to the mic, unprepared. And he gave his testimony and spoke to the people in a very moving way. And after that I left Malaysia to call back to Bombay. After two years I read in a newspaper a story of a diocese completely renewed and I realized it was this diocese of Miri. And what did this article say? It said how after that retreat the Bishop formed a team with two or three other priests and a few lay people. And every day they would spend two or three hours in prayer and in reading the Bible. And after six months they went as a team to every parish of the diocese, to every mission and village station on the diocese, preaching what we call the life in the spirit seminar, what we call charismatic missions in India. They went and covered the whole diocese. As a result of that there was a mighty spiritual explosion in that diocese. Every person in the diocese was baptized in the Holy Spirit. And the result of that in filling of the Holy Spirit. What happened the drug addiction just disappeared, the place was filled with drug addicts. Alcoholism stopped, alcoholism was a way of life in that place. Prostitution came to an end. Suicides came to an end. Gang warfare came to an end. That area was called the area of headhunters, because in those olden days those who conquered the other tribe would shrink their heads and make their heads small trophies. And when I was I visited some of the homes and I saw in the sitting room a number of these heads as trophies. All of those things were over. And the diocese became a totally new diocese. As a result of the moment of the Holy Spirit many young people wanted to do work for Jesus. Vocations began to increase. East Malaysia had to build a new seminary to have these new vocation. That was in 1981, 1982, 1983.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Last year, after I have come to Brazil, I went to Malaysia once again and there I met the Bishop again and he told me he wanted to speak to me and he spoke to me at night like Nicodemus. After two o´clock, three o´clock in the morning, and what was he telling me? I thought perhaps that all that fervor of those days had gone away, all the fervor of those days had gone away. That is what I thought. But then he began to tell me all the miracles that had happened in his diocese, to mention only one thing every year they would give the life in the spirit seminar to all the students in the schools in the diocese. Before they left high school they would have made a life in the spirit seminar and they would be baptized in the Holy Spirit. And after they finish schooling and enter university they all be called once a year to make a retreat. When I heard him speaking last year was something incredible. This year I will be going again to Malaysia, the last week of October, to give a program on the ministry of deliverance to the Bishops and the priests of Malaysia. And this Bishop will be teaming with me to give that program and therefore I will say that his diocese is perhaps the only diocese in the Catholic Church which is completely renewed in the power of the Holy Spirit. Give the Lord a big clap for that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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But the reason why I am telling you this story is because we have heard the gospel of Matthew and the Bishop is a modern Matthew and the Lord was able to use him to change the whole diocese because he began his journey by repentance. I still remember the day when I saw him on the floor with his head on my feet repenting to the Lord. And 20 years later, I saw him last year, filled with joy at the transformation of his diocese and sharing all the wonders like a school boy sharing things with his mommy or daddy. He introduced me to one of his parishioners, he introduce me to one of his parishioners. And he was also telling me how the life of this man changed and he told this man “Father Rufus is a grandfather.” Because his father was the Bishop and the Bishop´s father in Jesus was myself. So he told this man “Here is your grandfather.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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My dear brothers and sisters, here is another story of a saint, of a sinner who became a saint. I another story of a modern Matthew and that is why this gospel ends with Jesus telling the people “It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, are the sick who need a doctor.” And Jesus would end by saying “I have not come for those who are just, but I come for the sinners. I have not come to condemn, but I´ve come to forgive. And to bring every sinner back into the home of the father.” Amen.&lt;/div&gt;
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We begin now standing up and singing the song we sang during the repentance act, because this is the blessing Padre Rufus bestowed upon us. The blessing Padre Rufus has is not only this one, not only when he prays, but also when he preaches the word of God begins to happen. He makes what we call the oracle, it is a word of God that when proclaimed it materializes. I don’t know if you notice, if you felt, but if you didn’t feel it, you will begin to feel it because this is the reality. While he spoke what was put in our hearts was the impulse to repent, to ask for forgiveness, to confess our sins, to admit our need for forgiveness. Because as he showed, when we really regret our sins, when our hearts are filled with the Holy Spirit and free us from sin, everything starts to change in our lives. Let’s begin, sing from the bottom of your hearts.&lt;/div&gt;
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And now allow your heart, your inner self to dive into this mercy of our Lord. Yes, take the blessing that has been given to us of the baptism in repenting, if God wants to reach to your heart and deep it into repentance. The same way sometimes we take vegetables and soak in vinegar and water. And that vegetable, carrots and other vegetables, covered, soaked in vinegar. This is what Jesus is doing now, soaking our hearts in repentance. The Lord is giving his blessing, today is the day of the sinners, today is our day. Look at the major sins happening in our lives &amp;nbsp;and also the little sins in our lives. God wants to bless us with repentance. In front of your little sins, God wants to give you great repentance, because we need it. Because when we change, when we regret, when we repent, not only our lives change, but everything changes, everything changes around us. Like he told us about that Bishop in that diocese.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Thank you God because you are touching our hearts here, because you are touching the hearts of the people in their homes. Thank you God because today, sinners day, this is what you have come to do. To call upon not the just, but the sinners to repent. We are sinners. Go on telling God “God, I am a sinner.” And even if you have specific sins repeat it again to God without fear, without holding back, tell Him of that sin you usually give in, of that sin you are already used to, and notice how God is putting in you the need to repent of this sin that makes you fall. Even if you consider it a tiny sin, God is putting in you the blessing of repentance, the blessing of mercy. Nurture it, it is necessary, God is showing you the way to get to you, the way to transform you, the way your whole life will be transformed. When the sinner transforms, everything in his life is transformed around. Begin changing, if things don’t turn out better in your life, unfortunately you haven’t accepted the blessing of repentance. If things are not better in your home, with your family, you can blame yourself “It is my fault, my fault. So my fault. Because God, unfortunately I haven’t repent. Let the Holy Spirit convince of my sin. Thank you God, because today you are putting in my heart the blessing of repentance.” Shows a man who is always apologizing, saying he wasn’t an alcoholic, that he wasn’t a drinker, he only enjoyed beer and other drinks, put in his heart the blessing of repentance. And that’s it, nurture this blessing. If you are here or if you are at home, if you are man who was always apologizing to yourself and to others, God put in your heart repentance. That is it my brother, that is the way you will be transformed by God. God shows me an young man who was always apologizing for masturbating and he noticed that God blessed him in his heart. Leave your excuses, leave your apologies until you stop sinning, it has even became more than a habit but an addiction. But you will change because you accept now the blessing of repentance. Thank you God for what you are doing now in the lives of your children. There is a woman, I don’t know her age, but you use a lot of these beauty products and you are always using excuses that was nothing to it, that even though it was vanity you weren’t vain. You would say women must be vain. Pay attention. You would say these excuses to yourself, you would say women are vain, this is not to much vanity. But now God is blessing your heart with repentance. Even maybe if you don’t have any great sin, God wants to change your life and he is showing a lot of things will change in your life, change in your home, in your family, if you accept this repentance God is giving you. Notice that this was because of your beauty products, your cosmetics, and God himself put in you’re the need to repent. Thank you so much God, thank you for doing this in many, many hearts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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God just put it in your heart that the source of the problem in your home is your behavior, your attitude as a mother, as a woman. You are addicted to soap opera. It is an escape valve of the situations in your home. You scape from the chaos, the controversy, the fights in your home. You lose yourself watching soaps. It is interesting, when I came up here I started talking about obstacles, what God put in your heart was this, you weren’t expecting it, it was a surprise. Now I am explaining it to you, it wasn’t me, it wasn’t you, it wasn’t a fantasy that passed by, it was the blessing of the Holy Spirit. He is saying that the transformation of your home will start when you give up watching soap operas. And I will tell you more, those times, which are many, long times you spent watching soap operas you will spend now with God. Father Rufus told us that that Bishop gathered a few priest and a few lays and they spent every day two or three hours in prayer with the word of God. God is telling you “My child, begin using this time you spend watching soap operas for prayers, for the word of God. You will see that your family, the true chaos, God shows you the true chaos in your home will be gone.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Brothers and sisters, I am incapable of describing all the examples here, but believe me, I see God giving his blessing of repentance indeed. And it is interesting how this crossed your mind, just like this soap opera example, like the man who drank beer, it crossed your mind. Hold on to this, it is not a random thought, it is the blessing of the Holy Spirit convincing you of your weak spot, your soft spot and where God wants to start his work. Hold on to the urge to repent. God is showing me a person, it is a woman, you work at a store and you always keep little things, you even have a special way for the people not to notice you have been keeping some of the money. It is not a lot, but if you have been keeping the change . And now you are amazed because I know about this. Is it or is it not true that you already had felt it in your heart. You could even apologize but God is showing that is the way he wants to get to you, because if you stayed on this path it would lead you to things much worse. You would be corrupted. God wants to get to you now and a lot of things that are not working in your life, including your sexuality, your affection. God is showing me that when you accept this blessing, on this sin, the change you were keeping to yourself, everything will change in your life. I raise my hands, God, asking you to accept this blessing. Yes, asking, God, bless us with repentance don’t let us be insensible. But au contraire, God, that we accept it. This thought that seemed like random thoughts, your own word showed they are not random thoughts. I don’t know, must be your blessing reaching us, touching where need to be touched. It seems like this woman is here, but if you are at home it works just the same. God touched you showing you that your clothes haven’t been appropriate, they haven’t been decent and you are always full of excuses. Saying that is hot, that everyone wears them, but God touched your heart. I am not judging here, I am only describing something God has done. Accept it, see if you felt it in your heart, if it crossed your mind, it wasn’t just a random thought. It was God passing through your life like he has passed through Matthew, he passed through your life blessing you with contrition. &amp;nbsp;Change, change, change. There is the invitation, now depends on us to accept and repent and to change. Thank you God for touching so many hearts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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There is a couple, he and she were touched because they felt God’s touch in the relationship you have been living in. God is also telling me of a couple who are engaged, that practically maintain relations frequently, like 3 or 4 times a month. Were you or were you not touched? I am not sure you are here or if you are at home, but both of you were touched. Later on you must have the courage to talk about it, but now repent, accept this blessing. You were now amazed by the story of the engaged couple who have relation 4 times a month. And it is not enough you… of course, you need to confess, but today God is offering the solution. Accept the solution, you were blessed. Later you will talk and decide on how to put a stop to this, and you will stop it, but now it has to come from you to accept repentance. And with these examples I showed, God is doing so much with so many people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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You probably were touched because you committed homicide, a murder, you were not convicted by our justice. It is so impressive, everything inside you became calm and you were not convicted by justice, but today, is interesting everything that was happening while I was telling all those things, the memories of what happened came back to you. And I am telling you my brother, it was not just a memory of the homicide you committed. It is God’s blessing, you never truly regretted it. At first what you did was try to protect yourself from justice and avoid going behind bars, it was your right to have a defense lawyer, and the lawyer defended you and you weren’t convicted. But true regret you had never felt. Today God is giving you the blessing to repent. Thank you God for the blessing brought to us by Father Rufus. Go ahead and confess after this blessing you are receiving of true regret and repentance. You see, it came as a memory, now God is reaching deep into your heart. I want to reassure that this is what is happening, things come as a memory, comes as a thought, something that just crossed your mind. But it is not that simple, God is showing you even through conscience words so you can see it and accept the blessing and repent. Now it is in your hands. I won’t even talk anymore so that you can feel the need to repent. Close your eyes. Only listen. I am with God here between Ricardo and I and nobody will sing now. We want to be vessels of the blessing of God, contrition, let’s make the sign of the cross on our mouths. So our mouths will be touched by the blessing that is happening right now, let this blessing touch your heart. Remember the memory, the thought that crossed your mind, the feeling which touched you. Let contrition touch you. Let me tell you one more thing, many people have been affected because you don’t pray like you used to pray. But you didn’t take it seriously, you didn’t mind it. But God made it pop as a thought in your head. It was not a simple thought. I am a little angry, because there are people who are not holding responsibility, a little angry to push you to accept it this blessing, don’t let go of the thought which crossed your mind. Hold on to it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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God touched you, you are not a homosexual, but you unfortunately had homosexual feelings and impulses. And you were always justifying it. You have been touched by God. Embrace it. God is giving you the opportunity to free yourself from that. You wanted it for so long and couldn’t do it. You fell victim of these feelings, of these impulses. Today God is giving his blessing, embrace it. Because today there was no saints convincing, I am only voicing God’s blessing. Embrace it. Move on, repent from the bottom of your heart. It is much deeper than a felling, it is not only to make you cry, it is taking a stand, you have to repent and take responsibility in front of God. It is deeper than a feeling, it is time to decide, take a stand like Matthew did, like that Bishop did. Decide now, chose to change your life, to leave this situation. Now embrace the blessing of repentance. Embrace God’s mercy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Now God is telling me of a man who have been corrupted. The money you have been taking is a large amount. You hear me. I don’t know where you are. Of course this has hit you, but you dismissed it, tried to dodge, but know I already said it. The blessing is for you. My brother, it is not an accusation it is a blessing. Isn’t it true that you were taking money that doesn’t belong to you, and it was a lot of money. Embrace this blessing. It is your salvation. You would go much farther of what you are living now, it is ruining everything your life and you were enslaved by it. God is blessing you and setting you free, it is a matter of choice. Now choose God’s blessing. From the little miseries to the big ones that happen in our lives.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Something else is happening, two women, no, not two, but many women are receiving the blessing of healing. The healing of the soul, the healing of the heart from the abortions they had. But there are also the women that are receiving now the blessing of repentance. God is showing me that many women who hadn’t truly regret it. There are even women who had abortions when they were young, young girls. And of course there were many reasons why you did it, many excuses, many justifications. And you always hid behind this excuses, this justifications. There were the ones who confessed. Confession is confession, thank God. But there were no regret, no repentance and God want to free you completely, even from the consequences that have been affecting your life because you didn’t truly regret. It is no accusation, God is not pointing his finger at you because of the abortion you had. He is showing me a woman who had many abortions. But today it crossed your mind, it was like a memory. It wasn’t a memory, it was God touching you, visiting you and calling you like he had called Matthew. Embrace now the blessing of repentance, give yourself into this blessing God is giving you. Surrender yourself, confess and receive this blessing of repentance. Thank you God for this new blessing of the Holy Spirit over your daughters who are being healed from the abortions they had. They already have been forgiven. They repent and they are healed. But there others who didn’t repent, but now you’re a blessing them with contrition and repentance.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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My brothers, priests are being touched, I won’t mention the reasons, but my brothers priests are being touched. Thank you God for touching us priests. Because God, we also need our time to repent, for not living completely our priesthood, for not living the quality of our priesthood, for not living the wholesome of our priesthood, we need to repent. Thank you God for the blessing of repentance and contrition you are giving us. God, thank you for doing this to many of us, priests, thank you. Thank you God, thank you so much. Now let’s sing all together.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;My dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus. Well, when I came here last year I never realized I would come here a second time. And what I saw in Brazil last year made a very great impact upon me. &amp;nbsp;And I have been sharing my experiences in Brazil wherever I went in the world. In a special way what I saw and experienced at Canção Nova, more the programs in this place as whereas meeting people and seeing this whole campus, impressed me very much. And it seemed to me to be like a merry miracle. I am happy that this place is now renewed even still in a greater way. And I pray that these four days will be days of great grace and great blessings to each one of you. When I was wondering what to speak to you today, because I don´t want to repeat what I said last year, and I forgot what I said last year. But father Jonas reminded me that today is a day of the Eucharist. &amp;nbsp;When I asked him at breakfast time what was the theme of this convention, what was the specific theme for today. And he said today is the day of the Eucharist. And being a Thursday, we know that in the Catholic Church every day of the week has a special focus. And Thursday is the day of the blessed sacrament. And also this jubilee year is the year of the Eucharist. And when father Jonas read from the prophecy of Isaiah, then I realized that the verse that he quoted was the verse that was the theme of Saint Luke´s Gospel. Because Saint Luke´s Gospel is a Gospel of a wall of evangelization. Is the gospel of the Eucharist. And I would like to speak today to you about what the Eucharist meant to Saint Luke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Gospel ends with the narrative of the resurrection and of the apparitions of
Jesus. And in Saint Luke´s Gospel the last chapter, chapter 24, gives us the
narrative of the apparition of Jesus to his apostles. Many of these narratives
in all of the four gospels are similar or even the same. But in chapter 24 of
Saint Luke we have a story of the apparition which is not in the other three
gospels. And chapter 24 of Saint Luke´s Gospel is one of the greatest chapters
of the whole bible. And I would wish that every one of you when you leave this
hall and go to your rooms, would read that chapter, slowly and devotedly. But
to understand that chapter, I must also read the first chapter of Luke´s second
book, the acts of the Apostles. The first chapter, because both these books are
really one book, the gospel of Saint Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. The
Acts of the Apostles begins where the gospel of Saint Luke ends. So with this
introduction I would like to begin speaking to you about both these two
chapters, chapter 24 of Saint Luke´s Gospel and chapter one of the Acts of the
Apostles. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;In
chapter one of the Acts of the Apostles, we read something very beautiful and
striking. We read there that Jesus appeared to his apostles for forty days. Now
why did Jesus appear to his apostles for forty days? For three years Jesus
ministered to the people by preaching and by healing. This was the first period
of the ministry of Jesus. And then you have a smaller period of forty days,
when Jesus appeared to his apostles after the resurrection. And then you have a
still smaller period of nine days, when the apostles came together after the
ascension of Jesus waiting for the Holy Spirit. So I like you before your mind
these three columns. The three years of preaching and healing, the nine days of
the apostles waiting for the Holy Spirit, but what connected the first period
with the third period was this intermediary second period of forty days. And
these forty days are very, very important. That is why all the gospels and by
telling us what happened in these forty days. And the forty days are a very,
very important biblical number. Moses fasted for forty days, to prepare himself
to receive the law of God. Elijah, the greatest prophet, fasted for forty days.
Elias. Jesus began his ministry by fasting for forty days. And Jesus would end
his ministry by spending forty days appearing to the apostles. Those first
forty days were to prepare Jesus for the people.&amp;nbsp; But this second forty days was meant to
prepare the church for the people of God. Have you understood what I am saying?
You like what I am saying?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Now what happened in these forty
days? Why did Jesus appear to his apostles for forty days? For three reasons. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;First of all, to tell them that he was risen
even though they thought he was dead, that he was alive and that he would be
with them always. This is the first reason why Jesus appeared to them. Has any
religious leader ever told his followers that he was not only alive, but he
would be with them always? No one but Jesus. The second reason why Jesus
appeared to the apostles was to tell them they would have to continue his work.
Jesus had told them first “As I live, you also will live.” The life of Jesus
now enters into the church, into you and into me. As Saint Paul says “I live,
but really not I, Jesus lives in me.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;But now Jesus will tell the apostles “As the father sent me, so do I
send you.” Is not that the mission of Jesus was over and the mission of the
church now begins, but rather the mission of Jesus flows into the mission of
the church. What beautiful words of Jesus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;“As the father sent me, so do I send you.” That is why God told to Isaiah
“Whom shall I send?” And Isaiah was anticipating the answer of the church, your
answer, my answer, send me. And what did Jesus tell the apostles? He told them
they had to continue his work. He told them “You have to go to every place in
the world. You have to preach the gospel to every human being. You have to heal
every sick person. You have to deliver everyone who is possessed.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Each gospel gives us his idea of this mission
of Jesus. And Saint Luke´s idea of Jesus is this one, Jesus told the apostles
“You will be my witnesses. My witnesses until the ends of the world.” Has any
religious leader ever tell his followers that you have to go to the whole world
and preach your religion to every person and heal all the sick and deliver
everyone that is possessed? No one but Jesus. What a tremendous responsibility,
for you and for me. And at the same time what an incredible privilege that we
can do what Jesus said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Jesus told the apostles in John´s
gospel, chapter 14, verse 12, “If you were to believe in me, you will do what I
have been doing. You will do even greater things.” And that is the second
reason why Jesus appeared to his apostles to tell them that they, and now you
and me, have to take the place of Jesus in the world. Perhaps the only bible
people will ever read is the bible they see in us. The only bible people will
ever read is the bible they see in you and me. The only Jesus people will ever
meet is a Jesus they see in me and you. And the third reason why Jesus appeared
to the apostles was to tell them that they will not be able to do this work
alone. But they would need a special help. He told them to wait, wait to
receive power. From where? Not from the Earth, but from above. And what was
that power? Not some force or energy, but a person. The Holy Spirit. That is
why Jesus appeared to the apostles. As he told the apostles in last chapter 1,
verse 8, “You receive power from on high and then you will be my witnesses even
to the ends of the world.” All my life I lived in Bombay, I never realized that
one day I would come to Brazil. I have been to all the places in the world
except the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle. And this is what Jesus meant
when he said “You will be my witnesses to the very ends of the world.” Has any
religious leader ever given his followers, promised his followers, such a
tremendous power as Jesus did, the power of the Holy Spirit? No one but Jesus.
And therefore I can´t understand how people can compare Christianity with any
other religion or any other philosophy. It is something different, something
unique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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now I want to speak about the most important thing for this section. All that I
have said is still by way of introduction. I told Jesus appeared to the
apostles for three reasons, but that is not quit correct. That was another
reason why appeared, a reason that was behind his four reasons, because Jesus
knew that his apostles would not be able to do his work unless they received
healing and deliverance.&amp;nbsp; And you may
tell me “But where does they say that in the bible?” And this is said very
clearly in the Gospel of Luke in chapter 24. One day, to disciples of Jesus
were coming from Jerusalem to Emaus. What was that day? It was a Sunday, was
the third day after the crucifixion of Jesus. They could not travel on the
Sabbath, they waited for the next day, Sunday. And this is how the narrative
begins. These two disciples were traveling from Jerusalem to Emaus. Why were
they leaving Jerusalem and going back to Emaus? The story tells us why. They
had seen their leader crucified and dead. They had seen all the apostles run
away. They had heard that one of them betrayed Jesus and another one denied
Jesus. That was the end of their dreams. And they felt now they had to close
one chapter. And they said “Let´s go back home.” And they left their homes
before, maybe some months or years before, to follow Jesus, to be his disciple,
because what Jesus said made they have a new vision for their country. They
never heard anyone speaking in the way Jesus spoke. They never saw anyone
healing and casting out demons as Jesus did. It was exciting to be with Jesus.
What a great privilege to be the disciple of Jesus. And suddenly, on Good
Friday, their dreams were shattered. Their hopes were over. And they must have
said to themselves “What a great mistake we made. We left our families to join
the family of Jesus and the family of Jesus ids no more. We left our jobs in
order to work for Jesus and the work of Jesus is not there anymore. Let´s go
back home, back to our families, try to get our jobs back.” And as they were
traveling you could see how said they were. And now something happens, a stranger
joined them on the way and he began to talk to this two disciples and he asked
them “Why are you so sad? Because I never saw people so sad as you are.” And
they were surprised and told the stranger “Have you not heard what has happened
in Jerusalem in the last two days?” And the stranger said “What things?” and
they said to the stranger the two great burdens. And the first burden was the
one they loved so much and who they hoped so much had died, was crucified. And
the second burden was their hopes on changing the whole world and bringing
about the kingdom of God was now over. And they said these words “We had hoped.
We had hoped.” The two great burdens of each one of us are the same even today.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;There can be no greater burden than
the loss of a loved one, my only son, my beloved husband/wife has died. The
greatest burden is a person´s burden of a loss of some loved one. They may have
died suddenly, he may left the family for no reason, he may have betrayed the
trust I put into him, that is everyone´s greatest burden, the loss of someone
whom we loved and whom we trusted. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;And
the second burden is the loss of security in which we trusted. The loss of our
homes and now we are refugees; the loss of our job or our business and now we
are paupers, poor people; a failure in school or in college. And these are the
two burdens these disciples had. And when this happens hope disappears from our
lives. Hope. The greatest, ultimate burden is a burden of despair. When I have
no more hope. When life is not worth living anymore. And suicide is the only
answer. We had hoped, they said. And now what did the stranger do? And you can
recognize by now that the stranger was no stranger, was Jesus himself. And
Jesus noticed in these two disciples the three greatest emotional burdens of
every human being. The first burden is sadness. Sadness because they lost
someone and because they lost hope in the future. The apostles were sad. How
often we read in the last chapter of the gospels, they say “They were sad.” And
even today as I have been down helping people all over the world, I will say
the greatest hurt and grief of people is sadness in the heart. Sadness that can
be so great that there are not even tears in the eyes. The sadness is only deep
in one´s heart. The apostles were sad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;The second thing that happened to
the apostles was that they were filled with doubt. How often do we read that
the apostles doubted? When they heard people saying that Jesus was alive, they
did not believe. For three years when they saw Jesus healing people, they
believed in Jesus. Peter tells Jesus “To whom else will we go? You only have
the words of eternal life.” The apostles would tell Jesus in John´s gospel,
chapter 6, “We believe that you are the son of God.” And now there was no more
faith, only doubt. Men´s second greatest burden when the person cannot and does
not trust anyone any longer. He cannot even trust God. Especially if you are
betrayed by someone close to you, you lose all trust in every human being. You
cannot even trust the church anymore, even the priests, even God. Can you
imagine a person who is only having doubt in her heart and no faith? Is like a
living corpse. And third burden Jesus saw in the apostles was fear. The
apostles were filled with fear. When they saw Jesus being crucified in that
terrible way on the cross. When they say or heard about the agony of Jesus, the
guards scourging Jesus at the pillar. When they saw Jesus carrying the cross on
the way to Calvary. They were terrified, they were afraid the same thing would
happen to them. John´s gospel says they were behind closed doors for fear of
the Jews. How often do we read in the lasts chapters of the gospels “the
apostles were afraid, they were afraid.” And eve today we have seen that
perhaps the third greatest burden of people is fear. Yesterday we met in São
Paulo, a young lady that was afraid even of Jesus. Afraid even of the
crucifix.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Afraid even of God. What is a
person´s life if that person is just full of fears? Fear to be alone, fears of darkness,
fears of the future, fears that person may have cancer or even AIDS. And the
apostles were filled with fear. And Jesus said to himself “How can I use these
apostles for my work of evangelization if they were sad people, doubting people
and fearful people?” Fear. And Jesus knew that first he had to free them, to
heal them from sadness, from doubt and fear before sending them to evangelize
the world. And that is why the first thing Jesus did for his church was to give
them inner healing and deliverance. Have you understood what I am trying to
say?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Alright, the most important thing,
the last thing, how did Jesus heal them and free them from sadness, from doubt
and from fear? Number one, he freed them from doubt by explain to them the
bible. Jesus told them “Don´t you know from the law and the prophecy that the
messiah had to suffer and to in this way to enter into his glory? And thus
enter in his glory?” And then Jesus began to explain to them the whole Old
Testament. Jesus gave them a real bible class. He explained to them every
prophecy, everything in the Old Testament. This the first thing Jesus does for
us even as today. The very first step in our healing and deliverance is
listening to the words of God. And as they listened to Jesus speaking to them
about the word of God, what happened to them? Something happened not only to
their minds, not only they were enlightened, but more important to their
hearts, the hearts were being healed, doubt was leaving them. They said to one
another “Well now our hearts are burning.” And yesterday when we prayed with
someone in São Paulo he said “Everything inside of me is burning.” Which is a
biblical sign of the wrong things being burned away. And the good sign of the
Holy Spirit´s fire now entering one´s heart. My dear brothers and sisters, the
Eucharist of Jesus will also heal us to the proclamation of his words from
every doubt in our lives. And as you listen to God during these four days every
word of God will bring a deeper and deeper healing and freedom from every doubt
you may have in your life. How did Jesus heal them from sadness? We are sad
when someone we love is not there anymore. A little child will cry when he
cannot see his mother, but once the mother comes back this child is full of
joy, he will run to the mother. And how did Jesus free them from that sadness?
By revealing himself to them. As they went close to the town of Emaus, Jesus
was now making as they were leaving them, and they told Jesus “Why don´t you
come to our home? And have supper with us?” And Jesus went into their home and
I am sure in their home Jesus must have talked to them even much more. And a
sudden joy began to come into their hearts and then at a certain moment they
recognized that stranger to be Jesus. All sadness left their hearts and joy was
now filled into them. Jesus freed them from their sadness by their presence.
Therefore is not only the word of God that heals us but presence of Jesus in
the blessed sacrament. Yesterday, we came back from São Paulo after a healing
mass very late. Well, not yesterday, it was this morning at 3 o´clock. And then
at breakfast time I met father Jonas and then he embraced me and he said “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Que alegria.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt; (What a joy). So he was
filled with joy. How much more will we be filled with joy when we recognize
Jesus to be with us. Jesus said I will be with you always. As only the presence
of Jesus will heal us of every sadness. His presence will heal every wound in
the heart. His presence will wipe every tear from our eyes. And the last thing
Jesus did was to heal the apostles from fear. And how did Jesus heal them from
fear?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;By making them aware that his
presence was not needed, the presence of the church was now needed. The moment
that they recognized Jesus he disappeared from them. And Jesus was telling them
“Now, I don´t need to be with you physically. I am present with you in the
fellowship of my disciples in the church.” And this is what happened, the
moment Jesus left them, they went back to Jerusalem. Once again they said “Now
we know what to do. Now we know Jesus is not dead, he is alive. And now we know
that the kingdom of God will come into this world.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;I can imagine how they went back to
Jerusalem, almost running. They wanted to tell the apostles that Jesus was
really alive. And when they went into the upper room, the same upper room where
the apostles had load themselves with fear of the Jews. They saw the apostles
also filled with joy. And they told the disciples “Yes, Jesus appeared even to
us.” And as the fellowship of the apostles every fear disappeared. Why are we
afraid? Because we feel we are alone, there is no one with us. But once you
have the support of brothers and sisters who love you and are with you, there
is no more fear. When a child misses his mother, is afraid. But once he sees
his mother back, there is no more fear. And this is how Jesus healed them from
fear, by telling them in this way “You have to belong to the fellowship of his
body.” And then they shared with one another, and then Jesus appeared to them
at the end of the gospel Saint of Luke. Now that the church was complete, those
two disciples back again in the church, Jesus could now appear to his completed
church. And then they told them that they would have to preach the gospel, what
gospel? The remission of sins, the forgiveness of sins. And then Jesus told
them that he was leaving them, but that he would send them the Holy Spirit. And
the gospel of Saint Luke ends in this way. And they worship Jesus and their
hearts were filled with unspeakable joy. My dear brothers and sisters, Jesus is
the same today as he was yesterday. And we are the same today as Jews were two
thousand years ago. And if in your hearts at this moment, there is a sadness in
your life, with nothing that never can take away from you, if there is your
mind doubts, doubting everything, even God, if there is in your whole person
fears of everything, let us know that Jesus has come to free us from every
doubt in our lives. Through the proclamation of his words, through the
proclamation of his good news, Jesus has come to take away from our lives every
sadness, by giving us the experience of his presence, of his presence specially
in the Eucharist, of his presence in the mass. And Jesus has come to take away
every fear that we have, by reminding us, that we are not individuals, we are not
alone, that we cannot deal with life alone, we need help, we need support of
our brothers and sisters. As the Vatican calls to remind us those who believe
in Jesus and accept his gospel, and receive the Holy Spirit, now become one
family, the family of God, God our father. And we are brothers and sisters. We
become one body, where Jesus is our head and we are his members, some his
hands, some his feet. We are all members of one body and we become the temple
of the Holy Spirit, with Jesus the corner stone, the principal stone of that
temple. And each one of us as the living stone of that one big temple. And in
this way, again to use the words of the Vatican Council, we will then became a
sacrament, a sign to the whole world. And in the words of Jesus himself, we
will become witnesses until the ends of the world. Amen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Spiritual Warfare? Spiritual Victory!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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by Fr. Rufus Pereira&lt;/div&gt;
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In the Synoptic Gospels, the public ministry of Jesus starts with his Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the river Jordan and, after an intervening period of 40 days of fasting in the desert, with the temptations by the Evil One in the desert, on the mountaintop and at the Temple.&lt;br /&gt;
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And now Jesus was led by the Spirit away into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil (Mt. 4:1)&lt;br /&gt;
The period of 40 days in the desert is a time of real testing for Jesus, of which the 40 years the Israelites spent in the desert, between the Exodus from slavery in Egypt and the Entrance into freedom in the Promised Land, is the Old Testament type. It is also a time of purifying fasting for Jesus, the new lawgiver and the new prophet, of which the 40 days of fasting of Moses and Elijah is also a type. This in its turn, is, as it were, the type of our 40 days of lent between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday, a time too of &quot;testing&quot; and &quot;fasting&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Just as at the beginning of, so also during, his whole public ministry, Jesus was under attack from the Evil One but he proved victorious through the power of the Holy Spirit. Peter himself tells us &quot;how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him&quot; (Acts 10:38). In like manner both our life and our ministry will be subject to the onslaught of the Evil One but we will be victorious only through the power of the Holy Spirit.&lt;br /&gt;
The Devil tempted Jesus to follow his attractive suggestions in order to fulfil his God-given mission of bringing salvation to mankind. The three-fold temptation of Christ is thus a warning to us of how we can be similarly tempted to use God&#39;s gifts in a way that are contrary to his plan, by giving in to the wiles of the Evil One, and an assurance of how we can nevertheless overcome these temptations by imitating the mind and stand of Jesus (Mt 4:1-11; Lk 4:1-1. These differ only in the order of the temptations).&lt;br /&gt;
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Thus we are so easily tempted to lust after the enticing but transitory pleasures of this world, instead of hungering for and being nourished by the eternal life givingWord of God (cfr Ex 16:2; Deut 8:3; Mt 4:3-4; Lk 4:3-5). We are so easily tempted to crave for the glittering riches of this world, with even idolatrous and superstitious greed, instead of worshipping their Creator and being concerned for the needs of our brothers (cfr Ex 17:1; Deut 6:13; Mt 4:7-10; Lk 4:6-8). We are so easily tempted to even desire the more spectacular spiritual gifts and use them to take shortcuts and win instant success even in God&#39;s work, instead of taking up the Cross and following the Lord, whatever be the cost (cfr Ex 32, Deut 6:10; Mt 4:5-6; Lk 4:9-12).&lt;br /&gt;
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The liturgical season of Lent is therefore meant to make us aware that the life and ministry of the Body, the Church, the new Israel, will be, like the life and ministry of the Head, Jesus, the new Adam, a real spiritual warfare. It is through the example of Christ and through his teachings that we can be further purified and strengthened through one more period of Lent, lent to us by God to enable us to turn away further from the World and the Prince of Darkness and turn closer to the kingdom and the Lord of Light, thus turning over a new life in Christ. In his person Jesus as head has rejected and overcome the temptations of his body the Church. For anyone in Christ becomes a new Creation, another Christ, living by the Word of God, adoring and serving Him alone and obeying his will perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;
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That is why in the early Church, the Catechumens, who expressed a strong desire to be baptised and were finally, after much probing scrutiny, accepted and enrolled, went through a daily purification and preparation experience during the whole 40 days of Lent. It consisted of the Prayer of Exorcism from the powers of darkness that surrounded them and the Profession of Faith in the Word of God that was systematically explained to them from the Scriptures.&lt;br /&gt;
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The double formula of the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday is itself an indicator of this twofold movement: the verse, &quot;Remember, man, that you are dust and into dust you shall return&quot; (from Gen 3:19, the beginning of the OT) states theproblem, that on our own we are weak and will fall an easy prey to the Evil One, and the verse, &quot;Repent and believe the Gospel&quot; (Mk 1:15, the beginning of the NT) gives us the solution, that, as we rely on God&#39;s mercy, we will be released from sin; and that, as we trust in the Spirit&#39;s power, we will be renewed from within. This turning away from sin and turning towards the Lord will bring about a turning over in our lives - a change of heart, and consequently a change of lifestyle.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let us then, with the Church, make our prayer, &quot;Lord, protect us in our struggle against evil, as we sanctify this period of Lent by our self denial&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Batalha Espiritual? Vitória Espiritual!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Nos Evangelhos sinópticos, o ministério público de Jesus começa com o seu batismo no Espírito Santo no rio Jordão e, após um período de intervenção de 40 dias de jejum no deserto, com as tentações do Maligno no deserto, na montanha e no Templo.&lt;br /&gt;
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E agora Jesus foi conduzido pelo Espírito ao deserto, para ser tentado pelo diabo (Mt. 4: 1)&lt;br /&gt;
O período de 40 dias no deserto é um tempo de teste real para Jesus, dos quais os 40 anos, os israelitas passou no deserto, entre o Êxodo da escravidão no Egito e à entrada para a liberdade na Terra Prometida, é o Antigo Testamento digita. Ele também é um tempo de purificação de jejum de Jesus, o novo legislador e o novo profeta, dos quais os 40 dias de jejum de Moisés e Elias também é um tipo. Este, por sua vez, é, por assim dizer, o tipo de nossos 40 dias da Quaresma entre Ash quarta-feira e domingo de Páscoa, uma vez também de &quot;teste&quot; e &quot;jejum&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Assim como no início, assim também durante todo o seu ministério público, Jesus estava sob ataque do Maligno, mas ele provou vitorioso pelo poder do Espírito Santo. O próprio Pedro nos diz: &quot;como Deus ungiu a Jesus de Nazaré com o Espírito Santo e com poder, o qual andou por toda parte fazendo o bem e curando todos os que estavam sob o poder do diabo, porque Deus estava com ele&quot; (Atos 10:38) . Da mesma maneira, tanto a nossa vida e nosso ministério estará sujeito à investida do Maligno, mas seremos vitoriosos apenas com o poder do Espírito Santo.&lt;br /&gt;
O Diabo tentou Jesus para seguir suas sugestões atraentes, a fim de cumprir a sua missão dada por Deus de levar a salvação para a humanidade. A tentação de três vezes de Cristo é, portanto, um aviso para nós de como podemos ser igualmente tentado a usar os dons de Deus de uma forma que são contrários ao seu plano, cedendo às artimanhas do Maligno, e uma garantia de como podemos, no entanto, superar essas tentações imitando a mente e estande de Jesus (Mt 4: 1-11; Lc 4: 1-1 estes diferem apenas na ordem das tentações.).&lt;br /&gt;
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Assim, estamos tão facilmente tentados a cobiçar os prazeres tentadores, mas transitórios deste mundo, em vez de fome de e sendo alimentada pela vida eterna givingWord de Deus (cfr Ex 16: 2; Dt 8: 3; Mt 4: 3-4 ; Lc 4: 3-5). Estamos tão facilmente tentados a desejar para as riquezas de brilho deste mundo, mesmo com a ganância idólatra e supersticiosa, em vez de adorar o seu Criador e se preocupar com as necessidades de nossos irmãos (cf. Ex 17: 1; Dt 6,13; Mt 4 : 7-10; Lc 4: 6-8). Estamos tão facilmente tentados a mesmo desejar os dons espirituais mais espetaculares e usá-los para tomar atalhos e conquistar sucesso instantâneo mesmo na obra de Deus, em vez de tomar a cruz e seguir o Senhor, qualquer que seja o custo (cfr Ex 32, Deut 6 : 10; Mt 4: 5-6; Lc 4: 9-12).&lt;br /&gt;
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O tempo litúrgico da Quaresma é, portanto, a intenção de fazer-nos conscientes de que a vida e ministério do Corpo, a Igreja, o novo Israel, será, como a vida e ministério da Cabeça, Jesus, o novo Adão, uma verdadeira guerra espiritual . É através do exemplo de Cristo e através de seus ensinamentos que podemos ser mais purificado e fortalecido por mais um período de Quaresma, emprestou a nós por Deus para nos capacitar a se afastar ainda mais do mundo e o Príncipe das Trevas e vire mais perto o Reino, o Senhor da Luz, transformando, assim, sobre uma nova vida em Cristo. Em sua pessoa Jesus como chefe rejeitou e vencer as tentações de seu corpo, a Igreja. Para qualquer um em Cristo torna-se uma nova criação, um outro Cristo, viver pela Palavra de Deus, adorando e servindo-o sozinho e obedecendo à sua vontade perfeitamente.&lt;br /&gt;
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É por isso que no início da Igreja, os catecúmenos, que expressou um forte desejo de ser batizado e foram finalmente, depois de muita sondagem escrutínio, aceitou e se matriculou, passou por uma purificação diária e experiência preparação durante todo os 40 dias da Quaresma. Consistiu na oração do exorcismo dos poderes das trevas que eles e a profissão de fé na Palavra de Deus que foi explicado de forma sistemática para eles as Escrituras cercavam.&lt;br /&gt;
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A fórmula dobro da imposição das cinzas na quarta feira de cinzas é por si só um indicador desse duplo movimento: o versículo: &quot;Lembre-se, o homem, que és pó e em pó te tornarás&quot; (do Gen 03:19, o início do OT) afirma theproblem, que no nosso próprio somos fracos e vai cair uma presa fácil para o Maligno, e o versículo: &quot;Arrependei-vos e crede no Evangelho&quot; (Mc 1:15, o início do NT) nos dá a solução , que, como nós contamos com a misericórdia de Deus, que será lançado do pecado; e que, como nós confio no poder do Espírito, vamos ser renovada a partir de dentro. Este afastamento do pecado e voltando-se para o Senhor trará uma virando em nossas vidas - uma mudança de coração e, consequentemente, uma mudança de estilo de vida.&lt;br /&gt;
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Vamos, então, com a Igreja, fazer a nossa oração: &quot;Senhor, protegei-nos em nossa luta contra o mal, como nós santificamos esse período da Quaresma pela nossa auto-negação&quot;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Before we begin the prayer for inner healing, I would like to make a few introductory remarks. Right from the beginning of today until now, the Holy Spirit has been leading us to come to God in repentance. In a way we had not plan this but it came forth by the moment of the Holy Spirit because today happen to be the feast of Saint Matthew, because today the whole movement &amp;nbsp;seem to be geared towards repentance. &amp;nbsp; And as we have said this is the foundation of Christian life that if there is evil in the world it is primarily due to my fault, I have been responsible for the evil in the world. As the Psalmist says “it is I who have done wrong, it is I who have sinned before God and before man.” And that is because has given to us a tremendous gift, a gift of free will. And everyone has the ability to say “no” even to God. And God can do nothing about it. What bible calls the anger of God means not that God is angry with us, but God allows the consequences of man sin to have their effect. Therefore as we look at the tremendous suffering and evil in the world today, everyone has to say “ I am the cause of it”. Not because I have done something wrong positively, but I have allowed these things to happen and as the bible says “the Lord will judge us in the last day”. Not so much by our sins of commission, that we have done something wrong, but our sins of omission, that we have done nothing to stop the evil in the world. That we have only thought about ourselves and we have closed our eyes to the evil around us. &amp;nbsp;And if there are dictators and bad people who have come to rule our countries it is both because we have voted for the wrong people, but perhaps because we have not voted at all. And the wrong people have come forward. And therefore when we say we have sinned it means not only I have done wrong but I have not done anything to stop the evil. And therefore every human being is called to repent. And repentance does not mean only turning away from the world is more important turning toward Jesus.&lt;/div&gt;
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But tonight we want to share with you that there is a second reason why there is so much evil in the world. There is another reason why I in spite of my desire to do good, find myself doing wrong things. &amp;nbsp;It is not because of my bad will, but because of two reasons, my inheritance, my heritage, which that have happened in my family which now influence me today. And secondly, things which are happening now among my family, among my friends, which are affecting me wrongly. And it is a charismatic renewal that has made the church aware of this second reason why we do wrong things. Just as it is wrong to blame people, to blame God, to blame even the devil for my problems. It is equally wrong of people to blame me for my problems. Because I really, sincerely want to do good, to live a good life. But I find like a power that is driving me to do wrong things. In the month of January I was giving, I was speaking at the National Conference in Australia. And there were two drugs addicts that came to me for counseling. A young man and a young woman who were friends, they were planning to get married. And both were drug addicts. Both had just come out of prison. And they came to me and they held my hand and they said “ Father, we want to get rid of our drug addiction, please help us. We want to get married. We want to start a beautiful family. We don´t like the life we are leading. Please help us to start a new life.” &amp;nbsp;And as I looked at them I said to myself “How many people are blaming them for their problems.” &amp;nbsp;And they were two beautiful young people that went the wrong way but want to do the right thing. And I felt that there was influence, maybe, of their ancestry, influence of their family and friends environment that was bringing them to this wrong life. Inner healing is a gift of the Holy Spirit to the church, which makes aware that the Lord wants to heal us from the causes, emotional causes of our problems. And therefore as now I lead you to a prayer, specially those who have never had such an experience, will know how much of the wrong things in our lives are due to factors beyond our control. To give one last example, we know now the phenomenon of the single parent is a worldwide phenomenon. &amp;nbsp;In England itself, there are 3 million children that only have their mothers, their fathers are not there. &amp;nbsp;As the children are growing up what do you expect them to be? As these children are growing up turn out to be?&lt;/div&gt;
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Obviously they will go the wrong way. I was giving a program in South Africa recently. And a priest came to me for counseling and he was telling me how his father had children from 5, 6 different women. And his mother had children from 5 or 6 different men. Can you imagine the confusion in this priest who was then a little boy? I was giving an inner healing retreat in Scotland last year. It was a retreat to the leaders of the charismatic renewal of Scotland. There were 300 of them doing that retreat. &amp;nbsp;And as they came one by one for counseling and they were showing me all their problems they have written down in detail. As I read their problems I could not believe that people could have had so much problems in their lives. I didn´t even know what to tell them. It was perhaps the saddest week in my whole life. As I hold them speaking of their problems and I said “But how could you have lived your lives with all these terrible things?” Every sentence was a problem. Finally there was a woman who came and told me about her daughter who was in the mental hospital. And I told her after the retreat I will visit that mental hospital. This was in Ireland. And I´ll visit the hospital in Belfast and I will talk to your daughter, because according to what the mother told me I felt that young lady should not be in a mental hospital. But the day after the retreat, this lady came with her whole family to see me in the town were I was giving the retreat. &amp;nbsp;And she brought her daughter who was in the mental hospital, 18 years old. And I spoke to her and then I told her “But I don´t see anything wrong in you. You should not be in such a hospital.” &amp;nbsp;Anyway, I prayed over her. And I said “I feel you should leave that hospital.” But before leaving, this is what she told me “Father, but I am going back to that hospital.” &amp;nbsp;And I said “why?” &amp;nbsp;“Because in that mental hospital I have peace. In my family I have no peace.” And she returned to the mental hospital. So now let us pray.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Put yourself in the presence of the Lord Jesus. And just listen to the Lord telling each one of us “Come to me. Come to me. All of you who are burdened. All of you who are heavy laden. All of you who are confused in your minds. All of you who are restless in your hearts. All of you who are broken hearted.” &amp;nbsp;And the Lord says &amp;nbsp;“I will give you rest. I will heal you. I will deliver you.” &amp;nbsp;Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for opening our eyes to this beautiful experience of inner healing. &amp;nbsp;Thank you Lord for telling us we don´t have to blame only ourselves for our problems. Thank you for telling us we don´t have to put an unnecessary burden of guilt on our conscience. Thank you Lord for telling us there are many things in our lives for which I am not personally responsible. I don´t have to condemn myself. I don´t have to wish I was not born. &amp;nbsp;I don´t have to wish that I could die. And Lord you reveled to us that there are many things in my life for which I am not really responsible. The things that happened to me because of the family in which I was conceived and in which I was born. The many things that happened to me because of the family in which I grew up as a child and as a youth. The many things that have happened to me because of the neighborhood, because the area where I grew up. The many things that have happened to me because of the school which I attended. Many things &amp;nbsp;happened to me because of the type of job I had. Many things that have happened to me because of the experience I had of marriage and our family life. And Lord Jesus, I want to tell you right at the start of this prayer that I don´t want to blame anyone. That I don´t want to blame anyone in my family or my environment for my problems. I don´t want to blame myself either. I don’t want to blame You, God, for my problems. Only I know these things have happened. And help me Lord Jesus to look upon all these events in my life. However painful, however hurtful, these experiences mere have been. To look upon them even with thanksgiving and with praise. Because Lord I believe you are in full control of my whole life. You are in the control of the family and the neighborhood in which I am presently. And nothing has happened to me or will happen to me without your knowledge. That everything that has happened to me is only because you love me. That everything that has happened to me is because you know you have the power to change every burden into a beautiful blessing. And Lord as we begin this prayer give me a forgiving heart, give me praising lips, help me to forgive every person in my life that I hold responsible for my pain, for my wounds, for my hurts. Help me to praise you Lord for every event in my life however painful and hurting it may have been. Lord let me realize in my heart that these are the two great instruments of my inner healing. Praise to your name and forgiveness towards people.&lt;/div&gt;
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And as we now prepare to make this prayer, the choir will lead us to a soft, gentle hymn of healing. And as we sing this hymn let us look upon Jesus as our healer, as our mighty deliverer, as our life giver. Yes Lord Jesus, we invite you to walk back our whole past life and to heal us right from the moment of our conception. Because to you our past is as present as our future. For you there is no time, only eternity. And therefore Lord, with this confidence we invite you bring us a deep inner healing from the moment when life began for each one of us. Lord heal me at the moment of my conception of anything only you know needs healing and deliverance at that moment. Perhaps lord, we will not conceived according to planned and rail human married love. Maybe we were conceived under the influence of alcohol and violence or maybe outside marriage or the result of rape. And therefore this moment of my life, which was the start of my life was spoiled because of the wrong cooperation of my parents. Maybe my parents weren´t having a child for a long time and in ignorance they went to the doctor to get help for saving themselves for my conception. &amp;nbsp;Lord Jesus I don´t want to blame my parents for anything that happened that moment. But today I want to ask you to heal me in my conception thru the mystery of your conception in the womb of Mary. And Mar, I ask you to heal me at the moment of my conception to mystery of your immaculate conception itself. And heavenly Father, my Father, I want to thank and praise you tonight for breathing into me your own breath, to your own life your own love. And making me to be like yourself. Creating me at your very image and likeness. Thank you heavenly Father for this tremendous gift of life itself and Jesus help me appreciate this tremendous gift of life. That you made me a living being. Thank you Jesus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Lord Jesus I also ask you to heal me during the months in my mother´s womb. Ask you Jesus to heal me specially if my mother was contemplating aborting me. Heal me Lord if anything may have come to me through my mother, the fears that may have come to me through my mother, because may have felt very rejected, very lonely. &amp;nbsp;She may have had problems with her in-laws. Maybe during this time my father was too busy with his work, had no time to speak or to love my mother. Maybe my mother may have had a great shock or a great fright. Maybe during this time my mother may have been weeping or crying very often. And Lord, I know things affecting the mother could have affected the unborn child that was me in that womb. Lord I also ask you to deliver me from any satanic influence. Either because my mother may have gone to a witch doctor for help. Or the enemy of my family may have had a spell, a curse put upon the unborn child. Lord even as you heal the unborn John the Baptist in his mother´s womb, heal me too in my mother´s womb. And just as it happened to John the Baptist, fill me, the unborn child in her womb, with the powerful anointing of the Holy Spirit. As I thank you Lord Jesus for the gift of the family in which I was born. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Lord now I ask you to heal me at the end of those 9 months of pregnancy, at that beautiful, precious moment of my birth. Yes Lord Jesus, in your plan my birth was meant to be an event of joy to the whole world. But perhaps Lord many things may have happened then which still affect me probably. I may have been born prematurely. Or at a difficult labor. Or a forceps baby, or a blue baby. Or with the umbilical cord around my neck, perhaps my parents didn´t really want me or expect me. Specially my parents, my father may have wanted a baby boy and I was born a baby girl. Perhaps I as born during the time of the war. Or in a time of great family disunity. Lord Jesus, I may have been born with some congenital defect to my brain or to my body. And Lord, I ask you tonight to heal me retrospectively at the moment of my birth. And I want to thank you for the gift of myself, just the way you have made me. Even with my so called defects. And Lord, I want to thank and praise you that through your own birth, through your own nativity you are healing me right now. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. And as we bring all our hidden life from our conception to our birth to Jesus for a healing the choir will lead us into another hymn of healing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Yes Lord Jesus we ask you to heal us in the second period of everyone´s life, the years of us growing up. Lord we have seen how often the greatest hurts we experience have their origin either in the 9 months in our mother’s womb or in the 13, 14, 15 years of our growing up. And Lord Jesus you were once a fetus in the womb of Mary, a little baby in the womb of Mary, you were once a baby in the breast of Mary. You were once a little child in the carpenter´s shop of your foster baby. You were once a boy of 12 years old in the temple. And Lord we pray that to the mystery of your holy infancy and holy childhood you will heal every person here and the years of his infancy and childhood and boyhood and girlhood. Lord Jesus I want to bring to you the most important alias of my infancy or childhood that needs your healing and deliverance. And to begin with Lord, with my relationship with my mother. That most important relationship in every human being life´s. Perhaps Lord that never new a mother´s love because she died when we were small, perhaps even in child birth. And so there was a time in our life that we needed so much, the warm caresses of our mother and she wasn´t there. Or perhaps she was there but we have been sent to some grandparent or some aunt to be looked after. And even now we feel angry that we could not live our infancy in our own home. Perhaps there were pain that happened to that relationship which have hurt me very much. &amp;nbsp;And therefore Lord Jesus, I find it difficult to get over the painful relationship I may have had with my own mother. Perhaps Lord, she might even have left the family for whatever reason, thus for another man. Perhaps my father may have married again and I had the burden of being with a step mother who was not good and have been cruel. Lord we know how difficult it is to forgive our mothers for any type of wrong things done. But perhaps Lord, she herself had been hurt very much in her childhood by other people. And today I not only want to forgive her but to pray for her healing too. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.&lt;/div&gt;
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And Lord I want to pray also for the healing of my relationship with my father. Specially Lord if my father may have died when I was small or even before I was born. And as I looked at my friends who had their daddies with them was so painful to know that I never had a daddy. Lord Jesus, we know that every girl wants and needs a father. Every boy needs and wants a mother. &amp;nbsp;And you made us so that we can have both parents to bring us up together. Perhaps Lord, my father may have been there, but he was absent at work or at the war. Perhaps I may have seen him be killed with my own eyes in the troubles of whatever war was it in the past. Perhaps he was there but he may have deserted the family for another woman for whatever reason. And I had to go through the same humiliation and the pain of being in a family without a daddy. Perhaps Lord I was afraid of my father because he was so strict and abuse in his words. And that fear is still in my heart. Perhaps I was ashamed of my father because he was poor, he was jobless, he was irresponsible. Perhaps I hated him because he was an alcoholic, he was violent, he was a terror to the family. Perhaps Lord I may have had a stepfather who was anything but a father to me. Help me Lord Jesus tonight to forgive my father. To pray for his healing, to love him, to bless him and give me love Jesus an experience of a father´s love. Give me Lord an experience of a mother´s love. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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And Lord now I finally pray for the healing of all the other relationships of my childhood. My relationship with my own brothers and sisters. Specially Lord if I felt my parents loved that brother or that sister more than they loved me. And because of that I still feel very inferior. I feel I was not good enough for them. Heal me Lord if one of my brothers or sisters was more clever than me, more beautiful than me, more fairer than myself. Heal me Lord Jesus if during this time I went through a long, painful illness. And I could not express the pain inside me to my parents. Heal me Lord if I had a great shock, a great fright in my childhood. If I witnessed the death of a loved one. Heal me Lord specially if there were things in my childhood that affected my sexuality. &amp;nbsp;Perhaps I was sexually abused by a stranger or a relative. Perhaps Lord, I went into this abuse in a boarding school and because of that I am now having various types of homosexual feelings. And Lord I know that I was not created that way, that my present feeling is a result of those unhappy experiences of my childhood. Heal me Lord specially, heal specially those women here who were sexually misused even by a person in their authority. By an uncle, by a doctor, by a priest. Above all by one´s own father or by one´s own stepfather, ruining that person´s life. Not enabling that person to now have a happy married life. Lord Jesus I pray that through your hole manhood you will heal every man here in their sexuality. Mary I pray that you heal every woman here in her femininity, in her womanhood. And Saint Joseph I pray, that you heal every man here in their manhood, in their manly sexuality. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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And finally Lord we want to pray for the years of our schooling, up to our puberty. Heal me Lord if during this time I suffered the fact that I had no friends. When I saw my classmates having so many beautiful friends, but I was always lonely, I could not make friends with people. And with that came a sadness into my life. Heal me Lord if I encountered difficulties in my scholastic years. When I found it difficult to understand my lessons, difficult to study, difficult to remember the things I learned. And I experience a tremendous sense of failure. Heal me Lord if during this time there were things that have happened in my sexual life that even now make me feel very guilty. Perhaps Lord it was from this time in my life when I began to be very timid, very shy, afraid to do anything, for fear of failure, afraid of criticism, afraid of relating to people, towards every adult in my life. I began to be rebellious against all authority. I feel like running away from mu home and my family and I took refuge in the wrong friends who lead me into wrong habits. Heal me Lord if during the time of my youth I made friends with the wrong people who lead me the wrong way, who promised love, promised me support and now I realized they wanted just to use me. And my whole life is now without confidence, without hope. Lord Jesus but I believe in your promises in the scriptures, when you tell me not to look back at my past. Not to look back at the things that I had happened a long time ago, but to look ahead at what you are going to do in each one´s life right now. I want to thank you for the hundreds of thousands of people whom we have made new creatures through the experience of inner healing. And Lord Jesus I ask you to put down the Holy Spirit upon every person in this place and every person looking at the TV program. &amp;nbsp;And Lord in your name I invite every person to bring to you just one most important hurt in their life. Help them to know what has been the most painful experience of their whole life. Help them Lord to bring to you that word, that event, that experience which have hurt them most in their life. And Lord Jesus ,as you now bring them this healing I know that your promise is coming through right now. And the Lord is telling each one of you tonight “I will take from you that heart of stone. I will take from you that heart of unforgiveness. I will take away from you that heart of bitterness. I will take away from you that heart of fear and of anxiety. I will take away from you that heart of hate and revenge. I will take away from you that heart of self-pity of suicidal tendency. &amp;nbsp;And I will give you a new heart. I will give you a heart of flesh. I will give you a heart of tenderness. I will give you a heart of compassion. I will give you a heart that will reach out every person. I will give you a forgiving heart. And I will put into you my spirit. A new spirit, my spirit.” &amp;nbsp;And as the choir leads us into the hymn let us ask the Lord again and again in our hearts to give us a new heart, a new life, a new start.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;The Lord&#39;s Prayer for Unity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Father, I pray that they will be completely one as we are one&quot; (Jn 17:23)&lt;/div&gt;
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About one fifth of the Gospel of John is devoted just to the final, or so called farewell, discourse of Jesus during the last supper with his apostles - now that his &#39;hour&#39;, the most important moment of his life, had come, that would bring redemption to the world. And of these four chapters, one full chapter contains the prayer of Jesus on the very eve of his Paschal Mystery, his last and most important prayer to His Father for his present and future disciples. Twice in that prayer Jesus tells his Father that he is finally coming or returning to him, now that the work entrusted to him is complete, - but still not quite complete. For he now prays that his Father would glorify his name not only by initiating his work of salvation on the cross, as head of the Church, but by completing it in his body the Church, making it one in peace and love. And even today the Church continues that priestly prayer of Jesus, when daily at Mass we pray, &quot;Grant that we who are nourished by his body and blood may be filled with his Spirit and become one body and one spirit in Christ.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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But the unity for which Jesus prayed was not just an outward co-operation with philanthropic people in works of charity or an intellectual dialogue with religious men in matters of doctrine, but something far more fundamental. The mind of Jesus is that we cannot have unity with others unless we first have unity among ourselves as his disciples and, even more basic, we cannot have this unity unless we have unity with God our Father in Christ by his Spirit. That is why the prayer of Jesus to his Father was, &quot;As you are in me and I am in you, I pray that they can also be one in us&quot; (21, Jn 14). The very Trinitarian Life of perfect unity in perfect diversity is to be the source and the model of our own unity. We were baptised in the names of the Triune God to continue living the same Trinitarian life, motivated by it and even imitating it.&lt;/div&gt;
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That is why Jesus says so beautifully that by doing this his disciples will be true to and worthy of the name of their Father God, &quot;so that they can and will be one, as you and I are one&quot; (11, 22), just as loving one&#39;s enemies makes us true children of our Father, in whose image we have been created, - and no true child would want to spoil or disgrace his father&#39;s name. While he was with them, Jesus did all he could to ensure that his apostles who were so diverse would be true to that name in spite of their jealousy and pride, by watching over them carefully, being alert to any signs of disunity among them, and constantly bringing them back into communion, - an example to his future disciples.&lt;/div&gt;
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As Jesus prays for unity among his disciples, almost in the same breath he prays that they would be protected from the wiles of the Evil One and the hatred of the &#39;world&#39;, (i.e., his followers), whose strategy, as the Lord warns them, would be to cause dissension, especially among Church and Charismatic leaders, often through a misguided emphasis on mere signs and the more spectacular gifts, and to lead them astray through an attachment to and seeking after pleasure, possessions and power. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal, which began with a prayerful and joyful togetherness, transcending all barriers, is now unfortunately sometimes plagued by bitter divisions at certain levels, by an unholy aggressiveness and a spirit of competitiveness.&lt;/div&gt;
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After washing their feet Jesus commanded his apostles, &quot;You must love each other as I have loved you&quot; and he concluded at once, &quot;All people will then know that you are my followers if you love each other (Jn 13:35). Now he addresses his Father, &quot;As you are in me and I am in you, I pray that they can also be one in us&quot;, and, &quot;I will be in them … so that they will be completely one. Then the world will believe and know that you sent me and that therefore you have loved them just as much as you loved me&quot; (21,23). He regards his salvific mission as incomplete until his followers are united. They will have to make up for what is missing, in the enigmatic words of Paul, by living in unity, which can be one&#39;s greatest cross. But he would thus be glorified in their unity, as one body - his Church, and that would be his greatest joy, just as the greatest joy of parents is to see their children in loving and joyful unity. And that unity would in turn be the radiant glory and crowning joy of his disciples, of his Church.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Pai, eu oro para que eles sejam completamente um, como nós somos um&quot; (Jo 17,23)&lt;/div&gt;
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Cerca de um quinto do Evangelho de João é dedicado apenas para o discurso final, ou o chamado de despedida, de Jesus durante a última ceia com seus apóstolos - agora que a sua &quot;hora&quot;, o momento mais importante de sua vida, havia chegado, que traria a redenção para o mundo. E destes quatro capítulos, um capítulo inteiro contém a oração de Jesus na véspera de seu mistério pascal, a sua última e mais importante oração ao Pai pelos seus discípulos presentes e futuros. Duas vezes &amp;nbsp;naquela oração Jesus diz a seu Pai que ele está finalmente chegando ou voltando para ele, agora que o trabalho que lhe foi confiado está completo, - mas ainda não suficientemente completo. Pois ele agora reza para que seu Pai vá glorificar o seu nome não apenas iniciando sua obra de salvação na cruz, como chefe da Igreja, mas por completando-a em seu corpo a Igreja, tornando-a una em paz e amor. E ainda hoje a Igreja continua a oração sacerdotal de Jesus, quando diariamente na missa oramos, &quot;Permita que nós, que somos alimentadas por seu corpo e sangue possamos ser cheios do seu Espírito e nos tornemos um só corpo e um só espírito em Cristo.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mas a unidade pela qual Jesus orou não era apenas uma cooperação para fora com pessoas filantrópicas em obras de caridade ou um diálogo intelectual com os homens religiosos em matéria de doutrina, mas algo muito mais fundamental. Na mente de Jesus nós não podemos ter unidade com os outros, a menos que primeiro tenhamos unidade entre nós, como seus discípulos e, ainda mais fundamental, não podemos ter essa unidade a menos que tenhamos a unidade com Deus, nosso Pai, em Cristo pelo seu Espírito. É por isso que a oração de Jesus ao Pai foi: &quot;Como você está em mim e eu em ti, eu oro para que eles também possam ser um em nós&quot; (21, Jo 14). A muito perfeita vida trinitária da perfeita unidade na perfeita diversidade é para ser a fonte e o modelo de nossa própria unidade. Fomos batizados em nome de Deus Uno e Trino para continuar a viver a mesma vida trinitária, motivado pela vida trinitária até mesmo imitando-a .&lt;/div&gt;
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É por isso que Jesus diz tão cheio de beleza que, fazendo isso seus discípulos serão verdadeiros e dignos do nome de seu Deus Pai &quot;, de modo que eles poderão e vão ser um, como você e eu somos um&quot; (11, 22), assim como amar os inimigos nos torna verdadeiros filhos de nosso Pai, em cuja imagem fomos criados, - e nenhum verdadeiro filho iria querer estragar ou desonrar o nome de seu pai. Enquanto ele estava com eles, Jesus fez tudo o que podia para garantir que os seus apóstolos que eram &amp;nbsp;tão diferentes, seriam fieis a esse nome, apesar da sua inveja e orgulho, vigiando-os cuidadosamente, estando alerta para qualquer sinal de desunião entre eles, e constantemente trazendo-os de volta à comunhão, - um exemplo para seus futuros discípulos.&lt;/div&gt;
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Como Jesus reza pela unidade entre os seus discípulos, quase ao mesmo tempo, ele reza para que eles estejam protegidos contra as astutas ciladas do Maligno e o ódio do &quot;mundo&quot;, (ou seja, os seus seguidores), cuja estratégia, como o Senhor os adverte, seria para causar dissensão, especialmente entre os líderes da Igreja e carismáticos, muitas vezes através de uma ênfase equivocada em meros sinais e os dons mais espetaculares, e desviá-los através de um anexo de e procurando depois de prazeres, posses e poder. A Renovação Carismática Católica, que começou com a união de oração e alegria, transcendendo todas as barreiras, é agora, infelizmente, às vezes atormentado por divisões amargas em certos níveis, por uma agressividade profana e um espírito de competitividade.&lt;/div&gt;
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Depois de lavar os pés deles, Jesus ordenou aos seus apóstolos: &quot;Vocês devem se amar uns aos outros como eu vos amei&quot; e concluiu de uma vez, &quot;Todas as pessoas saberão que sois meus discípulos, se você amar uns aos outros (Jo 13:35). agora ele se dirige ao Pai: &quot;Como você está em mim e eu em ti, eu oro para que eles também podem ser um em nós&quot;, e, &quot;Eu vou ser neles ... de modo que eles serão completamente unos. Então, o mundo vai acreditar e saber que você me enviou e que, portanto, você amava tanto quanto você me tem amado&quot;(21,23) . Ele considera sua missão salvífica como incompleta até que seus seguidores estejam unidos. Eles terão que se voltar para o que está faltando, nas palavras enigmáticas de Paulo, pela vida em união, que pode ser um de maior cruz. Mas ele seria assim glorificado em sua unidade, como um só corpo -. a sua Igreja, e que seria sua maior alegria, assim como a maior alegria dos pais é ver seus filhos na unidade amorosa e alegre. e que a unidade por sua vez seria a glória radiante e alegria coroação dos seus discípulos, de sua Igreja.&lt;/div&gt;
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Have you ever wondered why the Gospel narratives of the ministry of Jesus begin with the episode of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus in the River Jordan, which may seem to be such a trivial incident? Or why Pope John XXIII made the Baptism of Jesus the first Feast of the Ordinary Year of the Church, immediately after the Solemnity of Epiphany, which may also seem to be surprising? Things became clearer to me, when I noticed that the memorial in the Canon of the Mass in the Syro-Malankara rite, calls to mind not just the death and resurrection of Jesus, as in the Latin rite, but even his baptism in the River Jordan. For in the early church then, as reflected especially in the oriental rites now, the Baptism of Jesus was not just one more story in his life, - but it is a mystery, on par with the great mysteries of his Incarnation and our Redemption (i.e. his death and resurrection), - in fact connecting them both in a meaningful salvific whole.&lt;/div&gt;
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As I re-read the Gospel story and mystery of the Baptism of Jesus, I saw in it the capture of a vision and the beginning of a mission, - a turning point, so to say, in the life of Jesus &#39;as man&#39;, for the gospels tell us almost nothing about Jesus before that event. In fact people would later on say in astonishment, &quot;How can he do all this? Where did he get such wisdom and the power to work these miracles? Isn&#39;t he the carpenter, the son of Mary?&quot; (Mk 6:2,3). For in the eyes of his countrymen Jesus was like anybody else - there was nothing to distinguish him from the rest of the village. So something did happen to him in the Jordan. It couldn&#39;t be that Jesus came there simply to be baptized by John the Baptist, for John was on the contrary preparing the people for Jesus through a &#39;baptism of repentance&#39;. But Jesus went through this baptism, which he obviously did not need, to publicly identify himself with sinful humanity, becoming one like us by taking upon himself all our weaknesses.&lt;/div&gt;
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It was after this act of emptying himself of his glory that the heavens were opened and the real Baptism took place from above to prepare Jesus for the people. Heaven opened before him and he saw the Spirit coming down upon him and He heard the Father speak to him, &quot;You are my own dear Son, and I am pleased with you&quot; (Mk 1:10,11; Lk 3:21,22). In other words, he had a vision of his messianic task and an experience of special anointing for it. For he was now filled with the Holy Spirit, receiving the wisdom to know what to do and the power to enable him to do it (Lk 4:1). He was now aware that he had received the authority from the Father to preach the Good News of Salvation and the power of the Holy Spirit to heal the sick and deliver the oppressed - and all could see the difference.&lt;/div&gt;
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His very reading of the Scriptures in the synagogue made them gaze at him in amazement. His teaching was strikingly new in content and given with an unusual authority. All the sick were healed by a mere word or touch. Those possessed by Satan were allergic to and afraid of his very presence. Peter found it hard to believe that a man could command the seas and the winds to obey him. He would later reveal the source of such incredible authority and power to Cornelius: &quot;God had anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the power of the Holy Spirit and that is why Jesus went about doing good and healing everyone who was under the power of the devil&quot; (Acts 10:38). But this experience was meant to be an example to and a channel for his apostles and his disciples down the ages.&lt;/div&gt;
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For what happened to Jesus at his Baptism happened in a certain degree to the Apostles at Pentecost. Before that day they were all so slow to understand the teachings of Jesus, so reluctant to pray with him, whether at Tabor or in Gethsemane, so jealous of one another, so ambitious for power and prestige, so suspicious even of Jesus, even ready to use violence to save their own skin, - and that in spite of being with Jesus for three years, listening to his captivating words and witnessing to his marvelous deeds. But just head knowledge or human talent would not change them or their situation. For that they would have to wait, Jesus impressed upon them, to receive power not from below but, as he himself did, from above, a power that was not something but someone, - the Holy Spirit. After nine days of waiting together with Mary in prayer, the promise of the Father was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, as the Spirit came upon them, like a mighty wind rushing from heaven and filling the house, and as tongues of fire resting on each one of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4).&lt;/div&gt;
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And immediately after their Pentecostal experience, they threw open the closed doors of the upper room where they were hiding out of fear and ventured into the streets of Jerusalem praising God unabashedly. That same terror stricken Peter who denied Jesus when confronted by a mere maidservant now dared to proclaim him boldly to the whole of Israel as the only Savior and Lord, with startling results. That same doubting Peter who sank like a rock could now heal the lame man with a faith as strong as a rock in the power of the Spirit within him. No threats or punishment would stop him from speaking about what he had seen in and heard from Jesus, even counting it a joy to suffer for him. And under his leadership the first Christians were one in heart and mind, even pooling all their resources together so that there was no needy person among them (Acts 4:32).&lt;/div&gt;
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What happened to Jesus in the Jordan, what happened to the Apostles in the Upper Room, has been happening to the Church during all these twenty centuries, - but in a very special way during the last four decades through the many and varied renewal movements in the Church, in answer to the prayer of Pope John XXIII on 25th January 1959 for a New Pentecost in the Church in order to usher in a Renewal that would be manifested by Signs and Wonders. The Holy Spirit has indeed been coming down upon God&#39;s people, as it did upon Jesus (Lk 3:22) and upon Mary and the Apostles (Acts 2:4), and God is now with them in power (Acts 10:38), and Jesus is working in them with wonders (Mk 16:20). But are we becoming more aware that we too have received the same Spirit (Acts 19:2). Are we letting the Spirit fill and control our life? (Eph 5:18). Let us therefore make our own the third Eucharistic Prayer, &quot;Father, grant that we, who are nourished by the body and blood of your Son, may be filled with his Holy Spirit, and become one body, one spirit in Christ.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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Alguma vez você já se perguntou por que as narrativas do Evangelho do ministério de Jesus começa com o episódio de João Batista batizando Jesus no Rio Jordão, o que pode parecer um incidente trivial? Ou por que o Papa João XXIII fez o Batismo de Jesus a primeira Festa do Ano Ordinária da Igreja, logo após a solenidade da Epifania, que também pode parecer surpreendente? As coisas se tornaram mais claras para mim, quando notei que o memorial no Cânon da Missa no rito, chamadas de rito Sírio-Malancar veio à mente não apenas a morte e ressurreição de Jesus, como no rito latino, mas mesmo seu batismo no Rio Jordão. Para a igreja primitiva, então, que se reflete especialmente nos ritos orientais agora, o Batismo de Jesus não era apenas mais uma história em sua vida, – mas é um mistério, comparável aos grandes mistérios da sua Encarnação e nossa Redenção (ou seja, sua morte e ressurreição), – na verdade, conectando-os tanto em um todo salvífica significativa.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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À medida que eu relia a história do Evangelho e do mistério do Batismo de Jesus, vi nele a captura de uma visão e o início de uma missão, – um ponto de viragem, por assim dizer, na vida de Jesus &#39;como homem&#39;, para os evangelhos não nos dizerem quase nada sobre Jesus antes daquele evento. Na verdade, as pessoas, mais tarde, no dizer atônitas: &quot;Como ele pode fazer tudo isso? Onde ele conseguiu tanta sabedoria e poder para trabalhar esses milagres? Não é ele o carpinteiro, o filho de Maria?&quot;. (Mc 6: 2, 3) para nos olhos de seus compatriotas Jesus era como qualquer outra pessoa – não havia nada para distingui-lo do resto da aldeia. Então, alguma coisa aconteceu com ele no Jordão. Não podia ser que Jesus veio ali simplesmente para ser batizado por João Batista, para João foi ao contrário era preparar as pessoas para Jesus através de um &quot;batismo de arrependimento&quot;. Mas Jesus passou por este batismo, que ele obviamente, não precisava, para identificar-se publicamente com a humanidade pecadora, tornando-se um como nós, tomando sobre si todas as nossas fraquezas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Foi depois desse ato de esvaziar-se de sua glória que os ceus se abriram e o verdadeiro baptismo teve lugar a partir de cima para preparar Jesus para o povo. O ceu abriu diante dele, e viu o Espírito Santo descendo sobre ele e ele ouviu o Pai falar -lhe: &quot;Tu és o meu Filho amado, e congratulo-me com você&quot; (Mc 1: 10, 11. Lc 3: 21, 22). Em outras palavras, ele teve uma visão da sua missão messiânica e uma experiência de. Unção especial para ele para ele agora estava cheio do Espírito Santo, recebendo a sabedoria para saber o que fazer e o poder que lhe permita fazê-lo (Lc 4: 1). Agora ele estava ciente de que ele havia recebido a autoridade de Pai de pregar a Boa Nova da salvação, o poder do Espírito Santo para curar os enfermos e libertar os oprimidos – e todos podiam ver a diferença.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Sua própria leitura das Escrituras na sinagoga fez olhar para ele com espanto. Seu ensinamento foi surpreendentemente novo em conteúdo e dados com uma autoridade incomum. Todos os doentes eram curados por uma simples palavra ou toque. Aqueles possuídos por Satanás eram alérgicas a.. E com medo de sua presença. Pedro achava difícil acreditar que um homem poderia comandar os mares e os ventos a obedecê-lo. Ele viria a revelar a fonte de tal autoridade incrível e poder a Cornélio: &quot;Deus ungiu a Jesus de Nazaré com o o poder do Espírito Santo, e é por isso que Jesus passou fazendo o bem e curando todos os que estavam sob o poder do diabo &quot; (Atos 10:38). Mas esta experiência era para ser um exemplo para e um canal para seus apóstolos e os seus discípulos ao longo dos séculos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Para o que aconteceu com Jesus no seu Batismo aconteceu em um certo grau aos Apóstolos no dia de Pentecostes. Antes desse dia todos eles foram tão lentos para entender os ensinamentos de Jesus, tão relutantes em orar com ele, seja no Tabor ou no Getsêmani, tão ciumentos uns dos outros, tão ambiciosos de poder e prestígio, tão desconfiados, mesmo de Jesus, até mesmo dispostos a usar a violência para salvar sua própria pele, – e que, apesar de estar com Jesus por três anos, ao ouvir suas palavras cativantes e testemunhando a sua maravilhas. Mas apenas a cabeça conhecimento ou talento humano não iria mudá-los ou a sua situação. Por que eles teriam de esperar, Jesus imprimisse sobre eles, para receber o poder não de baixo, mas, como ele mesmo fez, a partir de cima, um poder que não era algo, mas alguém, – do Espírito Santo Depois de nove dias de espera, juntamente com Maria em oração, a promessa do Pai foi cumprida no dia de Pentecostes, quando o Espírito veio sobre eles, como um vento impetuoso do ceu e enchendo a casa e, como línguas de fogo que descansam em cada um deles, e todos foram cheios do Espírito Santo (Atos 2: 1-4).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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E imediatamente após a sua experiência pentecostal, eles abriu as portas fechadas do cenáculo onde estavam escondidos por medo e aventurou nas ruas de Jerusalém, louvando a Deus descaradamente. Nesse mesmo terror atingidas Pedro, que negou Jesus quando confrontado por uma simples serva agora atreveu a anunciá-lo com coragem a toda a Israel como o único Salvador e Senhor, com resultados surpreendentes. Nesse mesmo duvidando Pedro, que afundou como uma pedra agora podia curar o coxo com uma fé tão forte como uma rocha no poder do Espírito Santo dentro dele. Não há ameaças ou castigo iria impedi-lo de falar sobre o que tinha visto e ouvido de Jesus, mesmo contando-lhe uma alegria de sofrer por ele. E, sob sua liderança os primeiros cristãos eram um só coração e mente, mesmo reunindo todos seus recursos em conjunto para que não havia entre eles necessitado algum (Atos 04:32).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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O que aconteceu com Jesus no Jordão, o que aconteceu com os Apóstolos no Cenáculo, tem estado a acontecer à Igreja durante todos estes vinte séculos, – mas de uma maneira muito especial durante as últimas quatro décadas através dos muitos e variados movimentos de renovação no a Igreja, em resposta à oração do Papa João XXIII em 25 de janeiro de 1959, um novo Pentecostes na Igreja, a fim de inaugurar uma renovação que seria manifestada por sinais e maravilhas. O Espírito Santo tem, efetivamente, vindo a descer o povo de Deus, como fez sobre Jesus (Lc 3:22) e sobre Maria e os apóstolos (Atos 2: 4), e Deus agora é com eles no poder (Atos 10:38), e Jesus está trabalhando neles com maravilhas (Mc 16:20) Mas será que estamos cada vez mais conscientes de que também nós recebemos o mesmo Espírito (Atos 19:2)? Será que estamos deixando que o Espírito preencha e controle a nossa vida (Ef 5:18)? Vamos, portanto, fazer a nossa própria a terceira Oração Eucarística: &quot;Pai, concede que nós, que nos alimentamos do corpo e sangue de seu Filho, possamos ser cheios do seu Espírito Santo, e tornar-se um só corpo e um só espírito em Cristo.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;My
dear brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus, already I can see a remarkable
difference between yesterday morning and this morning. Yesterday morning I saw
so many faces still filled with sadness. But now, when I came here on the
stage, I found greater joy on you faces. And you were singing more joyfully
than yesterday. And therefore, in the words of Saint Paul, Christianity is a
religion of peace. A peace which is in the heart, because only if there is
peace in the human heart will there be peace among the nations, among the
people. Politicians are trying to have only an artificial out of peace, among
people whose hearts are still filled with bitterness and hatred.&amp;nbsp; And the Christian answer is that there cannot
be peace in the world unless there is peace in every human heart. And that
interior peace can only come to a deep experience of the Lord’s inner healing. Again,
in the words of Saint Paul, Christianity is the religion of love, not only love
towards God but more in a way among ourselves. The problem in the world today
is too much hatred. Love, however wrong, is still love. But the problem of the
world is hatred and what Christianity, authentic Christianity, is offering the
world is love. If there is no love in the heart you cannot call yourself a
Christian. And thirdly Christianity is a religion of joy and the Lord wants us
to evangelize thru the joys in our hearts and thru the joy in our faces. And
therefore in every church in Brazil, the Sunday, Eucharistic celebration must
be celebrations of joy. But joy can only come about if there is peace in all of
those attending the Eucharist. Only if there is love in the relationships. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Yesterday
morning, we spoke about God, our father, and we said the Bible says of God that
God is love. And Jesus tells us to pray to God calling him father. And Saint
Paul says our father God, is a God for us. For us. If God id for us, says Saint
Paul, who can be against us? And I told you yesterday that the name I prefer to
give God, our father, is a God for us, the God by our side, the God that is
always tending for us. Then we spoke about the greatest gift of God our father
to us and the greatest gift of God to us is Jesus, His only son. And the
Gospels give us a special name of this Jesus, it says that Jesus is God with
us. He is Emanuel, with us. That is how the Gospel begins, by saying that a
little baby that is just born is God with us. And how does it end? By Jesus
himself saying I am the God with you, I will be with you always until the end
of times. And as we read the Gospels we will see that Jesus comes to do two
main things. One is something negative, that we may not be in sin, that we may
not be physically sick, that we may not be emotionally broken, that we may not
be under the power of Satan. But don’t forget that Jesus has come to also do
for us something positive, to give us peace which the world cannot give, to
give us a power that only God can give, to give us the new life that can only
come thru the Holy Spirit. And this morning I want to continue by telling you
what Jesus is still doing for us today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;As I said yesterday the most
important thing that Jesus has come to tell us that we have in God our father
who wants us to be perfect and Holy but who is always ready to forgives us if
we go the wrong way. He is more eager to forgive us than we are ready to ask
for forgiveness. And therefore is thru our repentance that we open ourselves to
God’s forgiving love. And how is it possible that that love can so forgive and
wipe out our sins? And the Christian answer is only one it is by the death of
Jesus in the Calvary Cross. The answer for the evil and suffering in the world
given by many religious philosophies today is to close our eyes to these
sufferings, to try to do away with it, to forget them, to try thru every mean
to take them away from our lives. But the Christian answer is to be aware that
for as long as we live in this world there will be sin, there will be evil,
there will be sickness, there will be death. But with Jesus we can conquer all
these things. And Jesus by his death has come not only to conquer death, but to
conquer the fear of death. And therefore the cross is the Christian response
and the Eucharist is the daily celebration of the Easter mystery, the death and
resurrection of Jesus. One of the most beautiful stories in the Bible is a special
incident in the passion of Jesus and to understand this incident I want to tell
you a sort of modern parable. There was a prisoner in the jail and he was
condemned to death. And one day, the jailer comes and opens the door of that
jail, the jailer. And tells him “you are free.” And this prisoner could not
believe his ears. And he told the jailer “but why am I set free? I know I’ve
done terrible crimes. And I know I deserve to die because of my crimes. Tell me
what has happened?” And the jailer said “Come, I will tell you.” And he took
him out in the street and pointed out to him a hill in the distance and he said
“Do you see that hill? Do you see on the hill those three crosses? Well that
center cross was meant for you” and the criminal said “Then what has happened?”
and the jailer said “Somebody else has taken your place.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Now,
you know I am not telling you (applauses) rather I am relaying to you a fact of
history. When Jesus was to be condemned to death and Pilate wanted to save
Jesus at any cost, Pontius Pilate. You know how many attempts Pilate did to
save Jesus? Because he knew Jesus was innocent. Finally he thought of an
brilliant idea, he knew that at the time of Passover the Jews had the privilege
of having one prisoner set free for them. And Pilate said “I know I have in
jail the worst prisoner I ever had and his name is Barabbas, but I will bring
him before the people and I will tell the people ‘choose whom do you want to be
set free’” And Pilates was sure that no one would want Barabbas to be set free.
Barabbas was a notorious robber, the Gospel tells us. He had killed so many
people, he was like Hitler, worst like Stalin, or like Milosevic. &amp;nbsp;Nobody wants him to be set free. And Pontius
Pilates was sure that everyone would want Jesus to be set free, so many of them
had been healed by Jesus and therefore Pilates said with certainty “choose
which one you want to be set free.” But you know how crowds can be swage in any
way and the leaders began to impress on the crowds not to choose Jesus to be set
free. And the crowds asked for Barabbas to be set free. And Jesus was put to
death in place of Barabbas. Barabbas is you and me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Saint
Paul says all of us have sinned. Sinning in the Bible is not only doing bad
things, is also not doing the good things we should be doing. In the Bible sin
means falling short of God’s expectations of us. And therefore Saint Paul says
in the Roman’s letter “do you think that you Jews are better than the gentiles?
Do you think that you Jews are better than the pagans?” And Saint Paul says
“not at all. All of us, the Jews and the Pagans, we have sinned.” If Saint Paul
was here just now he would’ve asked us the same question. Do you think you,
Catholics of Brazil, are better than the Hindu’s of India? And Saint Paul would
have said “not at all”. All of us have sinned, then the Bible says that the
wagers of sin is always death, therefore, conclusion, all of us deserve to die.
Physically, emotionally, spiritually. But, and this but is the “but” of
salvation, Jesus has died in our place. He has taken upon himself all our sins,
all our sufferings, all our wounds. And in the tremendous words of Saint Paul
“Jesus who we knew had no sins became sin.” Became sin, so that we could become
his holiness. But because Jesus died in our place, we don’t have to die
anymore. This is the Christian meaning of salvation. What does salvation mean
specifically for the Christian faith? Is the experience and the assurance of
forgiveness of sins. Everything else is secondary. But this is what Christian salvation
means.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Many years ago there was a series of
murders in a town in India. Many, many cases of murder then and for one year
the police could not find the causes, the perpetrators of these murders.
Finally they found out the four assassins. They were all young people, from
very good and rich families, Hindu families. And when the magistrate was
passing judgment on them he said “this is one case where I have a pleasure on
passing judgment of execution.” Because the whole country of India had an
aversion towards these four cynical assassins. Because they had killed these
ten people, good, innocent people, only for the joy of killing and for the
greater joy that they would never b discovered by the police. And the leader of
these four when he heard the sentence of death passed on him only smiled a
cynical smile. And then came his time in the prison. And people were sending
him many books to read. And there was a charismatic group in that town. They
were sending him bibles and Christian literature. At first he threw them aside,
but he had nothing else to do, he began to read them. And then he wrote to his
mother “Mommy, the only book I now read is the Holy Bible.” And then came the
day of his execution and as he was being taken up to the scaffold to be hung, the
magistrate asked him “do you have one last wish?” and he said “yes. I would
like to read the Holy bible” and he opened the bible on Luke’s Gospel, chapter
23, where we have a very strange story of two criminals being crucified
together with Jesus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;I used to often wonder why the
beautiful story of the passion of Jesus was spoiled by the mention of a name
like Barabbas? I was still most surprised why the beautiful stories of the
sufferings of Jesus was spoiled by the mention of two criminals with Jesus? In
fact, the Gospel speaks of Jesus as the other criminal, the Gospel tells that
Jesus was crucified with other criminals. As if Jesus too was a criminal. And
we read there the story of what happened as Jesus was hanging there on the
cross the high priest and the Pharisees began to taunt Jesus, began to ridicule
him, and to tell him “if you are the son of God, come down from the cross. And
we will believe in you.” Even the passers by began to make fun of Jesus and to
say the same thing “if you are the son of God, come down from the cross. We
will believe in you.”&amp;nbsp; Even the soldiers
said the same thing “if you are the son of God, come down from the cross. And
we will believe in you.” If Jesus had come down from the cross we would instead
be hanging there. And then the thief on the left hand heard what his people was
saying and he also told Jesus “if you are the son of God, come down from the
cross. Save yourself. And save us also.” What did Jesus do? Jesus kept quite.
That was the last temptation of Jesus. It was not the temptation in the agony
of the garden, but Jesus conquered it by saying “Father, not my will, but your
will be done.” Jesus knew, he had the power to free himself from the cross, did
he not say “I could ask my father for a legions of angels.” Did not Jesus say
“I have the power to lay down my life and I have the power to take back my
life.”&amp;nbsp; And Jesus did not say anything.
And when the thief on the left hand found that Jesus was not doing what he
wanted him to do he began to curse Jesus. And what did the thief on the right
hand do? He heard all this and then he turned to his friend, the other
criminal, and said “why are you abusing this innocent man? If we die is because
we deserve that. We are criminals, but this man is innocent. He doesn’t deserve
to die. And I fell if his is dying he is dying for us.” And now comes the
worst, this is what I want to tell you this morning, and then the thief in the
left hand said in a tremendous act of faith, in a way the greatest act of faith
in the whole bible, turned to Jesus and he said “Lord I know, in the eyes of
the world you are about to die, but to me it seems as you are just beginning to
live. In the eyes of the world you are a criminal, but to me, you seem to be
God. In the eyes of the world you seem to be an ordinary human being, a
carpenter, but to me, you seem to be king, the king of kings. The Lord of
lords.” And then he cried out to Jesus “Lord do not forget me, remember me,
when you shall come into your kingdom.” Could there be a greater act of faith?
Then a man telling a dying person “you are alive”, a human being “you are the
king of the world”, a criminal “you are God”. And what did Jesus reply? Jesus
with his heart broken because of our sins, Jesus from his heart which was
filled by compassion, turn to this criminal on the right hand and he said
“today” today, not tomorrow, not in a distant future, “you will be with me in
paradise.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;That criminal from the town in India
read these two verses, from Luke’s Gospel, chapter 23. He closed the bible,
gave it back to the magistrate, went up the scaffold and was hung. The whole of
India still thinks he was India’s worst criminal, but we know, a few of us
know, that he is with Jesus in Paradise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;(Applause)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;My dear brothers and sisters, that
incident in the passion of Jesus is not meant to be a story that happened 2000
years ago. Today, the Lord is asking us which side of the cross we want to be?
Do we want to be on the left hand side? And to be aware of my sufferings and my
problems and to tell Jesus “Take away my problems. Take away my sufferings.”
And when Jesus does not do that maybe to curse Jesus. There was a young man in
Bombay that was very, very sick. But before that I went to see a young lady
that was sick and she was just 18 years old and unfortunately she died. She
belonged to a very religious family, daily communicants. But at the funeral
when they came to take away her body for burial in the cemetery of the church
her mother began to be hysterical, her mother began to cry out, her mother
began to scream, her mother began to shout, her mother began to curse God. Or
would you rather be on the right hand side? And as the thief on the right hand
side, know your problems, know what sufferings you are going thru, know the
pains and hurts of your heart, and then you just pray to the Lord. And you tell
the Lord “Lord, I know yours will be the final victory in my life.” And to just
praise him for all his suffering. I went for a funeral of another person. A
young man, belonging to the charismatic prayer group, he was suffering from
leukemia and he died. He was the only son of his parents. But throughout the
night there was singing and praying and for the funeral, I was there for the
funeral, singing and praising God with everyone. I was there with my piano and
accordion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;(translator interrupts – You should
bring it here next time. Audience applauds)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;And the people asked these persons
the next day at the offices, Hindus asked Christians the next morning,&amp;nbsp; “tell us more about your religion. If there
could be so much joy even in a funeral there must be something in it.”&amp;nbsp; The parish priest who was anti charismatic
when he saw the joy and praising at his funeral for the next few days would
speak about it at all his masses. And then he came into the charismatic
renewal. My dear brothers and sisters, where would you rather be? On the left
hand side of the cross? And know your sufferings and problems and when nothing
is happening, curse God? Or would you rather be on the right hand side? And
know your sufferings and problems and praise God. Because as I praise God my
problems become smaller and smaller. And God becomes greater and greater.
Choose where you rather be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;My dear brothers and sisters,
therefore I speak again and again, that the greatest healing we receive is the
spiritual healing. The healing that comes about from the experience of God’s
forgiveness towards us. When we repent and come back to our father. As I said
yesterday Jesus has also come to heal the human heart and to heal us even to
our past, which is incredible. Has come to heal our family background. He has
come to heal us when we were in our mother’s wound. He has come to heal us when
we were in our childhood. And I feel, and I have been saying this everywhere,
that this aspect of Jesus’s ministry, inner healing. It is so important and
necessary that every human being in the world must have gone thru a process of
inner healing, must have said a prayer for inner healing, if possible, even
gone to a retreat for inner healing. Some years ago, I was giving a retreat to
sisters and the mother general, and the mother superior, the general of that
congregation, brought a woman to be prayed for. And this woman had a baby and
the sister told me that from the time of his birth the baby had not slept. It
was four months old and more than that it was screaming and screeching day and
night. And it was contorting its limbs. They took that baby to many doctors, to
many pediatricians, to many psychiatrists, but there was no success. So we
prayed over the baby, there was some improvement. The baby was now able to
sleep one hour a day, which was obviously too little. Then the nun happened to
tell me that the woman had told her that when she was pregnant with the baby
she had a very great shock. So then I told the sister “why didn’t you tell me
this before I prayed? Now send for this family.” Because in the mean time they
had gone back to their village. “I am going to the next town to preach a
retreat. And send them to that place. Because I feel that that baby will not be
healed accept by the power for prayer.”&amp;nbsp;
At the last day of the retreat, the parents came with the little baby. I
was happy when I saw them entering the hall. And what did I do? I asked one of
the sisters to hold that baby and to be on one side. And I put the mother in
the center of these 80 nuns making the retreat. And I told the sisters, after I
told them about the shock the mother had, that we were going to pray for the
mother, not for the baby. Or rather, for the baby through the mother. And as we
were praying for the mother, the baby stopped crying and screeching. And as we
continued praying for the mother, the baby fell into a deep sleep. And thru out
those two hours praying meeting with a lot of singing and clapping and
shouting, although not as much as you did last night. I thought the baby would
get up and start crying and screaming all over again, but no, the baby was fast
asleep. They wrote to us two weeks later that from that time the baby had been
sleeping practically the whole day and the whole night.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;(Applause)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Maybe to make up for the lost sleep.
Maybe because I prayed too much. You know prayer is like medicine, you cannot
pray too much. And this was one of the most beautiful things in our ministry,
praying for babies in their mother’s womb and praying for us retrospectively
when we were in our mother’s womb. And wonderful things can happen instantly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Again, there is something else that
Jesus came to do. Not only healing us spiritually, but forgiving our sins. Not
only healing us emotionally from every fear even when we were in our mother’s
womb. But even physically from all of sicknesses that come our way. And the
Lord Jesus is doing today the same thing that he did along time ago. But above
all Jesus has come finally to deliver us from the power of Satan. All this
healings will not be sufficient, will not be adequate, unless we are also freed
from the power of Satan in our lives. Some years ago, I was giving a mission in
a certain town in India, the evenings were meant for the sermons, for the
talks. And in the mornings we were hearing confessions, praying for people,
counseling them. And as I was about to finish the person with me, there was a
confusion at the door and I saw three women dragging a young girl into my room.
And this girl was shouting “let me go! Let me go!” And then I asked the women
“what is happening? Where does she want to go? Where is she pointing out at?”
They told me “Father, she is pointing at the cemetery. She wants to go to the
cemetery because we found her there as we were coming to the church. And we
found her there about to kill herself and we stopped her just in the knick of
time. And we dragged her by force to this place.” And this girl was getting
violent, she was about thirteen years old.&amp;nbsp;
And she was shouting&amp;nbsp; “let me go!
I want to go there!” And then I held her hand and I said “I won´&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/null&quot; name=&quot;_GoBack&quot; style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;t let you go unless you tell me why you want to kill
yourself.”&amp;nbsp; She wouldn’t tell me at first
but when we prayed by the power of the Holy spirit even the demons have to open
their mouths and speak. And finally I got the whole story from her. &amp;nbsp;She was studying in the eighth standard,
eighth standard, in high school and two years ago she had failed in the
examination. And she had to repeat the class. Last year, she had failed her
exams again and she repeated the class again. And this year, she had done her
exams so badly that she was sure she would fail the third time. But this is the
first thing I want to tell you, this is how the hearts of young people are
hurt, one of the greatest hurts of young people is their badness in their
studies. They may try to do very well. They really want to study well but maybe
their intellect may not be so bright and parents will tell them they are lazy.
Parents will compare them to other children. And after studying very well if
they fail, they experience a tremendous hurt within. They are ashamed of
everything. Everybody is condemning them. So this is what the girl felt, that
tremendous hurt and shame, but to make matters worse, her elder brother who was
like a father figure to her, had told her “if you fail the third time I don’t
want to look at your face.” You know, such remarks from people whom we love and
who we think loves us, can be very painful. And this is what he said “if you
fail the third time I don’t want to look at your face again.”&amp;nbsp; And more than that, he said “you can go on
and kill yourself. You can die. “ And this is what we call a curse. Now parents
often curse their children without thinking and they think it is only a joke,
that they said it only out of anger, but every word has the power to do things.
Therefore Saint Paul says “never use words that break down a person. Always use
words that build up a person.” So this was a great hurt, she was already hurt
about her failure at school, the deep feeling of inferiority and now she felt
extreme rejection. Her brother said “I don’t want to look at you again. Go and
kill yourself.”&amp;nbsp; Now, what to do? How to
bring her the healing of Jesus? Is not easy to speak to children because
obviously they cannot understand things we say. But under the power of the Holy
spirit, the words would come out, so this is what I told her, I said “I am
speaking not as a priest, but as an educationist, one who has been a principle
of schools for many years” and I know what I am saying. See people, young
people, will listen to you when you speak to them with authority, when they
know you are talking sense and when you are speaking to them with love and
compassion. So I told her “passing the eight standard at school is not the most
important thing in life, that are many more important things in life and you
are going to fail the eight standard…” now you may tell me this is bad news, I
should never have said that, but you have to speak the truth, but as Saint
Peter said “with love”. I said “you are going to fail the eighth standard and I
want you to praise God with me for that failure” of course she wouldn’t do
that, but she knew I was speaking with love and authority and therefore now she
was praising God with me, for that failure. Then I prayed over her. Then, as I
often do, I blessed holy water, and I gave her to drink, because this
experience of healing can tire you and the person can become thirsty and
exhausted. And I gave her this blessed water as a sign and symbol of the Holy
spirit entering her but when she put it to her lips, she threw it aside “I
don’t want that water. It is bitter. It is bitter.” Then I knew there was an
evil force there also.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;When the human heart is wounded it
can open ourselves to demonic forces. So I told the three women who were
charismatic leaders “force her to drink that water”. And then, as she was
drinking that water and she drank herself avidly&amp;nbsp; and then I asked her how did the water taste.
She said “Father, very sweet.” It was tasting like holy water. I said “Alright,
now you can go.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;(Applause)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;I said now you can go, but she was
not getting up from her chair. I said “I have to see other people. I finished
with you. You can go.” She stood up, she was not going. I said “what more do
you want?” she said “I want to cry.” I said “cry” and she collapsed on her
knees and began to cry so loudly that even the parish priest came to see what
was happening. He must be wondering why I am making all the girls to cry. I
couldn’t tell him it was the Holy spirit making them to cry. Because crying is
a process of healing. The gift of tears is the gift of the Holy spirit. And
then she left. That evening in that big stadium, as big as this, where I was
giving a mission. She came on the stage and gave her testimony and she said
three things which I did not know. First of all, she said that when I was
praying for her that she realized that her mother had taken her to many
witchcraft people because she was failing her exams. And then she knew it was
something wrong and she repented and she renounced all those occult practices.
Secondly, as she was crying all that anger and bitterness toward her brother
disappeared. And her heart was filled with a great love and compassion for him.
And thirdly she said, after she left she was thirsty again, she filled her
glass with water, she wanted to bring it to me again for me to bless it. But
there were people already with me so she told Jesus “Lord Jesus you bless the
water” and when she drank that water it was as sweet, if not sweeter, than the
water I had blessed before. It was a sign to her that Jesus by the power of the
Holy spirit had healed her and delivered completely. Praise the Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;(Applause)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;(the end)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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by Fr. Rufus Pereira&lt;/div&gt;
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There can be no better way to celebrate Christmas than to consider that &quot;pilgrimage of faith in which the Blessed Virgin advanced, faithfully preserving her union with Christ&quot; (Mother of the Redeemer 5). Together with Mary let us take this pilgrimage of faith by re-examining the Infancy Narratives given in Luke&#39;s Gospel.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Mary hears and accepts the Good News (Lk 1:26-38):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Luke begins his Gospel by presenting Mary as &#39;Highly favoured of God&#39; and &#39;Blessed … among women&#39; (1:28,30), for she is the first one to hear the Good News. She would have an altogether unique role to play in the fulfillment of God&#39;s plan, for she would conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit and bring forth Jesus, the Son of God (1:31,35). Through her response, &quot;Behold the maidservant of the Lord. Let it be done to me according to your Word&quot; (1:38), Mary also becomes the first person to accept and to obey the Good News, thus anticipating in herself in a unique way the essential characteristic of a disciple of Christ: &quot;Be doers of the Word, and not hearers only&quot; (James 1:22). Although she has been given a sign (1:36-37), she was a &#39;believer&#39; for whom God&#39;s Word was sufficient. This was the first step in her journey of faith.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Mary is declared blessed because she believed God&#39;s Word (1:42,45):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mary, always the obedient maidservant of the Lord (1:38), then goes with all haste to the house of Zacharias and greets Elizabeth (1:39-40), who in her turn through the power of the Holy Spirit loudly proclaims: &quot;Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb&quot; (1:42). Because she has conceived a son like Jesus, Mary is hailed as the most blessed woman that ever was. But Elizabeth makes it absolutely clear why Mary is blessed through the blessedness of Jesus her Son, &quot;Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord&quot; (1:45). She is already blessed because of her obedience to the Word of God (1:38), and not just because, as Elizabeth now realizes, she is now &#39;the mother of my Lord&#39; (1:43). The first person to be called blessed in the Gospel was thus appropriately the first person to believe in the promise of the Lord and so open herself to its fulfillment in her life. Mary&#39;s response of faith to God&#39;s call and choice is the essence of Christian discipleship.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;All generations will call Mary Blessed (1:45-55):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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In response to Elizabeth&#39;s blessing, Mary herself prophesizes, &quot;For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed&quot; (1:48). But, what is so distinctive of a Christian disciple, Mary does not so much accept Elizabeth&#39;s and all future generations&#39; blessings as a credit to her faith as much as a tribute to God&#39;s power, holiness and mercy (1: 49,50). In doing so she is in fact, as a representative of the anawin of Israel, anticipating the proclamation of the Good News by Jesus in the Beatitudes of the Sermon of the Mount (Mt 5:2-12), and prophesizing its actualization in the Jerusalem community (Acts 2:43-47; 4:32-37).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Mary ponders the Good News given by the angel (2:19):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Nine months later -Luke gives us three reactions or responses to the &#39;good tidings of great joy&#39; brought by the angel (2:10). While the shepherds &#39;made widely known the saying&#39; (2:17) and &#39;returned, glorifying and praising God&#39; (2:20), … and while &#39;all those who heard it marveled&#39; (2:18), &quot;But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart&quot; (2:19), signifying that she treasured the words and incidents connected with Jesus&#39; birth, wanting to know their deeper meaning.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Mary receives the Good News as the Sword of the Spirit (2:35a):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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When forty days later Joseph and Mary brought the Child Jesus to be presented in the Temple (2:22), they marveled, Luke says, at the consoling prophesy that Simeon made about the Child in his prayer of blessing to God (2:33). But Luke does not tell us about their reaction to Simeon&#39;s disturbing prophesy, &quot;Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against … that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed&quot; (2:34,35b), much less about Mary&#39;s response to his direct prophecy to her, &quot;Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also&quot; (2:35a, cfr Heb 4:12). But she would have understood that she too, as part of Israel, would be judged by her final response to the Child who will the occasion of the fall and rising of people, even of Israel, depending on their attitude to Jesus. For obedience to the Word of God would not be a once for all act (1:38.45), but an ongoing attitude tested through trials and perils. Mary would thus have to go through the test of discipleship, but would come through successfully, unlike Peter who could not hold fast to the Word of God in the face of diabolic opposition (22:32-34).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Mary does not understand the Word but keeps it in her heart (2:48-51):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Twelve years later, after three days of searching for their lost son, Mary and Joseph were amazed at seeing Jesus calmly sitting amidst the teachers of the Law in the Temple, apparently oblivious of their anxiety and concern for him (2:46,48). Jesus&#39; answer to his mother&#39;s reproach seems to be full of surprise and even pain that his parents have still not known him well enough. When he ostensibly reveals to them his true identity and affirms the priority of his relationship with his heavenly Father over that with his earthly parents (2:40), &quot;they did not understand the statement which he spoke to them&#39; (2:50), which may seem to be surprising, on Mary&#39;s part at least, after twelve years of reflection on the previous revelations of her son&#39;s identity (1:31-35; 2:11,17-18). Mary must now be realizing the full import of Simeon&#39;s prophecy uttered twelve years before (2:35a).&lt;/div&gt;
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And so the final reaction of the parents in the infancy narrative seems to be similar to that of the disciples after the third Passion prediction, &quot;But they understood none of these things&quot; (18:24). Unlike the disciples, however, &quot;His mother kept all these things in her heart&quot; (2:50). As she did twelve years before, she retained now also the disturbing words that had puzzled her, but she continued to search for their true and deeper meaning (2:19), in apparent contrast with Jesus &#39;growing in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man&#39; (2:52). Mary&#39;s attitude, therefore, of acceptance and obedience and waiting, throughout the infancy narrative, are for us a model preparation for Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;O Natal pela Via de Maria&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Por Pe. Rufus Pereira&lt;/div&gt;
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Não pode haver melhor maneira de celebrar o Natal do que considerar que &quot;peregrinação de fé em que a Santíssima Virgem avançou, conservando fielmente a união com Cristo&quot; (Mãe do Redentor 5). Juntamente com Maria, vamos aproveitar esta peregrinação de fé, reexaminando as narrativas da infância dadas no Evangelho de Lucas.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Maria ouve e aceita a Boa Nova (Lc 1, 26-38):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Lucas começa o seu Evangelho, apresentando Maria como &quot;altamente favorecido por Deus&quot; e &quot;Bem-aventurados ... entre as mulheres&quot; (1: 28,30), pois ela é a primeira a ouvir a Boa Nova. Ela teria um papel completamente único a desempenhar no cumprimento do plano de Deus, pois ela iria conceber pelo poder do Espírito Santo e dará à luz Jesus, o Filho de Deus (1: 31,35). Através de sua resposta: &quot;Eis aqui a serva do Senhor. Faça-se em mim segundo a tua Palavra&quot; (1:38), Mary também se torna a primeira pessoa a aceitar e obedecer a Boa Nova, antecipando, assim, em si mesma, em um forma única a característica essencial de um discípulo de Cristo: &quot;Sede cumpridores da palavra e não somente ouvintes&quot; (Tiago 1:22). Embora ela tenha sido dado um sinal (1: 36-37), ela era uma &#39;crente&#39;, para quem a Palavra de Deus era suficiente. Este foi o primeiro passo em sua jornada de fé.&lt;br /&gt;
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Maria, sempre a serva obediente do Senhor (01:38), então vai com toda a pressa para a casa de Zacarias e cumprimenta Elizabeth (1: 39-40), que por sua vez, através do poder do Espírito Santo, proclama em voz alta: &quot;Bendita és tu entre as mulheres e bendito é o fruto do teu ventre&quot; (01:42). Porque ela concebeu um filho como Jesus, Maria é aclamada como a mulher mais abençoada que sempre foi. Mas Elizabeth torna absolutamente claro por que Maria é abençoada por meio da bem-aventurança de Jesus, seu Filho, &quot;Bem-aventurada aquela que acreditou, pois haverá um cumprimento das coisas que lhe foram ditas da parte do Senhor&quot; (01:45). Ela já é abençoado por causa de sua obediência à Palavra de Deus (1:38), e não apenas porque, como Elizabeth agora percebe, ela está agora &quot;a mãe do meu Senhor&quot; (01:43). A primeira pessoa a ser chamado abençoado no Evangelho foi, assim, de forma adequada a primeira pessoa a acreditar na promessa do Senhor e assim abrir-se para a sua realização em sua vida. A resposta de Maria da fé para chamada e escolha de Deus é a essência do discipulado cristão.&lt;br /&gt;
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Em resposta a bênção de Elizabeth, a própria Maria profetiza: &quot;Pois eis que desde agora todas as gerações me chamarão bem-aventurada&quot; (01:48). Mas, o que é tão característico de um discípulo cristão, Mary não tanto aceitar todas as bênçãos das gerações futuras de Elizabeth e como um crédito à sua fé, tanto quanto um tributo ao poder, santidade e misericórdia (1: 49,50) de Deus. Ao fazer isso, ela é de fato, como um representante do Anawin de Israel, antecipando a proclamação da Boa Nova de Jesus nas bem-aventuranças do Sermão da Montanha (Mt 5: 2-12), e profetizando a sua realização no comunidade de Jerusalém (Atos 2: 43-47; 4: 32-37).&lt;br /&gt;
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Nove meses depois, Lucas nos dá três reações ou respostas para as &quot;boas novas de grande alegria&quot; trazidos pelo anjo (2:10). Enquanto os pastores &#39;amplamente conhecido o ditado &quot;(2:17) e&quot; voltaram, glorificando e louvando a Deus &quot;(2:20), ... e enquanto&quot; todos aqueles que a ouviram se maravilharam &quot;(2:18),&quot; Maria, porém, guardava todas estas coisas, meditando-as no seu coração &quot;(2:19), significando que ela guardava as palavras e os incidentes relacionados com o nascimento de Jesus, querendo saber o seu significado mais profundo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Quando 40 dias mais tarde, José e Maria trouxeram o menino Jesus para ser apresentado no Templo (02:22), maravilharam-se, Lucas diz que, ao profetizar consoladora que Simeão fez sobre a Criança na sua oração de bênção a Deus (02:33 ). Mas Lucas não nos diz sobre sua reação ao profetizar perturbador de Simeão: &quot;Eis que este menino está destinado para queda e ressurgimento de muitos em Israel, e para sinal que será falado contra ... que os pensamentos de muitos corações será revelado &quot;(2: 34,35b), e muito menos sobre a resposta de Maria à sua profecia direta a ela:&quot; Sim, uma espada traspassará a tua própria alma &quot;(2: 35a, cfr Hb 4:12). Mas ela teria entendido que ela também, como parte de Israel, seriam julgados por sua resposta final à criança que a ocasião de queda e elevação de pessoas, até mesmo de Israel, dependendo de sua atitude para com Jesus. Por obediência à Palavra de Deus não seria uma vez por todas ato (1: 38.45), mas uma atitude permanente testados através de ensaios e perigos. Maria teria, assim, a passar pelo teste do discipulado, mas viria através de sucesso, ao contrário de Pedro, que não podia agarrar-se à Palavra de Deus, na face de oposição diabólica (22: 32-34).&lt;br /&gt;
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Doze anos mais tarde, depois de três dias de busca de seu filho perdido, Maria e José foram surpreendidos ao ver Jesus calmamente sentado no meio dos doutores da lei no templo, aparentemente alheio à sua ansiedade e preocupação para ele (2: 46,48) . A resposta de Jesus a reprovação de sua mãe parece ser cheio de surpresas e até mesmo dor que seus pais ainda não o conheço bem o suficiente. Quando ele ostensivamente lhes revela sua verdadeira identidade e afirma a prioridade de seu relacionamento com o Pai celestial sobre isso com seus pais terrenos (2:40), &quot;eles não entenderam a declaração que ele falou para eles&quot; (02:50) , o que pode parecer surpreendente, por parte de Maria, pelo menos, depois de 12 anos de reflexão sobre as revelações anteriores de identidade de seu filho (1: 31-35; 2: 11,17-18). Maria deve agora estar percebendo o pleno importação de profecia de Simeão proferiu 12 anos antes (2: 35a).&lt;br /&gt;
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E assim, a reação final dos pais na narrativa da infância parece ser semelhante à dos discípulos após a terceira previsão Paixão, &quot;Mas eles não entenderam nada dessas coisas&quot; (18:24). Ao contrário dos discípulos, no entanto, &quot;Sua mãe guardava todas estas coisas no seu coração&quot; (02:50). Como ela fez 12 anos antes, ela agora também manteve as palavras inquietantes que tinha confundido ela, mas ela continuou a procurar o seu verdadeiro e mais profundo significado (2:19), em aparente contraste com Jesus crescendo em sabedoria, em estatura e em favor de Deus e dos homens &quot;(2:52). A atitude de Maria, portanto, da aceitação e da obediência e espera, ao longo da narrativa infância, são para nós um modelo de preparação para o Natal.&lt;/div&gt;
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It was in the year of King Uzziah&#39;s death (a great and good king, but who unfortunately was punished by God with leprosy for offhandedly not respecting the holiness of the temple worship), that the prophet Isaiah, who was close to the King and may have been dismayed by his divine punishment, had a vision of God in the temple surrounded by angels who cried out to one another, &quot;Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God&quot;. And then Isaiah became aware of his own sinfulness too in the presence of such a holy God, &quot;I am lost, for my eyes have looked at Yahweh, the King, I, a wretched man of unclean lips.&quot; Then one of the seraph angels took a burning coal from the altar and touched the mouth of Isaiah saying, &quot;Now your sin is taken away and your iniquity is purged&quot; (Is 6:1-7). This experience had made such a great impact on Isaiah that in his prophecy he constantly refers to God as the Holy One, more than any other book of the Bible does. He must have called to mind then what God says in Leviticus, the OT book on holiness, &quot;The LORD said to Israel through Moses, &#39;I am the LORD your God. I am holy, and you must be holy too.&#39;&quot; (Lev 19:2).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;God is holy:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This Holy God therefore speaks his holy word (Jer 23:9), he remembers his holy promise (Ps 105:42), he stretches forth his holy arm (Is 52:10), he is jealous of his holy name (Lev 20:3). The place where he appears is holy ground (Ex 3:5), anything set apart for his sacred use is holy, persons connected with these holy places and holy services are holy, and times given to worship are holy (Ex 12:16; 16:23 Is 58:13). Jesus himself at his conception was called the Holy One of God and the devil too recognized and acclaimed him as such, &quot;I know who you are&quot; (Mk 1:24). Jesus even threw a challenge to his detractors, &quot;Can any one of you convict me of sin?&quot; (Jn 8:46), while Pilate could find no case against him in spite of all the accusations made by the religious leaders (Jn 18:38). Hence Jesus addressed God as &#39;Holy Father&#39; (Jn 17:11) and taught his disciples to pray that the name of their Father God may be held holy and to ask him to give them the Holy Spirit (Lk 11:2,13).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;And you must be holy:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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God is holy - and Christ died for the Church to make it holy. Hence both his people are to be a holy nation (1 Pet 1:15; 2:9; Eph 5:26), as well as individual Christians, his children, created in his image, are to be called the &#39;saints&#39; (holy) (Rom 1:7; 1 Cor 1:2), - purified by the Holy Word of God that challenges them (Jn 17:7), and sanctified by the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that enables them, to acknowledge their sins, not only in deeds but in words and even in thoughts, and not only in what they have done but also in what they have failed to do, while the &#39;holy kiss&#39;, in the early church, was a seal of holy fellowship (1 Cor 16:20). Thousands have thus answered the call of God to become holy, as he is holy, and have lived such holy lives that the Church has even officially recognized them as holy (canonized them). And so as both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family, Jesus is not ashamed to call them openly his brothers (Heb 2:11).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Be perfect as your Father is perfect&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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While in the Old Testament God the Father calls us to be holy as he is holy, in the New Testament Jesus his Son calls us to be perfect as his and our Father is perfect.&lt;/div&gt;
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perfect in his way, in his word, and in his works. He is a faithful God, upright and just, who does no wrong, though in contrast Israel &quot;has acted foolishly and corruptly toward him. He is their Father and Creator, but to their shame they are no longer his children, but a warped and crooked generation&quot; (Deut 32:4-6). Jesus therefore came to show by word and example how his disciples should respond to a perfect God and Father. At the beginning of his ministry, on their urging him to eat, he replied, &quot;My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to do it perfectly&quot; (Jn 4:34), and at the end of his life and ministry he could state, &quot;Done&quot; (Jn 19:30).&lt;/div&gt;
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Once a rich young man came and asked Jesus, &quot;What must I do to have eternal life&quot;. &quot;Keep the commandments&quot;, he was told. &quot;I have kept all these from my earliest days till now&quot;, he answered, &quot;What more do I have to do?&quot; Jesus looked at him with love and said, &quot;There is still one thing you lack. If you wish to be perfect, then go and sell everything you own and give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me&quot; (Mt 19:14-22). For Jesus made it clear to his disciples, &quot;If your virtue goes no deeper than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven&quot; (Mt 5:20). Thousands of men and women have done this down the centuries, following the poverty Gospel rather than the prosperity Gospel.&lt;/div&gt;
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Again to those whose religious convictions led them to love their neighbor but to hate their enemy, Jesus declared, &quot;I tell you however: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. In this way you will be sons of your Father in heaven, who looks after both bad men as well as good, and after honest and dishonest men alike. For if you love those who love you, what reward can you expect? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional? Do not even pagans do that?&quot; To Jesus the conclusion is obvious; &quot;You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect&quot; (Mt 5:43-48). Thus Paul&#39;s ambition is to be made perfect, though he knows he is far from it (Phil 3:12-14), and to struggle with all his energy to make everyone perfect in Christ. (Col 1:28-29), - so perfect that they are never at fault in what they say (Jas 3:1), and are able to keep their whole body in check and to love so perfectly that there is no more fear (Jas 3:18).&lt;/div&gt;
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Thirdly and finally we are called not only to be holy, as Leviticus, the Book of Holiness, enjoins us, by avoiding sin; and to be perfect, as Mathew&#39;s Gospel of Perfection commands us, by doing good; but to even imitate God our Father, as Luke&#39;s Gospel of Compassion urges us, by being tenderhearted.&lt;/div&gt;
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Already in Exodus, the Old Testament book of God&#39;s compassion, God proclaims himself as &quot;The LORD, but a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin&quot; (Ex 34:6,7). And in Nehemiah, the people themselves admit, &quot;Our forefathers became arrogant and stiff-necked, forgot your wonders, refused to obey you and flouted your commands. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate. Therefore you did not desert them, even when they worshipped an image of a calf as their god and saviour, or when they committed awful blasphemies&quot; (Neh 9:16-18).&lt;/div&gt;
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It is in Exodus too that God calls on Israel to be compassionate, as he is compassionate. &quot;If you lend money to any of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender, but charge him no interest. If you take your neighbor&#39;s cloak as a pledge, return it to him by sunset, because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am compassionate&quot; (Ex 22:25-27). In stark contrast Jonah was very indignant and fell into a rage precisely because God showed mercy to the people of Nineveh. &quot;That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you were a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger and abounding in love, who relents from sending calamity. Now, O LORD, please take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live (as you want me to live - full of compassion like you)&quot; (Jon 4:3).&lt;/div&gt;
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But it is in Luke&#39;s Gospel of Compassion that Jesus spells out compassion as the heart of holiness and the pinnacle of perfection. &quot;But I tell you: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what thanks can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. Instead, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend without any hope of return. Then your reward will be great for you will qualify to be sons of the Most High, since he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Therefore be compassionate as your Father is compassionate&quot; (Lk 6:27-36).&lt;/div&gt;
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On the last day God will judge the perfection and even the holiness of our lives by our compassion (Mt 25:31-46). For God is holy, God is perfect, but above all God is compassionate, - in fact God is Love, and He has called us not only to be holy and perfect but to be compassionate, for anyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him (1Jn 4:16).&lt;/div&gt;
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Foi no ano da morte do rei Uzias (um grande e um bom rei, mas que, infelizmente, foi punido por Deus com lepra para offhandedly não respeitar a santidade do culto do templo), que o profeta Isaías, que estava perto do rei e pode foram consternados com sua punição divina, teve uma visão de Deus no templo cercado por anjos, que gritou para o outro: &quot;Santo, santo, santo é o Senhor Deus&quot;. E então Isaías tornou-se consciente de sua própria pecaminosidade também na presença de um Deus tão santo: &quot;Estou perdido, porque os meus olhos olhou para o Senhor, o Rei, eu, um homem miserável de lábios impuros&quot;. Então, um dos anjos serafim tomou uma brasa viva do altar e tocou a boca de Isaías, dizendo: &quot;Agora, o seu pecado é tirado e sua a iniqüidade é perdoada&quot; (Is 6: 1-7). Esta experiência fez um impacto tão grande sobre Isaías que, em sua profecia, ele constantemente se refere a Deus como o Santo, mais do que qualquer outro livro da Bíblia. Ele deve ter chamado a atenção para, em seguida, o que Deus diz em Levítico, o livro OT em santidade &quot;, disse o SENHOR a Israel por meio de Moisés:&quot; Eu sou o Senhor vosso Deus. Eu sou santo, e você deve ser santo também. &quot;(Lev 19: 2).&lt;/div&gt;
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Assim, este Deus Santo fala a sua santa palavra (Jer 23: 9), ele se lembra de sua santa palavra (Sl 105: 42), ele estende seu braço santo (Is 52:10), ele está com ciúmes de seu santo nome (Lev 20 : 3). O lugar onde ele aparece é terra santa (Ex 3: 5), tudo separado para seu uso sagrado é santo, pessoas ligadas a esses lugares santos e serviços santos são santos, e os tempos são dadas a adoração santa (Ex 00:16; 16:23 é 58:13). O próprio Jesus na sua concepção foi chamado o Santo de Deus eo diabo também reconhecida e aclamada como tal, &quot;Eu sei quem você é&quot; (Mc 01:24). Jesus ainda lançou um desafio para seus detratores, &quot;Pode qualquer um de vocês me condenar de pecado?&quot; (Jo 8:46), enquanto Pilatos poderia encontrar nenhum caso contra ele, apesar de todas as acusações feitas pelos líderes religiosos (Jo 18:38). Por isso Jesus se dirigiu a Deus como &quot;Santo Padre&quot; (Jo 17:11) e ensinou seus discípulos a orar para que o nome de seu Pai Deus pode ser realizada santo e pedir-lhe para dar-lhes o Espírito Santo (Lc 11: 2,13) .&lt;/div&gt;
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Deus é santo - e Cristo morreu para a Igreja para torná-lo santo. Assim ambas as pessoas estão a ser uma nação santa (1 Pe 1:15; 2: 9; Ef 5:26), assim como os cristãos, individualmente, seus filhos, criados à sua imagem, estão a ser chamado de &#39;santos&#39; (santo) (Rm 1: 7; 1 Coríntios 1: 2), - purificado pelo Santa Palavra de Deus que os desafia (Jo 17: 7), e santificados pelo Santo Sacrifício da Missa que lhes permite, a reconhecer seus pecados , não só em ações, mas em palavras e até mesmo em pensamentos, e não apenas no que eles fizeram, mas também no que eles não conseguiram fazer, enquanto o &quot;ósculo santo&quot;, na igreja primitiva, era um selo da santa comunhão (1 Coríntios 16:20). Milhares de pessoas, assim, responderam ao chamado de Deus para se tornar santo, como Ele é santo, e viveram vidas tão sagrados que a Igreja reconheceu-los ainda oficialmente como santo (canonizado eles). E assim como tanto o que santifica como os que são santificados, são todos da mesma família, Jesus não se envergonha de chamá-los abertamente seus irmãos (Hb 2:11).&lt;/div&gt;
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perfeito em sua forma, em sua palavra, e em suas obras. Ele é um Deus fiel, justo e reto, que não faz mal, embora em contraste Israel &quot;agiu estupidamente e corruptamente para com ele. Ele é o seu Pai e Criador, mas a sua vergonha eles não são seus filhos, mas um deformado e geração perversa &quot;(Dt 32: 4-6). Portanto, Jesus veio para mostrar por palavras e exemplo de como seus discípulos deveriam responder a um Deus perfeito e Pai. No início do seu ministério, em sua instando-o a comer, ele respondeu: &quot;Meu alimento é fazer a vontade daquele que me enviou, e fazê-lo perfeitamente&quot; (Jo 04:34), e no final do sua vida e ministério, ele poderia afirmar, &quot;Done&quot; (Jo 19:30).&lt;/div&gt;
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Uma vez que um jovem rico veio e perguntou a Jesus: &quot;O que devo fazer para ter a vida eterna&quot;. &quot;Guarda os mandamentos&quot;, disseram-lhe. &quot;Eu tenho guardado tudo isso desde os meus primeiros dias até agora&quot;, ele respondeu: &quot;O que mais eu tenho que fazer?&quot; Jesus olhou para ele com amor e disse: &quot;Ainda há uma coisa te falta Se queres ser perfeito, vai, vende então tudo que você possui e dê o dinheiro aos pobres e terás um tesouro no céu;. Depois, vem e siga-me &quot;(Mt 19: 14-22). Para Jesus deixou claro a seus discípulos: &quot;Se a sua virtude não vai mais fundo do que a dos escribas e fariseus, você nunca vai entrar no reino dos céus&quot; (Mt 5:20). Milhares de homens e mulheres têm feito isso ao longo dos séculos, seguindo a pobreza evangélica ao invés do Evangelho da Prosperidade.&lt;/div&gt;
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Novamente para aqueles cujas convicções religiosas levou-os a amar o próximo, mas odiar seu inimigo, Jesus declarou: &quot;Digo-vos porém: Amai os vossos inimigos e orai pelos que vos perseguem Desta forma, você vai ser filhos de seu Pai que está nos céus. , que cuida de homens maus, assim como boa, e depois de homens honestos e desonestos igualmente. Porque, se amais os que vos amam, que recompensa você pode esperar? não são mesmo os cobradores de impostos que fazem isso? e se você apenas cumprimentar o seu irmãos, você está fazendo nada de excepcional? não mesmo os pagãos fazem isso? &quot;Para Jesus, a conclusão é óbvia; &quot;Você deve, portanto, ser perfeitos como vosso Pai celeste é perfeito&quot; (Mt 5: 43-48). Assim ambição de Paulo é para ser aperfeiçoados, mas ele sabe que ele está longe disso (Fp 3: 12-14), e lutar com toda a sua energia para fazer todo homem perfeito em Cristo. (Col 1: 28-29), - tão perfeito que eles nunca estão em falta no que dizem (Tg 3: 1), e são capazes de manter todo o seu corpo em cheque e amar tão perfeitamente que não há mais medo (Tg 3:18).&lt;/div&gt;
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Já em Êxodo, livro do Antigo Testamento da compaixão de Deus, Deus se proclama como &quot;o Senhor, mas um Deus de ternura e compaixão, lento para a cólera, rico em bondade e fidelidade, mantendo o amor a milhares, e da maldade de perdão, a transgressão eo pecado &quot;(Ex 34: 6,7). E em Neemias, o povo se admitir, &quot;Nossos antepassados se tornou arrogante e de dura cerviz, esqueceu suas maravilhas, recusou-se a obedecer-lhe e desrespeitados seus comandos. Mas você é um Deus de perdão, clemente e compassivo. Por isso você não abandoná-los , mesmo quando eles adoraram uma imagem de um bezerro como seu Deus e Salvador, ou quando cometeram horríveis blasfêmias &quot;(Neemias 9: 16-18).&lt;/div&gt;
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É no Êxodo também que Deus exorta Israel a ser compassivo, como ele é compassivo. &quot;Se você emprestar dinheiro a alguém do meu povo entre vocês que é carente, não ser como um agiota, mas acusá-lo sem interesse. Se você pegar a capa de seu próximo como uma promessa, devolvê-lo a ele por do sol, porque o manto é a única cobertura que ele tem para o seu corpo que mais ele vai dormir e se ele grita para mim, vou ouvi-lo, porque eu sou compassivo &quot;(Ex 22: 25-27).?. Em forte contraste com Jonas estava muito indignado e caiu em uma raiva precisamente porque Deus usou de misericórdia para com o povo de Nínive. &quot;É por isso que eu estava tão rápido para fugir para Társis. Eu sabia que você era um Deus de ternura e compaixão, lento para a cólera e cheio de amor, que se arrepende do mal. Agora, ó Senhor, por favor, tirar a minha vida, pois é melhor para mim morrer do que viver (como você quer que eu viva - cheio de compaixão como você) &quot;(Jon 4: 3).&lt;/div&gt;
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Mas é no Evangelho de Lucas de compaixão que Jesus explicita compaixão como o coração da santidade eo pináculo da perfeição. &quot;Mas eu lhes digo:. Amai os vossos inimigos, fazei bem aos que vos odeiam, bendizei os que vos maldizem, e orai pelos que vos tratam mal Se amais os que vos amam, que mérito há nisso você Até os pecadores fazem? isso. E se você fizer o bem daqueles que são bons para você, que mérito há nisso? Também os pecadores fazem isso. E se emprestardes àqueles de quem esperais receber, que agradecimento você pode esperar? Também os pecadores emprestam aos pecadores , espera ser reembolsado integralmente. em vez disso, amai os vossos inimigos e fazer o bem a eles, e emprestar sem qualquer esperança de retorno. Então, a vossa recompensa será grande para você se qualificará para sermos filhos do Altíssimo, porque ele próprio é uma espécie . para com os ingratos e os maus Portanto ser compassivos como o vosso Pai é misericordioso »(Lc 6: 27-36).&lt;/div&gt;
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No último dia Deus julgará a perfeição e até mesmo a santidade de nossas vidas por nossa compaixão (Mt 25: 31-46). Porque Deus é santo, Deus é perfeito, mas acima de tudo, Deus é compassivo, - na verdade, Deus é amor, e Ele nos chamou, não só para ser santo e perfeito, mas para ser compassivo, para quem permanece no amor permanece em Deus, e Deus vive nele (1 Jo 4:16).&lt;/div&gt;
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That the theme of the next millennium, the theme of the great Jubilee, is so true. Jesus is the same today as he was yesterday and as he will be always, Jesus is the same today. We began this program by speaking of God, our father, as a God for us. And then we spoke about Jesus, the greatest gift of our father, the gift of Jesus being God with us. And in this last teaching I want to go one step further. What is Jesus´s greatest gift to us? Already we read in the beginning of the gospels the preaching of John the Baptist and he was preaching two important things, first he was calling people to repentance, to prepare themselves for the coming of the Messiah. And the second thing that he was doing was to tell people that the Messiah was already there and telling people what the Messiah would do. He was contrasting his work with the work of Jesus, he said his work was only a work of preparation. He was telling the people prepare yourselves for the coming of the savior by repentance, but he said “The work of the Messiah will be something much more important.” He said “I have been baptizing you in the river Jordan as a sign of repentance, but the savior will come and he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit. Because he is the life giver.” Therefore what is Jesus?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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In John´s gospel, John the Baptist, gives Jesus two titles. On the one hand he is a lamb of God who´s come to take away our sins, who´s come to heal our sickness, who´s come to deliver us from Satan. But on the other hand, Jesus is the giver of life, the life giver. He gives us new life by giving us the Holy Spirit. Sometime later in the temple in Jerusalem on the occasion of the great feast of the tabernacles Jesus cried out at the top of his voice “Let all those who are thirsty come to me. Let all those who are searching for new life come to me. And all those who are hungry for the world of life come to me. Come and drink from me, come and drink from the living waters from the Holy Spirit that I will give to you.” Jesus already then had made that great promise of the Holy Spirit. Jesus already then had promised that special gift of his. The gift of the Holy Spirit which was the gift of his father. But it was specially at the last supper when the apostles were sad that Jesus was leaving them that Jesus told them “I am leaving you but I will not leave you alone. I will not leave you orphans. I will be sending you the Holy Spirit and even remind you of all I have been telling you. He will be like me, you paraclete, which in Greek means one who is always with you, one who guides you, one who defends you, one who will be your intercessor. I´ll be sending you the Holy Spirit.” And then Jesus told them “If I don´t leave you and go away the Holy Spirit will not come to you, but I have to leave you, so that my gift, the Holy Spirit will come to you.” And then Jesus said something incredible, he said “I am sending you the Holy Spirit and he will not be with you, he will not live among you, he will come inside you. And when he comes inside you.” Jesus said “I too will come into you and my father will come into you. All three of us. The tri-one God will come and make a home in you.” What greater promise could there be than the promise of Jesus that by the part of the Holy Spirit the total of the Tri-one God will come and make a home in each one of us? Therefore now who is God?&lt;/div&gt;
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God is not only the God for us. God, the father, God is not only the God with us, Jesus Christ. God is a God in us, the Holy Spirit. This is Christianity, this is the Catholic faith. I believe in God our father. I believe in Jesus Christ and I believe in the Holy Spirit. And then on the ascension day, on the day of the ascension, as Jesus has his last meeting with the apostles, again they were sad. They told Jesus “you are leaving us, but you have done nothing, you haven´t even begun anything. How do you expect us to do anything. When will the kingdom of God that we have been speaking about start?” And what did Jesus reply? “Wait. Wait. Have patience. Don´t try to do things on your own. You´ll wait for God to intervene and then you will receive power. Not from Earth, but from above. Then you will be doing the things that I have been doing. You will receive power from on high and whose is that power? It is not something, it is not some energy, like in bioenergetics or in reiki, or in this new age things, that power is a person and that person is the third person of the Almighty God and he is the Holy Spirit. And wait until you received him. And when you receive the Holy Spirit then you will be my witnesses not only in Judea, not only in Jerusalem, not only in Galilee, not only even in Samaria, but to the ends of the world, you will be my witnesses even to far of India, even to far of Brazil.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Now don´t search the bible for the word Brazil, but that is what Jesus meant. “You will be my witness to the extremities of the world.” And you can look at the map there, you can see the western extremity which is the Americas. And you can hardly see the eastern extremities, India is only half there, but that is the other extremity. Asia, Japan, you will be my witnesses to the ends of the world. And therefore today I would like to speak to you about the greatest gift of Jesus to us, to his church and to every Christian, the gift of the Holy Spirit and for Jesus this gift is so important that he said that the prayer to receive the Holy Spirit will always be answered. In Luke´s gospel, chapter eleven, the disciples asked Jesus on how to pray and Jesus said “When you pray, pray in this way and then he taught them the Our Father.” And then he went further, he gives us the example of the best friend and he gives us the better example of daddys, our fathers, and this is what Jesus said, as I spoke yesterday morning, every daddy, however bad he is wants to give the best to his children and he says “Will a dad give a stone to his son if the son asked for bread? If the son asked for fish will the father give a snake? If the son asked for an egg will the father give him a scorpion?” Now these are Hebrew figures of speech and what does it mean? That our earthly fathers will not only give us bad things but will want to give us the best and then comes verse thirteen, Luke´s gospel, chapter eleven, one of the greatest promises of Jesus. What did Jesus say then? “If you fathers wicked as you are like to give good gifts to your children, how much more, how much, much more, how much, much, much more will your heavenly father, will your father in heaven give you what? A job, a money, a promotion in your company? No, the best. And what is the best for God our father? What is his best gift to us? The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit.&lt;/div&gt;
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To whom? To anyone. To anyone who only asks. No condition except asking. And today during the Eucharist ask Jesus to give you the new way the gift of the father, the gift of the Holy Spirit and that is one prayer that is always answered. That is the most important prayer we can make. Jesus tells us what to ask and Jesus asks for only one thing, the Holy Spirit. Because when you receive the Holy Spirit, you receive everything else. And Jesus tells us hot to receive the Holy Spirit, only ask. Ask once, it will be given. Ask once, and it will be given to you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be open to you. This is the God in us. Therefore how do you know when I do the prayer in this special way today because the mass is the greatest prayer for healing, is the greatest prayer for forgiveness. It is the greatest prayer for deliverance and it is the greatest prayer for the asking and anointment and of the Holy Spirit. And third the Eucharistic prayer, what does the priest say? Soon after the consagration may we be to receiving the body and blood of Jesus, may we be to be filled with the Holy Spirit, may we be to receiving the body and blood of Jesus, may we be to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and become one spirit, one body in Christ. Therefore the mass is the baptism to the Holy Spirit and that is why Saint Ephrem, the great doctor of the eastern church, when he would give communion, he would say “Receive the fire of the Holy Spirit. Receive the fire of the Holy Spirit. Receive the fire of the Holy Spirit.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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And that is what happened to the apostles when Jesus left them. Raised as body to the upper room and they remained there waiting for nine days. And what were they doing for nine days? Only one thing, they were praying, praying, praying, in a way they never prayed before. In the agony of the garden what were they doing? Sleeping. In Mount Tabor, what were they doing? Sleeping. And now what were they doing in the upper room? They were wide awake, they were praying. Acts fourteen tells us, chapter one, verse fourteen, “they devoted all their time to prayer, because the Holy Spirit comes only thru prayer.” And one the tenth day what happened? Pentecost day? What happened to Jesus, happened to them. What happened to Mary happened to them. The Holy Spirit came upon them like fire, with fire in their heads, it came like a wind blowing around them. It came like something out of their mouths. In acts, chapter two, verse four tells us in one very simple sentence “They were all filled with the Holy Spirit.” They were not given the spirit, no, it was something more, they were filled with the spirit. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. And then the work of Jesus continued. Jesus had told the apostles during the forty days he was appearing to them, three important things. Thing number one “I am not dead, I have risen, I am alive and I will be with you always.” Has any religious leader told his followers that he would be with them always? No one, but Jesus. Only Jesus told them. Give a big clap to them.&lt;/div&gt;
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All the others leaders of religions and philosophies are dead, except our leader. Jesus is alive. “Jesus está conosco” (Jesus is with us) and “Jesus está convosco” (Jesus is with us). Only Jesus is alive. Only he made this fantastic promise “I will be with you always.” Secondly what did Jesus tell the apostles? He told them “My work is your work. Your work is to begin. Or rather, my work is to continue in you.” He had told them at the last supper “When you receive the Holy Spirit you will do what I am doing and you will do even greater things than what I did.” And then Jesus told the apostles “Go to every country in the world proclaim the gospel to every human being. Lay your hands in every sick person. As you pray in tongues deliver everyone from Satan in my name. And then Jesus said “Because I will be with you and my spirit is in you. You will do greater things than I have done.” Has any religious leader ever told his followers that they would do greater things than they did? No one, but Jesus. Give the Lord a big clap for that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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And the third thing that Jesus told them “I am going away, but I will be with you, but more than that my power will be in you. And who is my power? It is the Holy Spirit that was in me. Preaching to me. Healing thru me. Delivering people thru me.“ And Jesus told them “you will receive power from heaven. The power of the Holy Spirit. Not any human ability, but the ability and the power of Almighty God. The Holy Spirit itself.” Has any religious leader promised his followers such a tremendous power as Jesus did? No one, but Jesus. Give a clap for him.&lt;/div&gt;
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So what happens when we receive Jesus great gift to us, the Holy Spirit? We will receive a new life in the first place. All of us want life in a new life, and what does Jesus say? “Other have come only to destroy and to kill. I have come so that you may have life, a life in all its fullness.” Jesus has not come to give us mere existence. This microphone exists, but it does not live. We already have existence, we already exist, together with the trees, and the birds, but Jesus comes to gives us more than mere existence, has come to give us life. A life in all its fullness. John, ten, ten, you all need to remember, John ten squared, &amp;nbsp;John chapter ten, verse ten, one of the great promises of the bible and together with life what did Jesus come to give us? Total freedom and healing. Total forgiveness of everything in my life. And with this would follow peace. A peace that the world could never give. A peace that passes understanding. A peace that Jesus says “Only I can give.” And with that what else would Jesus give us? A strength, a power, even to do the impossible. The work of the Holy Spirit is to transform our lives by the fruits of his presence. The work of the Holy Spirit is to empower our lives by the charism of his power.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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When I receive the Holy Spirit what will happen to me? My whole life will be transformed, my relationship with God, our father, will change as the testimonies have shown. You now experience God as a loving father and as result of that you will have a new love, a new taste for prayer. With prayer which is a verbal expression of sonship. Correct. Then you will experience a new relationship with Jesus. In what way? Jesus will become alive to you. That is how so many people have seen Jesus and as result of that his book, the bible, will become the most important book in our lives it perhaps may be the only book you will read in your lives. What will happen in my relationship with the Holy Spirit? Somehow I will always experience his presence inside me. When I speak to people somehow I fell is not myself who is speaking as the apostles said in the Acts is the Holy Spirit speaking. And when I pray for people I know it is not me anymore I feel it is the power of the Holy Spirit thru me. Then you relationship with people will change, in your marriage, in your family, in you neighbors, people will find you a different person, more loving, more humble, more available. People don’t see a real change in their relationship, I myself would doubt whether you have the Holy Spirit. And finally, you experience a transformation within yourself, from habits of sin, from wrong tending and forgiveness, and from the power of the evil one.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Some years ago I was in the town of Calcuta, the city of Madre Teresa, and was conducting a healing service there, and then a lady came to see me and she told me “I want to tell you something that happened ten years earlier when you came to Calcuta for a healing service. I came to you and I told you about my husband who was not a catholic, he is a Hindu. And my husband was a very grave smoker. He would smoke three-four packets of cigarettes a day and the point was that he wanted to stop smoking, he tried very often to stop smoking, but he could not do it. So father please pray for him.” I said “Alright, bring him here.” “Father he is at his place of work 200 miles away.” But I said “I need to see him to pray for him.” Then I said “I will pray for him thru you.” And I prayed for her husband thru her to be free from the bondage of smoking. And now she told me ten years later “When my husband came back home for the weekend I notice he was not smoking and then he told me that on that same day we prayed together on the same time we prayed together, somehow he didn’t feel the need to smoke anymore.” Just before that he had smoked his last cigarette and had no more desire to smoke the last ten years. I was reminded of this story when I saw all these cigarettes here and that is the work of the Holy Spirit, even across distance, He can free any person that you have in mind from any type of bondage.&lt;/div&gt;
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I would like to end now with another story of deliverance. I was giving a program in India it was for priests and nuns and pray leaders, and a nun came for counseling. It was a nine days retreat beginning from the 26th of December, the day after Christmas, and for nine days. So this nun came to me on the 26th itself, on the opening day of the retreat and she already prepared herself, she had written many, many pages of all her problems. And when I read those problems I felt they were too much even for me, she had suffered so much, her family had suffered so much because of witchcraft done to the family and because they themselves had indulged in occult practices. Unfortunately, spells put on us by our enemies can do us a lot of harm but when we ourselves do the same things maybe to be free of those spells and curses we are being attacked by Satan from both sides, from outside and from inside. Therefore I saw all these in the papers the nun had written down and I prayed for her. Normally in a retreat I see a person only once but sometimes the problem is difficult I see a person a second time, but in this case, one of the most difficult cases I ever had, I called her every day to be prayed over for deliverance. One year later I gave another retreat in the same place and the same nun came also again to the retreat and then she told me something very strange, after that first retreat she went to her house, her home in a tribal area, from the bus stop she had to walk seventeen miles to her village, walking. She went to her village, a poor tribal village, as usual a village involved in witchcraft practices, as usual a lot of spells being cast by people and when she went to the home of her eldest brother and they told her that the eldest brother became very sick just a day before Christmas, the 24th of December, and he was put in the hospital. The doctors could not find out what sickness that he had and two days later he died. Then she went to visit the home of her second brother and when she went there her brother was telling her “Sister, give me money. I want money” Now she knew they were poor people, her family was very, very poor and she as ked him “but for what?” “To give a mass.” And she asked “why?” and then he told his story. When his eldest brother died on the 26th of December he became sick and then he began so sick he was hospitalized and the doctors couldn’t find what was wrong with him and then, two days later, he died. His body was in the hospital for about two days and then came the funeral, his body was brought to the grave in the cemetery of the parish church and all the people of the village was there with the parish priest. And as he was about to close the coffin, to lower the coffin in the grave, the wife of his brother noticed that her husband who was dead seemed to make a little movement with his eye. And then she began to cry out “don’t bury my husband. He is not dead.” They thought she was mad. They thought she was mad. They put her aside, they thought she was saying this out of grief and they all pushed her aside then she looked over her heads looking at the coffin and then she saw the husband sitting in the coffin and now she knew her husband was alive. And she pushed them all and rushed towards the coffin and then the people also looked at the coffin and saw that dead man sitting in the coffin. And they all ran away beginning by the parish priest. She walked home alone with her husband supposedly dead but very much alive. Then I asked the nun “Find out from your family when did this happen and what time” Then she wrote to them and she told me it was when we were praying together during that retreat. I was praying with her for different members of her family. So when we were praying together for this particular brother it was in the same day at the same time that the husband rose from the dead. That is the power of the Holy Spirit. Give the Lord a big clap.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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My Dear brothers and sisters I can tell you stories like this for days, most of the incredible, but was is more important is that we ask the Holy Spirit to transform our lives, but to transform the world in which we live. The Lord is calling us to be both a disciple and an evangelist. You cannot be an evangelist unless you are first a disciple and at the moment you are really a disciple of Jesus there is an inner urge to be an evangelist and the Lord is calling every Christian to the evangelism. Often the charismatic renewal is accused of only praying and they are not doing any social work and what is my answer? There can be no greater social work than bringing a person to an experience of total healing and fullness of life in Jesus’ name.&lt;/div&gt;
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What is the use of giving a person all the money in the world, all the comforts of the world? Satan said this to Jesus “I will give you everything” when in that persons heart there is only hatred and fear and feelings of inferiority and anger. Lord Jesus wants us first to be freed in our hearts. Look at the History of the world every attempt to change social structures was followed by worse social structures. Look at Russia communism was looked to be the hope of the world. What did it do? It destroyed hundreds of millions of human lives. What has it left in Russia and Eastern Europe? Only tears, only ruins, communism was from Satan. And communism was defeated not by any world power but only by that lady we call Mary.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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We cannot change, undo social structures, unless we first change the human hearts. &amp;nbsp;As the Holy Father has said “there is no renewal worth its name unless it’s a spiritual renewal because once the human heart has changed everything else will change, the society around us will change. Again the charismatic renewal is accused unjustly of doing nothing except praying I will say the greatest social work in a practical way the work to alcoholics, the work to drug addicts, the work to those who are burdened in their hearts, the work of freeing people from the power of Satan, is done almost only by the charismatic renewal and therefore…&lt;/div&gt;
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How therefore can we evangelize the world around us? &amp;nbsp;With this I end briefly first by the testimony of the word when Jesus was filled with the Spirit first thing he did was to open his mouth and speak. When Peter was filled with the Spirit the first thing he did was to open his mouth and speak. And the first way we are called to evangelize is by the testimony of the word, by the proclamation of the word. But I cannot proclaim the word to other people if I do not know the word myself and have not read and studied the bible. The bible is the greatest instrument of evangelization as the Holy Spirit is the greatest agent of evangelization, but if I have not been able to evangelize by the word I can always evangelize thru my testimony. In a way a testimony has a greater effect than a whole sermon. Or by distributing good Christian literature, little bibles, little books, tapes, videos, people may not come to this program but if you give them a book or a video they may read and if they don’t have money even for that I can evangelize by informing people about what is happening, by telling people there is a program there, by telling people this weekend there is a program of “canção nova”. Just by information. Secondly, the Lord is calling us to evangelize by deeds, by actions. When John the Baptist said to the apostles, his disciples, to Jesus, to find out who Jesus was, what did Jesus say? “Tell your master what you see not only what you hear.” And the Lord is calling us to evangelize by praying with people even by praying over them and to the healings and miracles that happen, telling them that Jesus was alive. And thirdly, is by the testimony of his one’s own life. In John’s gospel what did Jesus say to his won apostles? “By this man will know you are my disciples if you love one another that the people of the world will accept Jesus when they see a new life in each one of us, when they see are own families being transformed, it is our personal lifestyle, is the way we live in our families, is the Christian way we live in our factories and our offices, that will bring people to Jesus. As Mother Teresa said “is not just enough to preach people into the kingdom or to heal people into the kingdom, we must love people into the kingdom.” And that is why the simplest definition of evangelization is that mother Teresa herself, is the word mother Teresa herself, when somebody asked her what is evangelization? She said “evangelization means this I have received Jesus now I give him to others.” Praise the Lord.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Que o tema do próximo milênio, o tema do grande Jubileu, é tão verdadeiro. Jesus é o mesmo hoje como era ontem e como ele será sempre, Jesus é o mesmo hoje. Começamos este programa, falando de Deus, nosso pai, como um Deus para nós. E, então, falou sobre Jesus, o maior presente de nosso pai, o dom de Jesus ser Deus conosco. E neste último ensinamento eu quero ir um passo além. O que é Jesus&#39;s maior presente para nós? Já lemos no início dos evangelhos a pregação de João Batista e ele pregava duas coisas importantes, primeiro ele foi chamar as pessoas ao arrependimento, para se prepararem para a vinda do Messias. E a segunda coisa que ele estava fazendo era dizer às pessoas que o Messias já estava lá e dizer às pessoas o que o Messias faria. Ele foi contrastar o seu trabalho com a obra de Jesus, ele disse que seu trabalho era apenas um trabalho de preparação. Ele estava dizendo ao povo preparem-se para a vinda do Salvador, pelo arrependimento, mas ele disse: &quot;A obra do Messias será algo muito mais importante.&quot; Ele disse: &quot;Eu fui batiza no rio Jordão como um sinal de arrependimento , mas o salvador virá e ele vos batizará no Espírito Santo. Porque ele é o doador da vida. &quot;Portanto, o que é Jesus?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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No evangelho João, João Batista dá a Jesus dois títulos. Por um lado ele é um cordeiro de Deus Quem é vir para tirar os nossos pecados, quem estar vindo para curar nossa doença, quem estar vindo para nos libertar de Satanás. Mas, por outro lado, Jesus é o doador da vida, o doador da vida. Ele nos dá uma nova vida, dando-nos o Espírito Santo. Algum tempo mais tarde no templo em Jerusalém, por ocasião da grande festa dos tabernáculos Jesus gritou no topo de sua voz &quot;Que todos aqueles que são sede, venha a mim. Que todos aqueles que estão à procura de uma nova vida vem a mim. E todos aqueles que estão com fome para o mundo da vida vem a mim. Venha e beber de mim, venha beber das águas vivas do Espírito Santo, que eu darei a você. &quot;Jesus já então tinha feito essa grande promessa do Espírito Santo. Jesus já então havia prometido que o dom especial de sua. O dom do Espírito Santo, que foi o presente de seu pai. Mas foi especialmente na última ceia, quando os apóstolos estavam tristes que Jesus estava deixando-lhes que Jesus lhes disse: &quot;Eu estou deixando você, mas eu não vou deixá-lo sozinho. Eu não vos deixarei órfãos. Estarei enviando-lhe o Espírito Santo e até mesmo lembrar de tudo o que tenho dito a vocês. Ele será como eu, você Paráclito, que em grego significa aquele que está sempre com você, quem te guia, aquele que você defende, aquele que será o seu intercessor. Vou enviar-lhe o Espírito Santo. &quot;E então Jesus lhes disse:&quot; Se eu não deixá-lo e ir embora o Espírito Santo não virá até você, mas eu tenho que deixá-lo, para que o meu presente, o Santo espírito virá para você. &quot;E então Jesus disse algo incrível, ele disse:&quot; Eu vos envio a vós o Espírito Santo e ele não vai estar com você, ele não vai viver no meio de vós, ele virá dentro de você. E quando ele vem dentro de você. &quot;, Disse Jesus&quot; Eu também entrará em você e meu pai vai entrar em você. Todos os três de nós. O tri-um Deus virá e fazer uma casa em você. &quot;Que maior promessa poderia haver do que a promessa de Jesus que por parte do Espírito Santo, o total do Tri-um Deus virá e fazer uma casa em cada um de nós? Agora, pois, quem é Deus?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Deus não é apenas o Deus para nós. Deus, o Pai, Deus não é apenas o Deus conosco, Jesus Cristo. Deus é um Deus em nós, pelo Espírito Santo. Este é o cristianismo, esta é a fé católica. Eu acredito em Deus, nosso pai. Eu acredito em Jesus Cristo e creio no Espírito Santo. E então, no dia de ascensão, no dia da ascensão, como Jesus tem seu último encontro com os apóstolos, mais uma vez eles estavam tristes. Eles disseram a Jesus &quot;que estão nos deixando, mas você não fez nada, você refúgio&#39;t nem começou nada. Como você espera que façamos nada. Quando é que o reino de Deus que temos sido falando sobre início? &quot;E o que Jesus respondeu? &quot;Espere. Espere. Tenha paciência. Não tente fazer as coisas por conta própria. Você vai esperar por Deus para intervir e, em seguida, você vai receber o poder. Não a partir da Terra, mas a partir de cima. Então você vai estar fazendo as coisas que eu tenho feito. Você receberá o poder do alto e de quem é esse poder? Não é algo, não é um pouco de energia, como em bioenergética ou em reiki, ou nesta nova coisas da idade, que o poder é uma pessoa e essa pessoa é a terceira pessoa do Deus Todo-Poderoso, e ele é o Espírito Santo. E espere até que você recebeu. E quando você receber o Espírito Santo, então sereis minhas testemunhas não só na Judéia, não só em Jerusalém, não apenas na Galiléia, não só mesmo em Samaria, mas até aos confins do mundo, você será minhas testemunhas até agora da Índia, até mesmo para longe do Brasil &quot;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Agora NÃO procurar a bíblia para a palavra Brasil, mas isso é o que Jesus queria dizer. &quot;Você vai ser minha testemunha para as extremidades do mundo.&quot; E você pode olhar para o mapa lá, você pode ver a extremidade ocidental que é Américas. E você mal pode ver as extremidades leste, a Índia é apenas metade lá, mas essa é a outra extremidade. Ásia, Japão, sereis minhas testemunhas até os confins do mundo. E, portanto, hoje eu gostaria de falar com você sobre o maior presente de Jesus para nós, a sua igreja e cada cristão, o dom do Espírito Santo e de Jesus este presente é tão importante que ele disse que a oração para receber o Espírito Santo vai sempre ser respondida. Em Luke&#39;s evangelho, capítulo onze, os discípulos perguntaram a Jesus sobre como orar e Jesus disse: &quot;Quando orardes, rezar desta forma e, em seguida, ele lhes ensinou o Pai Nosso.&quot; E então ele foi mais além, ele nos dá o exemplo do melhor amigo e ele nos dá o melhor exemplo de daddys, nossos pais, e isso é o que Jesus disse, como eu falei ontem de manhã, cada pai, por pior que ele é quer dar o melhor para seus filhos e ele diz: &quot;Será que um pai dará uma pedra a seu filho, se o filho pediu para o pão? Se o filho pediu para peixe vai o pai dar uma cobra? Se o filho pedir um ovo será o pai dará um escorpião? &quot;Ora, estes são números hebraicas do discurso eo que isso significa? Que nossos pais terrenos não apenas nos dar coisas ruins, mas vão querer nos dar o melhor e depois vem o versículo treze, Luke&#39;s evangelho, capítulo onze, uma das maiores promessas de Jesus. O que Jesus disse, então? &quot;Se vocês, pais mau como você gosta de dar boas dádivas aos vossos filhos, quanto mais, quanto muito, muito mais, como muito, muito, muito mais dará o Pai celestial, o vosso Pai do céu dará o que? Um trabalho, um dinheiro, uma promoção na sua empresa? Não, o melhor. E o que é o melhor para Deus, nosso pai? Qual é o melhor presente para nós? O Espírito Santo. O Espírito Santo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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A quem? Para ninguém. Para quem só pede. Nenhuma condição, exceto perguntar. E hoje, durante a Eucaristia pedir a Jesus para dar-lhe a nova forma do presente do pai, o dom do Espírito Santo e que é uma oração que é sempre respondidas. Essa é a oração mais importante que podemos fazer. Jesus nos diz o que fazer e Jesus pede apenas uma coisa, o Espírito Santo. Porque quando você receber o Espírito Santo, você recebe tudo o resto. E Jesus nos diz quente para receber o Espírito Santo, só perguntar. Peça uma vez, ele será dado. Peça uma vez, e será dado a você. Buscai e achareis. Batam, ea porta será aberta para você. Este é o Deus em nós. Portanto, como você sabe, quando eu faço a oração desta forma especial de hoje porque a massa é a maior oração de cura, é a maior oração para o perdão. É a maior oração de libertação e é a maior oração para pedir e unção, e do Espírito Santo. E em terceiro lugar a oração eucarística, o que o padre diz? Logo após a consagração que possamos ser para receber o corpo eo sangue de Jesus, que possamos ser para ser cheio do Espírito Santo, que possamos ser para receber o corpo eo sangue de Jesus, que possamos ser para ser cheio do Espírito Santo, e tornar-se um só espírito, um só corpo em Cristo. Portanto, a massa é o batismo com o Espírito Santo, e é por isso que Santo Efrém, o grande doutor da Igreja oriental, quando ele ia dar a comunhão, ele diria: &quot;Recebei o fogo do Espírito Santo. Receba o fogo do Espírito Santo. Receba o fogo do Espírito Santo &quot;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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E isso é o que aconteceu com os apóstolos quando Jesus os deixou. Criado como corpo para a sala de cima e ficaram lá esperando por nove dias. E o que eles estavam fazendo por nove dias? Só uma coisa, eles estavam orando, orando, rezando, de uma maneira que nunca orou antes. Na agonia do jardim o que eles estavam fazendo? Dormir. No Monte Tabor, o que eles estavam fazendo? Dormir. E agora o que eles estavam fazendo no cenáculo? Eles estavam bem acordados, eles estavam rezando. Atos quatorze nos diz, no capítulo um, versículo quatorze &quot;, que dedicou todo o seu tempo à oração, porque o Espírito Santo só vem através da oração.&quot; E um décimo dia o que aconteceu? Dia de Pentecostes? O que aconteceu com Jesus, que lhes aconteceu. O que aconteceu a Maria que lhes aconteceu. O Espírito Santo veio sobre eles como fogo, com fogo em suas cabeças, ele veio como um vento soprando em torno deles. Ele veio como algo fora de suas bocas. Em Atos, capítulo dois, versículo quatro nos diz em uma frase muito simples &quot;Eles todos foram cheios do Espírito Santo.&quot; Eles não receberam o espírito, não, era algo mais, eles ficaram cheios do espírito. Eles todos foram cheios do Espírito Santo. E assim a obra de Jesus continuou. Jesus disse aos apóstolos durante os 40 dias que ele estava aparecendo a eles, três coisas importantes. Coisa número um &quot;eu não estou morto, eu ressuscitei, estou vivo e eu estarei sempre com vocês.&quot; Tem qualquer líder religioso disse aos seus seguidores que ele estaria sempre com eles? Ninguém, mas Jesus. Só Jesus disse a eles. Dê um grande aplauso para eles.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Todos os demais líderes das religiões e filosofias estão mortos, senão o nosso líder. Jesus está vivo. &quot;Conosco Jesus ESTA&quot; (Jesus está conosco) e &quot;convosco ESTA Jesus&quot; (Jesus está conosco). Só Jesus está vivo. Só que ele fez esta fantástica promessa &quot;Eu estarei convosco todos os dias.&quot; Segundo o que Jesus disse aos apóstolos? Ele disse que &quot;O meu trabalho é o seu trabalho. Seu trabalho é para começar. Ou melhor, o meu trabalho é para continuar em você. &quot;Ele lhes havia dito na última ceia&quot; Quando você recebe o Espírito Santo que você vai fazer o que estou fazendo e vai fazer coisas ainda maiores do que o que eu fiz. &quot;E então Jesus disse aos apóstolos &quot;Vá para todos os países do mundo, para anunciar o evangelho a todo ser humano. Coloque suas mãos em cada pessoa doente. Como você ora em línguas entregar todos de Satanás em meu nome. E então Jesus disse: &quot;Porque eu vou estar com você e meu espírito está em você. Você vai fazer coisas maiores do que eu fiz. &quot;Tem qualquer líder religioso que nunca disse a seus seguidores que eles fariam coisas maiores do que eles fizeram? Ninguém, mas Jesus. Dê ao Senhor um grande aplauso por isso.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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E a terceira coisa que Jesus lhes disse: &quot;Eu estou indo embora, mas vou estar com você, mas mais do que a minha energia estará em vós. E quem é o meu poder? É o Espírito Santo que estava em mim. Pregando para mim. Cura através de mim. Cumprindo as pessoas através de mim. &quot;E Jesus lhes disse:&quot; Recebereis a força do céu. O poder do Espírito Santo. Não é qualquer capacidade humana, mas a capacidade eo poder de Deus Todo-Poderoso. O próprio Espírito Santo. &quot;Tem qualquer líder religioso prometeu a seus seguidores um tremendo poder, como Jesus fez? Ninguém, mas Jesus. Dê uma salva de palmas para ele.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Então o que acontece quando recebemos Jesus grande presente para nós, o Espírito Santo? Receberemos uma nova vida em primeiro lugar. Todos nós queremos a vida em uma nova vida, eo que Jesus disse? &quot;Outros vieram apenas para destruir e matar. Eu vim para que tenham vida, a vida em toda sua plenitude. &quot;Jesus não veio para nos dar mera existência. Existe este microfone, mas não vive. Nós já temos existência, já existem, em conjunto com as árvores e os pássaros, mas Jesus vem para nos dá mais do que a mera existência, veio para nos dar vida. A vida em toda sua plenitude. John, dez, dez, todos vocês precisam se lembrar, John dez quadrado, João, capítulo dez, versículo dez, uma das grandes promessas da Bíblia e, em conjunto com a vida que Jesus veio para nos dar? Total liberdade e cura. Perdão total de tudo na minha vida. E com isso se seguiria a paz. A paz que o mundo não pode dar. A paz que excede todo o entendimento. A paz que Jesus diz: &quot;Só eu posso dar.&quot; E com isso o que mais Jesus nos dar? A força, a energia, até mesmo para fazer o impossível. A obra do Espírito Santo é o de transformar as nossas vidas pelos frutos de sua presença. A obra do Espírito Santo é capacitar nossas vidas pelo carisma de seu poder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Quando eu receber o Espírito Santo o que vai acontecer comigo? Toda a minha vida será transformada, meu relacionamento com Deus, nosso pai, muda conforme os depoimentos mostraram. Agora você experimentar Deus como um pai amoroso e como resultado de que você vai ter um novo amor, um novo gosto pela oração. Com a oração, que é uma expressão verbal de filiação. Correto. Em seguida, você vai experimentar um novo relacionamento com Jesus. De que maneira? Jesus se tornará vivo para você. É assim que muitas pessoas viram Jesus e, como resultado de que seu livro, a Bíblia, vai se tornar o livro mais importante em nossas vidas, talvez, pode ser o único livro que você vai ler em suas vidas. O que vai acontecer no meu relacionamento com o Espírito Santo? De alguma forma, eu sempre vou sentir sua presença dentro de mim. Quando falo com as pessoas de alguma forma eu caí não me é que está falando como os apóstolos disse nos Atos é o Espírito Santo falando. E quando eu orar por pessoas que eu sei que não é mais comigo eu sinto que é o poder do Espírito Santo através de mim. Então você relacionamento com as pessoas vai mudar, em seu casamento, em sua família, em você vizinhos, as pessoas vão achar de você uma pessoa diferente, mais amoroso, mais humilde, mais disponível. As pessoas não vêem uma mudança real em seu relacionamento, me colocaria em dúvida se você tem o Espírito Santo. E, finalmente, você experimenta uma transformação dentro de si mesmo, a partir de hábitos de pecado, de tender errado e perdão, e do poder do maligno.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Alguns anos atrás eu estava na cidade de Calcutá, a cidade de Madre Teresa, e foi a realização de um culto de cura, e então uma senhora veio me ver e ela me disse &quot;Eu quero dizer-lhe algo que aconteceu 10 anos antes, quando você veio para Calcutá para um culto de cura. Eu vim para que você e eu lhe disse sobre o meu marido que não era católico, ele é um hindu. E meu marido era muito grave fumante. Ele fumava três a quatro maços de cigarros por dia eo ponto foi que ele queria parar de fumar, ele tentou muitas vezes parar de fumar, mas não podia fazê-lo. Então o pai por favor, orem por ele. &quot;Eu disse:&quot; Tudo bem, trazê-lo aqui. &quot;&quot; Pai, ele está em seu local de trabalho 200 milhas de distância. &quot;Mas eu disse:&quot; Eu preciso vê-lo a orar por ele. &quot;Então eu disse: &quot;Eu vou orar por ele através de você.&quot; orei para o seu marido através de seu ser livre da escravidão do tabagismo. E agora ela me disse que dez anos mais tarde &quot;Quando meu marido voltou para casa no fim de semana eu noto que ele não estava fumando e então ele me disse que no mesmo dia oramos juntos no mesmo tempo oramos juntos, de alguma forma, ele não o fez sentir a necessidade de fumar mais. &quot;Pouco antes que ele tinha fumado o último cigarro e não tinha mais vontade de fumar nos últimos dez anos. Lembrei-me dessa história quando vi todos esses cigarros aqui e que é o trabalho do Espírito Santo, inclusive à distância, ele pode liberar qualquer pessoa que você tem em mente de qualquer tipo de escravidão.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Eu gostaria de terminar agora com outra história de libertação. Eu estava dando um programa na Índia era de padres e freiras e orar líderes, e uma freira veio para o aconselhamento. Foi um retiro de nove dias a começar a partir do 26 de dezembro, um dia depois do Natal, e por nove dias. Portanto, esta freira veio me no próprio dia 26, no dia do retiro de abertura e ela já se preparou, ela havia escrito muitas e muitas páginas de todos os seus problemas. E quando eu li esses problemas eu senti que eles foram demais até mesmo para mim, ela tinha sofrido tanto, sua família havia sofrido tanto por causa de bruxaria feito para a família e porque eles próprios haviam praticado práticas ocultas. Infelizmente, feitiços colocados em nós por nossos inimigos podem nos fazer muito mal, mas quando nós mesmos fazer as mesmas coisas, talvez para ser livre desses feitiços e maldições, estamos sendo atacados por Satanás de ambos os lados, de fora e de dentro. Portanto, eu vi tudo isso nos jornais a freira tinha escrito para baixo e eu orei por ela. Normalmente, em um retiro que eu vejo uma pessoa apenas uma vez, mas às vezes o problema é difícil eu ver uma pessoa uma segunda vez, mas, neste caso, um dos casos mais difíceis que eu já tive, eu liguei para ela todos os dias para receber oração por libertação . Um ano depois, eu dei outro retiro no mesmo lugar e da mesma freira veio também novamente para a retirada e, em seguida, ela me disse algo muito estranho, depois que o primeiro retiro ela foi para sua casa, de sua casa em uma área tribal, do ônibus parar, ela teve que andar 17 milhas para a sua aldeia, caminhando. Ela foi para a sua aldeia, uma aldeia tribal pobre, como de costume, uma aldeia envolvida em práticas de feitiçaria, como de costume, um monte de feitiços sendo lançados por pessoas e quando ela foi para a casa de seu irmão mais velho e disseram-lhe que o irmão mais velho, tornou-se muito doente apenas um dia antes do Natal, a 24 de dezembro, e ele foi colocado no hospital. Os médicos não conseguiam descobrir o que doença que ele tinha e dois dias depois ele morreu. Em seguida, ela foi visitar a casa de seu segundo irmão e quando ela foi lá seu irmão estava dizendo a ela: &quot;Irmã, me dá dinheiro. Eu quero dinheiro &quot;Agora ela sabia que eles eram pessoas pobres, a família dela era muito, muito pobre e ela como ked-lo&quot;, mas para quê? &quot;&quot; Para dar uma massa. &quot;E ela perguntou:&quot; por quê? &quot;E então ele contou a sua história . Quando seu irmão mais velho morreu no dia 26 de dezembro, ele ficou doente e, em seguida, ele começou tão doente que foi hospitalizado e os médicos não conseguiam encontrar o que estava errado com ele e, em seguida, dois dias depois, ele morreu. Seu corpo estava no hospital por cerca de dois dias e, em seguida, veio o funeral, seu corpo foi levado para a sepultura no cemitério da igreja paroquial e todas as pessoas da aldeia estava lá com o pároco. E como ele estava prestes a fechar o caixão, para baixar o caixão na sepultura, a esposa de seu irmão notou que seu marido, que estava morto parecia fazer um pequeno movimento com o olho. E então ela começou a gritar &quot;não enterrar o meu marido. Ele não está morto. &quot;Eles pensavam que ela era louca. Eles pensavam que ela era louca. Eles a colocaram de lado, eles pensaram que ela estava dizendo isso de tristeza e tudo o que a empurrou de lado, em seguida, ela olhou por cima cabeças olhando para o caixão e, em seguida, ela viu o marido sentado no caixão e agora ela sabia que seu marido estava vivo. E ela empurrou-os todos e correu para o caixão e, em seguida, as pessoas também olhou para o caixão e viu que o homem morto sentado no caixão. E todos eles fugiram início pelo pároco. Ela entrou em casa sozinha com o marido, supostamente morto, mas muito vivo. Então eu perguntei a freira &quot;Encontrar para fora de sua família quando isso aconteceu e qual o tempo&quot; Então ela escreveu para eles e ela me disse que era quando estávamos orando juntos durante esse retiro. Eu estava orando com ela por diferentes membros de sua família. Então, quando estávamos orando juntos por esse irmão especial foi no mesmo dia, ao mesmo tempo que o marido levantou-se dos mortos. Esse é o poder do Espírito Santo. Dê ao Senhor um grande aplauso.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Como, portanto, podemos evangelizar o mundo à nossa volta? Com isto quero terminar brevemente pela primeira vez pelo testemunho da palavra, quando Jesus foi cheio do Espírito primeira coisa que ele fez foi abrir a boca e falar. Quando Pedro foi cheio do Espírito Santo, a primeira coisa que ele fez foi abrir a boca e falar. E o primeiro caminho que somos chamados a evangelizar é pelo testemunho da palavra, pela proclamação da palavra. Mas eu não posso proclamar a palavra de outras pessoas, se eu não sei a palavra a mim mesmo e não leu e estudou a Bíblia. A Bíblia é o maior instrumento de evangelização, como o Espírito Santo é o maior agente de evangelização, mas se eu não tenho sido capaz de evangelizar pela palavra que posso sempre evangelizar através do meu testemunho. De uma forma um testemunho tem um efeito maior do que um sermão inteiro. Ou através da distribuição de boa literatura cristã, pequenas bíblias, livros pequenos, fitas, vídeos, as pessoas podem não vir a este programa, mas se você dar-lhes um livro ou um vídeo que pode ler e se eles não têm dinheiro sequer para que eu possa evangelizar por informar as pessoas sobre o que está acontecendo, dizendo às pessoas que existe um programa, dizendo às pessoas neste fim de semana, há um programa de &quot;Canção Nova&quot;. Só de informações. Em segundo lugar, o Senhor está nos chamando para evangelizar por obras, por ações. Quando João Batista disse aos apóstolos, seus discípulos, para Jesus, para descobrir quem era Jesus, o que Jesus disse? &quot;Diga ao seu mestre o que você vê não só o que você ouve.&quot; E o Senhor está nos chamando para evangelizar, orando com as pessoas, mesmo rezando por eles e para as curas e milagres que acontecem, dizendo-lhes que Jesus estava vivo. E em terceiro lugar, é pelo testemunho da própria vida de seu um. No Evangelho de João que disse Jesus aos seus apóstolos ganhou? &quot;Por isso o homem saberá que sois meus discípulos, se vos amardes uns aos outros que as pessoas do mundo vão aceitar Jesus quando vêem uma nova vida em cada um de nós, quando se vê são famílias próprio ser transformado, é nosso estilo de vida pessoal , é a maneira como vivemos em nossas famílias, é a maneira cristã em que vivemos nossas fábricas e nossos escritórios, que vai trazer as pessoas para Jesus. Como disse Madre Teresa &quot;não é apenas o suficiente para pregar as pessoas para o reino ou para curar as pessoas no reino, devemos amar as pessoas para o reino.&quot; E é por isso que a definição mais simples de evangelização é que a mãe Teresa si mesma, é a palavra própria Madre Teresa, quando alguém lhe perguntou o que é a evangelização? Ela disse que &quot;a evangelização significa isso que recebi Jesus agora eu lhe dou para os outros.&quot; Louvado seja o Senhor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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dear brother and sisters of the Lord Jesus, I am sure there are hundreds of you
who would have wanted to come on the stage and to testify to what the Lord has
done for you already. This morning I said that the greatest gift from God our
father to us is Jesus his only son. And the story of his gift began already in
Genesis chapter 3 when God promised our first parents who has sinned against
God and were under the influence of Satan that he would send a savior. Who
would ever thought that that savior would be none else but the son of Almighty
God. Two thousand years ago the angel appeared to Mary, a young girl from
Nazareth, and told her that God´s promise of redemption was now going to be
accomplished in and thru her. Because she would conceive by the Holy Spirit and
she would give birth to a little baby and the name to be given to that baby
would be a very special name, she would call that baby Jesus, which in Hebrew
means savior, healer, doctor, deliverer, because that would be his work. He
would save his people from their sins. He would heal the sick. Deliver the
oppressed. And bring comfort to the broken hearted. That is in Luke´s Gospel
and in Matthew´s Gospel, the evangelist tells us that this baby would receive
another special name. The name of Emanuel which in Hebrew means God with us.
These are the two great names. Who was Jesus? He is God with us. What will he
do? He will be our Jesus, our savior, our healer. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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little later, the angels would appear to the shepherds. And those shepherds
represent the whole of humanity and the shepherds would tell them today for you
is born a baby and that baby is: number one – good news; number two – a great
joy; number three – for all the people. That is like the third name of Jesus.
Therefore who is Jesus? Who is Jesus? If someone would ask me who is Jesus I
would tell them Jesus is good news of great joy for all the people.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Therefore who is Jesus? Repeat with you. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;People say in Portuguese “is good news of great
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;People say in Portuguese “is good news of great
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Thirty years later, this Jesus, would go to the
river Jordan and there He had a tremendous experience. The heavens were
open,&amp;nbsp; in the bible, whenever you hear
the phrase “the heavens are open.” It is as if God is coming over to his people
in a special way. As we the people are going to God in a special way. And He
heard the voice of the father saying “This is my beloved son. In whom I am well
pleased. Listen to Him.” Jesus received encouragement from the Father to preach
the word of God and received authority from the father. Then people saw the
Holy Spirit resting on Jesus. Jesus received the power of the Holy Spirit to
heal and to deliver. And therefore when Jesus came to his synagogue in his
hometown of Nazareth this is what he announced he says&amp;nbsp; “God has sent me with authority to proclaim
good news for those who are broken. God has sent me with power to heal the
sick, to forgive sinners, to deliver the captives and this is because God has
anointed me with the power of the Holy Spirit. God is with me.” Years later,
Peter would comment on this and when speaking to the family of Cornelius, a
Roman pagan family, who was wanting to know who Jesus is, Peter would say Jesus
is the person who God has anointed with the Holy Spirit, who God has anointed
with power and that is why Jesus went everywhere doing good.” And what was that
good? What was that good that Jesus was doing everywhere? Healing the sick who
were under the power of Satan. That is what Jesus went on doing. Healing the
sick who were under the power of Satan. And Peter would add because God was
with him, because Jesus is God with us. And thru out these three years that is
all that Jesus did. In every village and town in Galilee, in the temple and in
the synagogues, in homes and in open air, day after day he would proclaim the
good news of God´s love. He would tell people how much God loves them and he
would show that God loves them by praying for everyone who came to him. And
healing all the sick and delivering all the oppressed. That is what Jesus did thru
out his life. And the only thing Jesus demanded from the people was to believe
that God loved them. Was to believe was sent from God to do his work. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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why did Jesus heal all those people? For only one reason, the same reason, out
of love, out of compassion. When he saw the only son of the widow of Naim dead
in that coffin, the bible says he was filled by compassion and he raised him
from dead and gave him back to his mother. When Jesus saw that Lazarus was dead
for 4 days. What did Jesus do? The Gospel of John tells us, only two words, he
wept. He wept. The shortest verse in the whole bible, but those two words tell
us all that was in the heart of Jesus the same love that God, our father has
for us. In John´s Gospel, chapter 5, when Jesus healed that paralyzed man on
the Saturday and the Pharisees object to it, and they told Jesus not to heal
people on the Sabbath. What did Jesus say? I am doing what my father is doing.
My father is working not for 6 days, my father is working for seven days, even
on the Sabbath. So I am doing what my father is doing because the Sabbath, a
day Holy to God my father is meant for men, is meant to bring life to men and
then Jesus says my father is working to give life. And I also will work to give
life. Therefore what was Jesus doing for those three years? The first thing
Jesus did was to bring forgiveness to the sinner. That was the first work of
healing and Jesus would say “I have been sent by God my father to forgive and
not to condemn.” Jesus will say “The greatest joy in heaven are all those who
repents then over 99 good people.” When that woman came to the house of the Pharisees
when Jesus was having his meal and she wept on the feet of Jesus and the
Pharisee said” how could Jesus allow that woman to touch him?” What did Jesus
say? She has been forgiven much by God my father, because she has experienced
the love of God, my father, in her heart. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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that woman caught in adultery was brought to Jesus and the best religious
leaders of that day said she must be stoned to death, what did Jesus do? He
asks them “if there are one of you who have not sinned, stone her.” And they
all went away. And what did Jesus tell this woman? One of the most beautiful
verse in the whole bible, he told her “ as any one condemned you, neither will
I. Go and sin no more.” When Jesus was in the cross what did he tell the thief
on the right hand? Who was looked upon to be a criminal Jesus said “Today you
will be with me in Paradise.” Jesus loves sinners so much that he was called a
sinner himself and that is why Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son. When
we read this parable we forget to read the first verse of chapter 15, of Luke´s
Gospel, where we read that the people, the religious leaders were accusing
Jesus of going with the wrong type of people, with that bad people, the simple
people, and then Jesus told this parable. Why? To tell them. That he was doing
exactly what his father would have done. His father would have preferred the
company of the wrong people, of the bad people than the company of good people.
But there was something more that Jesus did he healed the physically sick
people. He freed people from the bondage of Satan. But one important healing
Jesus did was to heal those who were broken in their hearts. And therefore this
afternoon I want to speak very briefly of this very important ministry of Jesus
and the ministry of church today. Jesus said “I´ve come to open the eyes of the
blind.”&amp;nbsp; Jesus came to give us physical
healing. Jesus said “I´ve come to forgive sinners. “ Jesus has come to give us
spiritual healing. Jesus said “I´ve come to destroy the works of Satan.” Jesus
has come to give us deliverance. But we forget that Jesus has come also to heal
the broken hearts of men. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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of the most beautiful promises of Jesus, one of the most beautiful invitations
of Jesus is the one when Jesus says “Come to me all you that are burden and
heavy laiden and broken in your hearts and I will heal you. I will give you
rest.” And the Lord Jesus specially today is here not only to forgive sins, is
here not only to heal our broken bodies, he is here not only to deliver those
who are oppressed, but is also here to bring us that deep inner healing. Why do
us need inner healing? Because of the tremendous emotional hurts we all
have.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps one of the greatest, if
not the greatest emotional burden we all have is that of rejection and in this
year dedicated to God our father, I want to speak in a special way that Jesus
has come to free us from this tremendous feelings of rejection in our hearts.
And Jesus tells us how to be healed from these feeling of rejection by
forgiving the people who have rejected us. Therefore, perhaps the greatest
emotional burden we all have is that of rejection. How does rejection come into
my life? It comes when I feel I am not loved, am not accepted, by those whom I
expect and I want love and acceptance. Mainly from my mommy, and from my daddy,
my brothers and sisters, the closer the person to me. The greater the feeling
of rejection. Is not that they don´t love me but I feel it that way. Maybe they
have not been loved by their fathers and therefore they cannot communicate
their love to me. And as a result of this, as a result of this feeling of
rejection, there comes into my heart sentiments of resentment, anger, bitterness,
hatred, even revenge. And in marriages, of suspicion and in friendships, that
of jealousy. We noted that was Jesus´ own greatest pain. What Jesus suffered
was not just the physical pain of the crucifiction, in the words of Saint Paul,
the greatest suffering was of the humiliation of the crucifiction. It was the
shame of the crucifiction. And we read in the Gospels that Jesus suffered
rejection all his life. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Gospel chapter 1, we read there, “he, Jesus, came to his own and his own
received him not.” One of the most painful statements in the whole bible. Again
we read that his whole family wanted to put Jesus away because they were
ashamed of him, that they thought he had gone out of his mind. His own apostles
suspected him when they saw him talking with the woman in public. Those
religious leaders of that day were jealous of him and Jesus was put to death
because of jealously and on the cross, what did Jesus say? What was his last
words? In Matthew´s Gospel, in Saint Mark´s Gospel, Jesus is reported to have
said only one thing and you know your last words are the most important in your
lives and what did Jesus say? He cried out to his father, it was a prayer to
God his father. What did he say? My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? And
the evangelists put this verse of Jesus in the language of Jesus. Because when
you say something close to your heart you say it automatically in your own
mother tongue. And as Jesus was expressing on the cross every men greatest
emotional burden, Jesus was expressing that on the cross and that often can be
the great burden of loneliness. The burden of being put down by people whom you
loved and trusted. The burden of being betrayed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;You know in the story of the passion of Jesus
what hurt Jesus most? It was not discouraging, was not the crowning with
thorns, it was the betrayal of Judas. Jesus would tell Judas “My friend you
betray me with a kiss.” What hurt Jesus was the denial of Peter. Peter who
Jesus had chosen to be the head of the church. And what did Peter say? I don´t
know this man. And Peter cursed Jesus. “I don´t know that man.” Imagine the
hurt that Jesus experienced. What hurt Jesus most was when this was happening
and Jesus was left alone to be arrested. And in the same way even today what
hurt us the most when we betrayed by someone whom we trusted when we are denied
and ignored by our own close relatives and friends. When people whom we looked
to for help have run and left us alone. That is why. The evangelist put very
forcefully in stories of the suffering of Jesus the sin of denial, the sin of
betrayal , the sin of cowardness running away, but the greatest hurt of Jesus
was the feeling of being abandoned even by God. I am sure many of us have at
some time in our lives felt that even God had abandoned us. How does the Lord
heal us from this burden of rejection? Only when we praise God for this hurt
knowing that God always work for good in all those who love him. And secondly,
when we forgive the persons who have rejected us. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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were giving a retreat for widows and the widows were having group sharing among
themselves and one group of five widows did report what they were sharing and
praying in their group and listen to what they said, they said “All of us had
the same problem, all our five husbands were alcoholics and were violent and
all our husbands did not love our children. Now we have children and all our
eldest sons are the same as their fathers. All our five eldest sons are
alcoholics, all of them are violent and all of them don´t love their own eldest
son.” And I said to myself how long will this go on from one generation to
another? And that is why when we pray for the healing of our rejection we need
to pray for the healing also of our own parents and grandparents. We need to
pray for the healing of the family tree. We need to pray for the healing of our
ancestors. And this is what we will do in the Eucharist this evening. Let us
devote this entire Eucharist to this important healing, the healing of our
ancestors, so there will not be this terrible burden of rejection being passed
from generation to generation. And therefore now I want to speak on the last
two things. Why do we need the healing of our family tree? Because we are
suffering now not they. And secondly, how to make sure that we are so healed
that our problem won´t affect our children and grandchildren. You can imagine
how important this is and therefore I will first speak about the healing of the
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In
our catholic faith we believe in what we call the doctrine of the original sin.
What does that mean? That because of the sin of our first parents, not their
sin as such, but the effect of their sins are transmitted from generation to
generation. We see this happening even in a medical way, if one of the parents
has AIDS their son will have AIDS. You know how terrible this is. I was
preaching in a country in Africa and every second person that came to me for
counseling had AIDS. A lady gave me a letter with a photo of all the members in
her family, lying brothers and sisters of her family and she told me “Father,
pray for our family because all of them have AIDS.” In that country I saw so
many, many children having no parents. All their parents have died because of
AIDS. But this is a reality therefore a physical sickness can be transmitted
and therefore what a tremendous responsibility two people have before they
marry. Because they can be the transmitter of good to their children and they
also can be the transmitter of evil to their children. Do you want your
children to bless you all your life?&amp;nbsp; For
the good that you have done to them? Or do you want your children to curse all
your life because of the evil you have done to them? My parents had problems,
had defects, but I believe because of what they were that I am now doing the
work of God. What were my mother doing? I remember three things. She taught me
my faith. We never missed a day of saying the family rosary. Many things that I
am telling you about the catholic doctrine is not from the seminary, is from my
simple mother. And therefore that is what my parents gave to me. The gift of
faith. Then they made sure that I studied well. They took my lessons daily.
They felt everything depended on a good education. We were a poor family but
they did not care about the richness of this world. But they knew everything
had to depend on a good education. And thirdly, above all, they gave us their
presence. They were with us always. So that we couldn´t go the wrong way. And
this is what can happen if instead we give our children the wrong experience.
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among my ancestors there were those who died suddenly and violently. I want to
repeat, who died suddenly before God´s time and violently, not in God´s way.
That could affect the present generation and the following generations. Special
if there have been suicides. Suicide can have a tremendous burden on the descendants.
And when you come for prayers, for example, is not just enough to be prayed for
some headache. Is more important to be prayed for to remove the burden of
suicide from that person. If there have been abortions in my ancestors, an
abortion can cause tremendous damage to generations. If there are some of those
who died in a war or were tortured, or died mentally sick, or died possessed,
or died defrauded from their property and died with curses on their lips, that
could affect the present generation. If there were ancestors that indulged in
Satanic worship, or belonged to false religion, who indulge in ancestor
worship, or did a cult practices, or any type of witchcraft, like the macumba
and other things, that can affect the present generation. If you don’t believe
it bring anyone case like this and I will show on the stage what happens. If
any of ancestors have cursed the following generations, or put a spell on them,
that could have a tremendous affect to generations. If an ancestor has cursed,
the mother telling her daughter “You will never have children.”, or telling all
your daughter will never marry, that could happen. And the only way we can
break the power of that curse, of that spell, is praying for the ancestors
during the Eucharist. Asking forgiveness of God on their behalf. Forgiving the
ancestor who harmed them in their behalf. Asking God to break any link, any
bond, biding us to them. And asking the Lord to give them eternal rest. And on
our part, what do we need to do those who are living now and hurt us? We need
to forgive them. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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greatest block to any kind of healing is unforgiveness. As where the
forgiveness takes place the healing just comes automatically. The most
difficult command Jesus has given us in a practical way is the command “forgive
your enemy.” And Jesus has told us not only to forgive them, but to pray for
them, to love them, to bless them. In fact Jesus says “If you want to be
reconcile to them but they don´t want to be reconcile to you and they slender
you, they slender your good name and they persecute you. Jesus says to us:
rejoice.” Why was Jesus saying that? Because the command that looked like a
command, but it is a healing, it is a blessing, by this we release the people
who have hurt us from our hatred. And we are being freed in our own turn from
our own hatred. And therefore for the mass at the same time we need to bring
every person in our lives who have hurt us in any way. And forgive them in
Jesus´ name. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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me end with a story. I hope you like stories. Some years ago, I went to pray
for a young man, I accompanied two people who were praying for him and then I
realized I knew this young man well. He had been a master in my school when I
was principal, and to my great surprise he had told me he had been sick in bed
for 9 months and I said “Why didn´t you send for me?” he said “We tried to
contact you at the parish, but you were never there. When we asked where is
father Rufus? They would tell us even the Holy Spirit doesn´t know where he
is.” And he was sick for 9 months. All these 9 months he had high fever. All
these 9 months he could not sleep.&amp;nbsp; All
in 9 months he had terrible pain. And the sleeping tablets and the painkillers
had no effect. For one month he was in the cancer hospital on observation, but
the doctors told him “You don´t have cancer, but you have taken so many x-rays
that you may get cancer. For two months he was in the sanatorium for treatment
of so called tuberculosis and he was given 120 streptomycin injections, more than
the maximum permissible. And now the doctor had given up hope. He was like a
skeleton waiting for death. Then I began to talk to him and he began to blame a
master in that same school. He said “That master put a spell upon me. That is
why I am sick.“&amp;nbsp; So often people tell me
the same thing, somebody has done something to me.&amp;nbsp; That may be true but often we have opened
ourselves to that curse. I knew that other master quiet capable of putting
spells but I knew that couldn´t be the only reason for that sickness. And as he
began to speak more I realized he had a great hatred towards his father-in-law,
the father of his wife, was one of the richest man in Bombay and had given his
only daughter in marriage to this master, but even though the marriage was
celebrated in a big style ha had not given a single money towards the dowry. In
India “dote” (dowry) is important.&amp;nbsp; And
more than that when that master was without a job instead of helping him his
father-in-law started to spoil his name, telling people “I made a mistake in
giving my only daughter in marriage to this man.” So, this master´s reputation
had sank down and had this great hatred towards his father-in-law. Every day the
prayer people would come and pray for him and tell him forgive your
father-in-law but he said “I could not forgive him. My wife would tell me
forgive him. But I don´t want to forgive him and I cannot forgive him.” Then he
turned to me and he said “Father, you also don´t tell me to forgive him.” I
said “Have I told you to forgive him?” he looked at me he said “You are the
first person who hasn´t told me to forgive him.” So he was happy, but his wife
was angry with me. I said “I not told you to forgive him, you father-in-law,
because I know your family very well, the others don´t know, the other people
don´t know your family and if I were in your place I would find it difficult to
forgive, but what I want you to do, I want you to pray with me asking Jesus to
heal you of the causes of your hurt. I want you to surrender your hatred to
Jesus. That is all.” He said “I can do that.” I said “Alright.” As he was a
charismatic, as he was I did a spontaneous prayer, and he began to pray he said
“Lord Jesus, you know how much my father-in-law hurt me everybody is telling me
to forgive him, but I can´t forgive him. My wife is telling me to forgive him,
but I don´t want to forgive him. And Jesus you also don´t tell me to forgive
him, but I don’t want to have this hatred in my heart. You take it away. You
heal me from the causes of my hatred.” Then he turned to me, he said “Father,
am I praying correctly?” and I said “You are praying perfectly. Just like the
psalms are prayed in the bible.” You know the psalms are prayed, no? Half the
psalms they are angry with God, half the psalms they love God. Therefore he
made his prayer then I told him “I will pray for you. First of all that you
have a good sleep.” Because he was without sleep for 9 months. And as I prayed
for him he just dozed off.&amp;nbsp; And then I
left Bombay, after two months I returned to Bombay and then he told me what had
happened, he slept for half an hour, then he got up, he asked for food, which
he never had eaten before, he went back to sleep. Got up the next evening, got
up, had a bath, went out for a walk, completely healed. There was nothing
physically wrong with him in the medical sense of the term, but it was his
hatred that was like a cancer eating up his spirit, his mind, his heart, even
his body, like a cancer. After that, he went to Saudi Arabia for work for four
years and from that day of his healing he has not been even one day sick. Later
on he became the coach, he was training the football team, coach is
“treinador”, of the biggest club in Bombay, playing football with the boys. And
when I remember the day when I saw him on his bed like a skeleton, with no hope
anymore, and now he is a strong man, training boys and playing football with
them. Then I realized the tremendous power of unforgiveness and hatred to make
a person sick, to make a person vulnerable to the power of Satan, and when we
obey the command of Jesus and when we begin to forgive our enemies and to love
them and to pray for them the healing is often instantaneous and is often
complete. Praise the Lord. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Meus queridos irmãos e irmãs do Senhor Jesus, eu estou seguro, existem centenas de quem teria que queria vir no palco e para testemunhar o que o Senhor fez para você já. Esta manhã, eu disse que o maior presente de Deus nosso Pai para nós é Jesus, seu único som. E a história de Seu dom já começou em Gênesis capítulo 3 Quando Deus prometeu a nossos primeiros pais que pecou foram contra Deus e sob a influência de Satanás, que Ele iria enviar um salvador. Que Queria já pensou que seria a de que nenhum outro salvador a propósito do seu Deus Todo-Poderoso. Dois mil anos atrás, o anjo apareceu a Maria, uma jovem de Nazaré, e lhe disse que a promessa da redenção de Deus era para ser realizado agora entrando e através dela. Porque ela conceberia pelo Espírito Santo e dará à luz faria com um bebê eo nome a ser dada ao bebê que seria um nome muito especial, ela chamaria isso de bebê Jesus, Tudo que em hebraico significa agrupamento salvador, curandeiro, médico, libertador, porque isso seria a sua obra. Será que ele salvará o seu povo dos seus pecados. Será que ele curar os doentes. Entregar os oprimidos. E a trazer conforto para o coração partido. É no Evangelho de Lucas e no Evangelho de Mateus, o evangelista nos diz este bebê que receberiam Comentários outro nome especial. O nome de Emanuel Todos que em hebraico significa agrupamento Deus conosco. Estes são os dois grandes nomes. Quem foi Jesus? Ele é Deus conosco. O que ele vai fazer? Ele será o nosso Jesus, nosso Salvador, nosso curador.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Um pouco mais tarde, os anjos aos pastores iria aparecer. E representar a totalidade Esses pastores e os pastores de humanóide Quer dizer a eles hoje para um bebê nasce e que o bebê é: o número um - uma boa notícia; número dois - uma grande alegria; número três - para todas as pessoas. Isso é como o terceiro nome de Jesus. Portanto, quem é Jesus? Quem é Jesus? Se alguém me perguntar Quem Jesus é que eu iria dizer-lhes Jesus é uma boa notícia de grande alegria para todo o povo. Portanto, quem é Jesus? Repita com você.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Trinta anos mais tarde, este Jesus, iria para o rio Jordão e lá teve uma tremenda experiência. Os céus foram abertos, na Bíblia, sempre que você vai ouvir a frase &quot;os céus estão abertos.&quot; É como se Deus está vindo para o seu povo de uma maneira especial. À medida que as pessoas vão a Deus de uma maneira especial. E ele ouviu a voz do pai dizendo &quot;Este é o meu som amado. Em quem me comprazo. Ouvi-lo. &quot;Jesus recebeu o incentivo do Pai para pregar a palavra de Deus ea autoridade recebida do pai. Em seguida, as pessoas viram o Espírito Santo repousa sobre Jesus. Jesus recebeu o poder do Espírito Santo para curar e para entregar. E, portanto, quando Jesus cam à sua sinagoga em sua cidade natal de Nazaré é isso que ele diz que ANNONCE &quot;Deus me enviou com autoridade para anunciar a boa notícia para aqueles que estão quebrados. Deus me enviou para curar com o poder do mal, para perdoar os pecadores, para entregar os cativos e isso é porque Deus me ungiu com a força do Espírito Santo. Deus está comigo. &quot;Anos mais tarde, Peter seria esse como e quando falar com a família de Cornélio, uma família pagã romana, que estava querendo saber quem é Jesus, que Pedro diz que Jesus é a pessoa que Deus ungiu com o Espírito Santo, que Deus ungiu com o poder e é por isso Jesus iam por toda parte, fazendo o bem. &quot;e o que foi bom? O que foi que Jesus era tão bom a fazer em todos os lugares? Curando os enfermos que estavam sob o poder de Satanás. Isso é o que Jesus está fazendo Fui. Curando os enfermos que estavam sob o poder de Satanás. E Peter gostaria de acrescentar porque Deus estava com _him_, Porque Jesus é Deus conosco. E com a saída de tese três anos isso é tudo que fez sobre Jesus. Em cada cidade e cidade da Galiléia, no templo e nas sinagogas, nas casas e ao ar livre, dia após dia ele iria anunciar a Boa Nova do amor de Deus. Será que ele diga às pessoas o quanto Deus ama-los e ama a Deus que mostre a eles, orando por todos os que cam para _him_. E curando os doentes e todos Entregar todos os oprimidos. Isso é o que Jesus fez por fora Sobre Sua Vida. E a única coisa que o povo exigiu de Jesus foi acreditar Que Deus amou-os. Foi acreditar leur envoi de Deus para fazer a Sua obra.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Sobre o que Jesus curou e por isso que todas essas pessoas? Por uma única razão, a razão Sami, por amor, por compaixão. Quando ele viu o único filho da viúva de Naim dead&#39;m seu caixão, a Bíblia diz que ele era cheio de compaixão, e ele ressuscitou mortos e _him_ Deu _him_ de volta para sua mãe. Quando Jesus viu Lázaro que estivera morto por quatro dias. O que Jesus fez? O Evangelho de João nos diz, apenas duas palavras, ele chorou. Ele chorou. O versículo mais curto da Bíblia inteira, o propósito dessas duas palavras nos dizer tudo o que estava no coração de Jesus o amor que Sami Deus, nosso Pai tem para nós. No Evangelho de João, capítulo 5, quando Jesus curou aquele paralítico no sábado e os fariseus opor-se a ele, e disseram a Jesus não para curar as pessoas no sábado. O que Jesus disse? Estou fazendo o que meu pai está fazendo. Meu pai está trabalhando não por 6 dias, meu pai está trabalhando por sete dias, mesmo no sábado. Então, eu estou fazendo o que meu pai está fazendo, porque o sábado, um dia sagrado a Deus meu pai é destinado a homens, destina-se à vida trazer aos homens E então Jesus diz que o meu pai está trabalhando para dar a vida. E eu aussi Irá trabalhar para dar vida. Portanto, o que foi Jesus para aqueles que fazem três anos? A primeira coisa que Jesus estava prestes fez para o perdão traz para o pecador. Essa foi a primeira obra de cura e Jesus diziam &quot;eu-foi enviado por Deus para perdoar meu pai e não para condenar.&quot; Será que Jesus diz &quot;A maior alegria no céu são todos aqueles que então se arrepende mais de 99 pessoas boas.&quot; Quando Isso cam mulher para a casa dos fariseus quando Jesus foi ter sua refeição e chorou sobre os pés de Jesus e os fariseus diziam: &quot;Como Jesus poderia permitir tocar _him_ aquela mulher?&quot; o que Jesus disse? Ela foi muito perdoada por Deus meu pai, porque ela tem experimentado o amor de Deus, meu pai, em seu coração.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Quando apanhada em adultério que a mulher foi trazida a Jesus e os líderes religiosos melhores do dia deve ser dito que ela apedrejado até a morte, o que Jesus fez? Ele pede que &quot;se um de vocês não são os que não têm quem pecou, ​​pedra-la.&quot; E todos eles foram embora. E o que Jesus disse a esta mulher? Uma das mais belas do verso Bíblia inteira, ele disse a ela &quot;como qualquer um que você Condenado, nem eu Vá e não peques mais.&quot; Quando Jesus estava na cruz o que ele disse ao ladrão na mão direita? Quem foi encarado ser um Jesus disse criminosa &quot;Hoje estarás comigo no paraíso.&quot; Jesus ama os pecadores tanto que ele era um pecador chamado Expirado Ele e É por isso que Jesus contou a parábola do filho pródigo. Quando lemos essa parábola nos esquecemos de ler o primeiro versículo do capítulo 15 do Evangelho de Lucas, onde lemos que o povo, os líderes religiosos estavam acusando Jesus de ir com o tipo errado de pessoas, com que as pessoas más, o pessoas solteiras, em seguida, Jesus contou esta parábola. Por quê? Para dizer a eles. Que ele estava fazendo exatamente o que seu pai teria feito. Seu pai preferenciais teriam a companhia de pessoas erradas, das pessoas do que a má companhia de pessoas boas. Objetivo que havia algo mais que Jesus Sobre fez ele curou os doentes fisicamente. Ele libertou as pessoas da escravidão de Satanás. Uma grande cura objetivo Jesus estava prestes fez para curar os que estavam em seus corações partidos. E, portanto, esta tarde, eu quero falar brevemente muito cette muito significativo ministério de Jesus eo ministério da igreja hoje. Jesus disse: &quot;Eu vim para abrir os olhos dos cegos.&quot; Jesus cam para nos dar a cura física. Jesus disse: &quot;Eu vim para perdoar os pecadores. &quot;Jesus veio para nos dar a cura espiritual. Jesus disse: &quot;Eu vim para destruir as obras de Satanás.&quot; Jesus veio para nos dar livramento. Aquele gol nos esquecemos Jesus veio para curar os corações quebrados aussi dos homens.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Uma das noivas mais bonitas de Jesus, um dos convites mais bonito de Jesus é aquele quando Jesus diz: &quot;Vinde a mim todos vós sois Aquele fardo e laiden pesado e quebrado em seus corações e que vai curá-lo. Eu vos aliviarei. &quot;E o Senhor Jesus especialmente aqui hoje não é apenas para perdoar pecados, está aqui não só para curar nossos corpos quebrados, ele está aqui não só para entregar os oprimidos, est aussi apontar aqui para trazer-nos Essa cura interior profunda. Por que nós precisamos de cura interior? Por causa da tremenda emocional dói tudo o que temos. Talvez um dos maiores, se não a maior carga emocional que todos nós, temos é que de rejeição e, neste ano dedicado a Deus, nosso Pai, eu quero falar de uma maneira especial que Jesus veio para nos libertar de sentimentos de rejeição essa tremenda em nossos corações. E Jesus nos diz como ser curado de tese sentimento de rejeição por perdoar as pessoas têm-Quem nos rejeitado. Portanto, talvez a maior carga emocional que todos nós-temos é que de rejeição. Como a rejeição entrar na minha vida? Quando se trata sinto que não sou amado, não sou aceito, por aqueles a quem eu espero e quero amor e aceitação. Principalmente da minha mãe e do meu pai, meus irmãos e irmãs, a mais próxima a pessoa para mim. Quanto maior o sentimento de rejeição. Não é esse propósito Eles não me ama eu sinto desse jeito. Talvez eles não foram-vos amei por seus pais e por isso não podem communiquer Seu amor para mim. E, como resultado disso, como resultado desse sentimento de rejeição, não entra em meu coração sentimentos de ressentimento, raiva, rancor, ódio, vingança Mesmo. E em casamentos, de desconfiança e de amizades, ou de ciúme. Notamos que era o próprio pão maior de Jesus. O que Jesus sofreu não foi apenas a dor física da crucificação, nas palavras de São Paulo, o maior do sofria humilhação da crucificação. Ele foi a vergonha da crucificação. E lemos nos Evangelhos Jesus sofridos, o que a rejeição por toda sua vida.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Evangelho de João, capítulo 1, lemos ali, &quot;ele, Jesus, o Seu próprio cam e seu próprio recebeu _him_ não.&quot; Uma das declarações mais dolorosa na Bíblia inteira. Novamente lemos que sua família inteira queria colocar Jesus, porque foram vergonha de _him_, que pensaram que ele tinha ido para fora de sua mente. Seus próprios apóstolos Suspeita _him_ quando viram _him_ falando com a mulher em público. Esses líderes religiosos daquela época tinham inveja _him_ e Jesus foi condenado à morte por ciúmes e na cruz, o que Jesus disse? Qual foi a sua última palavra? No Evangelho de Mateus, no Evangelho de São Marcos, Jesus é relatado sobre a Disse-só tenho uma coisa e você sabe que suas últimas palavras são o mais significativo em suas vidas e que disse Jesus? Ele clamou ao Pai, Ele era uma oração a Deus Pai. O que ele disse? Meu Deus, meu Deus, por que me abandonaste? E os evangelistas poderia este versículo de Jesus na língua de Jesus. Porque quando você diz algo perto de seu coração você diz isso em sua própria língua materna automaticamente. E como Jesus foi frase conjuntival na cruz Cada homens carga emocional maior, Jesus era essa frase que dispõe sobre a cruz e que pode ser Muitas vezes, o grande fardo da solidão. O fardo de ser colocado para baixo por pessoas que você amava e confiava quem. O fardo de ser traído.&lt;/div&gt;
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Você sabe que na história da paixão de Jesus que mais machucou Jesus? Não foi desanimador, não era a coroação de espinhos, foi a traição de Judas. Jesus diria Judas &quot;Meu amigo você me trair com um beijo.&quot; O que ferir Jesus era a negação de Pedro. Pedro, que Jesus tinha escolhido para ser o cabeça da igreja. E o que dizer de Pedro? Eu não conheço esse homem. E Pedro amaldiçoou Jesus. &quot;Eu não sei que o homem.&quot; Imagine a dor que Jesus experimentou. O que ferir Jesus mais foi quando este estava acontecendo e ficou só Jesus para ser preso. E da mesma forma que ainda hoje o que nos dói mais quando traído por alguém em quem confiamos, quando estamos negado e ignorado por nossos próprios parentes próximos e amigos. Quando as pessoas a quem nós olhamos para pedir ajuda foram executados e nos deixou sozinhos. Por isso. O evangelista colocar muita ênfase em histórias de sofrimento de Jesus o pecado de negação, o pecado da traição, o pecado de covardia fugir, mas a maior mágoa de Jesus foi a sensação de ser abandonado até mesmo por Deus. Tenho certeza que muitos de nós temos em algum momento de nossas vidas sentimos que, mesmo que Deus nos abandonou. Como o Senhor nos curar dessa carga de rejeição? Somente quando louvamos a Deus por essa dor, sabendo que Deus sempre trabalhar para o bem em todos aqueles que o amam. E em segundo lugar, quando nós perdoamos as pessoas que nos rejeitaram.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Estávamos dando um retiro para as viúvas e as viúvas estavam tendo partilha em grupo entre si e um grupo de cinco viúvas que relatar o que eles estavam compartilhando e orando em seu grupo e ouvir o que eles disseram, eles disseram: &quot;Todos nós tivemos o mesmo problema , todos os nossos cinco maridos eram alcoólatras e eram violentos e todos os nossos maridos não amamos nossos filhos. Agora, temos filhos e todos os nossos filhos mais velhos são os mesmos que os seus pais. Todos os nossos cinco filhos mais velhos são alcoólatras, todos eles são violentos e todos eles NÃO amam seu próprio filho mais velho. &quot;E eu disse a mim mesmo quanto tempo isso vai passar de uma geração para outra? E é por isso que quando rezamos pela cura de nossa rejeição precisamos orar pela cura também de nossos próprios pais e avós. Precisamos orar para a cura da árvore de família. Precisamos orar pela cura dos nossos antepassados. E isso é o que vamos fazer na Eucaristia, esta noite. Vamos dedicar toda esta Eucaristia para essa cura importante, a cura de nossos antepassados​​, de modo que não será este terrível fardo da rejeição que está sendo passado de geração em geração. E, portanto, agora eu quero falar sobre as últimas duas coisas. Por que precisamos da cura de nossa árvore genealógica? Porque nós estamos agora não sofrendo eles. E em segundo lugar, como ter certeza de que estamos tão curada que o nosso problema will not afetar nossos filhos e netos. Você pode imaginar como isso é importante e, portanto, eu vou primeiro falar sobre a cura da árvore de família.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Em nossa fé católica acreditamos no que chamamos a doutrina do pecado original. O que isso significa? Isso por causa do pecado de nossos primeiros pais, não o seu pecado como tal, mas o efeito de seus pecados são transmitidos de geração em geração. Vemos isso acontecendo, mesmo de uma forma médica, se um dos pais tem SIDA seu filho terá AIDS. Você sabe o quão terrível é este. Eu estava pregando em um país da África e cada segunda pessoa que veio me pedir aconselhamento tinha AIDS. A senhora deu-me uma carta com uma foto de todos os membros de sua família, encontrando-se irmãos e irmãs da família dela e ela me disse: &quot;Pai, rogai por nossa família, porque todos eles têm AIDS.&quot; Em que país eu vi tantos , muitas crianças não ter pais. Todos os seus pais morreram por causa da AIDS. Mas esta é uma realidade, portanto, uma doença física pode ser transmitida e, portanto, o que é uma tremenda responsabilidade duas pessoas têm antes de casar. Porque eles podem ser o transmissor de bom para seus filhos e que também pode ser o transmissor do mal a seus filhos. Você quer que seus filhos te abençoe toda a sua vida? Para o bem que você fez com eles? Ou você quer que seus filhos para amaldiçoar toda a sua vida por causa do mal que você fez com eles? Meus pais tiveram problemas, tinham defeitos, mas acredito que por causa do que eles eram de que agora estou fazendo o trabalho de Deus. O que estava a minha mãe a fazer? Lembro-me de três coisas. Ela me ensinou a minha fé. Nós nunca perdeu um dia de dizer o rosário família. Muitas coisas que eu estou dizendo a você sobre a doutrina católica não é a partir do seminário, é da minha mãe simples. E, portanto, isso é o que os meus pais me deu. O dom da fé. Em seguida, eles se certificaram que estudei bem. Levaram minhas aulas diárias. Sentiam-se tudo dependesse de uma boa educação. Éramos uma família pobre, mas eles não se preocupam com a riqueza deste mundo. Mas eles sabiam que tudo tinha que depender de uma boa educação. E em terceiro lugar, acima de tudo, eles nos deram a sua presença. Eles estavam sempre conosco. De modo que não podíamos ir pelo caminho errado. E isso é o que pode acontecer se em vez disso, dar aos nossos filhos a experiência errada. Quanto mais, portanto, pode ser comunicada coisa errada emocionalmente e espiritualmente, de geração em geração?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Se entre os meus antepassados ​​não eram aqueles que morreram de repente e violentamente. Quero repetir, que morreu de repente antes que o tempo de Deus e violentamente, e não na forma de Deus. Isso pode afetar a geração atual e as gerações seguintes. Especial que tenha havido suicídios. O suicídio pode ter um enorme fardo para os descendentes. E quando você vem para orações, por exemplo, não é apenas o suficiente para ser rezada por alguma dor de cabeça. É mais importante para receber oração para remover o fardo de suicídio dessa pessoa. Se houve abortos em meus antepassados, um aborto pode causar enormes danos às gerações. Se há alguns daqueles que morreram em uma guerra ou foram torturados ou morreram mentalmente doente, ou morreram possuído, ou morreram defraudado de sua propriedade e morreu com palavrões em seus lábios, que podem afetar a geração atual. Se houvesse antepassados ​​que o espectáculo de adoração satânica, ou pertenciam a religião falsa, que se entregam a adoração dos ancestrais, ou fez uma práticas de culto, ou qualquer tipo de bruxaria, como os macumba e outras coisas, que podem afetar a geração atual. Se você não acreditar que trazer alguém caso como esse e eu vou mostrar no palco o que acontece. Se algum dos ancestrais amaldiçoados as gerações seguintes, ou colocar um feitiço sobre eles, que poderiam ter um enorme afetar as gerações. Se um antepassado amaldiçoou, a mãe dizendo a sua filha &quot;Você nunca vai ter filhos.&quot;, Ou contar toda a sua filha nunca vai se casar, que poderia acontecer. E a única maneira de quebrar o poder dessa maldição, dessa magia, é orar para os antepassados ​​durante a Eucaristia. Pedir perdão de Deus em seu nome. Perdoar o ancestral que os prejudicados em seu nome. Pedindo a Deus para quebrar qualquer link, qualquer vínculo, aguardando-nos a eles. E pedindo ao Senhor para dar-lhes descanso eterno. E da nossa parte, o que nós precisamos fazer aqueles que estão vivendo agora e nos machucar? Precisamos de perdoá-los.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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O maior bloco para qualquer tipo de cura é a falta de perdão. Como o perdão onde ocorre a cura só vem automaticamente. O comando mais difícil Jesus nos deu de uma maneira prática é o comando &quot;perdoar seu inimigo.&quot; E Jesus disse-nos não só para perdoá-los, mas para orar por eles, amá-los, para abençoá-los. Na verdade Jesus diz: &quot;Se você quer ser reconciliar com eles, mas eles não quero ser reconciliar com você e que você delgado, eles delgado seu bom nome e vos perseguirem. Jesus nos diz: alegrar-se &quot;Por que Jesus estava dizendo isso.? Como o comando que se parecia com um comando, mas é uma cura, é uma bênção, por isso, liberar as pessoas que nos ferem do nosso ódio. E nós estamos sendo liberado em nossa própria volta do nosso próprio ódio. E, portanto, para a massa, ao mesmo tempo que precisamos para trazer todas as pessoas em nossas vidas que nos magoaram de alguma forma. E perdoa-lhes, em nome Jesus&#39;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Deixe-me terminar com uma história. Eu espero que você gosta de histórias. Alguns anos atrás, eu fui para orar por um homem jovem, acompanhei duas pessoas que estavam orando por ele e então eu percebi que eu conhecia bem este jovem. Ele tinha sido um mestre na minha escola quando eu era diretor, e para minha grande surpresa, ele me disse que tinha estado doente na cama por 9 meses e eu disse: &quot;Por que Não marcou você enviar para mim?&quot;, Ele disse: &quot;Nós tentamos entrar em contato com você na paróquia, mas você nunca estava lá. Quando perguntamos onde está o pai Rufus? Eles dizem-nos o Espírito Santo não sabe onde ele está. &quot;Ele estava doente há 9 meses. Todos estes 9 meses, ele teve febre alta. Todos estes 9 meses, ele não conseguia dormir. Todos em 9 meses ele teve uma dor terrível. E os comprimidos para dormir e os analgésicos não teve efeito. Durante um mês ele estava no hospital do câncer em observação, mas os médicos lhe disseram &quot;Você não tem câncer, mas você tem tomado tantos raios-x que você pode obter câncer. Durante dois meses ele estava no sanatório para tratamento da chamada tuberculose e foi-lhe dado 120 injeções de estreptomicina, mais do que o máximo permitido. E agora o médico tinha perdido a esperança. Ele era como um esqueleto esperando a morte. Então eu comecei a falar com ele e ele começou a culpar um mestre na mesma escola. Ele disse: &quot;Aquele mestre lançou um feitiço sobre mim. É por isso que eu estou doente. &quot;Muitas vezes as pessoas me dizem a mesma coisa, alguém fez algo para mim. Isso pode ser verdade, mas muitas vezes nós nos abrimos a essa maldição. Eu sabia que outro mestre tranquila capaz de colocar feitiços mas eu sabia que não poderia ser a única razão para que a doença. E quando ele começou a falar mais eu percebi que ele tinha um grande ódio em relação ao pai-de-lei, o pai de sua esposa, era um dos homens mais ricos de Bombaim e tinha dado a sua única filha em casamento a este mestre, mas mesmo que o casamento foi celebrado em uma grande ha estilo não tinha dado um único dinheiro para o dote. Na Índia, &quot;dote&quot; (dote) é importante. E mais do que isso, quando aquele mestre ficou sem emprego, em vez de ajudá-lo a seu pai-de-lei começou a estragar o seu nome, dizendo às pessoas &quot;Eu cometi um erro em dar a minha única filha em casamento a este homem.&quot; Então, este mestre de reputação tinha afundou e teve esta grande ódio em relação ao pai-de-lei. Todos os dias as pessoas de oração viria e orar por ele e dizer-lhe perdoar o seu pai-de-lei, mas ele disse: &quot;Eu não poderia perdoá-lo. Minha esposa iria dizer-me perdoaria. Mas eu não quero perdoá-lo e eu não posso perdoá-lo. &quot;Então ele se virou para mim e disse:&quot; Pai, você também NÃO diga-me a perdoá-lo. &quot;Eu disse:&quot; Eu já lhe disse que a perdoá-lo? &quot;Ele olhou para mim, ele disse:&quot; Você é a primeira pessoa quem nunca disse-me a perdoá-lo. &quot;Então, ele estava feliz, mas sua esposa estava com raiva de mim. Eu disse: &quot;Eu não lhe disse para perdoá-lo, você pai-de-lei, porque eu sei que a sua família muito bem, os outros não sei, as outras pessoas não sabem a sua família e se eu estivesse em seu lugar eu seria difícil perdoar, mas o que eu quero que você faça, eu quero que você ore comigo pedindo a Jesus para curá-lo das causas de sua dor. Eu quero que você entregar o seu ódio a Jesus. Isso é tudo. &quot;Ele disse:&quot; Eu posso fazer isso. &quot;Eu disse:&quot; Tudo bem. &quot;Como ele era carismático, como foi que eu fiz uma oração espontânea, e ele começou a orar, ele disse:&quot; Senhor Jesus, você sabe o quanto meu pai-de-lei me machucar todo mundo está me dizendo para perdoá-lo, mas eu não posso perdoá-lo. Minha esposa está me dizendo para perdoá-lo, mas eu não quero perdoá-lo. E Jesus também não me diga para perdoá-lo, mas eu não quero ter esse ódio no meu coração. Você levá-la embora. Você me curar as causas do meu ódio. &quot;Então ele se virou para mim, ele disse:&quot; Pai, eu estou orando corretamente? &quot;E eu disse:&quot; Você está orando perfeitamente. Assim como os salmos são orou na Bíblia. &quot;Você sabe que os salmos são orou, não? Metade dos salmos que eles estão com raiva de Deus, metade dos salmos amam a Deus. Por isso ele fez sua oração, então eu lhe disse: &quot;Eu vou orar por você. Primeiro de tudo que você tem uma boa noite de sono. &quot;Porque ele estava sem dormir por 9 meses. E como eu orei por ele, ele apenas cochilou. E então eu deixei Bombaim, após dois meses voltei para Bombay e então ele me disse o que tinha acontecido, ele dormiu durante meia hora, em seguida, ele se levantou, ele pediu comida, que ele nunca tinha comido antes, ele voltou para sono. Levantei-me na noite seguinte, levantou-se, tomou um banho, saiu para uma caminhada, completamente curada. Não havia nada fisicamente errado com ele, no sentido médico do termo, mas foi o seu ódio que era como um câncer comendo seu espírito, sua mente, seu coração, mesmo seu corpo, como um câncer. Depois disso, ele foi para a Arábia Saudita para o trabalho por quatro anos e, desde aquele dia da sua cura, ele não foi nem um dia doente. Mais tarde, ele tornou-se o treinador, ele estava treinando o time de futebol, o treinador é &quot;Treinador&quot;, do maior clube em Bombaim, jogar futebol com os meninos. E quando me lembro do dia em que eu o vi em sua cama como um esqueleto, com mais esperança, e agora ele é um homem forte, treinando meninos e jogar futebol com eles. Então eu percebi o enorme poder do perdão e do ódio para fazer uma pessoa doente, para fazer uma pessoa vulnerável ao poder de Satanás, e quando obedecer à ordem de Jesus e quando começamos a perdoar nossos inimigos e amá-los e orar para elas a cura é geralmente instantânea e é frequentemente completa. Louvado seja o Senhor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Um pensamento me ocorreu hoje. Muitas vezes se diz que a água do rio Jordão tem propriedades especiais e se engarrafa a água para vender.&lt;br /&gt;
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Muitas vezes não é necessário ir tão longe.&lt;br /&gt;
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A água do batismo no Espírito Santo pode estar em seus próprios olhos, são suas lágrimas de tristeza ou arrependimento.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deus ama a cada um e nos dá o suficiente e o necessário, tanto em recursos materiais quanto coragem moral, espiritual e emocional.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ao chorar por se comover verdadeiramente com o amor de Deus é onde ocorre um sinal de um batismo de comunhão profunda e interior com o outro.&lt;br /&gt;
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E as coisas começam a acontecer. Esta é a boa nova, Jesus ressuscita em seu coração, profunda, interna e definitivamente para que você se torne santo.&lt;br /&gt;
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my dear brothers and sisters belonging to our Lord Jesus Christ, as we read the
bible there are many names given to our God. But the name that is the most
prominent that is given to God is the name Father. For Muslims to call God
father is blaspheming, a grave sin. But Jesus has told us exactly the opposite.
That when we address God we should call him Father. Again the bible give God
many qualities, but the quality which seems to be the most outstanding given to
God is God is love. And Jesus teaches these things by comparing the love of God
Father to the love of our human father. And that is what I want to share with
you this morning. To help you to know who God our Father is. By looking to our
own earthly fathers. One of the most strange things Jesus has said, he said to
the fathers of this day “if you fathers, wicked as you are, want to love your
children and give them the best. How much more will your heavenly Father gives
the best to those who come to Him as his children.” And therefore you notice
even in the bible in one hand a great similarity between God our father and our
own human fathers. But at the same time an amazing contrast between God and our
fathers. Therefore why did Jesus ask us to call God our father? Why did Jesus
tell us we must look upon God not just as our creator, not just as the
Almighty, but as our father? Why did Jesus ask us to pray to God calling him Father?
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the first place, because God has created us as Himself. Because God making us
in his own image and likeness, you know in our own human fathers how he is
proud of his little son who looks like him. And often the mother will say “oh
our little son looks exactly like his father.” And therefore the first reason
why we should call God our father because we owe our existence to Him. Our
earthly fathers have made our bodies, but our heavenly Father has made our
mind, our heart, our inner personality, like Himself. That is why we read even
in the Old Testament the psalmist asking God “Why have You made us? Why are you
taking so much care about us when we are so bad and sinful?” And the psalms
they selves give the answer and his answer is a very strange answer and he says
“It is because you God has made us a little bit less than Yourself. And You
have crowned us with your glory. And on the other hand we are created to be
like God.” We belong to Him. One day I was in the home of a friend of mine in
England, in England. And I was looking after the little granddaughter of that
friend. She was just about four years old. And she was playing with the boy of
the neighboring family. And the boy was boasting about his father to the little
girl, and you know how little boys like to boast about their father, and at a
certain moment he asked the little girl about her father. Now I knew the
parents of the little girl were separated and the girl was leaving with her
mother. For a moment the little girl did not know what to do. Did not know what
to say. And suddenly she pointed out to me and told the little boy “that is my
father.” That is why when we read the bible God has created each one of us to
have both parents. A little girl wants a father. A little boy wants a mother.
And a mother and a father are together the reflection of God. God’s reflection
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He loves us. He has not only created us and left us by ourselves, but the bible
says He loves us. Which means He wants to have a personal relationship with
each one of us and that is why saint John says in his epistle, he says “See how
much God, our father, loves us. The people of the world do not know who God
really is. But we know.” And then saint John burst out in ecstasy of his
experience. And he says “God is love.” For Christians, God is nothing else but
love. And that is why Christianity is different from all other religions.
Christianity is a religion of love. Because God, our father, is love. And God
has sent his only son, Jesus, out of love. And that is why again in the Old
Testament, God himself is speaking and saying, he says “You belong to me. You
are the sheep of my pasture. I will walk among you and you will be our sons and
daughters.” And at the same time we are loved by God, our father. For us
Christians, God is love and not an impersonal divine energy. As it is in reiki
and other new age movements. In Hinduism, in New Age, there is no idea of a
personal God. It is only in Christianity that God is a person and we are
persons. And our relationship with God is meant to be a personal relationship.
And therefore we are not people that attain happiness by identifying ourselves
with an impersonal God. And loosing our own identity. No, for us happiness
means relating to God in a personal way. For us Christians, God respects our
personality. Even though He made us, He knows we are different. He knows in
every family the children are different one from the other.&amp;nbsp; And every parent knows that the children
cannot be the same. Every parent knows that each one has to be brought up in
its own unique, special way. And therefore, for God, each one of us is someone
unique. I know saint Peter says for God there are no favorites. God loves us
all equally. But later on what did saint Paul say? He says each one of us is
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terms. On the one hand God has no favorites. On the other hand, God has five
thousand million favorites. If God threats us as if we were the only persons in
the world for Him to love. Again, how do I know that God loves me? Because He
cares for me. When I give retreats to young people and I ask the youths what
hurt you the most in your lives. They will simply tell me “Oh my daddy does not
care for me. My daddy does not love me.” But what did Jesus say about God? His
father and our father. This is what he tells us, he says “Don’t worry about the
future. Don’t be afraid of things and of people around you.” If God, our father,
takes so much care about birds and trees, how much more care God will take of
each one of us? Who is of much more value than the birds and the trees. And
Jesus says “If God has given us lives, won’t he give us food? If God has given
us our bodies, won’t he provide us with clothes?” But then Jesus gives us the
clues of God caring for us. God gives us reason, why will He continue to care
for us? When Jesus says “Seek Him first, the kingdom of God and everything else
will follow. This is what the bible says very forcefully, God cares for each
one of us. And when sometimes we feel nobody cares for us, this is what a
little orphan boy would say, orphan, or what a widow will say, what an old
person would say, nobody cares for me. But Jesus says very strongly “God cares
for me” and Peter would add “therefore cast all your cares onto the Lord.” On
the other hand, God never forgets us. We are always remembered by God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;How often, when we give retreats or
missions, a person will tell me “father, please do not forget me.” Therefore we
all want to be remembered. And one of the greatest pains in our hearts today is
when we are forgotten. I was giving a retreat in Goa, in India, it was for the
young people of that state and they all came from poor homes. Many were from
families where fathers were alcoholics. From families where fathers were very
violent. And there was one girl that came for counseling and this is what she
told me, when she was three years old her father deserted the family for
another woman. And then her mother was looking after her. But then the mother
had to go to Kuwait to take a job to bring up the family. And she left the
little daughter with an old couple in Pangim, Goa. Where her mother herself was
working as a domestic maid. And this old couple loved the little girl. They
gave her education, they looked after her very well. After five years the
mother returned to Goa for a month’s holiday. And then the little girl, she was
now eight years old, she was waiting and longing to meet her mother whom she
had not seen for the last five years. And then the month’s holiday was over and
then the mother went back to Kuwait without visiting her daughter. So when the
little girl came to me for counseling you can imagine what was the wound in her
heart. And as I prayed over her all those years of sadness and bitterness just
burst out in a flood of tears and cries. But what God, our father, say? Already
in the Old Testament to the prophet Isaiah, this is what God says “Can a mother
forget her baby? Can a mother forget a child that has come from her own body?”
But even if she should forget God says “I will not forget. Because I have
carved your name in the palm of my hand.” But even that is not necessary
because God says “I am always thinking of you. You are always in my thoughts.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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wonder Jesus has told us to call God father. Again, how do I know God loves me?
That God is my father? Is because when I go the wrong way, when I have fallen
short of the expectations of God, God does not say “Now, let me choose another
person.” Suppose an artist makes a beautiful statue. And unfortunately, he
makes a big mistake on that statue. What does he do? He breaks that statue or
he gives it away. And he makes a new statue. Now God does not do that with us.
He will not say “Vinicius, well, I do not like you now. And therefore I want to
make another Vinicius.” God will not say that, but God will remake me in His
image and likeness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;ow many people have told me in
confession, said “Father, I have broken all of the ten commandments. And if
there was one more commandment I would have broken that too. I am worse than
Mary Magdalen, I am worse than Maria Madalena.” No, no, Maria Madalena. (Father
Rufus corrects the translator who said Holy Mary instead of Mary Magdalen)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Eu
entendo Portuguese um pouco&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt; (Father Rufus says “I understand a little
Portuguese” in Portuguese). So they tell me “I am worse than Mary Magdalen. Will
God ever forgive me? He must be thinking very badly about me.” And what does
God say? The thing he says in the bible are incredible. For example, for the
Prophet Isaiah, what does God say? He tells a sinner, he speaks to a sinner, he
says “Let us discuss matters together. Let us talk it over. If your sins are as
red as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.” Again, what does God say in
the Prophecy of Jeremiah? This is what God says “I will forgive the sins of my
children and I will never remember them anymore.” Our God is a God who not only
forgives our sins, but forgets them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;As
if in His sight we have never sinned. You see, you cannot compare Christianity
with any philosophy or religion. It is something beyond the things of this
world. And therefore it says that God not only forgives, but he wipes over our
sinfulness. Again, how do I know that God loves me? Because even though He
loves me, He always corrects me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;One day, a lady came to me for
counseling and this is what she told me, she says “Father, I hate my mother.”
And I said “Why?” “Because she never corrected me. She allowed me to do what I
wanted. And I thought I had the best mother in the world. But now I realize
that if she had corrected me my life would not have been in this present mess.”
But what God, our Father, does to us? The bible is very emphatic in saying this
“that our God is not a God of only loving us, but who corrects us.” Who even
punishes us and is always disciplining us. For example, the bible says “God
disciplines us as a father disciplines his son.” Again the bible says “If God
does not correct us we cannot call Him father.” And the letter to the Hebrews
says “You must count as something beautiful when Go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/null&quot; name=&quot;_GoBack&quot; style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;d is
correcting us.” God, our father, corrects us as our earthly fathers correct us.
But only for the things of this world. But God our father, corrects us for
things for eternity. Our earthly fathers sometimes correct us wrongly, because
they are human beings. But when God corrects us is always rightly and is for
our good. Therefore the letter to the Hebrews says “Count it a blessing, look
upon it as a sign of God´s love.” When God corrects us, at that time is painful
to have that correction but God knows what He is doing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;On the other hand, God is not only
correcting us but sometimes he is testing us. The devil tempt us, but God tests
us. There is a difference. But sometimes the same thing, when the devil wants
to tempt us, God uses to tests us. One day a young lady came to me at that
retreat I was giving and this is what she told me with great sorrow and anger
and this is what she said, she says she was returning from midnight mass on
Christmas night in a parish and on the way home she was gang raped. And then
she told me “How could God allow this to happen to me? I always have been good.
I have been a very religious person. And for this have happened on a Christmas
night? And after the midnight mass.” Well you know,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;I did not know what to say. I know the answer
from the bible that God always works for good in all those who love Him. But
what did Jesus say in the gospel? He says it to all the apostles, he says to
his own apostles, who themselves were being persecuted by the religious leaders
of that day. And what did Jesus say? “Don’t worry about what people will do to
you. Don´t worry even if they hate and persecute you. Don´t be afraid of them,
because I have given you the victory.” And in his own agony in the garden of
Gethsemane what was Jesus´s prayer? It is the only time in the gospel in which
Jesus calls God, Abba. In which the evangelist say Jesus called God, father.
And what did Jesus pray? He says “God, my father, my Abba, if it is possible
take away from my life this moment of trial. Let me not pass thru this
suffering. But do not what I want, but what You want.” And this is the prayer
that Jesus taught us in the “Our Father”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Our father, may your will be done in my life. In this world as it has
been done in heaven. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Again, how do I know my God, our
father, loves me? Because He is always for me. One of the most beautiful things
Saint Paul says about God, our father, is what he says in the letter to the
Romans. “God is always at work for good in our lives.” And then he cries out
“If God is at our side, who can be against us? If God is for us, who can be
against us?” And therefore our right to call God, father, by this name God for
us. If someone was to ask me “who is God to you? How would you define God, your
father?” I would say this “God, my father, is the one who is always for me.
Always for us. This is the revelation of Jesus. And therefore I will ask you to
always think of God as the one who is always for you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Again, how do I know that God loves
me? Because He is always teaching me. We know in the bible how often does God
appear to His people. And is teaching them everything in great detail.
Unfortunately today, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;people are going to
the wrong persons for guidance. For the wrong persons for teaching. But you
read what God teaches us in the bible and you will see what an incredible
difference between both these teachings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Again, how do I know that God loves
me? Because He is always encouraging me. Our God is a God of constant
encouragement. How many people have told me “My father never gave me a hug. My
father never embraced me.” But what does the bible say about our God? That God
is always encouraging us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;We have seen
the life of Jesus himself who is a reflection of God´s love. When the mothers
brought the children to him and the apostles wanted to put them away. Jesus was
angry with his apostles. Is the only time in the gospels that Jesus was angry
with them. And he told them “Don´t stop them of coming to me.” And what did
Jesus do? He took the children on his lap. He embraced them. He kissed them. He
put his hands on their heads and prayed for them. This is the image of what
God, our father, is doing for us. Therefore for the God of a Christian, is a
God of this kind of love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;And finally, why can we call God our
father? Because God is always proud of us. One of the most beautiful
experiences we have with our own fathers, that we can say about our father,
“oh, my daddy was always proud of me.” I was talking to a friend of mine in
Rome who was writing his thesis in Scripture. And what was the topic of his thesis?
It was just one verse of the bible. The verse which says “Be perfect as God
Himself is perfect.” And he was working for two years on this one sentence. And
I told him “Why waste your time on this one sentence?” And he told me “Because
this is the summary of the whole gospel.” What does it mean? It means that God
loves us so much he wants us to be not just like him. He has created us to be
like him, but he wants us to be as perfect as He is. In the Old Testament, God
says “Be holy as I am holy.” In the New Testament, Jesus says “Be compassionate
as your Father is compassionate.” Look at our own earthly fathers, every father
wants his son to be the best. Every father has great plans about his son. He
wants his son to be a doctor or an engineer. Maybe the next president of
Brazil. Maybe the next pope. Every father is dreaming about the future of his
son. How much more God our father dreams of each one of us? And it is not only
dreaming, he has said it, God wants us to be the best. He is not satisfied with
the second best. He wants us to be the best person.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;And that is why God loves us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;My dear brothers and sisters, when
we look at the gospels we will realize why did Jesus tell us to call God our
father. We will know it better when we read another sentence of Jesus, we began
this teaching by saying that this was what Jesus said “If your fathers, wicked
as they are, know how to give good things to your children. How much more will
your heavenly father give you the best?” But I would like to end this talk by
something else that Jesus said, something that it is not so good, this is what
Jesus said, he said “Don´t call any human being your father.” This is what
Jesus said. And you may wonder why. He said “Only call God your father, because
he is the only one who deserves a title of father.” He is the only one who
deserves to be called father. Does not mean therefore, that after this session,
you will not call your daddy´s father anymore. That you shall not call me or
father Jonas father. And you tell me “This is what father Rufus said. This is
what Jesus said.” Jesus said that but what did he mean? This is what he was
having in his mind, it was rather a challenge to us, because earthly fathers whether
physical daddys, or our spiritual fathers, are meant by God to be the signs and
channels of our Father´s love. Every human daddy, whether is our physical
father or our spiritual father, has a tremendous vocation from God. He has to
be a sign from God´s love. And more than that, he must be a channel, a mean of
the Father´s love. And unfortunately, very often the opposite is happening. How
many people have told me “I hate my father” The greatest hurt I have seen in
catholic families everywhere in the world, is having a father who is an
alcoholic and who is a violent man and terrorizes the mother and the children.
And worse too, abandon the children. For what reason? For no reason. Maybe for
some fleeting pleasure. For his own comfort. That is why Jesus said “Don´t call
any human being your father.” He was saying that as a challenge to you, earthly
fathers. He was telling the earthly fathers, both spiritual fathers and
physical fathers, that their vocation is to come up to the standard of God, our
father. You have a great responsibility and an ideal. And therefore to be a father
is not easy. It is a risk. It is a challenge. But Jesus tells us that the
father´s love ought to be a model, ought to be a challenge to all you fathers
here, to all the fathers of Brazil.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;Now I will end with a story. I was
blessing homes during Easter week in my parish in Bombay and I came to a very
big house and I was knocking at the door. There was no answer. Ringing the
doorbell. No answer. And then the altar boys that were accompanying me told me
“Father, don´t go to that house. That man is an alcoholic.” And I told these
boys “I know that, but I have heard that he has changed. He had joined the
alcoholics anonymous.” And then he told me “But father, he has gone back. He
has had a relapse.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;At that moment, a
woman in the neighboring house looked thru the window and she told me “Father
don´t go to that house. That man is like a pig and his house is like a pig
sty.” So I told her “I have not come to bless houses but to bless homes.” And I
continued to ring the doorbells. And then the door opened and this man looked
at me. I recognized him. He apologized that he did not know it was the day of
the blessings of the homes. I knew his background, he belonged to one of the
most catholic families of Bombay. Priests and nuns in the family. But
unfortunately, he had become an alcoholic. His marriage was broken. He became a
pauper. And then, as I went on blessing the house, well he was really like a
pig, with blood shot eyes and disheveled hair. His house was like a pig sty,
with vomit and excrement here and there. I noticed there was not a single piece
of furniture in that whole house. He sold every piece of furniture for drinks
and noticed he had no clothing, except the shorts he was wearing. He told me
later on that he had sold every bit of clothing for drinks. And after blessing
the whole house, I was filled with the compassion of Jesus. Knowing what pain
and humiliation he had brought to his family. And I cried out to him, I wish
you could change. But he turned to me and he cried out “Father, I want to change,
but tell me how.” I did not know then the answers I know now. But I noticed a
beautiful statue of the sacred heart of Jesus in the corner of the sitting
room. And I took him in front of that statue. And I told him “I want you to
promise Jesus at this moment that you will not touch a drop of alcohol.” What
made me say that I don´t know. And then I lead him to a prayer of repentance,
the prayer of forgiveness and a prayer of renunciation. I lead him into praying
accepting Jesus as his Lord and Master. And a prayer asking the Holy Spirit to
fill his life. And then I left the house. If you were to ask me then “Do you
thinking your praying might have helped him?” I would have told you “Frankly,
no.” Because then I did not have any faith. I only had it when I was praying
with him. And I forgot him. One year later, the fathers of the parish were
invited for a party in one of the homes of the parishioners. And we all went,
it was a very big party. And in every room there were guests and at a certain
moment, the host of that party, the one to whom the house belonged, stood up
and he spoke, and he said “You may wonder why I have called for this party, you
may wonder why only soft drinks are being served. Because” he said “today,
exactly one year ago, a priest came to this house” And as he began to tell the
story my hair began to stand on ends, because I realized he was referring to my
visit to his house exactly one year ago. But it was true, because from that one
moment of prayer a year ago he had not touched a drop of alcohol. The Lord had freed
him completely of his alcoholism. And more than that, his body was ravished
with disease. The doctors had given him only two months to live. But when God
took away from him the alcoholism, God healed him even of his bodily sickness.
And then he made himself available to help every alcoholic in Bombay. So he
attend all the alcoholics anonymous groups and he would give his own very
strong testimony. And he would end his testimony by two sentences: “I thank God
my father, for allowing me to go right down to the gutters.” He was often seen
in the gutters of Bombay. Gutters with all the dirt and mud floors. Yes. He was
often seen on the road fallen down. “Because if I had not gone down there, I
would never have experienced how much God loves me.” And secondly he would say
“There is only one person I thank and that is our Lord Jesus Christ for giving
me this one last chance. For giving me this last chance of coming back to the
home of my father.” Praise the Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-indent: 35.4pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Esta palestra é especial. Foi em 1999, quando o Padre Rufus teve registrado pela primeira vez as suas pregações no Brasil.&lt;/div&gt;
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O precioso registro foi agora transcrito em inglês. Submetemos ao Tradutor Google e apresentamos o resultado abaixo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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por Padre Rufus Pereira&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Brasil 1999&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Portanto, meu querido irmão e irmãs pertencentes a nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo, como lemos na Bíblia há muitos nomes dados ao nosso Deus. Mas o nome que é o mais importante que é dado a Deus é o nome Padre. Para os muçulmanos a chamar Deus pai está blasfemando, um pecado grave. Mas Jesus nos disse exatamente o oposto. Que, quando nos dirigimos a Deus, devemos chamá-lo de pai. Mais uma vez a Bíblia dá a Deus muitas qualidades, mas a qualidade que parece ser o mais notável dada a Deus é Deus é amor. E Jesus ensina essas coisas, comparando o amor de Deus Pai para o amor do nosso pai humano. E é isso que eu quero compartilhar com você esta manhã. Para ajudar você a saber que Deus nosso Pai é. Ao olhar para os nossos próprios pais terrenos. Uma das coisas mais estranhas Jesus disse, ele disse aos pais de hoje &quot;se vocês, pais, mau como você é, quero amar seus filhos e dar-lhes o melhor. Quanto mais vosso Pai celeste dá o melhor para aqueles que vêm a Ele como seus filhos. &quot;E, portanto, você percebe mesmo na Bíblia em uma das mãos uma grande semelhança entre Deus nosso Pai e nossos próprios pais humanos. Mas, ao mesmo tempo, um incrível contraste entre Deus e os nossos pais. Portanto, por que Jesus nos pede para chamar Deus de nosso pai? Por que Jesus nos diz que devemos olhar para Deus e não apenas como nosso criador, não apenas como o Todo-Poderoso, mas como nosso pai? Por que Jesus nos pede para orar a Deus chamando-o de Pai?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Em primeiro lugar, porque Deus nos criou como Ele Mesmo. Porque Deus nos fazer à sua imagem e semelhança, você sabe que em nossos próprios pais humanos como ele está orgulhoso de seu filho pequeno, que se parece com ele. E muitas vezes a mãe vai dizer &quot;oh nosso filho pequeno se parece exatamente com seu pai.&quot; E, portanto, a primeira razão pela qual devemos chamar Deus de nosso pai, porque nós devemos nossa existência a Ele. Nossos pais terrenos fizeram nossos corpos, mas nosso Pai celestial tem feito a nossa mente, nosso coração, nossa personalidade interior, como a si mesmo. É por isso que lemos até mesmo no Antigo Testamento o salmista pedindo a Deus &quot;Por que nos fez? Por que você está tomando muito cuidado sobre nós quando estamos tão mau e pecador? &quot;E os Salmos eles selves dar a resposta e sua resposta é uma resposta muito estranho e ele diz:&quot; É porque você Deus nos fez um pouco menos do que você mesmo. E o Senhor nos coroada com a vossa glória. E, por outro lado, são criados para ser como Deus. &quot;Nós pertencemos a ele. Um dia eu estava na casa de um amigo meu, na Inglaterra, na Inglaterra. E eu estava cuidando da netinha desse amigo. Ela tinha apenas cerca de quatro anos de idade. E ela estava brincando com o menino da família vizinha. E o menino estava se gabando de seu pai para a menina, e você sabe como os garotos pouco gostam de se gabar de seu pai, e em determinado momento ele perguntou à garota sobre seu pai. Agora eu sabia que os pais da menina foram separados ea menina estava saindo com sua mãe. Por um instante, a menina não sabia o que fazer. Não sabia o que dizer. E de repente ela apontou para mim e disse ao menino &quot;que é o meu pai.&quot; É por isso que quando lemos a Bíblia, Deus criou cada um de nós para ter ambos os pais. A menina quer um pai. Um menino quer uma mãe. E um pai e uma mãe estão juntos o reflexo de Deus. Reflexão de Deus para nós não é completo se um de nossos pais não está lá.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Porque Ele nos ama. Ele não apenas nos criou e nos deixou sozinhos, mas a Bíblia diz que Ele nos ama. O que significa que Ele quer ter um relacionamento pessoal com cada um de nós e é por isso que São João diz em sua epístola, ele diz: &quot;Veja o quanto Deus, nosso pai, nos ama. As pessoas do mundo não sabe quem Deus realmente é. Mas nós sabemos. &quot;E então santo John explodiu em êxtase de sua experiência. E ele diz: &quot;Deus é amor.&quot; Para os cristãos, Deus não é senão amor. E é por isso que o cristianismo é diferente de todas as outras religiões. O cristianismo é uma religião de amor. Porque Deus, nosso pai, é o amor. E Deus enviou seu único filho, Jesus, por amor. E é por isso outra vez no Antigo Testamento, o próprio Deus está falando e dizendo, ele diz: &quot;Você pertence a mim. Você é as ovelhas do meu pasto. Andarei entre vocês e vocês serão nossos filhos e filhas. &quot;E, ao mesmo tempo que somos amados por Deus, nosso pai. Para nós, cristãos, Deus é amor e não uma energia divina impessoal. Como é em reiki e outros movimentos da nova era. No hinduísmo, em Nova Era, não há idéia de um Deus pessoal. É somente no cristianismo que Deus é uma pessoa e nós somos pessoas. E o nosso relacionamento com Deus é destinado a ser um relacionamento pessoal. E, portanto, não são pessoas que alcançar a felicidade, identificando-nos com um Deus impessoal. E perder nossa própria identidade. Não, para nós felicidade significa relacionar com Deus de uma maneira pessoal. Para nós, cristãos, Deus respeita a nossa personalidade. Mesmo que Ele nos fez, Ele sabe que somos diferentes. Ele sabe que em cada família os filhos são um diferente do outro. E todos os pais sabem que as crianças não podem ser o mesmo. Todo pai sabe que cada um tem que ser levado até à sua maneira única, especial. E, portanto, a Deus, cada um de nós é uma pessoa única. Eu sei que São Pedro diz para Deus não há favoritos. Deus nos ama a todos igualmente. Mas, mais tarde, o que São Paulo diz? Ele diz que cada um de nós é os favoritos de Deus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Então, é como uma contradição em termos. Por um lado, Deus não tem favoritos. Por outro lado, Deus tem cinco mil milhões de favoritos. Se as ameaças nos Deus como se fôssemos as únicas pessoas no mundo que Ele ama. Mais uma vez, como eu sei que Deus me ama? Porque Ele cuida de mim. Quando dou retiros para jovens e peço aos jovens o que ferem o mais em suas vidas. Eles simplesmente me dizer &quot;Oh, meu pai não se importa para mim. Meu pai não me ama. &quot;Mas o que Jesus disse sobre Deus? Seu pai e nosso pai. Isto é o que ele nos diz, ele diz: &quot;Não se preocupe com o futuro. Não tenha medo das coisas e das pessoas ao seu redor. &quot;Se Deus, nosso Pai, toma muito cuidado com pássaros e árvores, quanto mais cuidado Deus tomará de cada um de nós? Quem é de muito mais valor do que os pássaros e as árvores. E Jesus diz: &quot;Se Deus nos deu vive, ele não vai nos dar comida? Se Deus nos deu nossos corpos, ele não vai nos fornecer roupas? &quot;Mas, então, Jesus nos dá as pistas de Deus cuidar de nós. Deus nos dá razão, por que Ele continue a cuidar de nós? Quando Jesus diz: &quot;Buscai-O em primeiro lugar, o reino de Deus e tudo o mais se seguirão. Isto é o que a Bíblia diz com muita força, Deus cuida de cada um de nós. E quando às vezes a gente sente que ninguém se importa para nós, isso é o que um menino órfão diria, órfão, ou o que a viúva vai dizer, o que uma pessoa de idade diria, ninguém se importa comigo. Mas Jesus diz muito fortemente &quot;Deus cuida de mim&quot; e Peter gostaria de acrescentar &quot;, portanto, lançar todas as suas preocupações sobre o Senhor.&quot; Por outro lado, Deus nunca se esquece de nós. Estamos sempre lembrado por Deus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Quantas vezes, quando damos retiros ou missões, uma pessoa vai me dizer &quot;pai, por favor, não se esqueça de mim.&quot; Portanto, todos nós queremos ser lembrados. E uma das maiores dores em nossos corações, hoje, é quando somos esquecidos. Eu estava dando um retiro em Goa, na Índia, foi para os jovens daquele estado e todos eles vieram de lares pobres. Muitos eram de famílias onde os pais eram alcoólatras. De famílias onde os pais eram muito violentos. E havia uma menina que veio para o aconselhamento e isso é o que ela me disse, quando ela tinha três anos de idade seu pai abandonou a família por outra mulher. E então sua mãe estava cuidando dela. Mas, então, a mãe teve que ir ao Kuwait para levar um trabalho para trazer a família. E ela deixou a filhinha com um casal de idosos em Pangim, Goa. Onde sua própria mãe trabalhava como empregada doméstica. E este velho casal amava a menina. Deram-lhe a educação, eles cuidaram muito bem dela. Depois de cinco anos, a mãe voltou para Goa para um mês de férias. E então a menina, ela estava agora com oito anos de idade, ela estava esperando e esperando para conhecer sua mãe que ela não tinha visto nos últimos cinco anos. E depois do feriado do mês acabou e, em seguida, a mãe voltou para o Kuwait sem visitar a filha. Então, quando a menina veio me pedir aconselhamento você pode imaginar o que era a ferida em seu coração. E enquanto eu orava por ela todos esses anos de tristeza e amargura só explodiu em uma enxurrada de lágrimas e gritos. Mas o que Deus, nosso pai, diz? Já no Antigo Testamento o profeta Isaías, este é o que Deus diz: &quot;Pode a mãe esquecer o seu bebê? Pode a mãe esquecer uma criança que veio de seu próprio corpo? &quot;Mas mesmo que ela deve esquecer Deus diz:&quot; Eu não vou esquecer. Porque eu gravei seu nome na palma da minha mão. &quot;Mas mesmo isso não é necessário, porque Deus diz:&quot; Eu estou sempre pensando em você. Você está sempre em meus pensamentos. &quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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Não admira que Jesus nos disse para chamar Deus de pai. Mais uma vez, como eu sei que Deus me ama? Que Deus é o meu pai? É porque quando eu ir para o lado errado, quando eu ficaram aquém das expectativas de Deus, Deus não diz &quot;Agora, deixe-me escolher outra pessoa.&quot; Suponha que um artista faz uma bela estátua. E, infelizmente, ele faz um grande erro em que estátua. O que ele faz? Ele quebra a estátua ou dá-lo afastado. E ele faz uma nova estátua. Ora, Deus não faz isso com a gente. Ele não vai dizer &quot;Vinicius, bem, eu não gosto de você agora. E, portanto, eu quero fazer uma outra Vinicius. &quot;Deus não vai dizer isso, mas Deus me refazer à Sua imagem e semelhança.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Quantas pessoas já me disse em confissão, disse: &quot;Pai, eu quebrei todos os dez mandamentos. E se houvesse mais um mandamento que eu teria quebrado isso também. Sou pior do que Maria Madalena, eu sou pior do que Maria Madalena. &quot;Não, não, Maria Madalena. (Padre Rufus corrige o tradutor que disse Santa Maria, em vez de Maria Madalena) Eu entendo Português hum pouco (Padre Rufus diz &quot;Eu entendo um pouco de Português&quot;, em Português). Então eles me dizem &quot;Eu sou pior do que Maria Madalena. Será que Deus vai me perdoar? Ele deve estar pensando muito mal de mim. &quot;E o que Deus diz? A coisa que ele diz na bíblia são incríveis. Por exemplo, para o profeta Isaías, o que Deus diz? Ele diz a um pecador, ele fala de um pecador, ele diz: &quot;Vamos discutir assuntos juntos. Vamos falar sobre isso. Se os vossos pecados sejam vermelhos como escarlate, vou fazê-los brancos como a neve. &quot;Mais uma vez, o que Deus diz na profecia de Jeremias? Isto é o que Deus diz: &quot;Eu vou perdoar os pecados dos meus filhos e eu nunca vai se lembrar mais deles.&quot; Nosso Deus é um Deus que não só perdoa os nossos pecados, mas esquece-los. Como se diante dele nunca ter pecado. Você vê, você não pode comparar o cristianismo com qualquer filosofia ou religião. É algo além das coisas deste mundo. E, portanto, ele diz que Deus não só perdoa, mas ele limpa sobre a nossa pecaminosidade. Mais uma vez, como eu sei que Deus me ama? Porque mesmo que Ele me ama, Ele sempre me corrige.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Um dia, uma senhora veio me pedir aconselhamento e isso é o que ela me disse, ela diz: &quot;Pai, eu odeio a minha mãe.&quot; E eu disse: &quot;Por quê?&quot; &quot;Porque ela nunca me corrigiu. Ela me permitiu fazer o que eu queria. E eu pensei que tinha a melhor mãe do mundo. Mas agora eu percebo que se ela tivesse me corrigiu minha vida não teria sido no presente bagunça. &quot;Mas o que Deus, nosso Pai, nos faz? A Bíblia é muito enfática ao dizer isso &quot;que o nosso Deus não é um Deus de só nos amar, mas que nos corrige.&quot; Quem ainda nos pune e está sempre nos disciplinar. Por exemplo, a Bíblia diz: &quot;Deus nos disciplina como um pai disciplina seu filho.&quot; Mais uma vez a Bíblia diz: &quot;Se Deus não nos corrigir, não podemos chamá-lo de pai.&quot; E a carta aos Hebreus diz: &quot;Você tem de contar como algo belo quando Deus está nos corrigir. &quot;Deus, nosso pai, nos corrige como nossos pais terrenos nos corrigir. Mas só para as coisas deste mundo. Mas Deus, nosso pai, nos corrige para as coisas para a eternidade. Nossos pais terrenos, por vezes, nos corrigir de forma errada, porque eles são seres humanos. Mas nós quando Deus corrige está sempre com razão e é para o nosso bem. Por isso, a carta aos Hebreus diz: &quot;Conte-lhe uma bênção, olhar para ela como um sinal do amor de Deus.&quot; Quando Deus nos corrige, em que o tempo é doloroso ter que correção, mas Deus sabe o que está fazendo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Por outro lado, Deus não está apenas corrigindo nós, mas às vezes ele está nos testando. O diabo nos tenta, mas Deus nos prova. Há uma diferença. Mas às vezes a mesma coisa, quando o diabo quer nos seduzir, Deus usa para nos testes. Um dia, um jovem veio a mim no que eu estava dando retiro e é isso que ela me disse com grande tristeza e raiva e isso é o que ela disse, ela disse que estava retornando de Missa do Galo na noite de Natal em uma paróquia e na caminho de casa, ela foi estuprada. E então ela me disse &quot;Como Deus poderia permitir que isso aconteceu comigo? Eu sempre fui bom. Eu tenho sido uma pessoa muito religiosa. E para isso ter acontecido em uma noite de Natal? E depois da meia-noite em massa. &quot;Bem, você sabe, eu não sei o que dizer. Eu sei a resposta da Bíblia que Deus trabalha sempre para o bem em todos aqueles que o amam. Mas o que Jesus disse no evangelho? Ele diz que a todos os apóstolos, ele diz a seus próprios apóstolos, que se estavam sendo perseguidos pelos líderes religiosos daquela época. E o que Jesus disse? &quot;Não se preocupe com o que as pessoas vão fazer com você. Não se preocupe, mesmo que eles odeiam e vos perseguem. Não tenha medo deles, porque eu vos dei a vitória. &quot;E na sua agonia no jardim do Getsêmani, o que era Jesus&#39;s oração? É a única vez no evangelho em que Jesus chama a Deus, Abba. Em que o evangelista diz que Jesus chama Deus, pai. E o que Jesus orou? Ele diz: &quot;Deus, meu pai, meu Abba, se é possível tirar a minha vida neste momento de provação. Não me deixes passar através deste sofrimento. Mas não o que eu quero, mas como tu queres. &quot;E esta é a oração que Jesus nos ensinou no&quot; Pai Nosso &quot;. Nosso pai, que a tua vontade na minha vida. Neste mundo, uma vez que tem sido feito no céu.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mais uma vez, como eu sei, meu Deus, nosso pai, me ama? Porque Ele é sempre para mim. Uma das coisas mais bonitas São Paulo diz a respeito de Deus, nosso Pai, é o que ele diz na carta aos Romanos. &quot;Deus está sempre trabalhando para o bem em nossas vidas.&quot; E então ele grita: &quot;Se Deus está ao nosso lado, quem será contra nós? Se Deus é por nós, quem será contra nós? &quot;E, portanto, o nosso direito de chamar a Deus, pai, por isso o nome de Deus para nós. Se alguém me perguntar &quot;quem é Deus para você? Como você definiria a Deus, o seu pai? &quot;Eu diria que este&quot; Deus, meu pai, é aquele que está sempre para mim. Sempre para nós. Esta é a revelação de Jesus. E, portanto, eu vou pedir-lhe para sempre pensar em Deus como aquele que é sempre para você.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mais uma vez, como eu sei que Deus me ama? Porque Ele está sempre me ensinando. Sabemos que na Bíblia quantas vezes é que Deus apareceu a Seu povo. E está ensinando-lhes tudo em grande detalhe. Infelizmente, hoje, as pessoas estão indo para as pessoas erradas para orientação. Para as pessoas erradas para o ensino. Mas você ler o que Deus nos ensina na Bíblia e você vai ver o que uma incrível diferença entre estes dois ensinamentos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mais uma vez, como eu sei que Deus me ama? Porque Ele está sempre me incentivando. Nosso Deus é um Deus de encorajamento constante. Quantas pessoas já me disseram &quot;Meu pai nunca me deu um abraço. Meu pai nunca me abraçou. &quot;Mas o que a Bíblia diz sobre o nosso Deus? Que Deus está sempre nos incentivando. Vimos a vida do próprio Jesus, que é um reflexo do amor de Deus. Quando as mães trouxeram as crianças para ele e os apóstolos queria colocá-los fora. Jesus estava zangado com os seus apóstolos. É a única vez nos evangelhos que Jesus estava zangado com eles. E ele lhes disse: &quot;Não vos impedi-los de chegar a mim.&quot; E o que Jesus fez? Ele levou as crianças no colo. Ele abraçou-os. Ele beijou-los. Ele colocou as mãos em suas cabeças e orou por eles. Esta é a imagem do que Deus, nosso pai, está fazendo por nós. Portanto, para o Deus dos cristãos, é um Deus de esse tipo de amor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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E, finalmente, por que é que podemos chamar nosso pai Deus? Porque Deus está sempre orgulhoso de nós. Uma das mais belas experiências que temos com os nossos próprios pais, o que podemos dizer sobre o nosso pai, &quot;oh, meu pai sempre foi orgulhoso de mim.&quot; Eu estava conversando com um amigo meu, em Roma, que estava escrevendo sua tese na Escritura . E qual foi o tema da sua tese? Foi apenas um versículo da Bíblia. O versículo que diz: &quot;Sede perfeitos como Deus é perfeito.&quot; E ele estava trabalhando por dois anos em um presente sentença. E eu lhe disse: &quot;Por que desperdiçar seu tempo a esta frase?&quot; E ele me disse: &quot;Porque este é o resumo de todo o evangelho.&quot; O que significa isso? Isso significa que Deus nos ama tanto que ele quer que sejamos não apenas como ele. Ele nos criou para ser como ele, mas ele quer que sejamos tão perfeito como Ele é. No Antigo Testamento, Deus diz: &quot;Sede santos, porque eu sou santo.&quot; No Novo Testamento, Jesus diz: &quot;Sede misericordiosos como vosso Pai é misericordioso.&quot; Olhe para os nossos próprios pais terrenos, todo pai quer que seu filho seja o melhor. Todo pai tem grandes planos sobre seu filho. Ele quer que o seu filho a ser um médico ou um engenheiro. Talvez o próximo presidente do Brasil. Talvez o próximo papa. Todo pai sonha com o futuro de seu filho. Quanto mais Deus nossos sonhos pai de cada um de nós? E não é só sonhar, ele disse que, Deus quer que sejamos o melhor. Ele não está satisfeito com o segundo melhor. Ele quer que sejamos a melhor pessoa. E é por isso que Deus nos ama.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Meus queridos irmãos e irmãs, quando olhamos para os evangelhos, vamos perceber porque é que Jesus nos diz para chamar Deus de nosso pai. Saberemos mais quando lemos outra frase de Jesus, começamos este ensino, dizendo que isso era o que Jesus disse: &quot;Se vossos pais, mau como são, sabem dar boas coisas aos seus filhos. Quanto mais o Pai celestial dará o melhor? &quot;Mas eu gostaria de terminar esta conversa por outra coisa que Jesus disse, algo que não é tão bom, isso é o que Jesus disse, ele disse:&quot; Não vos chamar qualquer ser humano o seu pai. &quot;Isto é o que Jesus disse. E você pode se perguntar por quê. Ele disse: &quot;Só Deus chamar seu pai, porque ele é o único que merece o título de pai.&quot; Ele é o único que merece ser chamado de pai. Não significa, portanto, que, após esta sessão, você não vai chamar o seu pai daddy&#39;s mais. Que você não deve me ou pai Jonas pai chamar. E você me diz &quot;Isto é o pai Rufus disse. Isto é o que Jesus disse. &quot;Jesus disse isso, mas o que ele quis dizer? Isto é o que ele estava tendo em sua mente, era sim um desafio para nós, porque pais terrenos se daddys físicos, ou nossos pais espirituais, são destinados por Deus para ser os sinais e canais de nosso Pais amor. Cada pai humano, se é o nosso pai física ou nosso pai espiritual, tem uma enorme vocação de Deus. Ele tem que ser um sinal do amor de Deus. E mais do que isso, ele deve ser um canal, uma média do amor do Pai. E, infelizmente, muitas vezes, o oposto está acontecendo. Quantas pessoas já me disse &quot;eu odeio meu pai&quot; A maior dor que eu já vi em famílias católicas em todo o mundo, é ter um pai que é alcoólatra e que é um homem violento e aterroriza a mãe e os filhos. E pior também, abandonar as crianças. Por qual motivo? Por nenhuma razão. Talvez por algum prazer fugaz. Para seu próprio conforto. É por isso que Jesus disse: &quot;Não vos chamar qualquer ser humano o seu pai.&quot; Ele estava dizendo que como um desafio para você, pais terrenos. Ele estava dizendo aos pais terrenos, ambos os pais espirituais e pais físicos, que a sua vocação é chegar ao padrão de Deus, nosso pai. Você tem uma grande responsabilidade e um ideal. E, portanto, ser pai não é fácil. É um risco. É um desafio. Mas Jesus nos diz que o amor do pai deve ser um modelo, deveria ser um desafio para todos vocês, pais aqui, a todos os pais do Brasil.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Agora vou terminar com uma história. Eu estava abençoando casas durante a semana da Páscoa na minha paróquia em Bombaim e eu vim para uma casa muito grande e eu estava batendo na porta. Não houve resposta. Tocando a campainha. Nenhuma resposta. E então os coroinhas que foram me acompanham me disse: &quot;Pai, não vá para aquela casa. Esse homem é um alcoólatra. &quot;E eu disse a esses meninos&quot; Eu sei disso, mas eu ouvi dizer que ele mudou. Ele se juntou aos Alcoólicos Anônimos. &quot;E então ele me disse&quot; Mas pai, ele voltou. Ele teve uma recaída. &quot;Naquele momento, uma mulher na casa vizinha olhou através da janela e ela me disse:&quot; Pai não vá para aquela casa. Que o homem é como um porco e sua casa é como um chiqueiro. &quot;Então eu lhe disse:&quot; Eu não vim para abençoar as casas, mas para abençoar casas. &quot;E eu continuei a tocar as campainhas. E então a porta se abriu e este homem olhou para mim. Eu o reconheci. Ele justificou que ele não sabia que era o dia das bênçãos das casas. Eu sabia que o seu fundo, ele pertencia a uma das famílias mais católicas de Bombaim. Padres e freiras na família. Mas, infelizmente, ele se tornou um alcoólatra. Seu casamento foi quebrado. Ele tornou-se um mendigo. E então, como eu fui em abençoar a casa, bem, ele era realmente como um porco, com sangue atirado olhos e cabelos desgrenhados. Sua casa era como um chiqueiro, com vômito e excrementos, aqui e ali. Notei que não havia uma única peça de mobiliário em toda a casa. Ele vendeu todas as peças de mobiliário para bebidas e percebeu que ele não tinha roupas, exceto os shorts que ele usava. Ele me disse mais tarde que ele tinha vendido a cada peça de roupa para bebidas. E depois de abençoar toda a casa, eu estava cheio de compaixão de Jesus. Saber o que a dor e humilhação que ele tinha trazido para sua família. E eu gritei com ele, eu gostaria que você pudesse mudar. Mas ele se virou para mim e gritou: &quot;Pai, eu quero mudar, mas me diga como.&quot; Eu não sabia as respostas que eu sei agora. Mas eu notei uma bela estátua do Sagrado Coração de Jesus, no canto da sala de estar. E eu o levei na frente da estátua. E eu lhe disse: &quot;Eu quero que você prometa Jesus, neste momento, que você não vai tocar em uma gota de álcool.&quot; O que me fez dizer que eu não sei. E então eu levá-lo a uma oração de arrependimento, a oração de perdão e uma oração de renúncia. Eu levá-lo a orar aceitar Jesus como seu Senhor e Mestre. E uma oração pedindo ao Espírito Santo para encher sua vida. E então eu saí da casa. Se você me perguntar, então: &quot;Você pensa sua oração pode tê-lo ajudado?&quot; Eu teria dito que &quot;Francamente, não.&quot; Porque, então, eu não tinha qualquer fé. Eu só tinha isso quando eu estava orando por ele. E eu esqueci dele. Um ano depois, os pais da paróquia foram convidados para uma festa em uma das casas dos paroquianos. E todos nós fomos, foi uma grande festa. E em todos os quartos foram os hóspedes e, em determinado momento, o anfitrião da festa, aquele a quem a casa pertencia, levantou-se e falou, e ele disse: &quot;Você pode se perguntar por que eu chamei para esta festa, você pode pergunto por apenas refrigerantes estão sendo servidos. Porque &quot;ele disse&quot; hoje, exatamente um ano atrás, um padre veio a esta casa &quot;E quando ele começou a contar a história do meu cabelo começou a ficar em extremidades, porque eu percebi que ele estava se referindo a minha visita a sua casa exatamente um ano atrás. Mas era verdade, porque a partir daquele momento de oração há um ano ele não tinha tocado uma gota de álcool. O Senhor o libertou completamente de seu alcoolismo. E mais do que isso, seu corpo foi arrebatado com a doença. Os médicos lhe deram apenas dois meses de vida. Mas quando Deus tirou-lhe o alcoolismo, Deus o curou mesmo de sua doença física. E então ele se disponibilizou para ajudar cada alcoólica em Bombaim. Então ele assistir todos os alcoólicos anônimos grupos e ele daria o seu próprio testemunho muito forte. E ele iria terminar o seu depoimento por duas frases: &quot;Dou graças a Deus meu pai, por me permitir ir até às calhas.&quot; Ele foi visto frequentemente nas sarjetas de Bombaim. Calhas com todos os pisos de terra e lama. Sim. Ele foi muitas vezes visto na estrada caído. &quot;Porque, se eu não tivesse ido para lá, eu nunca teria experimentado o quanto Deus me ama.&quot; E em segundo lugar, ele dizia &quot;Há apenas uma pessoa que eu agradeço e que é o nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo por ter me dado uma última chance. Por me dar esta última chance de voltar para a casa de meu pai. &quot;Louvado seja o Senhor.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;Two thousand years ago, the angel Gabriel of heaven
announced to the virgin Mary of Nazareth, that she would conceive by the power
of the Holy Spirit and give birth to a son, whose name should be Jesus (i.e.
Saviour), whose title would be Son of God, whose destiny was to be the King of
Israel and whose goal would be to possess an Eternal Kingdom (Luke 1:32-33).
Not long after his birth, while Herod, then King of the Jews, sought the child
to destroy Him (Matthew 2:23), the Magi, wise men or kings from the East,
sought the new born infant King of the Jews to pay Him homage and worship Him
(Matthew 2:1,2,11). This is the beginning of the Good News of Great Joy to All
Peoples (Luke 2:10-12).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;But it would be thirty years later that this &#39;new
born King&#39; would proclaim that His Kingdom was soon to come (Mark 1:15). And
still three years later, in answer to the questioning of the Roman Governor,
&quot;Are you then king?&quot; and, &quot;So, then you are a king?&quot; Jesus
would state categorically, &quot;Yes, I am a King! I was born for this!&quot;
but add immediately, &quot;But my Kingdom is not of this world&quot;(John
18:33,36,37).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;However only after His resurrection, would the title on the
Cross, exposing the criminal charge against him, &quot;Jesus of Nazareth, King
of the Jews&quot;, prove after all to be true in an exceptional way (John
19:19-22), starting with the unbelieving Thomas&#39; admission, &quot;My Lord and
my God&quot; (John 20:28).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;In the early Church, the risen Christ was always
called the LORD, both in the Jewish equivalent to Yahweh&#39;s true Godhead, as
well as in the Roman expression of the Emperor&#39;s assumed divinity. Jesus came
to be recognised as having dominion over all beings in the heavens, on earth
and in the underworld, over the heavenly powers and the earthly creatures,
being hailed as King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev. 10:16; Col. 1:16-17; Phil
2:9-11). The last book of the Bible concludes the Good News thus: &quot;The
kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and
he shall reign forever and ever&quot; (Rev. 11:15).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Lord especially in today&#39;s by far democratic world? He is King because of his
dignity, for He is not just another human being, however perfect and sinless,
but He is Son of God, the God-man, a claim which no other religious leader
would ever dare to make. He is the King because of His accomplishment, for in
fulfilment of the promises God made to His chosen people, He has redeemed us
from the power of Satan by his blood, and has given us the power of the Holy
Spirit, thus making of us His very own body, God&#39;s special people and family,
and the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Peter 2:9; Eph. 4:15,16).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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expectations of us His disciples (Ps. 95:7), to live a life not in conformity
with the standards of the world, but transformed inwardly by a compete change
of our minds, through a daily and systematic study of Scripture (Matthew
5:20,48), for then we will be able to know the will of God, what is good and
perfect and is pleasing to Him (Romans 12:2; Mark 8:33; Luke 24:27,45; Acts
17:11); a life of unquestioned love and loyalty, that will be seen especially
in our daily commitment to spending time with the Lord in prayer, for
&quot;whoever comes to Me cannot be my disciple unless he loves Me more than he
loves his father and his mother, his wife and his children, and himself as well
(Luke 14:26); and a life of loving obedience to His will (Phil. 2:5-11), for
&quot;no man can serve two masters&quot; (Luke 16:13), and &quot;if any one
wants to be a follower of Mine, he must forget himself and take up his cross
and follow Me&quot; (Mark 8:34).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Há dois mil anos, o anjo Gabriel do céu anunciou à Virgem Maria de Nazaré, que ela iria conceber pelo poder do Espírito Santo e dará à luz um filho, cujo nome deve ser Jesus (ie Salvador), cujo título seria filho de Deus, cujo destino era para ser o rei de Israel, e cujo objetivo seria o de possuir um reino eterno (Lucas 1, 32-33). Não muito tempo depois de seu nascimento, quando Herodes, então rei dos judeus, procurou o menino para o matar (Mateus 2:23), os Reis Magos, sábios ou reis do Oriente, procurou o bebê recém-nascido rei dos judeus para pagar -lhe homenagem e adorá-Lo (Mateus 2: 1,2,11). Este é o início da Boa Nova de grande alegria a todos os povos (Lc 2, 10-12).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Mas Ele é nosso Rei, acima de tudo por causa de suas expectativas de nós Seus discípulos (Sl 95: 7.), Para viver uma vida não em conformidade com os padrões do mundo, mas transforma interiormente por uma mudança competir de nossas mentes, através de um estudo diário e sistemático das Escrituras (Mateus 5: 20,48), para, em seguida, será capaz de conhecer a vontade de Deus, o que é bom e perfeito e é agradável a Ele (Romanos 12: 2; Marcos 8:33, Lucas 24: 27,45; Atos 17:11); uma vida de amor inquestionável e lealdade, que será visto principalmente em nosso compromisso diário para passar um tempo com o Senhor em oração, pois &quot;Quem vem a mim não pode ser meu discípulo a menos que ele me ama mais do que ama seu pai e sua mãe, sua esposa e seus filhos, e ele próprio também (Lucas 14:26), e uma vida de obediência amorosa à Sua vontade (Filipenses 2: 5-11.), pois &quot;ninguém pode servir a dois senhores&quot; (Lucas 16:13 ), e &quot;se alguém quer ser um seguidor de Minas, ele deve esquecer de si mesmo, tome a sua cruz e siga-me&quot; (Marcos 8:34).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Hoje é um dia festivo. O Blog atingiu 100 mil acessos. Desde que tomamos conhecimento das palestras e da existência do Padre Rufus Pereira, já se passaram quase 4 anos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Durante esse período publicamos mais de 100 de suas palestras (100 horas de transcrição de áudio). Valeu a pena. Iniciamos a fase das transcrições em inglês, o que permitirá ao estudioso da vida espiritual e o relacionamento do mundo dos vivos com os que já foram através de Jesus, Maria e todos os Santos, consultar diretamente na fonte, sem ter que contar com o tradutor.&lt;br /&gt;
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Louvado seja o Senhor por nos permitir publicar sempre, até completar essa vasta obra, que quando completa, contará com 268 postagens de palestras, trazendo na íntegra ensinamentos da Igreja Católica, segundo a visão de um dos mais poderosos sacerdotes da Renovação Carismática.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h3 style=&quot;background: white; margin: 0.55pt 0cm 3.25pt; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;A New Ardor, New Methods and a New
Expression for a New Evangelization&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;by Fr. Rufus Pereira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;Every Gospel begins
with the invitation &#39;Come?&#39;, and ends with the command &#39;Go!&#39; (Mk
3:13,14;16:16). Jesus first bids Peter, &#39;Come, Follow me&#39; and then commands
him, &#39;Go, Feed my sheep&#39; (Jn 21:19,17). He first leads the three apostles up to
the mountain top to pray with him and then brings them down to the plains to pray
for the oppressed (Lk 9:28,37). He first calls on them to be evangelized and
then sends them out to evangelize the nations (Mt 4:19,28:19). He first summons
them to wait in the upper room to pray, behind closed doors, for the promise of
the Father, and then sends them forth with the power of the Holy Spirit to be
his witnesses to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:4,5,8).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3 style=&quot;background: white; margin: 3.8pt 0cm 2.2pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;New
Evangelization:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Vatican Council II:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;It is precisely in line
with the teaching and practice of Jesus that the Church of today first prayed
for a New Pentecost, when Pope John XXIII announced the Second Vatican Council
on 25th January 1959 in Rome: &quot;O Holy Spirit … Renew Thy wonders in this
our day as by a New Pentecost;&quot; and then called for a New Evangelization,
when Pope John Paul II addressed the Episcopal Conferences of Latin America on
9th March 1983 in Haiti: &quot;Look to the future with commitment to a New
Evangelization, one that is new in its ardor, new in its methods, and new in
its expression&quot;. A year later, on 30th April 1984, the Pope also threw
this New Challenge to the participants of the Fifth International Charismatic
Leaders&#39; Conference, in Rome: &quot;I ask you, and all the members of the
Charismatic Renewal, to continue to cry aloud to the world with me, &#39;Open the
doors to the Redeemer&#39; … for the Church&#39;s mission is to proclaim Christ to the
world.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;Redemptoris
Missio:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;Finally on 7th
December 1990, the Pope exhorted the entire Church, in his encyclical, &#39;The
Mission of the Redeemer&#39;, to &quot;renew her missionary commitment&quot; (RM
2), and to &quot;commit all of her energies to a New Evangelization&quot; (RM
3). For, he declared, we are &quot;on the threshold of a new missionary
age&quot; (RM2) and we should therefore look forward with glorious expectation
to the New Millennium becoming &quot;a great springtime for Christianity&quot;
(RM 86). In response to the Pope&#39;s exhortation, the Charismatic Renewal has
indeed moved with the Church from the New Pentecost prayed for by Pope John
XXIII, through the New Ecclesial Movement welcomed by Pope Paul VI, to the New Evangelization
called for by Pope John Paul II, - for it is this New Pentecost that has
ushered in and will bring about this New Evangelization, just as there cannot
be a New Evangelization without a New Pentecost.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;New
ardor:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;The First Pentecost:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Before his ascension into
heaven, our Lord had entrusted to his disciples the mission of themselves
making disciples of all the nations (Mt 28:19). But first they would have to
await the coming of the Holy Spirit, in order to receive the power to proclaim
God&#39;s Word with all boldness, to perform the same works as Jesus did and even
greater ones, and to be his witnesses even to the ends of the earth (Acts 4:29;
Jn 14:12; Acts 1:8). Having already received his Word that was burning in their
hearts like fire (Lk 24:32), and now being filled with his Spirit that was
ablaze in them again like fire, the disciples went forth to proclaim the
Gospel, facing persecution and martyrdom with joy. The Pentecostal fire, that
Our Lord had said he had come to bring on the earth, was now blazing in them
and would in turn kindle the whole world (Lk 12:49; 3:16).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;background: white; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;A New
Pentecost:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;Today we too need
to make our prayer the hymn, &#39;Holy Spirit, come down with your fire! Let your
fire fall, to first purify our hearts and then set our hearts on fire to
evangelize&#39;. It was the Pope himself who, at the beginning of the new
millennium, exhorted the whole Church to rekindle the fire of the first
Pentecost and be filled with the ardor of the first apostolic preaching which
followed that Pentecost, making our own the burning passion of Paul who cried
out: &quot;Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!&quot; (1Cor 9:16; NMI n.
40). We need to remind ourselves, as St. Paul reminded Timothy, to fan into
flame the gift of God, for God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but the
Spirit of power, of love and of discipline, and so like Timothy we should not
be ashamed to testify about our Lord and to speak for Him&quot; (2Tim 1:6-8).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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methods:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;New Situation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Such a new ardor is
needed in the Church today in order to deal with today&#39;s unprecedented world
situation of secularization and religious indifference, moral and religious
relativism, consumerism and sexuality immorality, terrorism and violence, and
unethical power and scientific progress. These in their turn necessitate a new
evangelizing attitude and action of the Church, more intensified and courageous
efforts on the part of all evangelizers to find new and more effective ways of
proclaiming the gospel, which are more consonant with today&#39;s culture and more
respondent to the spiritual demands of contemporary man. In the new
evangelization, marriage and the family, women and the youth must be subject to
intense pastoral attention through adult catechesis and spiritual and emotional
counseling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Approaches:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;For this purpose
the Church must find new ways to integrate social communications and mass
media, as the TV and the Internet, into her evangelistic and pastoral planning
and activity, in order to safeguard human rights and promote truth and justice
in public life, to reach out in solidarity to the weaker sectors of society, to
address the social evils of alcoholism, drug addiction and sexual child abuse,
and to infuse cultures with the values of the Kingdom. But more than social
communications, we need the communications and workings of the Holy Spirit,
called charisms, which are a manifestation of his comforting presence and a
demonstration of his life changing power and, as the Dogmatic Constitution on
the Church states, &quot;are useful for the renewal and expansion of the
Church,&quot; by giving guidance and effectiveness to the double ministry of
preaching and of healing in live-in retreats and in outreach missions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Expressions:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;New Movements:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;The most important and
prominent expression or sign of the new evangelization is a rich flowering of
renewal movements and ecclesial communities, which the Pope has constantly
looked upon as &quot;a special Gift of the Spirit to our age and a reason for
hope for the Church and for mankind&quot; (Address at Pentecost 1996). At the
unforgettable meeting of the ecclesial movements with the Holy Father on May
30, 1998, the Pope acknowledged them to be &quot;the Holy Spirit response to
this critical challenge of Evangelization at the end of the millennium&quot;
(n. 7), giving to the life of the Church energies of spiritual renewal of
extraordinary intensity and potentials for effective evangelizing activity. The
Parish needs the power and fellowship of these renewal movements within a
micro-structure of smaller ecclesial communities, called Basic Christian
Communities, where Christians are born and grow in maturity, living their
vocation and mission in depth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;Lay
Witnesses:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;The new
evangelization will also depend very much on the lay faithful being fully aware
of their baptismal vocation and of their responsibility for the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. Today it is often the laity who must be in the forefront in seeking to
apply the Church&#39;s teaching to the ethical, moral and social questions, which
arise in their communities or at the national level. The specific mission of
laymen and women is the evangelization of the family, of culture, and of social
and political life. The prime movers of this new springtime are becoming the
young people to whom the Pope never tires of telling: &quot;You are the hope of
the Church, you are my hope!&quot; The task then of the Church today, and of
its pastors, is to ensure that laity are formed as evangelisers, able to face
the challenges of the contemporary world not just with worldly wisdom and
efficiency but with hearts renewed and strengthened by the truth of Christ. For
contemporary man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, or if he
listens to teachers, he does so because they are witnesses.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;por Fr. Rufus Pereira&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Cada Evangelho começa com o convite &quot;Vem?&quot;, E termina com o comando &#39;Vá!&#39; (Mc 3, 13,14, 16, 16). Jesus primeiros lances de Peter, &quot;Vinde a mim&quot; e, em seguida, ordena-lhe: Vai, Apascenta as minhas ovelhas &quot;(Jo 21, 19,17). Ele primeiro leva os três apóstolos até o topo da montanha para rezar com ele e, em seguida, leva-los para as planícies de rezar para os oprimidos (Lc 9, 28,37). Ele chama primeiro deles a ser evangelizado e os envia para evangelizar as nações (Mt 4: 19,28, 19). Ele primeiro convoca-os a esperar na sala superior a orar, a portas fechadas, pois a promessa do Pai, e em seguida, envia-os para fora com a força do Espírito Santo para ser suas testemunhas até os confins da terra (Atos 1: 4,5,8).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Concílio Vaticano II: É exatamente em linha com o ensino ea prática de Jesus que a Igreja de hoje primeiro orou por um novo Pentecostes, quando o Papa João XXIII anunciou o Concílio Vaticano II, em 25 de janeiro de 1959, em Roma: &quot;O Espírito Santo ... Renovar tuas maravilhas no nosso dia, como num novo Pentecostes &quot;; e então chamado para uma Nova Evangelização, quando o Papa João Paulo II dirigiu as Conferências Episcopais da América Latina em 09 de março de 1983 no Haiti: &quot;Olhe para o futuro com o compromisso de uma nova evangelização, que é nova em seu ardor, nova em seu métodos e novas na sua expressão &quot;. Um ano depois, no dia 30 de abril de 1984, o Papa também lançou este novo desafio aos participantes da Conferência de Líderes carismáticos Fifth International, em Roma: &quot;Peço a vocês, e todos os membros da Renovação Carismática, para continuar a chorar em voz alta para o mundo comigo, &#39;Abra as portas ao Redentor &quot;... para a missão da Igreja é proclamar Cristo para o mundo.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Redemptoris Missio: Finalmente no dia 7 de dezembro de 1990, o Papa exortou toda a Igreja, em sua encíclica, &quot;A Missão do Redentor&quot;, &quot;renovar seu compromisso missionário&quot; (RM 2), e &quot;comprometer todas as suas energias para a nova Evangelização &quot;(RM 3). Pois, ele declarou, estamos &quot;no limiar de uma nova era missionária&quot; (RM2) e devemos, portanto, olhar para a frente com gloriosa expectativa para o Novo Milênio &quot;se tornar uma grande primavera cristã&quot; (RM 86). Em resposta à exortação do Papa, a Renovação Carismática, de fato, mudou-se com a Igreja do Novo Pentecostes rezava pelo Papa João XXIII, através do New eclesial Movimento recebido pelo Papa Paulo VI, para a Nova Evangelização solicitado pelo Papa João Paulo II, - pois é este novo Pentecostes que inaugurou e trará esta nova evangelização, assim como não pode haver uma Nova Evangelização sem um novo Pentecostes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;O primeiro Pentecostes: Antes de sua ascensão ao céu, o Senhor confiou aos seus discípulos a missão de se fazer discípulos de todas as nações (Mt 28,19). Mas primeiro eles teriam que esperar a vinda do Espírito Santo, a fim de receber o poder para proclamar a Palavra de Deus com toda a ousadia, para executar as mesmas obras que Jesus fez e outras maiores ainda, e ser suas testemunhas até os confins da terra (Atos 04:29; Jo 14:12, Atos 1, 8). Tendo já receberam a sua palavra de que estava queimando em seus corações como o fogo (Lc 24:32), e agora está sendo cheios do seu Espírito que estava em chamas neles novamente como o fogo, os discípulos saíram para proclamar o Evangelho, enfrentando perseguição e martírio com alegria. O fogo pentecostal, que Nosso Senhor tinha dito que ele tinha vindo para trazer sobre a terra, agora estava em chamas neles e, por sua vez acender todo o mundo (Lc 0:49, 3:16).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Um novo Pentecostes: Hoje nós também precisamos fazer a nossa oração, o hino, &quot;Espírito Santo, venha para baixo com o seu fogo! Deixe sua queda fogo, a primeira purificar nossos corações e em seguida, definir o nosso coração em chamas para evangelizar &quot;. Foi o próprio Papa que, no início do novo milênio, exortou toda a Igreja para reacender o fogo do primeiro Pentecostes e ser preenchido com o ardor da primeira pregação apostólica que se seguiu que o Pentecostes, fazendo nossa a paixão ardente de Paulo, que exclamou: &quot;Ai de mim se eu não anunciar o Evangelho!&quot; (1Cor 9:16; NMI n 40.). Nós precisamos nos lembrar, como São Paulo lembrou Timóteo, para manter viva a chama do dom de Deus, pois Deus não nos deu um espírito de timidez, mas o Espírito de poder, de amor e de disciplina, e assim como nós Timothy não deve ter vergonha de testemunhar do Senhor e para falar por Ele &quot;(2 Tm 1, 6-8).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Nova Situação: Este novo ardor é necessária na Igreja de hoje, a fim de lidar com a situação mundial sem precedentes de hoje da secularização e indiferença religiosa, o relativismo moral e religioso, o consumismo e da sexualidade imoralidade, violência e terrorismo, e poder antiético e do progresso científico. Estes, por sua vez, exigem uma nova atitude evangelizadora e ação dos esforços da Igreja, mais intensa e corajosas por parte de todos os evangelizadores para encontrar maneiras novas e mais eficazes de proclamar o evangelho, que estão mais de acordo com a cultura de hoje e mais demandado para o exigências espirituais do homem contemporâneo. Na nova evangelização, o matrimônio ea família, as mulheres e os jovens devem ser objecto de intensa atenção pastoral através da catequese de adultos e aconselhamento espiritual e emocional.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Novas Abordagens: Para este efeito, a Igreja deve encontrar novas formas de integrar as comunicações sociais e meios de comunicação de massa, como a TV ea Internet, em seu evangelismo e planejamento e atividade pastoral, a fim de salvaguardar os direitos humanos e promover a verdade ea justiça na vida pública , para chegar em solidariedade aos setores mais fracos da sociedade, para enfrentar os males sociais do alcoolismo, dependência de drogas e abuso sexual de crianças, e para infundir culturas com os valores do Reino. Mas, mais do que as comunicações sociais, precisamos das comunicações e operações do Espírito Santo, chamados carismas, que são uma manifestação da sua presença reconfortante e uma demonstração de seu poder de mudança de vida e, como a Constituição dogmática sobre os estados da Igreja, &quot;são úteis para a renovação e expansão da Igreja &quot;, dando orientação e eficácia ao duplo ministério de pregação e de cura em retiros ao vivo-in e em missões de extensão.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Novos Movimentos: A expressão mais importante e de destaque ou sinal da nova evangelização é um rico florescimento de movimentos de renovação e comunidades eclesiais, que o Papa tem constantemente visto como &quot;um dom especial do Espírito para a nossa idade e um motivo de esperança para a Igreja e para a humanidade &quot;(Discurso no dia de Pentecostes, 1996). No encontro inesquecível dos movimentos eclesiais com o Santo Padre em 30 de maio de 1998, o Papa reconheceu-os a ser &quot;a resposta Espírito Santo a este desafio crítico da Evangelização no final do milênio&quot; (n. 7), dando a a vida das energias da Igreja de renovação espiritual da intensidade e potencial para a atividade evangelizadora eficaz extraordinário. A paróquia precisa do poder e companheirismo desses movimentos de renovação dentro de um micro-estrutura das comunidades eclesiais menores, chamados Comunidades Eclesiais de Base, onde os cristãos nascem e crescem em maturidade, vivendo a sua vocação e missão na profundidade.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Coloque Testemunhas: A nova evangelização também vai depender muito em ser fiéis leigos plenamente conscientes da sua vocação baptismal e da sua responsabilidade para o Evangelho de Jesus Cristo. Hoje é muitas vezes os leigos, que deve estar na vanguarda na busca de aplicar o ensinamento da Igreja para as questões éticas, morais e sociais, que surgem em suas comunidades ou em nível nacional. A missão específica dos leigos e das mulheres é a evangelização da família, da cultura e da vida social e política. Os impulsionadores desta nova primavera estão se tornando os jovens a quem o Papa não se cansa de dizer: &quot;Vocês são a esperança da Igreja, vocês são a minha esperança!&quot; A tarefa, então, da Igreja de hoje, e de seus pastores, é garantir que os leigos são formados como evangelizadores, capazes de enfrentar os desafios do mundo contemporâneo não apenas com a sabedoria e eficiência, mas com um coração renovado e fortalecido pela verdade de Cristo . Para o homem contemporâneo escuta com melhor boa vontade as testemunhas do que os mestres, ou se escuta os mestres, ele o faz porque eles são testemunhas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;by Fr. Rufus Pereira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;When God presented Adam with the &#39;woman&#39;, flesh of his flesh, i.e.
bonded to him in every way, and even when that same woman, instead of being,
what God wanted her to be, a &#39;helpmate&#39;, beguiled him into disobeying God&#39;s
word thus bringing him, and his descendants, under the dominion of the Tempter,
God promised out of love for man that another woman would crush the head of the
serpent in the continual warfare between her, with her offspring, and him, with
his offspring (Gen 2:22-23,18; 3:6,15). That woman would be symbolically
recognized by Jesus both at the marriage Feast of Cana, towards the beginning
of the Gospel and of his ministry, as the &#39;mother&#39; who would stand by man in
his hour of shame and need, and at the Cross of Calvary, towards the ending of
the Gospel and of his ministry, likewise as the &#39;mother&#39; who would be with his
disciples in their hour of fulfillment and glory (Jn 2:1-5; 19:25-27).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;It is of this
woman, the Church, mother and teacher, the mystical body of Christ, that Mary,
the mother of the head, is the symbol, example and inspiration, and in a
mystical way,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;mother
and teacher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;, as the Woman of the Word and the Mother
of the Incarnate Word, as the Woman of the Cross and the Mother of the
Crucified Redeemer, and as the Woman of the Spirit and the Mother of the Risen
Christ, present in his praying Church, teaching us by word and example to be
men and women of the Word, of the Cross and of the Spirit (Phil 3:10).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Woman of the Word&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;In contrast to the first Eve, at the beginning of the old creation,
whose defiant_reaction to God&#39;s Word, which she clearly understood, would set
off man&#39;s ruin, the second or new Eve would respond to God&#39;s message, at the
commencement of the new creation, thus:&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Be
it done to me according your word&quot;&lt;/b&gt;, even though she did not fully
understand it, a response that would again in contrast initiate mankind&#39;s
restoration (Gen 3:1-7; Lk 1:38). That is why Elizabeth, who first acclaimed
Mary as the mother of her Lord, would then, as if to give the correct and full
picture, exclaim, &quot;The Lord has blessed you because you believed that he
will keep his promise, his Word&quot; (Lk 1:43,45). In the course of his
ministry Jesus himself would twice pay indirectly the same tribute to his
mother. When at the end of his discourse a woman pronounced his mother
privileged to have a son like him, he implicitly considered himself rather more
blessed for having a mother like her, and declared that the people who are
really blessed are the ones who like her hear the Word of God and obey it (Lk
11:27,28). On another occasion when, after he had related the parable of the
seed, a disciple informed him that his mother was looking out for him, he
countered that all who professed to be his disciples were precious to him as
his mother was, if they would like her hear the Word of God, put it into
practice, and so produce abundant fruit in their lives (Lk 8:15, 17-21).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;At the close of the
earthly ministry of Jesus, even though the apostles were panic-stricken by his
impending departure with his mission unfinished, they promptly acted upon his
instruction to wait in prayer for the Promise of the Father, the Power of the Spirit,
at Pentecost, that would launch God&#39;s Kingdom and bring about man&#39;s
re-establishment (Acts 1:5-8,12-14). The words of Mary first articulated, at
the inauguration of Jesus&#39; ministry in Cana, must have been ringing in their
ears,&lt;b&gt;&quot;Whatever he tells you, do it&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;(Jn 2:5). How can then anyone claim to be
a disciple of Jesus and a devotee of Mary if one is not committed to read God&#39;s
Word daily, especially in the beautiful lectionary of the Mass, to cherish it,
ponder over it and allow it to bear fruit daily in one&#39;s life? For, as St.
Augustine said, before Mary conceived Jesus the Word in her womb, she had
already conceived him in her mind and heart, the Word that would like the seed
bear fruit and become flesh both in her womb and in her way of life.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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of the Cross&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;If God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us, Jesus in his
turn did not spare his own Mother, but gave her to us not only as a mother, but
as a victim, a patient and suffering mother, standing at the foot of the Cross
with&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;her heart pierced by a
sword&lt;/b&gt;, and gazing at her Son nailed to the Cross with his heart pierced
with a lance (Rom 8:32; Lk 2:35; Jn 19:34,37).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;It was right from
the very announcement of the Incarnation that Jesus let his Mother go through,
and he needed her as Woman to go through, every sort of suffering women go
through, as if to make up by appropriation, in the words of Paul, for what was
lacking in the sufferings of Christ as Man - the torment of being suspected by
the man she loved and who loved her, the humiliation of being refused lodging
in one&#39;s hour of need, the anguish caused by the threat on one&#39;s son&#39;s life,
the plight of being a refugee in a strange or hostile country, the agony of not
knowing the fate of one&#39;s only son, the constant rumours and scandals about him
allegedly breaking the law and the embarrassment triggered by well meaning
relatives pressuring her to put a stop to his weird statements and activities
(Mt 1:19; 2:13-14; Lk 2:48-50).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;But even these were
only shadows of the Cross on Calvary, with Jesus hanging on it casting its
first shadow on Mary standing beside it (Jn 19:25). For it was above all the
pain of seeing her son misunderstood and suspected, abandoned and betrayed,
even by his own &#39;trusted&#39; apostles, unjustly judged and sentenced, ridiculed
and cursed, by religious and secular leaders, and handed over by the very
people who benefited by his ministry to be crucified with two &#39;other&#39; criminals
(Jn 19:17-18). But greater than the suffering caused by man&#39;s callous
indifference and heart rending denunciation (Jn 1:11), was the torture caused
by God&#39;s baffling absence and apparent abandonment, &quot;My God, my God, why
have you deserted me?&quot; (Mk 15:34). How can then one claim to be a disciple
of Jesus or a devotee of Mary if one is not ready to deny oneself and take up
and carry one&#39;s cross to Calvary, to&lt;b&gt;stand beside that Cross&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;with Mary and even be ready to be
crucified. For if Pilate from his judgment seat of Caesar could say of the
wounded Jesus to his enemies, &#39;Behold the Man&#39;, Jesus from the mercy seat of
the Cross could say of his wounded mother to his disciples, &#39;Behold the Woman&#39;
(Jn 19:5, 25-27).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Mary is finally not just the Woman of the Word, the commencement of her
journey of faith initiated, and the Woman of the Cross, the journey itself of
her faith tested, but the Woman of the Spirit, the conclusion of her journey of
faith rewarded. Before the Church was born of the Spirit on Pentecost Day,
Jesus was and had to be anointed with the Spirit in the Jordan, and before that
Mary was and had to be overshadowed by the Spirit, by whom she conceived and
bore Jesus, just as Jesus breathed forth the Spirit, giving birth to the Church
at the Resurrection-Pentecost Event. For in answer to her query, the Angel
declared,&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;The Holy
Spirit will come upon you, and God&#39;s power will come over you, and so your
child will be the Holy Son of God&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(Lk
1:35). The effect of Mary&#39;s Personal Pentecost was manifest soon after, as she
entered the house of Zacharias causing (no irreverence meant) a Holy Spirit
epidemic. For the babe in Elizabeth&#39;s womb leaped for joy at the greeting of
Mary, now filled with the Holy Spirit and pregnant with Jesus - and the baby
John himself was filled with the Spirit while still in his mother&#39;s womb.
Elizabeth herself and six months later her husband Zacharias, and still eight
days later Simeon and Anna would prophesy by the power of the Spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;&quot;&gt;What transpired at
the beginning of the Good News of Jesus in the homes of Mary and of Elizabeth
would come about in a far more extensive and manifest way 33 years later at the
beginning of the Acts of the Apostolic Church in the Upper Room in Jerusalem.
For after nine days of relentless waiting and continuous prayer, the Holy
Spirit came upon the Apostles and disciples on Pentecost Day, as it had come
upon Mary and upon Jesus, like a mighty wind and a consuming fire (Acts 2:1-4).
But what is most significant is that Mary was there in the upper room to
inspire the nascent Church, both by her testimony (Lk 1:46-55), and her example
(Lk 8:21; 11:28). That is the only time she is mentioned in the Acts as if her
presence was needed as much as for the birth of the Church as it was for the
birth of Jesus - for the same Spirit to transform the born again Apostles and
the same Power to empower the new born Church. How can then anyone claim to be
a disciple of Jesus and a devotee of Mary if one is not always open to the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit and under his constant guidance and control?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;por Pe. Rufus Pereira&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Mulher - Mãe e Mestra&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Quando Deus apresentou Adam com a &quot;mulher&quot;, carne de sua carne, ou seja, ligado a ele em todos os sentidos, e mesmo quando essa mesma mulher, em vez de ser, o que Deus queria que ela fosse, a &#39;companheira&#39;, enganou-o a desobedecer a palavra de Deus trazendo-o, e seus descendentes, assim, sob o domínio do tentador, Deus prometeu por amor ao homem que outra mulher esmagaria a cabeça da serpente na guerra contínua entre ela, com seus filhos, e ele, com sua descendência (Gn 2, 22-23,18; 3: 6,15). Essa mulher seria simbolicamente reconhecida por Jesus tanto nas bodas de Caná, para o início do Evangelho e do seu ministério, como a &quot;mãe&quot; que estaria por homem em sua hora de vergonha e necessidade, e na Cruz de Calvário, em direção ao final do Evangelho e do seu ministério, da mesma forma como a &quot;mãe&quot; que estaria com os seus discípulos na hora da realização e glória (Jo 2, 1-5; 19: 25-27).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;É desta mulher, a Igreja, mãe e mestra, o corpo místico de Cristo, que Maria, a mãe da cabeça, é o símbolo, exemplo e inspiração, e de uma forma mística, mãe e mestra, como a Mulher de da Palavra e da Mãe do Verbo Encarnado, como a Mulher da Cruz e da Mãe do Crucificado Redentor, e como a Mulher do Espírito Santo e da Mãe de Cristo ressuscitado, presente na sua Igreja, orando, ensinando-nos através da palavra e exemplo a ser homens e mulheres da Palavra, da Cruz e do Espírito (Fp 3:10).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Em contraste com a primeira Eva, no início da velha criação, cujo defiant_reaction à Palavra de Deus, que ela claramente entendido, iria detonar ruína do homem, a segunda ou nova Eva iria responder à mensagem de Deus, no início da nova criação , assim: &quot;Faça-se em mim segundo a tua palavra&quot;, mesmo que ela não entendeu plenamente, uma resposta que iria novamente em contraste iniciar a restauração da humanidade (Gn 3, 1-7; Lc 1,38). É por isso que Elizabeth, que pela primeira vez aclamado Maria como a mãe do seu Senhor, então, como se para dar a imagem correta e completa, exclamar: &quot;O Senhor abençoou você porque você acredita que ele vai cumprir a sua promessa, a sua Palavra&quot; (Lc 1, 43,45). No decorrer do seu ministério próprio Jesus duas vezes pagar indiretamente a mesma homenagem à sua mãe. Quando, no final de seu discurso uma mulher pronunciou sua mãe o privilégio de ter um filho como ele, implicitamente considerava-se um pouco mais abençoada por ter uma mãe como ela, e declarou que as pessoas que são realmente abençoados são aqueles que gostam dela ouvir a Palavra de Deus e obedecê-la (Lc 11: 27,28). Em outra ocasião, quando, depois de ter relacionado a parábola da semente, um discípulo lhe informou que sua mãe estava olhando para ele, ele respondeu que todos os que professam ser seus discípulos eram preciosos para ele quanto sua mãe era, se eles iriam como ela ouvir a Palavra de Deus, colocá-lo em prática, e assim produzir frutos abundantes em suas vidas (Lc 8:15, 17-21).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;No final do ministério terreno de Jesus, embora os apóstolos estavam em pânico por sua partida iminente com a sua missão inacabada, eles prontamente atendido suas instruções para esperar em oração pela promessa do Pai, o Poder do Espírito, no dia de Pentecostes, que iria lançar o Reino de Deus e trazer restabelecimento do homem (Atos 1: 5-8,12-14). As palavras de Maria primeiro articulado, na inauguração do ministério de Jesus em Caná, deve ter sido um zumbido nos seus ouvidos, &quot;que Ele vos disser, fazê-lo&quot; (Jo 2, 5). Como pode, então, alguém reivindicar ser um discípulo de Jesus e um devoto de Maria, se não tem o compromisso de ler a Palavra de Deus todos os dias, especialmente na bela Leccionário da Missa, a estimá-lo, refletir sobre ele e permitir que ele a dar frutos diária na vida de alguém? Pois, como disse Santo Agostinho, antes de Maria concebeu Jesus a Palavra em seu ventre, ela já havia concebido na mente e no coração, a Palavra que gostaria de dar frutos de sementes e tornar-se carne, tanto em seu ventre e em seu modo de vida.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Se Deus não poupou seu próprio Filho, mas o entregou por nós, Jesus, por sua vez não poupou sua própria Mãe, mas deu-nos não só como mãe, mas como uma vítima, uma mãe doente e sofrimento, de pé ao pé da Cruz com o coração trespassado por uma espada, e olhando para o seu Filho pregado na cruz com o coração perfurado com uma lança (Rm 8:32; Lc 02:35, Jo 19: 34,37).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Ele estava certo desde o anúncio da Encarnação que Jesus deixou sua mãe passar, e ele precisava dela como mulher que passar, todo o tipo de sofrimento as mulheres passam, como que para compensar por dotação, nas palavras de Paul, para o que estava faltando nos sofrimentos de Cristo como homem - o tormento de ser suspeito pelo homem que amava e que a amava, a humilhação de ser recusado hospedagem em uma hora de necessidade, a angústia causada pela ameaça contra a vida de um filho, a situação de ser um refugiado num país estranho ou hostil, a agonia de não saber o destino do filho único de um, os constantes rumores e escândalos sobre ele supostamente violar a lei eo embaraço desencadeada por bem intencionados parentes pressioná-la para pôr fim com suas declarações estranhas e atividades (Mt 1:19; 2: 13-14; Lc 2, 48-50).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Mas mesmo estes eram apenas sombras da cruz, no Calvário, com Jesus pendurado nela lançando sua primeira sombra sobre Maria está ao lado dele (Jo 19:25). Pois foi, sobretudo, a dor de ver seu filho mal interpretado e suspeito, abandonado e traído, mesmo por sua própria &#39;confiável&#39; apóstolos, injustamente julgado e condenado, ridicularizado e maldito, por líderes religiosos e seculares, e entregues pelas próprias pessoas beneficiados pelo seu ministério para ser crucificado com dois criminosos &quot;outros&quot; (Jo 19, 17-18). Mas maior do que o sofrimento causado pelo insensível indiferença e coração rasgando denúncia do homem (Jo 1:11), foi a tortura causada pela ausência de Deus desconcertante e aparente abandono: &quot;Meu Deus, meu Deus, por que você me abandonou?&quot; (Mc 15:34). Como pode, então, uma pretensão de ser um discípulo de Jesus ou um devoto de Maria, se não está pronto para negar a si mesmo e assumir e levar a sua cruz ao Calvário, tostand ao lado daquela cruz com Maria e até mesmo estar pronto para ser crucificado. Porque, se Pilatos de seu tribunal de César poderia dizer do Jesus ferido aos seus inimigos, &quot;Eis o homem&quot;, Jesus do propiciatório da Cruz poderia dizer de sua mãe ferida aos seus discípulos: &quot;Eis aqui a Mulher&quot; (Jo 19: 5, 25-27).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Maria não é, finalmente, apenas a mulher da Palavra, o início de sua jornada de fé iniciada, ea mulher de Cruz, a viagem em si de sua fé testada, mas a mulher do Espírito, a conclusão de sua jornada de fé recompensada . Antes a Igreja nasceu do Espírito no dia de Pentecostes, Jesus foi e teve que ser ungido com o Espírito no Jordão, e antes que Maria era e teve de ser ofuscado pelo Espírito, por quem ela concebeu e deu à luz Jesus, assim como Jesus soprou diante do Espírito, dando o nascimento da Igreja no Pentecostes Ressurreição-Event. Pois em resposta a sua consulta, o anjo declarou: &quot;O Espírito Santo virá sobre ti, eo poder de Deus virá sobre vós, e para que o seu filho vai ser o Santo Filho de Deus&quot; (Lc 1:35). O efeito de Maria pessoais Pentecostes se manifestou logo depois, quando ela entrou na casa de Zacarias causando (sem irreverência significava) uma epidemia Espírito Santo. Para o bebê no ventre de Isabel pulou de alegria em a saudação de Maria, agora cheios do Espírito Santo e grávida de Jesus - e para o bebê o próprio João era cheio do Espírito enquanto ainda estava no ventre de sua mãe. Elizabeth ela mesma e, seis meses depois de seu marido Zacarias, e ainda oito dias depois Simeão e Ana iria profetizar pelo poder do Espírito.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;O que aconteceu no início da Boa Nova de Jesus nas casas de Maria e de Elizabeth viria de uma forma muito mais ampla e manifesto 33 anos depois, no início dos Atos da Igreja Apostólica no Cenáculo em Jerusalém. Para depois de nove dias de espera implacável e contínua oração, o Espírito Santo desceu sobre os Apóstolos e discípulos no dia de Pentecostes, como tinha vindo sobre Maria e sobre Jesus, como um vento forte e um fogo consumidor (Atos 2: 1-4) . Mas o que é mais significativo é que Maria estava lá no cenáculo para inspirar a Igreja nascente, tanto por seu testemunho (Lc 1, 46-55), e seu exemplo (Lc 8:21; 11:28). Essa é a única vez que ela é mencionado nos Atos como se sua presença era necessária, tanto quanto para o nascimento da Igreja, como o foi para o nascimento de Jesus - para o mesmo Espírito para transformar o nascer de novo Apóstolos e o mesmo poder de capacitar a Igreja nascente. Como pode, então, alguém reivindicar ser um discípulo de Jesus e um devoto de Maria, se não está sempre aberta para a inspiração do Espírito Santo e sob a sua orientação constante e controle?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;A santidade do Teu amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Grace of an age/ In your love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;A santidade do Teu esplendor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Grace of an age/ In your splendor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu me prostrarei na Tua presença&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I will give myself/ In your presence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu me renderei ao Teu amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I will Kneel/ Into your love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;(só você, cante para o Senhor)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;(only you, sing to the Lord)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu me prostrarei na Tua presença&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I will give myself/ In your presence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu me renderei ao Teu amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I will surrender/ Into your love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
O que nós temos agora testemunhado, recordamos a entrada triunfal de Jesus em Jerusalém. E podemos nos perguntar, “como pode ter sido uma entrada triunfal, se
Jesus sabia que ia ser crucificado?”. Mas, para nós que cremos, a cruz é um sinal da vitória. Sem saber disso, os seus seguidores o louvavam, E os fariseus
ficaram com ciúme e raiva. E eles disseram para Jesus “peçam para seus
seguidores fazerem todo esse barulho”, e o Senhor Jesus disse “mesmo que eles
me pararem de louvar, as pedras me louvarão”. Jesus entrava em Jerusalém como
um rei triunfante porque a cruz seria o seu trono.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
E agora nós estamos diante
de Jesus no Santíssimo Sacramento. O Santíssimo Sacramento é a arca da nova
aliança. É o sinal da presença de Jesus, da presença de Jesus na Eucaristia, o
sinal de que Jesus está presente em cada um de nós. E é o sinal do amor de
Jesus, rodeando a todos nós. É o sinal do seu poder, que sai desta Eucaristia e
toca a cada um de nós e nos cura. Nós temos que ter consciência de que Ele está
presente. Jesus está conosco com seu amor, que o Pai que nos ama tanto enviou
Jesus até nós, com o seu poder, e o Espírito Santo, para ser um fruto, um sinal
de que nós teríamos uma nova vida. Vamos olhar para Jesus agora, com todo o
nosso amor, com esperança, com fé.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
Nós vamos agora orar de uma forma
bem tranquila e eu peço agora que agora os ministros de música cantem uma
música bem tranquila, em volume baixo, e que nos ajude na oração.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, nós te pedimos que
o Senhor possa caminhar em toda a nossa vida, em todo o nosso passado, pedimos
que o senhor nas cure de tudo aquilo que nós vivemos em nosso passado. Senhor, o
senhor sempre nos pede para a gente não olhe para aquilo que ficou para trás, mas
para que olhemos para frente, para o nosso futuro, mas o senhor quer nos curar
das memórias passadas de tudo o que vivemos até hoje. E nos agora apresentamos
o nosso passado diante de ti, não com o sentimento de culpa, não por nos
estarmos sentindo culpados, mas com um sentimento de alegria. Que o senhor vai
transformar todo o fardo em bênção. Porque para o Senhor, o nosso, assim como
nosso presente é como se fosse o nosso futuro.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Para o Senhor não existe o tempo,
somente a eternidade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E, Senhor, nos te convidamos a
caminhar em toda a nossa vida passada, queremos te louvar por toda a
experiência dolorosa que tivemos na nossa vida passada. Nós queremos aceitar
toda essa experiência dolorosa como parte do plano que o senhor sempre teve
para a nossa vida, e queremos aceitar isso com louvor e agradecimento, ação de
graças. Queremos, Senhor, entregar todo esse passado para ti, para que o senhor
faça com tudo isso o que o senhor desejar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, ao mesmo tempo eu peço
para que o Senhor me ajude a perdoar todas aqleas pessoas que são responsáveis
por minhas mágoas, meus ferimentos. Senhor, nos ajude também a dar perdão às
pessoas que nós próprios magoamos. E também oro, Senhor, por essa cura. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, nós te pedimos para
o senhor caminhar em toda a nossa árvore de família e nos curar todas as nossas
gerações passadas, os nossos ancestrais. Senhor, que o senhor possa ir até o
momento do pecado original dos nossos primeiros país, para que o senhor possa
desfazer todo o mal que acontece desde então. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, eu pela cura de toda a
minha árvore genealógica, especialmente os ancestrais que morreram súbita e
violentamente, em especial todos aqueles que cometeram suicídio, todos os bebês
abortados, todos os mortos em acidentes, todos os que morreram por possessão, todos
os que foram enterrados em valas comuns ou sem reconhecidos em seus túmulos, todos
os que sofreram estupro. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, pelo poder de Sua
própria ancestralidade, por todos o que também necessitam de cura também, cure
a toda a minha árvore de família. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, nós te agradeço pela
Igreja que nos lembra em cada Missa para te louvar. Senhor, lembre-se dos que
partiram antes de nós, Senhor nós rezamos esta prece agora. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Nós queremos, Senhor, perdoar em
nome de nossos ancestrais todos aqueles que O magoaram. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Nós queremos pedir perdão, senhor,
em nome desses ancestrais que também magoaram outras pessoas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, que o Senhor possa
curar agora a vida de toda a nossa ancestralidade, todos os nossos ancestrais. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, conceda-lhes nisso o Seu
repouso, dê a eles o descanso eterno, dê a eles a experiência do poder da Sua
ressurreição. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Obrigado, Senhor Jesus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
((medição)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
((músicos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Estou aqui para ser amado e te
amar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I am here to love and to be loved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te olhar nos olhos e deixar-me
apaixonar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Look into your eyes and let me fall in love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Diante de Ti, para me render ao
Teu amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Before you/ surrender into your love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;E confessar minhas fraquezas, sou
pecador&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;And confess my weaknesses/ I am a sinner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Também estou aqui para pedir
perdão &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I am also here to ask your forgiveness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;E laçar almas que ainda não
buscam o Teu coração&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I reach out for souls that still do not search for your heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te amar... &amp;nbsp;por quem não Te ama &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;love you… for those who do not love you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te adorar... &amp;nbsp;por quem não Te adora &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;adore you… for those who do not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Esperar por quem não espera em Ti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;wait for those who don’t wait in you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Pelos que não creem, estou aqui.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;for those who do not believe I am here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te amar... &amp;nbsp;por quem não Te ama &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;love you…for those who do not love you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te adorar... &amp;nbsp;por quem não Te adora &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;adore you… for those who do not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Esperar por quem não espera em Ti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;wait for those who don’t wait in you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Pelos que não creem, estou aqui.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;for those who do not believe I am here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, nós te pedimos a
cura agora para o início da vida de cada um de nós. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Assim como nós te agradecemos
pelo dom de toda a nossa árvore de família, nós te agradecemos também pelo dom
da família na qual nós nascemos. Mas talvez, muitos de nós não recebemos um
amor verdadeiro, talvez nós fomos concebidos num ato de violência, ou fui
concebido fora do casamento, num adultério, ou também concebido como resultado
de um estupro. Ou então, o início da minha vida foi marcado pela falta de
cooperação dos meus país. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, me ajude a perdoá-los, eu
quero te louvar, Senhor, eu quero te agradecer pelo dom da minha própria vida. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, pela sua própria
concepção no ventre de Maria, me cure agora no momento em que eu fui concebido,
fui concebida. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Maria, Imaculada Conceição, cure-me
agora, ainda no ventre, no momento em que eu fui concebido. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E, Senhor Jesus, nós te pedimos a
cura durante os nove meses em que estivemos no ventre de nossas mães. Senhor, nós
fazemos tantas coisas acontecem que afetam a mãe, e que afetam ainda o bebê que
está no ventre. Talvez a minha mãe tivesse medo do momento do parto, talvez ela
estivesse se sentindo só, meu pai era ausente ou estivesse longe, trabalhando
fora, talvez ele estivesse em perdição, ou talvez tenham pensado em me abortar,
ou ainda tenham até mesmo tenham tentado me abortar, talvez ela tenha tido um
grande choque em algum acidente ou de alguma outra maneira. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, assim como o senhor
trouxe a cura a João Batista ainda no ventre de sua mãe, cure-me Senhor, no
momento, nos nove meses que eu passei no ventre de minha mãe, e cure-me
retropectivamente com a alegria do Espírito Santo. João Batista também se
encheu da alegria do Espírito Santo ainda no ventre, diante da sua presença. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
((meditação)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
((música)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Adorarei aquele que é, que foi e
será bom Deus da minha vida &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Adore you/ The one God who is/ who was and will be/ The God of my life/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Exaltarei a um Deus que me ama, amou
e amará aonde quer que eu vá &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Praise/ the Lord who loves me/ who Loved and always will love me/ Wherever I go/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cantarei em glória pois nem
mereço conhecer-te assim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Sing your glories/ because I do note even deserve to know you this way/&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Mas não duvido, és tudo para mim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;But there is no doubt/ You are everything to me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Adorarei aquele que é, que foi e
será bom Deus da minha vida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Adore you/ The one God who is/ who was and will be/ The God of my life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Exaltarei a um Deus que me ama, amou
e amará aonde quer que eu vá &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Praise/ the Lord who loves me/ who Loved and always will love me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cantarei em glória pois nem
mereço conhecer-te assim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Wherever I go/ sing your glories/ because I do note even deserve to know you this way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Mas não duvido, és tudo para mim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;But there is no doubt/ You are everything to me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, também rezamos agora pela
cura no momento do nosso nascimento, naquele momento em que eu deixei a
segurança aconchegante do ventre materno, e eu fui apresentado ao mundo de
barulho, de forte luz, e de poluição ambiental, sem defesa e sem proteção. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, talvez tenhamos sido
machucados no momento em que nascemos. Talvez eu não tivesse nem mesmo esperado,
talvez meus país quisessem uma menina e eu nasci um menino, ou ao contrário, queriam
um menino quando eu nasci menina. Talvez eu tenha nascido prematuramente, e que
isso tenha desde então afetado as suas vidas, ou tenha sido concebido sob
difíceis condições de parto, ou com o cordão umbilical enrolado ao redor do meu
pescoço... &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;((gritos femininos)) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
Não se preocupem se ouvirem
gritos, são gritos de pessoas que foram muito feridas, só orem no coração de
vocês, no silencio do coração de vocês orem por essas pessoas. Talvez palavra
primeira vez na vida elas estão deixando vir à tona toda a dor que elas
sentiram, o que é uma coisa boa. Muito boa. É uma cura acontecendo. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Então, Senhor Jesus, nos te
pedimos a cura no momento de nosso nascimento. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, tu que nasceste em um
estábulo, sobre uma manjedoura, recebeu o amor de sua mãe Maria, até tu, senhor,
que sua vida foi perseguida pelo rei Herodes, recebeu o amor de sua mãe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Deixe-nos expecienciar esse mesmo
amor de sua mãe. Senhor, no mistério do seu nascimento em Belém, cure-me no
momento do nosso nascimento. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Assim como os anjos, Jesus, que
se rejubilaram com o seu nascimento, que eles também possam se regozijar pelo
nosso próprio nascimento. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, agora eu peço, eu oro
pela minha cura quando eu era criança, esse período mais precioso da vida de
cada um de nós, que as crianças estão expostas a todo o tipo de influências que
há à sua volta. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, eu rezo pelo mais
importante relacionamento durante a minha inflância, o meu relacionamento com a
minha mãe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Talvez, Senhor, talvez haja
alguém aqui quando a mãe morreu no parto, ou ainda quando essa criança era
muito pequena, e ele ou ela, essa criança sentiu muita falta do amor da mãe. Ou
talvez sua mãe não fosse uma pessoa presente, ou talvez logo após o parto
estivesse muito fraca ou doente para poder cuidar da criança. Talvez essa
criança tenha sido enviada para parentes, avós, tias para ser por elas criadas,
ou talvez a criança tenha permanecido com a mãe dela toda a infância dela, mas
talvez esse relacionamento com a mãe tenha sido repleto de magoas de várias
coisas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, me ajude a perdoar a
minha mãe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, talvez ela precise muito
mais de cura do que eu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E eu também oro pela cura de
minha mãe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, cure-me em meu
relacionamento com o meu pai. Talvez meu pai possa ter morrido até mesmo antes
de meu nascimento, ou quando eu era uma pequena criança. Então eu talvez tenha
sentido muita falta da força e da confiança de um pai. Talvez ele trabalhasse
fora em outro país e tenha se tornado um estranho para mim. Talvez ele fosse um
desempregado, sem trabalho, e eu sempre senti vergonha dele. Talvez ele tenha
sido um alcoólatra e tenha crescido com medo dele. Talvez ele fosse muito
violento e maltratasse minha mãe e talvez eu tenha crescido com sentimento de
raiva para com ele. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, assim como o senhor me
perdoou e perdoou todos os meus pecados, ajude-me a perdoar o meu pai, aceitando-o
como ele é. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Assim, Jesus, como o senhor
experimentou o amor de José, seu pai, e assim como também o senhor experimentou
o amor do Pai do Ceu, dê-nos experienciar o amor paterno. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E, Senhor Jesus, eu lhe peço a
cura em meus outros relacionamentos da infância, com meus irmãos e irmãs, cure-me
especialmente cure-me, senhor, nessa área em que eu achava que os meus país
amavam mais o irmão ou uma irmã do que a mim, , Senhor, particularmente se eu
fui sexualmente abusado ou abusada quando era criança, quando pessoas se
aproveitaram e tiraram vantagem da minha inocência. Talvez eu tenha sido usado
ou usada sexualmente de uma forma errada por alguém estranho, ou talvez por uma
pessoa próxima, talvez um parente. Talvez até mesmo por uma pessoa constituída
em autoridade, como um tio, um professor, um médico, um sacerdote. Talvez até
mesmo pelo próprio pai. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, eu tenho carregado essa
ferida no meu coração há tantos anos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, até mesmo o senhor
cresceu em sabedoria e conhecimento diante de Deus e diante de Maria, dê a
graça, agora, de uma infância totalmente curada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
((meditação)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Vamos, Jesus, passear na minha
vida? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Jesus, let’s take a stroll down my life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quero voltar aos lugares em que
fiquei só &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I want to do back to the places I was alone&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quero voltar lá contigo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Want to go back with you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Vendo que estavas comigo, e quero
sentir o teu amor a me embalar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;And see you were there with me/ I want to feel you love/ embrace me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde doi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, vem a mim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde doi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, vem a mim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, eu te peço agora que me cure na
minha masculinidade e feminilidade. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Talvez na minha vida de menino e
menina, eu sentisse que ninguém me amava. Talvez eu sentisse que não tinha
amigos, e comecei a sentir então todos os tipos de medo, o medo de escuridão, o
medo de multidões, o medo de estar sozinho, o medo de pessoas com autoridades, medo
de exames ou testes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, talvez, durante a minha
vida escolar, talvez não atendi a expectativa dos meus país, eles esperavam que
eu fosse melhor em meus estudos, eles esperassem que eu tirasse notas maiores
do que eu tirava, e eu experimentei que eu não era bom o suficiente nem mesmo
para os meus país. Talvez eu tenha sido punido por um professor injustamente, ou
até mesmo talvez eu tenha sido ridicularizado pela minha família em público, ou
talvez porque eu aprendesse devagar, com dificuldade, e apesar de meus esforços
em estudar, talvez eu não tenha tido sucesso, e eu senti então que havia
fracassado. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor Jesus, traga cura para para
toda a minha vida escolar, e que eu possa perdoar os membros da minha família e
os professores da escola do mau tratamento que eu recebi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, cure-me por ter sido
injustamente comparado com os meus primos, meus colegas e outros amigos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Porque
eu senti, senhor, sentimentos de inferioridade, por não ser tão inteligente, tão
bonito ou tão especial como eles. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E, Senhor, eu te peço para me
trazer a cura do meu tempo de juventude, aquele período difícil na vida de cada
um de nós. Cura-me senhor, de todas as minhas frustrações pelas quais eu passei
durante a minha juventude, e senhor, então eu não tive sucesso em meus estudos
em que eu tanto queria fazer. Eu não consegui realizar aqueles estudos que eu
tanto queria realizar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, cura-me pelo sentimento
de talvez não ter tido emprego por tanto tempo e eu me senti inútil. Cure-me
Senhor, por ter feito escolhas erradas na minha vida, especialmente sobre meu
estado de vida, sobre meus parceiros em minha vida. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, eu trato à sua presença
todas as minhas falhas e minhas frustrações, para que o senhor possa me curar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, cure-me em especial na
área da minha sexualidade, quando eu tomei informações sobre sexualidade em
fontes erradas sobre o sexo. E nesse assunto, então, a minha atitude não foi
boa e nem saudável. Cure-me do mau hábito da masturbação e do auto-abuso sexual.
Liberte minha mente e meu coração e meus relacionamentos em tudo o que for
errado nessa área da sexualidade. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Cure-me do sentimento de culpa, desse
fardo, especialmente de coisas que até hoje me sinto mal sobre esse assunto, sentindo-me
culpado. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, cure a todos os homens
aqui e agora em sua masculinidade. Maria, cure a todas as mulheres aqui e agora
em sua feminilidade.E deixe-me experimentar a alegria, a beleza e a liberdade da
minha própria sexualidade. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
((meditação)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quando a lembrança me faz
adormecer... &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;When the memories make me drift to sleep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Sabes que a espada de dor entra
em meu ser &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;You know the sword of pain cuts me in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tu me carregas nos braços &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Carry me in your arms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Levas me com teu abraço &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Take me into your hug&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Sinto minha alma chorar junto de
Ti. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I feel my soul cry with you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde doi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, bem aqui &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde doi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, bem aqui &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E, Senhor, nos apresentamos à sua
presença a nossa vida presente para que nós possamos ser curados.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, cure-nos
qualquer que seja o nosso estado de vida, sejamos nós jovens e solteiros, ou
casais jovens ou casais já amadurecidos, ou se somos viúvos ou divorciados, mesmo
que sejamos agora idosos ou enfermos, sendo nós religiosos, trazemos diante de
ti toda a experiência que tivemos de relacionamentos que possam ter nos
machucados, especialmente quando a minha confiança foi traída, especialmente
quando nós perdemos nosso bom nome, especialmente se houve violência em alguns
dos meus relacionamentos, especialmente se eu me sinto inseguranças, quando
tive medo de tomar decisões. Senhor, a ferida que me foi causado quando não
tive o sucesso desejado em meu cargo ou em meu trabalho, , Senhor, cure-me
senhor no que eu empreendi, naquilo que eu tenha tido insucesso. Senhor, cure-me
nessa área que não me permite mais acreditar nas pessoas e nem mesmo em Ti. Senhor,
eu te apresento todos os acontecimentos na minha vida que me machucaram ou
magoaram, eu te apresento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Mesmo Maria que sofreu por todos
os sofrimentos de todas as mulheres, ela também ficou em pé na sua cruz. Que
ela fique diante da minha cruz, firmemente com esperança no futuro, o Senhor, Jesus,
me disse que sua presença na cruz, no calvário, tu tomaste todo o meu passado
para ti. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, muito obrigado por ter
tomado em seus ombros todos os fardos da minha vida. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, neste momento encha-me
com toda a esperança e fé, em todas as promessas que o senhor fez para mim. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Obrigado por me dizer, senhor, ter
esclarecido para mim que tudo o que não é possível para o homem é possível para
Ti, Jesus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
((meditação)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tantas lembranças eu quero
esquecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;So many memories I try to forget&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Deixo um vazio em minha alma e em
meu viver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Leave a hole in my soul, in my life&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Toma, Senhor, o meu espaço &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord fill my space&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te entrego todo o cansaço &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I surrender my tiredom to you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quero acordar com tua paz a me
aquecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I want to wake in your peace and feel your warmth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde doi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, vem a mim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Srnhor, onde doi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, bem aqui &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Pai do Ceu, queremos agradecer por tudo que nós temos visto o Senhor fazer durante toda a nossa vida. Queremos Te louvar, Senhor, por todas as bênçãos, as bênção que nos rodeiam, a bênção da fé católica, pela bênção da educação cristã, pela bênção da Renovação Carismática, a bênção desta comunidade e pela bênção deste retiro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Pai do Ceu, nós queremos nos perdoar de todos os sentimentos, todas as coisas que nos acompanharam até nossos dias atuais. Senhor, o senhor disse que todas as coisas contribuirão para o nosso bem porque o senhor nos ama. O senhor pode, Senhor, derramar sua bênção sobre cada um de nós, e sei que o Senhor toma controle de toda minha vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Pai do Ceu, eu te agradeço especialmente pela bênção de ter dado a mim Jesus, o próprio seu filho, a quem o senhor enviou para que fosse o meu Salvador e libertador.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Obrigado Jesus, por morrer na cruz por mim, por perdoar todos os meus pecados, por ter derramando a Seu precioso sangue por nós, e termos visto coisas, Senhor, que nunca teríamos visto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, eu te louvo pelo dom precioso do arrependimento, a grande libertação do Homem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, me ajude a realizar o bem daqui para diante e confessar tudo o que eu fiz durante a minha vida até hoje.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Senhor, eu sei que o senhor aboliu todos os meus pecados colocados aos pés de sua cruz, todos os meus pecados são entregues e o Senhor é exaltado no altar de sua redenção.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Obrigado, Senhor, pela sua promessa em Jeremias, “eu perdoarei o pecado dos meus filhos, eu jamais me lembrarei do que eles fizeram outrora”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Obrigado, Senhor, porque através do profeta Jeremias o Senhor disse que os meus pecados, escarlates, seriam transformados em cor branca como a neve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E eu te peço, senhor, que me cure de qualquer ferida emocional e peso na minha vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Muito obrigado, Jesus, porque o senhor caminhou por todo o meu passado e me curou de todas as minhas experiências dolorosas, e o Senhor está dizendo para mim agora para eu não me lembrar do que se passou na minha vida, as coisas que aconteceram há muito tempo atrás, que eu não me lembre delas, porque agora estou renovando a minha vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Vocês não veem? O Senhor está fazendo todas as coisas novas, até mesmo agora o Senhor está trazendo uma nova força.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E te agradeço, Jesus, pela promessa do Espírito Santo. O Espírito, doador da vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E te agradeço, Jesus, por trazer o Espírito Santo para residir em cada um de nós para me dar uma nova vida, uma nova alegra e uma nova paz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E, finalmente, eu te agradeço, também por trazer sua mãe, Maria, para mim.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E eu posso chamar à Sua mãe, também de “minha mãe”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Maria, que esteve de pé diante de Sua cruz, também vai caminhar comigo por toda a minha vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;E Maria nos lembra para que escutemos ao seu filho, Jesus, o filho que durante todos esses anos tem me instruído, tem me ensinado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Obrigado, Maria, por ser a Mãe da MIsericórdia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Obrigado, Jesus, por sua Divina Misericórdia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Bênçãos são derramadas a cada instante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Blessing are spilled at every moment&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Aceito um novo milagre para acontecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;There is always a new miracle about to happen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Deus quer quebrar as cadeias e romper as correntes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;God wants to break &amp;nbsp;out of prisons and chains&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quer libertar e curar todo aquele que crê&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Wants to free and heal everyone who has faith&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s Grace&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da cura, Senhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s healing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da bênção de hoje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace the blessings from far away &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da cura, Senhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da bênção de hoje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Bênçãos são derramadas a cada instante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Blessing are spilled at every moment&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Há sempre um novo milagre para acontecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;There is always a new miracle about to happen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Deus quer quebrar as cadeias, romper as correntes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;God wants&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;to break &amp;nbsp;out of prisons and chains&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quer libertar e curar todo aquele que crê&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Want to free and heal everyone who has faith&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s Grace&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da cura, Senhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s healing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da bênção de hoje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace the blessings from far away&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da cura, Senhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da bênção de hoje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Olha para Jesus, preparando o nosso coração para a bênção do Santíssimo, oremos.&lt;br /&gt;
((oração em línguas))&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vamos agora orar por todas as nossas inteções, rezamos também por elas durante a oração de cura interior, mas queremos também orar por todas as intenções que nos foram colocadas nessas caixas e nessa arca.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Não se preocupem com o que está acontecendo, porque tudo está sob controle.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Não é um caso de possessão, não. Os gritos acontecem porque estavam magoados e feridos.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Todas aquelas pessoas estão chorando porque se sentem como crianças que não estavam com a mãe e ralaram seus joelhos.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Nada está acontecendo aqui demais, é só sua vida que está correndo aqui.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vamos também orar pelas intenções de vocês que não foram escritas e entregues aqui, mas que estão no fundo do coração de vocês.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
E, como fala o Apocalipse, o Livro das Revelações, nós vamos oferecer o incenso aqui que subirá aos ceus.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Uma das palavras da Bíblia é essa, uma palavra confortante, aquele que clamar o nome do Senhor será salvo, será liberto, será completamente curado.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Há poder no nome de Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Aquele que clamar o nome de Jesus, O terá diante de Si, foi o que o anjo disse a Zacarias, “tuas preces foram ouvidas e atendidas, tua esposa vai conceber e dar a luz a um filho”.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
O pobre Zacarias, ele orou para ter uma criança durante toda a sua vida.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Quando o Senhor disse para ele “Eu atendi à tua oração”, ele não acreditava. Não sejam como Zacarias, caso contrário vocês se tornarão mudos como Zacarias ficou. Não se preocupem, estou brincando com vocês, nada vai acontecer, não se preocupem.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Então estendam as mãos de vocês, coloquem a mão nesta posição, desta maneira, como se vocês estivessem oferecendo tudo o que está não coração de vocês, na presença do Santíssimo Sacramento, numa posição de oferecimento e entrega.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
E nós vamos orar agora em línguas, como vocês estavam estavam fazendo de uma forma tão bonita.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;(shia kalabala shala... &amp;nbsp;shia kalabalala shala shin... &amp;nbsp;shia kalabala shala... &amp;nbsp;shia kalabala shala shin...) ((oram em línguas))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
((música))&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vamos agora, no silêncio do nosso coração, agradecer a Deus por toda a oração que fizemos e que com certeza foi atendida. Como o Senhor fala agora, “Sejam firmes, e saibam que eu estou com vocês”.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
((aplausos))&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
((fim da transcrição))&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Transcription 2007 – “Jesus healing path down our lives”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;((music))&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;A santidade do Teu amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Grace of an age/ In your love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;A santidade do Teu esplendor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Grace of an age/ In your splendor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu me prostrarei na Tua presença&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I will give myself/ In your presence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu me renderei ao Teu amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I will Kneel/ Into your love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;(só você, cante para o Senhor)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;(only you, sing to the Lord)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu me prostrarei na Tua presença&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I will give myself/ In your presence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu me renderei ao Teu amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I will surrender/ Into your love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;What we have now witnessed, is a reminder of
Jesus´s triumphant entry into Jerusalem. And you may say how could it be a
triumph when Jesus knew he was going to be crucified. &amp;nbsp;But for those of us who believe the cross is a
sign of victory. And without knowing it his followers were praising Jesus. And
the Pharisees where jealous and angry. They told Jesus “Stop your followers
from making all this noise.” And Jesus said “If they were to stop praising me,
the stones would praise me.” Jesus was riding into Jerusalem as a triumphant
king, because the cross would be his throne. As we now look at Jesus and the blessed
Sacrament. The blessed Sacrament is the ark of the new covenant. And it is a
sign of the presence of Jesus, of Jesus´s presence at the Eucharist, of Jesus´s
presence in each one of us. It is a sign of the love of Jesus surrounding us.
And it is a sign of His power that can reach out and touch and heal us. Let us
be aware of His presence. Jesus is with us. Of His love. The Father out of love
sent Jesus to us. &amp;nbsp;Of His power. Jesus
sent the Holy Spirit to be the fruit and the sign of a new life. Let us look at
Jesus with love, with hope, with faith. And throughout this prayer this
Ministry will play softly to help us to pray better. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Lord Jesus, we now ask you to look walk at our
whole past life and to heal us even then. Lord you tell us not to look back at
our past, but to look ahead at our future, but you want to heal us of the past
memories of our whole life. And we bring our past to you not out of guilt, not
of the sense of guilt, but even in the vessels of joy, that you will change
every burden into a blessing. For You Jesus, our past is as present as our
future. For You there is no time, only eternity. And Lord as we invite you to
walk back our whole past life, we want to praise you for every painful
experience of our whole past life. We want to accept every painful experience
as part of your plan to our lives, to accept it with praise and even thanks
giving. And we want to surrender them all to You, so that you will do with them
as you will. Lord Jesus, at the same time help us to forgive all those who are
responsible for my hurts. Help me ask forgiveness of the persons I have hurt.
Lord I pray for their healing too. Lord Jesus, we therefore ask you to walk
back into our family tree and to heal us and our ancestry. Walk back even into
the origins sin of our first parents, so that you can undo all the evil that
happens since then. Lord I pray for the healing of my family tree, specially if
there is an ancestor who died suddenly and violently. In a special way all of
those who committed suicide. All the aborted babies. All those who died in
accidents. All those who died possessed. All those who were buried in nameless
graves. All those who were raped. &amp;nbsp;Lord
Jesus, by the power of your own ancestry and among the ancestors that were so
many that needed healing too, heal my family tree. God I thank you for the
church that reminds us in every mass to pray to you. Lord remember those who
have died long before us. Lord we made that prayer just now. Lord, we want to
forgive on behalf of our ancestors all those who caused them harm. Lord, we
want to ask for forgiveness of those ancestors that we did have others harmed.
Lord Jesus, bring a total healing into the life of every ancestor that have
died. &amp;nbsp;Lord give them eternal rest. Lord
give them eternal rest. That they may experience the power of your
resurrection. Thank you Jesus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Lord Jesus, we now ask the healing at the
beginning of our own lives. &amp;nbsp;As we thank
you for the gift of our own family tree, we also thank you for the gift of the
family in which I was born. But perhaps Lord I was not conceived in real love,
maybe I was conceived out of lust or in violence, or outside marriage, or as a
result of rape. And therefore the beginning of our lives was mud by the wrong
cooperation of my parents.&amp;nbsp; Lord help me
to forgive them. I rather thank you for the gift of life itself. Lord Jesus to
your own conception in the womb of Mary, heal me of my own conception. Mary by
your own immaculate conception heal me at my conception too. And Lord Jesus, we
also pray a healing during all those 9 months in my mother´s womb. Lord we know
how things affecting the mother could have also affected her unborn child.
Perhaps my mother was afraid of child birth. Perhaps she was alone. My father
was absent or away on work. Perhaps she was harassed by her in laws.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps she had thoughts of aborting me. Perhaps
she even tried to abort me. Perhaps she had a great shock in some accident or
in any other way. Lord Jesus, even as you brought healing to the unborn John
the Baptist in his mother´s womb, heal me during these 9 months I was in my
mother´s womb. And feel me retrospectively with the joy of the Holy Spirit.
Even as John the Baptist was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit at your
presence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Estou aqui para ser amado e te amar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I am here to love and to be loved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te olhar nos olhos e deixar-me apaixonar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Look into your eyes and let me fall in love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Diante de Ti, para me render ao Teu amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Before you/ surrender into your love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;E confessar minhas fraquezas, sou pecador&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;And confess my weaknesses/ I am a sinner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Também estou aqui para pedir perdão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I am also here to ask your forgiveness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;E laçar almas que ainda não buscam o Teu coração&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I reach out for souls that still do not search for your heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te amar... &amp;nbsp;por quem não Te ama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;love you… for those who do not love you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te adorar... &amp;nbsp;por quem não Te adora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;adore you… for those who do not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Esperar por quem não espera em Ti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;wait for those who don’t wait in you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Pelos que não creem, estou aqui.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;for those who do not believe I am here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te amar... &amp;nbsp;por quem não Te ama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;love you…for those who do not love you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te adorar... &amp;nbsp;por quem não Te adora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;adore you… for those who do not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Esperar por quem não espera em Ti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;wait for those who don’t wait in you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Pelos que não creem, estou aqui.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;for those who do not believe I am here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Lord Jesus, we also now pray for your healing
at the moment of my birth. At that moment when I left the womb security of my
mother´s womb and I was thrust into a world of noise and blinding light, of
environmental pollution, without protection or comfort. Lord Jesus, perhaps I
was not really wanted when I was born. Perhaps I was not even expected. Perhaps
my parents wanted a baby girl and I was born a baby boy. Or they wanted a baby
boy and I was born a baby girl. Perhaps Lord someone here was born prematurely
and that has affected his or her life ever since. Perhaps somebody here was
born from a difficult labor or with the umbilical cord around the neck. Don´t
get bothered if you hear noises like this, it is the cry of people who have
been hurt. Just quietly in your heart pray for them. For the first time in
their lives they are letting out their pain and their grief. And that is a good
thing. That is a good thing. It is a healing. And so Lord Jesus we ask you to
heal us at the moment of our birth. Allowed you to fall on this stable and
received the warm love of Mary, your mother. Even as you, whose life was
threaten by King Herod, received the love of Mary, your mother. &amp;nbsp;Let me have that same experience of your
mother´s love. And Lord by your mystery of your birth on Bethlehem heal me at
the moment of my birth. And as angels rejoiced at your birth may I hear their
rejoice at my birth too. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;And now Lord Jesus I pray for my healing as a
little infant, as little child. That most impressionable period of everyone´s
life. When the child is exposed to every kind of influences, both good and bad.
Lord I pray for the healing of that most important relationship in everyone´s
life as a child, my relationship with my mother. Perhaps Lord there is even
someone here whose mother died in child birth, or when he or she was very
small. And he or she missed a mother´s love. Or perhaps she was there, she was
there, but she was too weak or sickly to look after me. And I might have been
sent to a grandparent or an aunt to be looked after. Or perhaps Lord I was with
her all my childhood and I have been hurt in many ways by this relationship.
Lord help me to forgive my mother. Perhaps Lord she needs more healing than I
do. &amp;nbsp;And I pray for her healing too. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Lord heal me with my relationship with my
father. Perhaps my father died even before I was born or when I was a little
child. And so I missed the confidence and the strength of a daddy. Perhaps he
was abroad at birth and he was a stranger to me. Perhaps he was jobless and
without any work and I was ashamed of him. Perhaps he was an alcoholic and I
grew up with fear of him. Perhaps he was very violent and ill threated my
mother and I grew up hating him. Lord as even you have forgiven me my many
sins, help me to forgive my father just as he is. And even as you experienced
the love of Joseph, your father. And more so, the love of your heavenly father.
Give me the experience of a father´s love. And Lord Jesus I also ask your
healing in my other childhood relationships with my brothers and sisters. Heal
me even if I held then that my parents loved my brother, or my sister, more
than myself. And Lord specially heal me if I was sexually misused as a child.
When people took advantage of my innocence and my trust. And perhaps I was
sexually misused by a stranger or perhaps by a close relative. Perhaps even by
a person in authority. An uncle, a teacher, a doctor, a priest, maybe by my own
father. And so long I have been carrying this guilt in my heart all these
years. Lord Jesus even as you grew up as a child in wisdom and grace before God
and before man. Give me the grace of a healed childhood. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Adorarei aquele que é, que foi e será bom Deus da minha vida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Adore you/ The one God who is/ who was and will be/ The God of my life/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Exaltarei a um Deus que me ama, amou e amará aonde quer que eu vá&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Praise/ the Lord who loves me/ who Loved and always will love me/ Wherever I go/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cantarei em glória pois nem mereço conhecer-te assim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Sing your glories/ because I do note even deserve to know you this way/&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Mas não duvido, és tudo para mim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;But there is no doubt/ You are everything to me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Adorarei aquele que é, que foi e será bom Deus da minha vida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Adore you/ The one God who is/ who was and will be/ The God of my life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Exaltarei a um Deus que me ama, amou e amará aonde quer que eu vá&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Praise/ the Lord who loves me/ who Loved and always will love me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cantarei em glória pois nem mereço conhecer-te assim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Wherever I go/ sing your glories/ because I do note even deserve to know you this way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Mas não duvido, és tudo para mim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;But there is no doubt/ You are everything to me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Lord Jesus now we pray for a healing of my
boyhood or girlhood. Perhaps Lord at this time of my life I began to feel
nobody loved me. Perhaps I felt I had no friends. I began to have all types of
fear. The fear of darkness, the fear of crowds, the fear of being alone, the
fear of authority, the fear of exams. Lord Jesus during this time of my
schooling perhaps I could not come up to the expectations of my parents. They would
ask of me to do better in my studies, to get better marks and higher ranks. And
I felt I was not good enough not even for them. Perhaps I was punished unjustly
by a teacher. Or even ridiculed by my family in public. Perhaps Lord I was a
slow learner. And instead of studying and doing my best I did not succeed. And
I felt a sense of failure. Lord Jesus, bring healing into all my years of
schooling as I want to forgive my family members and my school teachers for all
the hurts I received. Heal me specially if I was unduly wrongly compared with
my cousins or my other friends and I felt deep feelings of rejection and of
inferiority. Feeling that I was not as clever or as beautiful or as good as
they were. And Lord I now ask you to bring a healing at the time of my youth,
that difficult period in everyone´s life. Heal me from the frustrations I went
thru during these years of my youth. When I could not succeed in the studies I
wanted to excel in. When I could not do the studies I wanted to do. Heal me
specially if I did not have a job for a long time and I felt useless. Heal me
now Lord if I feel I made the wrong decision in my life, if I made the wrong
decision in my life. Specially about mu state of life, about my partner in
life. Lord I bring to you all my failures and frustrations for your healing.
Lord heal me specially in my area of sexuality. When I got information about
sex from the wrong sources. And my attitude in this matter was not a good and
healthy one. Heal me from the burden and the habit of masturbation and self
abuse. Free my mind and my heart and my relations from everything that is wrong
in this area of my sexuality. Heal me of the burden of guilt, specially if
there were things I did which even now I feel very bad about. Jesus I pray heal
every man here in his male sexuality. Mary I pray heal every woman here in her female
sexuality. Let me experience the beauty and the joy of the freedom of my own
sexuality. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Vamos, Jesus, passear na minha vida?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Jesus, let’s take a stroll down my life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quero voltar aos lugares em que fiquei só&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I want to do back to the places I was alone&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quero voltar lá contigo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Want to go back with you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Vendo que estavas comigo, e quero sentir o teu amor a me embalar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;And see you were there with me/ I want to feel you love/ embrace me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde doi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, vem a mim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde doi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, vem a mim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;And Lord we now finally bring our present life
to you for your healing. Lord heal us whatever be our stage of life. Whether we
are still youth and single or whether we are young married couples or older
married couples. Whether we are widows or we are divorced. Whether we are now
old and infirm. Whether we are priests or religious or same in all&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/null&quot; name=&quot;_GoBack&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;iance &amp;nbsp;(init 47:15)
Lord Jesus we bring to you every relationship which has been a hurting
experience. Specially if my trust was betrayed. Specially if I suffered the
loss of my good name. The loss of my good name. Specially Lord if there was
violence in any relationship. Specially if I grew up afraid of making decisions.
Heal me Lord specially if I was not able to do and perform well in my job and
in my work. Heal me Lord specially if I was not able to succeed in whatever I
tried to do well. Heal me Lord specially if I lost faith in people and even in
You. Lord I bring to you every painful and hurting event in all these years of
my adulthood for your healing. And Mary even as you suffered every suffering
woman go thru, even as you stood at the foot of the cross of your son, stand
beside me at my cross. And feel me with hope for the future. Jesus you told me
not to look back at my past because at your debit at the Calvary Cross You have
healed my whole past. Thank You Jesus for taking upon yourself every burden of
my life and feeling me with faith and with hope and every promise you have
given to me. Thank You Jesus foe telling me what was impossible to man was
possible to God. Thank You Jesus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tantas lembranças eu quero esquecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;So many memories I try to forget&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Deixo um vazio em minha alma e em meu viver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Leave a hole in my soul, in my life&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Toma, Senhor, o meu espaço&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord fill my space&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Te entrego todo o cansaço&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I surrender my tiredom to you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quero acordar com tua paz a me aquecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I want to wake in your peace and feel your warmth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde doi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, vem a mim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Srnhor, onde doi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where it hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, bem aqui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal, come here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Cura Senhor, onde eu não posso ir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Lord heal where I can not go&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Heavenly Father we therefore thank You for all
the blessing we have received from you throughout our lives. The blessing of
the beautiful nature around us. The blessing of our catholic faith, of our
Christian education, of the charismatic renewal, of this community and of this
retreat. Heavenly Father I thank You for even my sufferings and failures and
setbacks, because you allowed them to happen to me only because you love me.
And because you can turn every burden into a blessing. And you are in full
control of our whole lives. Heavenly Father I thank You specially for your
greatest gift to me, the gift of Jesus your son. Who have ascended into my life
to be my savior, my liberator. Thank you Jesus for dying on the cross for me.
For forgiving me all my sins. For wiping them away with your precious blood. As
in your sight you never sinned. Lord I thank You for your precious gift of
repentance, man´s greatest liberation. Help me Jesus to make a real good and
sincere confession of my whole life, as I bring all my sins and I place them at
the foot of your cross. As I bring all my sins and place them at the altar of
redemption.&amp;nbsp; Thank You God of your
promise in the Prophet Jeremiah. I will forgive the sins of my children and I
will never remember what they have done. Thank You Lord for telling me to the
prophet if your sins are as red as scarlet I will make them white as snow. If
your sins are as red as scarlet I will make them white as snow. And I thank You
Lord Jesus for healing me of every emotional hurt and burden of my life. Thank
You Jesus for walking back in my whole past life and healing me of every
painful experience. And therefore now you are telling me remember not the
things of the past. The things from long ago, remember not. But behold and do a
new thing in your life. Don´t you see it? Don´t you see it? Even now it is
springing forward. And I thank you Jesus for the promise of the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit that is the life giver. I thank You Jesus for giving me your Holy
Spirit to live deeper in me, to give me a new life, and a new spirit, a new joy
and a new peace. And finally Jesus I thank you for the gift of your own mother
Mary to me, so I can call your mother even my mother. Mary even as you stood by
Jesus, even at his cross, stand by me all my life. And always remind me to
listen to your son Jesus. And always bring to my mind all he has taught me and
is teaching me. Thank you Mary for being the mother of mercy. And thank you
Jesus for your divine mercy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Bênçãos são derramadas a cada instante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Blessing are spilled at every moment&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Aceito um novo milagre para acontecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;There is always a new miracle about to happen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Deus quer quebrar as cadeias e romper as correntes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;God wants to break &amp;nbsp;out of prisons and chains&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quer libertar e curar todo aquele que crê&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Wants to free and heal everyone who has faith&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s Grace&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da cura, Senhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s healing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da bênção de hoje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace the blessings from far away &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da cura, Senhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da bênção de hoje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Bênçãos são derramadas a cada instante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Blessing are spilled at every moment&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Há sempre um novo milagre para acontecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;There is always a new miracle about to happen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Deus quer quebrar as cadeias, romper as correntes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;God wants&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;to break &amp;nbsp;out of prisons and chains&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Quer libertar e curar todo aquele que crê&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Want to free and heal everyone who has faith&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s Grace&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da cura, Senhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s healing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da bênção de hoje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace the blessings from far away&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da cura, Senhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Tomo posse da bênção de hoje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;We will now pray for all our intentions. We
have already prayed for them in the prayer for inner healing, but we can also
pray for those intentions that have been written and put here in the box. We
don´t care about what is happening everything is in control. And not so much
that they have been possessed but that they have been hurt. They are like
little children crying because mommy is not there. Or they have fallen and hurt
their knees. And it is nothing special but is life as goes on. Therefore we are
also praying for your intentions which are not written but which are in your
heart. And as the book of revelations says we are offering all the incenses,
all the intentions as incenses´ smoke going to heaven. One of the most
comforting verses in the Bible is this: He who calls upon the name of the Lord
will be saved, will be healed, will be delivered. There is power in the name of
Jesus. Who calls upon the name of the Lord will have their prayers answered.
That what angels told Zachary “Your prayers have been answered. Your wife can
conceive and bear a child. ” Poor Zachary, he was praying for a child all his
life for when God told him he had answered his prayer he could not believe him.
So don´t be like Zachary. Otherwise you will be struck down like him.&amp;nbsp; Now don´t take me seriously, nothing will
happen. So now put your hands like this as if you were offering and you are
offering everything you have in your heart to the Lord in the presence of the
blessed Sacrament. And the best bet you make is praying in tongues as you have
been doing so beautifully all this while. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;((pray in tongues))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;Eu tomo posse da graça de Deus/ tomo posse da cura Senhor/ tomo posse da benção de longe/ eu tomo posse da graça de Deus/ tomo posse da cura Senhor/ tomo posse da benção de longe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;I embrace God’s Grace/ I embrace God’s healing/ I embrace the blessings from far away/ I embrace God’s Grace/ I embrace God’s healing/ I embrace the blessings from far away&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Let us in deep silence now, thank the Lord for
all answering every prayer we have made. As God says “be still and know that I
am your Lord and God.”&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;((end of record)) &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;[071:09]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;Abba, Father&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;by Fr. Rufus Pereira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;GOD is called by
various names and is given varied attributes in the Bible. To us his children
however his most significant name is &#39;God our Father&#39;, and his most cherished
attribute is &#39;God is Love&#39;. Why? The logic is unmistakable in the astonishing
parallelism and the more amazing polarity between our earthly fathers and our
heavenly Father. &quot;As bad as you are,&quot; Jesus told the fathers of his
day, &quot;you still know how to give good things to your children. But how
much even more ready is your heavenly Father to give good things to people who
ask Him!&quot; (Mt. 7:11).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;He made
me ...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;If
we owe our birth to our earthly fathers, and that too only for our bodies, how
much more do we owe God for creating our whole person, and creating it into his
own image and likeness, i.e., to be like himself, something good and beautiful
(Gen. 1:1.2,26,27). An image, however perfect, is distinct from and inferior to
the object, and still so much like it that it can often be mistaken for the
original. A doting father will say with pride that his newborn son looks every
bit like him and the fond mother will add that he is the perfect image of his
father. When the psalmist questions God, &quot;Why do you care about us humans?
Why are you concerned about us weaklings?&quot; he himself gives the answer,
&quot;You made us a little lower than yourself, and you have crowned us with glory
and honor&quot; (Ps 8:4,5). Paul also insists, &quot;We have only one God, and
He is the Father. He created everything and we live for Him&quot; (1 Cor. 8:6).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;... and
I belong to Him&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;A child is likewise proud of his father for no other reason than that he
is his Dad. Even when he himself will later on become a father and famous, he
will still respect his father and refer to him lovingly as Dad. I was keeping
an eye on a friend&#39;s little granddaughter of four years as she was playing with
the neighbor&#39;s boy in the garden. As little boys often do, he began bragging
about his father. Then out of the blue he asked her about her father. For a
second she was nonplussed, since her parents were separated and she was living
alone with her mother. Suddenly she pointed at me and blurted out, &quot;That&#39;s
my Dad!&quot; With how much more boldness and pride could the psalmist
proclaim, &quot;The Lord is our God; He created us, and we belong to him; we
are his people, the sheep he takes care of in his own pasture&quot; (Ps. 95:7;
100:3).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;He loves
me ...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Though there is an infinite difference between us, a &#39;generation gap&#39; as
it were, the transcendent God invites me into a personal relationship with Him.
For He is not an impersonal divine energy or force to be &#39;tapped&#39; from around
myself, or to be &#39;discovered&#39; deep within myself, but a divine person who loves
me. &quot;Think how much the Father loves us,&quot; John contemplates with awe.
&quot;He loves us so much that he lets us be called his children, - as we truly
are&quot;; while &quot;the people of this world ... don&#39;t know who we
are.&quot; Then he bursts out with his amazing discovery, &quot;God is
Love!&quot; (Jn. 3:1; 4:8,16). Paul on his part assures us, &quot;God our
Father loves us. He is kind and has given us eternal comfort and a wonderful
hope&quot; (2 Thes. 2:16). God our Father himself specifies this personal
relationship thus, &quot;I will live with you and walk among you - I will be
your God, and you will be my people;&quot; and again, &quot;I will be your
Father, and you will be my sons and daughters&quot; (Lev. 26:12; 2 Cor.
6:16,18).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I am loved by Him&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;It is an unbelievable privilege to relate to God, as a person having
one&#39;s own free will, instead of seeking to become immersed in some universal
divinity and thus lose one&#39;s identity which God our Father respects. Parents
are too aware that their children are all different &#39;persons&#39;, and that even
their smallest child has a &#39;will of his own&#39;, which the fond Dad will playfully
accept and boast about to his friends. &quot;You say that God is your Father,
but God doesn&#39;t have favorites!&quot; admonishes Peter (1 Peter 1:17). Instead,
as Paul puts it succinctly, &quot;There is one God who is the Father of all
people. God is indeed above all others, but he works by using all of us, and he
lives in all of us&quot; (Eph. 4:6). For he has created each one of us in a unique
way, and loves each one of us as being the only person in the world for Him to
love - and so in a way each one of us is God&#39;s favorite child.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;He cares
for me ...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;When I asked each youth during inner healing counseling, &quot;What has
hurt you the most in your life?&quot; every second youth told me bluntly,
&quot;My father does not care for me.&quot; Peter however assures us, &quot;God
cares for you, so turn all your cares and worries over to Him&quot; (1 Pet
5:7). Our heavenly Father does not want us to worry about our life, about what
to eat and what to wear. He knows what we need before we ask - and will take
care of all our needs. Only people who don&#39;t know God are always worrying about
such things. If He takes such care of birds and flowers, aren&#39;t we worth more
than them? If our earthly fathers, as bad as they are, still know how to give
good things to their children, how much more will our heavenly Father be ready
to give good things to people who ask, for every good and perfect gift comes
down from the Father. But he wants us to put his work first and do what he
wants. Then the other things will be ours as well. (Mt. 6:8,22-32;7:11; Luke
12:22-31; Ph. 4:19; James 1:17). For the Father has never stopped working and
doing good - even on the Sabbath (John 5:17), and he always answers our prayers,
not in the way we want but always in the way he knows we need.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;... and
will never forget me&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;During an Inner Healing Retreat for youth in Goa, a teenager from a low
social background, that was marred by poverty, alcoholism and violence, came
for counseling. Her father had deserted the family when she was just three
years old. To make ends meet, her mother took a job as a domestic in Kuwait,
leaving her daughter in the care of the old respected couple in Panjim for whom
she had been working as a maid. Five years later the mother returned to Goa for
a month, and the girl, now eight years old, was longing to see her, - but she
waited in vain. For the mother went back to Kuwait after her holiday -without
visiting her daughter. When I prayed over the girl, all her pent-up sadness and
bitterness of years gushed out in torrents of loud cries and tears (cfr Heb.
5:7). In stark contrast our Father God guarantees us, &quot;Could a mother
forget a child who nurses at her breast? Could she fail to love an infant who
came from her own body? But even if a mother could forget, I will never forget
you. In fact I have written your name on my hand but, that apart, you are
always in my thoughts&quot; (Is. 49:5-16).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;He
forgives me ...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;The Father is a merciful God,&quot; states Paul, &quot;who always gives
us comfort&quot; (2 Cor. 1:3). Jesus himself pleaded, &quot;Don&#39;t be cruel to
any of these little ones! The Father in heaven does not want any of these
little ones to be lost (Mt. 18:10,14). Already in the Old Testament, God
expressed himself thus, &quot;My feelings for you are much too strong. I am God
and not man - I won&#39;t lose my temper and I won&#39;t stay angry&quot; (Hos. 1:8,9).
&quot;I have broken all the ten commandments,&quot; a penitent will often
confess to me, &quot;Will God ever forgive me? I am worse than Mary Magdalene.&quot;
What is God&#39;s answer? &quot;I, the Lord, invite you to come and talk it over.
Your sins are scarlet red but they will be whiter than snow or wool&quot; (Is.
1:18). And even more plainly, &quot;I will forgive your sins and forget the
evil you have done.&quot; (Jer. 31:34). God did not write off David when he
committed the double sin of adultery and of murder. He not only forgave him but
he also confirmed his promise that he would still be the forefather of the
Messiah. Obviously, one may be led to conclude, King David received better
treatment at the hands of the sinless God in heaven than President Clinton at
the hands of his sinful fellow men on earth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;... and
wants me to forgive others&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;After teaching us how to pray, Jesus expands, curiously, only on the
sixth petition. &quot;If you forgive others for the wrongs they do to you, your
Father in heaven will forgive you. But if you don&#39;t forgive others, your Father
will not forgive He you your sins (Mt 6:14,15); and, worse still, as the master
dealt with the unforgiving servant, &quot;that is how my Father in heaven will
treat you, if you don&#39;t forgive all your brothers with all your heart&quot; (Mt
18:35). Again, at least out of gratitude to God, we must be compassionate to
others, just as our Father is compassionate to us (Luke 6:36). But the most
significant reason to forgive is that forgiving others makes us like our Father
God. &quot;You have heard people say, &#39;Love your neighbors and hate your
enemies.&#39; But I tell you to love your enemies and pray for everyone who is
cruel and mistreats you. Be good to everyone who hates you and ask God to bless
anyone who curses you. Don&#39;t act like those who only love their friends but you
must always act like your Father in heaven, who makes the sun rise on and sends
rain for both good and bad people and is good even to people who are unthankful
and cruel. Then you will be true children of God in heaven (Mt. 5:43-48; Luke
6:27-36).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;He
corrects me ...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&quot;Consider yourself fortunate if God chooses to correct you&quot;
Eliphaz advises Job (Job 5:17); and Proverbs admonishes, &quot;My child, don&#39;t
turn away or become bitter when the Lord corrects you. The Lord corrects
everyone he loves, just as parents correct their favorite child&quot; (Prov.
3:11,12). On the contrary a young lady told me during counseling, &quot;I hate
my mother, for she never corrected me, but allowed me to do whatever I wanted.
I thought then that she was a wonderful mother. How I wish she had been
stricter with me. Then I wouldn&#39;t have landed in this mess.&quot; The Hebrews
letter therefore writes very persuasively, &quot;When the Lord punishes you,
don&#39;t make light of it, and when he corrects you, don&#39;t be discouraged. The
Lord corrects the people he loves and disciplines those he calls his own ...
This is how God treats his children. Don&#39;t all parents correct their children?
God corrects all of his children, and if he doesn&#39;t correct you, then you don&#39;t
really belong to him. Our earthly father corrects us and we still respect them.
Isn&#39;t it even better to be given true life by letting our spiritual Father
correct us? Our human father corrects us for a short time, and they do it as
they think best. But God corrects us for our own good, because he wants us to
be holy, as he is ... though at the time it is always painful... (Heb.
12:5-11).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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tests me&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;God our Father also wants us to trust in him blindly and not to give up
when our faith is being tested (James 1:12). A young lady attending my retreat
told me that she was gang raped on her way home from her parish Christmas
midnight Mass. She confronted me with sorrow and anger, &quot;How could God
have let this happen to me - I have been very good and religious all my life -
and that too soon after Mass and at Christmas night.&quot; &quot;Don&#39;t be
afraid of anyone!&quot; Jesus encouraged his disciples who were likewise tormented.
&quot;Don&#39;t be afraid of people. They can kill you but they cannot harm your
soul. So don&#39;t be afraid!&quot; (Mt. 10:26-31 ). During his own agony Jesus was
still able to address God as Father, in fact as Daddy (Abba), the only time the
Aramaic word occurs in the Gospel, &quot;Abba, Father, if it is possible, don&#39;t
let this happen to me. Father, you can do anything. Don&#39;t make me suffer by
having me drink from this cup. But do what you want and not what I want&quot;
(Mark 14:36; Mt. 26:39; Luke 22:42).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;He
teaches me ...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;God the Father speaks to his children through creation, the law and the
prophets. When He made the Israelites go hungry in the desert, he was teaching
them that people need more than food to live - they need every word that the
Lord has spoken (Deut. 8:2,3). And therefore He declared, &quot;I will write my
laws on their hearts and minds. ... No longer will they have to teach one
another to obey me.... all of them will obey me&quot; (Jer. 31:33-34). Thus
Simon Peter didn&#39;t discover his insight of Jesus on his own. It was shown to
him by the Father in heaven (Mt. 16:17). For the Father has hid all this from
wise and educated people and showed it to ordinary people (Mt:11:25; Luke
10:21). Again the Lord does not impose things on us but invites us to come and
talk it over (Is 1:18). Finally the Father teaches only what is necessary. When
the apostles asked Jesus when the destruction of the temple would take place,
he replied, &quot;No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven don&#39;t
know, and the Son himself doesn&#39;t know. Only the Father knows&quot; (Mt. 24:36;
Mark 13:32). When they asked again, &quot;Lord, are you now going to give
Israel its own king?&quot; Jesus said to them, &quot;You don&#39;t need to know the
time of those events that only the Father controls (Acts 1:6,7).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;... and
encourages me&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;At the clergy retreat I was preaching in Trichur diocese in 1979, a
priest made a prayer, during adoration, which made all the 120 priests to laugh
raucously. That made me uneasy, wondering how the Bishop who was reputed to be
rigid and traditional would take it. Then immediately another priest made a
prayer, &quot;God, my Father, I thank you that for the first time in my life I
have laughed in church. For I have now realized that, if there is any place in
the world where I should be most at ease and cheerful, it should be in my
Father&#39;s house, in my Daddy&#39;s home.&quot; Instead how many have told me that
what they missed most in their childhood was a hug of encouragement.
&quot;Daddy never hugged me.&quot; But there were others who spoke of their
fathers as someone whom they could trust and depend upon, &quot;Daddy was
always for me&quot;. I am always amazed by the attitude of parents who stand by
their drug addict sons. How much more will God our Father stand by us. From his
personal experience Paul could say with absolute assurance, &quot;We know that
God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him. ... If God is on
our side, can anyone be against us? (Rom 8: 28,31). Our heavenly Father is a
God of never failing encouragement. &quot;Forget what happened long ago! Don&#39;t
think about the past,&quot; he seems to be always telling us, &quot;See! I am
doing something new. There it is! Do you see it?&quot; (Is 43:18,19).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;A Carmelite friend who was studying for his doctorate in Scripture at
the Biblical Institute in Rome told me that his thesis, on which he had been
already working for the last two years, was on just one verse of the Bible,
&quot;Be therefore perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect&quot; (Mt.
5:48). Seeing the look of astonishment on my face, he explained to me that this
verse was for him the summary of the whole Good News. For it could be
translated as, &quot;You must always act as your Father in heaven,&quot; and it
meant that this and this only is the secret and source of man&#39;s happiness. We
know how fathers have great plans for their children. How much more does God
our Father have a great plan for each one of us, his children? &quot;I will
bless you with a future filled with hope - a future of success not of
suffering&quot; (Jer. 29:11). I have often seen things I wished for come to
naught. But when I surrendered my desires and dreams to the Lord, and prayed,
&quot;Father God, may your will be done in your way and in your time,&quot;
things would come up and come my way suddenly and unexpectedly that were beyond
my wildest dreams and expectations. Our Father seems to be always having
something marvelous up his sleeves, &quot;My thoughts and my ways are not like
yours ... they are higher than yours&quot; (Is. 55:8,9).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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wants to feel proud of me&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Whenever I showed my excellent primary school exams results to my father,
obviously expecting a pat on my back, he would instead pick out the only
subject in which I obtained just 99 out of 100, instead of the full marks, and
would hand me back my certificate without any praise and with the wry remark,
&#39;Do better next time.&#39; At first this would really hurt me, till I came to know
that he would later take and show my certificate proudly to all his friends,
this time to my embarrassment Again whenever I used to see a seriously
handicapped child, I would find it difficult to believe that God loves it too,
and much more difficult to accept how the Father God could be proud of &#39;the
work of his own hands&#39;. I would say to myself, &quot;Then why did and how could
He make the child that way?&quot; till I saw the tremendous love that the unfortunate
parents had for their spastic child and the pride and joy they had in their
helpless offspring. This was always a moving experience for me making me
realize how infinitely more God their Father must be loving them and being
proud of them. Even in such a case the words of Jesus are true, &quot;Make your
light shine, so that others will see the good that you do and will praise your
Father in heaven&quot; (Mt. 5:16).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The title then of
&#39;Father&#39; is so distinctive of God, that Jesus is reluctant to give it to those
men who don&#39;t deserve this sublime name. &quot;Don&#39;t call anyone on earth your
father. All of you have the same Father in heaven&quot; (Mt 23:9). Physical or
spiritual fathers are therefore challenged by the standard set by the heavenly
Father and their love must be both a sign and a channel of the Father&#39;s love to
those under their care.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6aa84f;&quot;&gt;Aba, Pai.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;pelo padre. Rufus Pereira&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Deus é chamado por vários nomes e é dada atributos variados na Bíblia. Para nós, seus filhos, no entanto, o seu nome mais significativo é &quot;Deus, nosso Pai &#39;, e seu atributo mais querido é&quot; Deus é Amor &quot;. Por quê? A lógica é inconfundível no paralelismo surpreendente e a polaridade mais surpreendente entre os nossos pais terrenos e nosso Pai celestial. &quot;Tão ruim quanto você é&quot;, Jesus disse aos pais de sua época, &quot;você ainda sabem dar boas coisas aos seus filhos. Mas quanto é ainda mais pronto para o Pai celestial dará boas coisas para as pessoas que lhe pedirem!&quot; (Mt. 7:11).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ele me fez ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Se devemos a nossa luz a nossos pais terrenos, e que também só para os nossos corpos, quanto mais nós devemos a Deus para a criação de toda a nossa pessoa, e criá-lo em sua própria imagem e semelhança, ou seja, para ser como ele, alguma coisa boa e bela (Gn 1:1.2,26,27). Uma imagem, porém perfeito, é distinta e inferior ao objeto, e ainda assim muito parecido com ele que muitas vezes pode ser confundida com o original. Um pai amoroso irá dizer com orgulho que seu filho recém-nascido se parece demais com ele ea mãe gostava acrescentar que ele é a imagem perfeita de seu pai. Quando o salmista questiona Deus: &quot;Por que você se preocupa com nós seres humanos? Por que você está preocupado com nós fracos?&quot; ele mesmo dá a resposta: &quot;Você nos fez um pouco menor do que a si mesmo, e você nos coroado de glória e de honra&quot; (Sl 8:4,5). Paulo também insiste, &quot;Nós temos um só Deus, e Ele é o Pai. Ele criou tudo e viver para Ele.&quot; (1 Coríntios. 8:6).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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... E eu pertencemos a Ele&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Uma criança é igualmente orgulhoso de seu pai por nenhuma outra razão do que ele é seu pai. Mesmo quando ele se vai, mais tarde, tornar-se um pai e famoso, ele ainda vai respeitar seu pai e se referem a ele carinhosamente como pai. Eu estava mantendo um olho em netinha de um amigo de quatro anos, enquanto ela estava brincando com o filho do vizinho, no jardim. Como os meninos costumam fazer, ele começou a se vangloriar de seu pai. Então, de repente, ele perguntou a ela sobre seu pai. Por um segundo, ela estava perplexa, já que seus pais estavam separados e ela morava sozinha com a mãe. De repente, ela apontou para mim e deixou escapar: &quot;Esse é o meu pai!&quot; Com quanto mais ousadia e orgulho poderia proclamar o salmista: &quot;O Senhor é o nosso Deus, Ele nos criou, e nós pertencemos a ele, somos o seu povo, as ovelhas que ele cuida de em seu próprio pasto&quot; (Sl 95: 7; 100:3).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ele me ama ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Embora haja uma diferença infinita entre nós, um &quot;conflito de gerações&quot; por assim dizer, o Deus transcendente me convida a um relacionamento pessoal com ele. Para Ele não é uma energia impessoal divina ou força a ser &#39;aproveitado&#39; de volta de mim, ou para ser &quot;descoberto&quot; no fundo de mim mesmo, mas uma pessoa divina que me ama. &quot;Pense o quanto o Pai nos ama&quot;, João contempla com admiração. &quot;Ele nos ama tanto que nos permite ser chamados seus filhos, - como realmente somos&quot;; enquanto &quot;o povo deste mundo ... não sei o que somos.&quot; Então, ele explode com sua incrível descoberta: &quot;Deus é amor!&quot; (Jo 3:01; 4:8,16). Paulo em sua parte nos assegura: &quot;Deus nosso Pai nos ama. Ele é gentil e nos deu uma eterna consolação e uma esperança maravilhosa&quot; (2 Ts. 2:16). Deus, nosso Pai se especifica este relacionamento pessoal assim: &quot;Eu vou viver com você e andar no meio de vós - eu serei o vosso Deus, e vós sereis o meu povo;&quot; e novamente, &quot;eu serei o vosso Pai, e vós sereis para mim filhos e filhas&quot; (Lev. 26:12;. 2 Coríntios 6:16,18).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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É um privilégio inacreditável de se relacionar com Deus, como uma pessoa que tem o seu próprio livre-arbítrio, em vez de procurar tornar-se imerso em alguma divindade universal e, assim, perder a identidade que Deus nosso Pai os aspectos. Os pais estão muito conscientes de que os seus filhos são todos &quot;pessoas&quot; diferentes, e que até mesmo sua menor criança tem uma &quot;vontade própria&quot;, o que o pai gostava de brincadeira vai aceitar e se gabar para seus amigos. &quot;Você diz que Deus é o Pai, mas Deus não tem favoritos!&quot; admoesta Pedro (1 Pedro 1:17). Em vez disso, como Paulo coloca de forma sucinta: &quot;Há um só Deus que é o Pai de todas as pessoas que Deus é, de fato, acima de todos, mas ele funciona por meio de todos nós, e ele vive em todos nós.&quot; (Efésios 4: 6). Para ele criou cada um de nós de uma forma única, e ama cada um de nós como sendo a única pessoa no mundo que Ele ama - e isso de uma forma cada um de nós é filho favorito de Deus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Quando eu perguntei a cada um dos jovens durante o aconselhamento de cura interior, &quot;o que o feriu o mais em sua vida?&quot; cada segundo juventude me disse sem rodeios: &quot;Meu pai não se importa para mim.&quot; Peter porém assegura-nos: &quot;Deus cuida de você, de modo a transformar todos os seus cuidados e preocupações a Ele&quot; (1 Pedro 5:7). Nosso Pai Celestial não quer que nos preocupemos com a nossa vida, sobre o que comer eo que vestir. Ele sabe do que precisamos antes de pedirmos - e vai cuidar de todas as nossas necessidades. Somente as pessoas que não conhecem a Deus estão sempre se preocupar com essas coisas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Se Ele toma esse cuidado de pássaros e flores, não estamos mais valor do que elas? Se nossos pais terrenos, como maus como são, ainda, sabeis dar boas coisas aos seus filhos, quanto mais o nosso Pai celestial estar pronto para dar coisas boas para as pessoas que pedem, por todo dom bom e perfeito desce do pai. Mas ele quer que a gente colocou o trabalho em primeiro lugar e fazer o que ele quer. Em seguida, as outras coisas será nossa também. (Mt. 6:8,22-32, 7:11, Lucas 12:22-31; Ph. 4:19; Tiago 1:17). Porque o Pai nunca parou de trabalhar e fazer o bem - mesmo no sábado (João 5:17), e ele sempre responde nossas orações, não da maneira que queremos, mas sempre da maneira que ele sabe que nós precisamos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Durante um retiro Cura Interior para a juventude em Goa, um adolescente de uma origem social baixa, que foi marcada pela pobreza, o alcoolismo ea violência, veio para aconselhamento. Seu pai havia abandonado a família quando ela tinha apenas três anos de idade. Para fazer face às despesas, a mãe conseguiu um emprego como empregada doméstica, no Kuwait, deixando a filha sob os cuidados do casal respeitado velho em Panjim para quem ela havia trabalhado como empregada doméstica. Cinco anos depois, a mãe retornou ao Goa durante um mês, ea menina, agora com oito anos de idade, estava com saudades de vê-la, - mas ela esperou em vão. Para a mãe voltou para o Kuwait após suas férias, sem visitar a filha. Quando eu orei sobre a menina, toda sua tristeza reprimida e amargura de anos jorrou em torrentes de grande clamor e lágrimas (cf. Heb. 5:7). Em contraste, nosso Pai, Deus nos garante: &quot;Pode uma mãe esquecer um filho que enfermeiros em seu peito? Ela poderia deixar de amar uma criança que veio de seu próprio corpo? Mas mesmo que uma mãe poderia esquecer, eu nunca vou te esquecer. na verdade eu ter escrito o seu nome na minha mão, mas, que, além, você está sempre nos meus pensamentos &quot;(Is 49:5-16).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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O Pai é um Deus misericordioso &quot;, afirma Paulo,&quot; que sempre nos dá conforto &quot;(2 Coríntios. 1:3). Jesus suplicou:&quot; Não seja cruel com qualquer um destes pequeninos! O Pai no céu não quer que nenhum destes pequeninos se perca (Mt 18:10,14). Já no Antigo Testamento, Deus se expressou assim: &quot;Meus sentimentos por você é muito forte Eu sou Deus e não o homem -. Eu não vou perder a paciência e não vou ficar com raiva&quot; (Oséias 1:8, 9). &quot;Eu quebrei todos os dez mandamentos&quot;, um penitente, muitas vezes, confesso-me: &quot;Será que Deus vai me perdoar? Eu sou pior do que Maria Madalena.&quot; Qual é a resposta de Deus? &quot;Eu, o Senhor, convidamos você a vir e falar sobre isso. Seus pecados são vermelho escarlate, mas eles vão ser mais branco do que a neve ou lã&quot; (Is 1:18). E ainda mais claramente: &quot;Eu perdoarei os seus pecados e esquecer o mal que você fez.&quot; (Jeremias 31:34). Deus não escreveu off David quando cometeu o duplo pecado de adultério e de assassinato. Ele não só o perdoou, mas ele também confirmou sua promessa de que ele ainda seria o antepassado do Messias. Obviamente, pode-se ser levado a concluir, o rei Davi recebeu um tratamento melhor nas mãos de Deus sem pecado no céu do que o presidente Clinton nas mãos de seus colegas homens pecadores na terra.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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... E quer me a perdoar os outros&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Depois de nos ensinar a orar, Jesus se expande, curiosamente, só na sexta petição. &quot;Se você perdoar os outros pelos erros que eles fazem a você, vosso Pai celeste vos perdoará Mas se não perdoardes aos homens, tampouco vosso Pai vos perdoará as vossas ofensas Ele (Mt 6:14,15);. E, pior ainda, como o mestre tratou do servo impiedoso &quot;, é assim que meu Pai no céu irá tratá-lo, se você não perdoar todos os seus irmãos com todo o teu coração&quot; (Mt 18:35). Mais uma vez, pelo menos fora de gratidão a Deus, temos de ser compassivo para com os outros, assim como nosso Pai é misericordioso para nós (Lucas 6:36). Mas a razão mais importante para perdoar é que perdoar os outros faz-nos como nosso Pai Deus. &quot;Você já ouviu falar de pessoas digamos, &#39;Amai os vossos vizinhos e odiar seus inimigos. &quot;Mas digo-vos a amar os vossos inimigos e orai para todos que é cruel e maltrata você. Seja bom para todo mundo que você odeia e pedir a Deus para abençoar alguém que te amaldiçoar. Não aja como aqueles que só amam seus amigos, mas você deve sempre agir como vosso Pai do céu, que faz nascer o sol sobre e envia chuva para boas e más pessoas e é bom até mesmo para as pessoas que são ingratos e cruel. Então você vai ser verdadeiros filhos de Deus no céu (Mt. 5:43-48, Lucas 6:27-36).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Considere-se afortunado se Deus escolhe para corrigi-lo&quot; Elifaz aconselha Jó (Jó 5:17); e Provérbios adverte: &quot;Meu filho, não se afastam ou se tornar amargo, quando o Senhor corrige. O Senhor corrige todos que ele ama, assim como os pais corrigir o seu filho favorito&quot; (Provérbios 3:11-12). Ao contrário de uma jovem senhora me disse durante o aconselhamento, &quot;Eu odeio a minha mãe, para que ela nunca me corrigiu, mas permitiu-me fazer o que eu queria. Pensei, então, que ela era uma mãe maravilhosa. Como eu queria que ela tivesse sido mais rigoroso com me. Então eu não teria desembarcado nesta bagunça. &quot;Assim, a carta Hebreus escreve muito persuasiva: &quot;Quando o Senhor castiga você, não fazer a luz dele, e quando ele corrige você, não desanime. O Senhor corrige as pessoas que ama e repreende aquele a quem chama de seu próprio país. .. é assim que Deus trata os seus filhos. nem todos os pais corrigem seus filhos? Deus corrige todos os seus filhos, e se ele não corrigir você, então você realmente não pertence a ele. Nosso pai terreno nos corrige e ainda respeitá-los. não é ainda melhor para ser dada a verdadeira vida, deixando que nosso Pai espiritual corrigir nós? nosso pai humano nos corrige para um curto período de tempo, e eles fazem isso como achar melhor. Mas Deus nos corrige para o nosso próprio bem, porque ele quer que sejamos santos, como ele é ... embora no momento em que é sempre doloroso ... (Hb 12:5-11).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Deus, nosso Pai também quer que confiemos nele cegamente e não desistir quando nossa fé está sendo testada (Tiago 1:12). Uma jovem senhora assistir meu retiro me disse que ela foi estuprada a caminho de casa a partir de sua paróquia Natal meia-noite Missa Ela confrontou-me com tristeza e raiva, &quot;Como Deus poderia ter deixado isso acontecer para mim - eu tenho sido muito bom e religioso toda a minha vida - e que também logo depois da missa e à noite de Natal &quot;. &quot;Não tenha medo de ninguém!&quot; Jesus incentivou seus discípulos que também foram atormentados. &quot;Não tenha medo das pessoas. Eles podem matá-lo, mas não podem prejudicar a sua alma. Portanto, não tenha medo!&quot; (Mt. 10:26-31). Durante a sua própria agonia Jesus ainda era capaz de dirigir a Deus como Pai, de fato, como Daddy (Abba), a única vez que a palavra aramaica ocorre no Evangelho: &quot;Abba, Pai, se é possível, não deixe que isso aconteça com . me Pai, você pode fazer qualquer coisa não me faça sofrer por ter me beber deste copo Mas fazer o que você quer e não o que eu quero &quot;(Marcos 14:36​​;... Mt 26:39; Lucas 22:42 ).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ele me ensina ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Deus Pai fala aos seus filhos através da criação, a lei e os profetas. Quando Ele fez os israelitas passam fome no deserto, ele estava ensinando-lhes que as pessoas precisam de mais do que o alimento para viver - eles precisam de toda a palavra que o Senhor falou (Dt 8:2,3). E, portanto, Ele declarou: &quot;Vou escrever as minhas leis em seus corações e mentes .... Já não vai ter que ensinar um ao outro para me obedecer .... todos eles vão me obedecer&quot; (Jr 31:33 - 34). Assim, Simão Pedro não descobriu a sua visão de Jesus em seu próprio país. Foi mostrado a ele pelo Pai no céu (Mt. 16:17). Para o Pai escondeu tudo isso de pessoas sábias e cultas e mostrou para as pessoas comuns (Mt 11:25, Lc 10:21). Mais uma vez o Senhor não impor coisas sobre nós, mas nos convida a vir e falar sobre isso (Is 1:18). Por fim, o Pai ensina apenas o que é necessário. Quando os apóstolos perguntaram a Jesus quando a destruição do templo se daria, ele respondeu: &quot;Ninguém sabe o dia nem a hora. Os anjos do céu não sei, e não o próprio Filho não sei. Só o Pai sabe&quot; (Mt. 24:36; Marcos 13:32). Quando perguntaram novamente: &quot;Senhor, você está indo agora para dar a Israel o seu próprio rei?&quot; Jesus disse-lhes: &quot;Você não precisa saber o tempo daqueles eventos que apenas os controles Pai (Atos 1:6,7).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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No retiro do clero eu estava pregando em Trichur diocese em 1979, um padre fez uma oração, durante a adoração, o que fez todos os 120 sacerdotes de rir ruidosamente. Isso me deixou inquieto, querendo saber como o bispo que tinha fama de ser rígida e tradicional iria levá-la. Então, imediatamente outro padre fez uma oração: &quot;Deus, meu Pai, eu te agradeço porque, pela primeira vez na minha vida eu teria rido na igreja. Pois eu já percebi que, se houver qualquer lugar no mundo onde eu deveria estar mais à vontade e alegre, ele deve estar em casa de meu Pai, na casa de meu pai &quot;. Em vez disso, como muitos já me disse que o que eles perderam a maioria na sua infância era um abraço de encorajamento. &quot;Papai nunca me abraçou.&quot; Mas havia outros que falaram de seus pais como alguém a quem pudesse confiar e depender de &quot;Papai sempre foi para mim.&quot; Fico sempre espantado com a atitude de pais que estão por seus filhos viciado em drogas. Quanto mais Deus, nosso Pai, se por nós. A partir de sua experiência pessoal Paulo podia dizer com absoluta certeza: &quot;Sabemos que Deus está sempre trabalhando para o bem de todos que ele ama .... Se Deus está do nosso lado, alguém pode ser contra nós (Rm 8: 28 , 31). Nosso Pai Celestial é um Deus de nunca falha encorajamento. &quot;Esqueça o que aconteceu há muito tempo! Não pense sobre o passado &quot;, ele parece estar sempre nos dizendo:&quot; Veja! Eu estou fazendo uma coisa nova. Não é! Você vê isso? &quot;(Is 43:18,19).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ele quer que eu seja perfeito ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Um amigo carmelita que estava estudando para seu doutorado na Escritura no Instituto Bíblico de Roma disse-me que a sua tese, sobre a qual ele já havia trabalhado nos últimos dois anos, foi em apenas um versículo da Bíblia &quot;, Seja, pois, perfeitos, como vosso Pai celeste é perfeito &quot;(Mt 5:48). Vendo o olhar de espanto no rosto, ele me explicou que este versículo era para ele o resumo de toda a Boa Nova. Para isso poderia ser traduzido como: &quot;Você deve sempre agir como o vosso Pai no céu&quot;, e isso significava que isso e isso só é o segredo ea fonte da felicidade do homem. Sabemos como os pais têm grandes planos para seus filhos. Quanto mais Deus, nosso Pai, tem um grande plano para cada um de nós, seus filhos? &quot;Eu vou te abençoe com um futuro cheio de esperança - um futuro de sucesso não de sofrimento&quot; (Jeremias 29:11). Tenho visto muitas vezes coisas que eu desejava para se dissipar. Mas quando eu me entreguei os meus desejos e sonhos ao Senhor, e orou: &quot;Deus Pai, que o teu será feito em seu caminho e no seu tempo,&quot; as coisas iriam vir para cima e vindo em minha direção, de repente e inesperadamente que foram além dos meus sonhos e expectativas. Pai nosso, parece estar sempre ter algo maravilhoso as mangas, &quot;Meus pensamentos e meus caminhos não são como vocês ... eles são maiores do que a sua&quot; (Is 55:8,9).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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... E quer se sentir orgulhoso de mim&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Sempre que eu mostrei minhas excelentes escolas primárias resultados de exames para o meu pai, obviamente esperando um tapinha nas minhas costas, ele, ao invés, escolher o único assunto em que eu obtive apenas 99 em 100, em vez de as marcas completos, e iria me entregar de volta meu certificado sem qualquer louvor e com a observação irônica: &quot;Faça melhor da próxima vez.&quot; No início, este seria realmente me machucar, até que eu vim a saber que ele viria a tomar e mostrar o meu certificado com orgulho para todos os seus amigos, desta vez para o meu constrangimento novamente sempre que eu costumava ver uma criança com deficiência grave, eu teria dificuldade para acreditam que Deus ama-lo também, e muito mais difícil de aceitar como o Deus Pai poderia ser motivo de orgulho &quot;o trabalho de suas próprias mãos.&quot; Gostaria de dizer a mim mesmo: &quot;Então, por que e como Ele poderia fazer a criança dessa maneira?&quot; até que eu vi o imenso amor que os pais infelizes tinha para o seu filho espástica e o orgulho ea alegria que eles tinham em seus filhos desamparados. Esta foi sempre uma experiência emocionante para mim fazendo-me perceber o quão infinitamente mais de Deus, seu Pai deve ser amá-los e ter orgulho deles. Mesmo em tal caso, as palavras de Jesus são verdadeiras, &quot;Faça sua luz brilhar, de modo que os outros vão ver o bem que você faz e vai glorifiquem a vosso Pai nos céus&quot; (Mt. 5:16).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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O título, em seguida, de &quot;Pai&quot; é tão distinta de Deus, que Jesus está relutante em dar a esses homens que não merecem esse nome sublime. &quot;Não chame ninguém na terra chameis vosso pai. Todos vocês têm o mesmo Pai que está nos céus&quot; (Mt 23:09). Pais físicas ou espirituais são, portanto, desafiados pelo padrão estabelecido pelo Pai celeste e seu amor deve ser tanto um sinal e um canal do amor do Pai para aqueles sob seus cuidados.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Fr. Rufus Pereira&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;God&#39;s Word to Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;by Fr. Rufus Pereira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;This
is the Word of the Lord!&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;That&#39;s how the Lector concludes the reading or
proclamation of the Scripture Text at Mass, or, to use a more faithful
translation of the Hebrew,&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;This
is God speaking&quot;&lt;/b&gt;. For God our Father who is in heaven comes down lovingly
to meet his children on earth and communicates or talks constantly with them,
bring them the light of his revelation and offering them a participation in his
own divine life, formerly in various ways (Heb. 1:1,2), but now in and through
his own Son, who is God&#39;s Word to man, for &quot;The Word was made flesh and
dwelt among us&quot; (John 1:14). That is why Peter could cry out to him,
&quot;Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life!&quot;
(John 6:68). He in his turn would send the Holy Spirit from the Father, to
teach the Church, the Body of Christ, everything and to remind her of all that
Jesus had said (John 14:26). What then should be our attitude to God&#39;s Word to
us?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The Word
of God must be heard and read with reverence:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;A striking declaration made by The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine
Revelation (Dei Verbum of 1965) is: &quot;The Church has always venerated the
divine Scriptures as she venerated the Body of the Lord, ... partaking of the
bread of life, ... from the one table of the Word of God and the Body of Christ
(DV21). ... Just as from the constant attendance at the Eucharistic Mystery the
life of the Church draws increase, so a new impulse of spiritual life may be
expected from increased veneration of the Word of God&quot; (DV26). That is why
Dei Verbum encourages us to be familiar with the sacred text itself, treasuring
it and pondering it in our hearts - as Mary did (Luke 2:19).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;We need to&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;listen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;to its proclamation, for faith comes
from hearing the Word of God (Rom. 10:17). If one is not a hearer of the Word
of God in his own heart, he can easily become an empty preacher of the Word of
God to others. We need to&lt;b&gt;read&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;it
silently, interiorizing it, not just for knowledge and messages but for a new
encounter with the Lord and for&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;faith&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in his promises. We need to read it&lt;b&gt;prayerfully&lt;/b&gt;,
for we speak to him when we pray just as we listen to him when we read the
divine revelations. Frequent reading of the scriptures is necessary for, as St.
Jerome has said, &quot;Ignorance of Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.&quot;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The Word
of God must be our home and our daily bread:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;It is Peter that reminds his flock, &quot;Your&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;new birth&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;was not from any mortal seed but from
the everlasting Word of the living and eternal God&quot; (1 Peter 1:23). We
need to accept it like a&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;seed&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;that is sown, not in hard pathways or
shall or week growing soil, but in rich soil that will allow that seed, so tiny
and ugly and seemingly dead, to grow into a mighty explosion of spiritual life
and bear fruit a hundredfold (Mark 4:14).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Born a new through
the Word of God, we should therefore also live by the Word. It was in rebuttal
to the temptation of the devil that Jesus replied, &quot;Man does not live by
bread alone but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God&quot; (Mt. 4:4,
Deut. 8:3). He obviously referred to the Word of God as our daily food too,
when he told his disciples that they should pray like this: &quot;Give us today&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;our daily Bread&lt;/b&gt;&quot; (Mt.
5:9,11). Jeremiah had anticipated this prayer when he spoke to God, &quot;When
your words come, I devoured them. Your Word was my delight and the joy of my
heart&quot; (Jer. 15:16). How admirably then has the Church, mother and
teacher, broken and given us this Daily Bread through the skillfully planned&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Lectionary&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;of the Mass!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jesus furthermore
said to those who believed in him, &quot;You will indeed be my disciples if you
make my Word your home, for it is from my Word that you will learn the truth
that will make you free&quot; (John 8:31,32). This means that we should immerse
ourselves in the Scriptures by constant reading and diligent study. Paul would
on the other hand echo and complement this statement when he wrote to the
believers, &quot;Let the Word of Christ, in all its richness, find a home with
you (Col. 3:16). In his farewell discourse, Jesus would combine both these two
beautiful insights of us dwelling in his Word and of his Word dwelling in us,
when he promised his disciples, &quot;If you remain in me (the Word) and my
words remain in you, you may ask what you will and you shall get it (John
15:7).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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of God must enlighten our minds and penetrate our hearts:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Again, the Word of God is looked upon by the Psalmist as &quot;a lamp to
my feet, a&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;light&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;on my
path&quot; (Ps. 119:105), necessary to discern God&#39;s will in every major life
situation and thus receive his guidance. But it is regarded at the same time by
Scripture as &quot;living and active; sharper than any double-edged&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;sword&lt;/b&gt;; judging our secret
thoughts, emotions and attitudes&quot; (Heb. 4:12). Thus the words of Peter on
Pentecost Day cut his hearers to the heart prompting them to ask,
&quot;Brothers, what must we do?&quot; (Acts 2:37). And 3000 of them accepted
his word and were baptized (Acts 2:37,41). Therefore Paul charges us to
&quot;take the Word of God to use as a sword given by the Spirit&quot; (Eph.
6:17). In the Old Testament God describes his Word even more strongly than
being just a light and a sword. &quot;Does not my Word burn like fire? Is it
not like hammer shattering a rock?&quot; (Jer. 23:29; cfr Luke 24:32).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The Word
of God is both effective and also needs to become operative:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Already in the Old Testament God had assured his beloved Israel that
&quot;the Word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without
carrying out my will and succeeding in what it was&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;sent to do&lt;/b&gt;&quot; (Isaiah
55:11). For example, &quot;He sent forth his Word - and healed them&quot; (Ps.
107:20). And toward the end of his earthly ministry, Jesus assured his chosen
ones, the little flock, the New Israel, &quot;Heaven and earth will pass away
but my words will never pass away&quot; (Mt. 24:35), reminding us what the
prophet had said earlier, &quot;The grass withers and the flower fades, but the
Word of God remains forever&quot; (Isaiah 40:8), and what the apostle would say
later, &quot;The Word of the Lord, which is nothing else but the Good News that
has been brought to you,&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;remains&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;forever&quot; (1 Peter 1:25).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;On the other hand,
at the conclusion of his Sermon on the Mouth, Jesus had this declaration to
make, &quot;Everyone who comes to me and listens to these words of mine and&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;acts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;on them will be like a sensible man
who has laid the foundations of his house on&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;rock&lt;/b&gt;&quot;
(Mt. 7:24; Luke 6:47). James will later on echo these words of Jesus by his
practical admonition, &quot;But you must do what the word tells you and not
merely listen to it and deceive yourselves&quot; (James 1:22).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;color: navy; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The Word
of God is to be proclaimed with authority, power and love:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;Finally, it is the Word of God that is the&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tool of Evangelization&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(EN), for after having read and
listened to that Word with prayerful attention and having lived and shared it
in joyful fellowship, we should then spread it around by proclamation, action
and witness - know it, live it and tell it (Acts 2:42-47). God&#39;s Word must be&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;proclaimed&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;always, Paul is convinced (2 Tim.
4:2), with himself being punished if he did not preach the Good News (1 Cor.
9:16). However, he warns his flock that there must be &quot;no offering the
Word of God for sale, nor being reticent about it, or watering it down, or
ashamed of it or deceitful about it&quot; (2 Cor. 2:17; 4:2), but he
congratulates them, &quot;You will shine in the world like bright stars because
you are offering it the Word of Life&quot; (Phil. 2:15,16).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;God&#39;s Word needs to
be used both with&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;power&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;to rebuke evil and to free the
oppressed, as Jesus did in the synagogue with the evil spirit, &quot;Be quiet!
Come out of him&quot; (Mark 1:25), as also with&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;compassion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;to comfort the broken hearted and to
assure the sinner, as Jesus did in the house with the paralytic, &quot;My son,
your sins are forgiven&quot; (Mark 2:5). God&#39;s Word is to be attested above all
by one&#39;s personal&lt;b&gt;witness&lt;/b&gt;. When Jesus commanded his apostles to love one
another, but in the manner he has loved them (that is why he calls it a new
commandment), he at once declares, &quot;By this love you have for one another,
everyone will know that you are my disciples&quot; (John 12:35).&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 6pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Palavra de Deus para o homem&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Padre Rufus Pereira&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Esta é a Palavra do Senhor!&quot; É assim que o Lector conclui a leitura ou proclamação do texto da Escritura na missa, ou, para usar uma tradução mais fiel do hebraico, &quot;Isto é Deus falando&quot;. Por Deus, nosso Pai que está nos céus vem amorosamente do alto para ´nós para encontrar seus filhos na Terra e se comunica ou fala constantemente com eles, trazê-los à luz da sua revelação e oferecendo-lhes uma participação na sua própria vida divina, anteriormente de várias maneiras (Hb 1:1,2), mas agora em e através de seu próprio Filho, que é a Palavra de Deus para o homem, para &quot;O Verbo se fez carne e habitou entre nós&quot; (João 1:14). É por isso que Pedro pudesse gritar-lhe: &quot;Senhor, para quem iremos nós? Tu tens as palavras de vida eterna!&quot; (João 6:68). Ele, por sua vez enviaria o Espírito Santo do Pai, para ensinar a Igreja, Corpo de Cristo, tudo e para lembrá-la de tudo o que Jesus tinha dito (João 14:26). O que, então, deve ser a nossa atitude para com a Palavra de Deus para nós?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A Palavra de Deus deve ser ouvida e lida com reverência:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Uma declaração surpreendente feita pela Constituição Dogmática sobre a Revelação Divina (Dei Verbum, de 1965) é: &quot;A Igreja sempre venerou as divinas Escrituras como venera ela o Corpo do Senhor, ... comermos o pão da vida, ... da uma mesa da Palavra de Deus e do corpo de Cristo (DV21) .... Só a partir da presença constante no Mistério eucarístico na vida da Igreja recebe aumento, portanto, um novo impulso de vida espiritual pode ser esperado de aumento da veneração da Palavra de Deus &quot;(DV26). É por isso que Dei Verbum nos encoraja a estar familiarizado com o próprio texto sagrado, valorizando-o e pensando em nossos corações - como fez Maria (Lucas 2:19).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Precisamos ouvir a sua proclamação, pois a fé vem pelo ouvir a Palavra de Deus (Romanos 10:17). Se a pessoa não é um ouvinte da Palavra de Deus em seu coração, ele pode facilmente tornar-se um pregador vazio da Palavra de Deus para os outros. Precisamos toread em silêncio, interiorizando-lo, não apenas para o conhecimento e mensagens, mas para um novo encontro com o Senhor e para a fé em suas promessas. Precisamos ler itprayerfully, pois falar com ele quando oramos assim como nós ouvi-lo quando lemos as revelações divinas. Leitura freqüente das escrituras é necessário pois, como São Jerônimo disse: &quot;A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo&quot;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A Palavra de Deus deve ser a nossa casa e nosso pão de cada dia:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;É Pedro que lembra o seu rebanho: &quot;Seu novo nascimento não era de qualquer semente mortal, mas a partir da Palavra eterna do Deus vivo e eterno&quot; (1 Pedro 1:23). Precisamos aceitar isso como uma semente que é semeada, e não em percursos duros ou deve ou semana crescente do solo, mas em solo rico que vai permitir que a semente, tão pequena e feia e aparentemente morto, para se transformar em uma poderosa explosão de vida espiritual e dar frutos cem por um (Marcos 4:14).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Nasceu um novo através da Palavra de Deus, devemos, portanto, também viver pela Palavra. Foi em refutação à tentação do diabo que Jesus respondeu: &quot;O homem não vive só de pão, mas de toda palavra que procede da boca de Deus&quot; (Mt. 04:04, Deut. 8:3). Ele, obviamente, se refere à Palavra de Deus como nosso alimento diário também, quando ele disse aos seus discípulos que eles deveriam rezar assim: &quot;Dá-nos hoje o nosso pão de cada dia&quot; (Mt 5:9,11). Jeremias tinha antecipado esta oração, quando ele falou a Deus: &quot;Quando suas palavras vêm, eu devorou. Sua Palavra era o meu prazer ea alegria do meu coração&quot; (Jr 15:16). Como admiravelmente então, a Igreja, mãe e mestra, quebrado e nos deu este pão diário através do Lecionário habilmente planejado da Missa!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jesus disse que, além disso, para aqueles que acreditavam nele: &quot;Você realmente vai ser meus discípulos, se você fizer a minha Palavra sua casa, pois é da minha palavra que você vai aprender a verdade que vos libertará&quot; (João 8:31,32 ). Isto significa que devemos mergulhamos nas Escrituras através da leitura constante e diligente estudo. Paul faria em outro eco mão e complementar esta afirmação quando escreveu aos crentes &quot;, Deixe a Palavra de Cristo, em toda a sua riqueza, encontrar uma casa com você (Colossenses 3:16). Em seu discurso de despedida, Jesus faria combinar ambos estes dois belos insights de nós que habitam em sua Palavra e da sua Palavra que habita em nós, quando ele prometeu a seus discípulos: &quot;Se vocês permanecerem em mim (o Verbo) e as minhas palavras permanecerem em vós, você pode perguntar o que quiser e você deve buscá-la (João 15:7).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Palavra de Deus deve iluminar nossas mentes e penetrar em nosso coração:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Mais uma vez, a Palavra de Deus é encarado pelo salmista como &quot;lâmpada para os meus pés, e luz para os meus caminhos&quot; (Sl 119:105), necessária para discernir a vontade de Deus em todas as grandes situação de vida e, assim, receber sua orientação. Mas ele é considerado, ao mesmo tempo pelas Escrituras como &quot;viva e eficaz; mais cortante do que qualquer espada de dois gumes; julgar nossos pensamentos secretos, emoções e atitudes&quot; (Hb 4:12). Assim, as palavras de Pedro no dia de Pentecostes cortar seus ouvintes para o coração levando-os a perguntar: &quot;Irmãos, o que devemos fazer?&quot; (Atos 2:37). E 3000 aceitaram a sua palavra e foram batizados (Atos 2:37,41). Por isso Paulo nos cobra para &quot;tomar a Palavra de Deus para usar como uma espada dada pelo Espírito&quot; (Ef 6:17). No Antigo Testamento, Deus descreve sua Palavra ainda mais fortemente do que ser apenas uma luz e uma espada. &quot;Não a minha palavra como fogo? Será que não gosta de martelo quebrando uma pedra?&quot; (Jr 23:29; cfr Lc 24:32).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Palavra de Deus é eficaz e também precisa tornar-se operativa:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Já no Antigo Testamento Deus tinha assegurado a sua amada Israel que &quot;a Palavra que sai da minha boca não voltará para mim vazia, sem realizar minha vontade e ter sucesso no que foi enviado para fazer&quot; (Isaías 55:11). Por exemplo, &quot;Ele enviou a sua Palavra - e os sarou&quot; (Sl 107:20). E para o fim de seu ministério terrestre, Jesus assegurou aos seus escolhidos, o pequeno rebanho, o Novo Israel, &quot;O céu ea terra passarão, mas as minhas palavras não passarão&quot; (Mt 24:35), lembrando-nos que a profeta havia dito anteriormente: &quot;a erva seca ea flor murcha, mas a Palavra de Deus permanece para sempre&quot; (Isaías 40:8), e que o apóstolo diria mais tarde, &quot;A Palavra do Senhor, que é nada mais do que o Good News que tem sido trazido a você, permanece para sempre &quot;(1 Pedro 1:25).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Por outro lado, na conclusão de seu Sermão do Boca, Jesus tinha essa declaração a fazer, &quot;Todo aquele que vem a mim e ouve estas minhas palavras e as põe em prática é como um homem sensato, que lançou as bases de sua casa sobre a rocha &quot;(Mt 7:24, Lucas 6:47). James, mais tarde, em eco destas palavras de Jesus por sua admoestação prática: &quot;Mas você tem que fazer o que a palavra diz a você e não apenas ouvi-la e enganar a si mesmos&quot; (Tiago 1:22).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Palavra de Deus deve ser proclamada com autoridade, poder e amor:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Finalmente, é a Palavra de Deus que é a ferramenta de Evangelização (PT), para depois de ter lido e ouvido que a Palavra com atenção orante e ter vivido e partilhado em comunhão alegre, devemos então espalhá-lo por decreto, a ação e testemunha - conhecê-lo, vivê-la e dizer-lhe (Atos 2:42-47). A Palavra de Deus deve ser proclamada sempre, Paul está convencido (2 Tm. 4:02), com o próprio ser punido se não anunciar o evangelho (1 Coríntios. 9:16). No entanto, ele adverte seu rebanho que deve haver &quot;não oferecendo a Palavra de Deus para a venda, nem sendo reticente sobre o assunto, ou regá-lo para baixo, ou vergonha dele ou enganosa sobre ele&quot; (2 Coríntios 2:17; 4.: 2), mas ele parabeniza-los: &quot;Você vai brilhar no mundo como estrelas brilhantes, porque você está oferecendo a Palavra de Vida&quot; (Fp 2:15,16).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A Palavra de Deus precisa ser usado tanto com o poder para repreender o mal e libertar os oprimidos, como fez Jesus na sinagoga com o espírito do mal, &quot;Fique quieto! Saia dele&quot; (Marcos 1:25), como também com compaixão para conforto com o coração partido e assegurar o pecador, como Jesus fez na casa com o paralítico: &quot;filho, os teus pecados estão perdoados&quot; (Marcos 2:5). A Palavra de Deus deve ser atestada acima de tudo por sua personalwitness. Quando Jesus ordenou aos seus apóstolos a amar um ao outro, mas da maneira que ele os amou (é por isso que ele chama de um novo mandamento), declara ao mesmo tempo, &quot;por este amor que têm um pelo outro, todo mundo vai saber que você sois meus discípulos &quot;(João 0:35).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;What are the greatest needs of the church
today?&quot; This was the question that Pope Paul VI put at a general audience
on 15 November 1972. He himself gave the answer, which he said should not
surprise them as being over simple or even superstitious and unreal: &quot;One
of the greatest needs is defense from that evil, which is called the
devil.&quot;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;For when our first parents capitulated to the
Tempter and sinned against God, they brought the whole of humanity with them
under the domination of the Enemy. Nevertheless God still loved man so much
that he promised to send his very own Son, who would crush the head of the
Serpent (Gen 3:15; John 3:16). Thus the Son of God appeared to &quot;undo the
work of the devil&quot; (1Jn 3:8), to &quot;overthrow the prince of the
world&quot; (Jn 12:31), to &quot;rescue us from the ruling force of
darkness.&quot; and to &quot;transfer us into his kingdom&quot; (Col 1:13).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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with Satan begun in the desert,&quot; Pope John Paul II commented on June 3,
1998, &quot;continues throughout the life of Jesus. One of his typical
activities is that of exorcist and the people cry out in admiration: He
commands even unclean spirits and they obey him&quot; (Mk 1:27). This is how
Peter sums up the ministry of Jesus: &quot;God has anointed him with the Holy
Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing
good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil&quot; (Acts
10:38).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jesus was equally successful in preparing his
disciples for his ministry, so that they returned jubilant over their victory,
&quot;Lord, even the devils submit to us when we use your name&quot; (Lk
10:17). After his resurrection he commissioned his apostles: &quot;Go out to
the whole world and proclaim the gospel to all creation; lay hands on the sick
and heal them, and cast out devils in my name&quot; (Mk 16:17-18). He promised
that they would receive the power of the Holy Spirit to do this (Acts 1:18),
and assured them that he would be with them always (Mt 28:20), so that they
would thus perform the same works as he did himself, and even greater works (Jn
14:12). And so after Pentecost, as they preached everywhere, Jesus, now seated
at the right hand of God, worked with them and confirmed the word by the signs
that accompanied it (Mk 16:20).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In the early Church the Christians were aware that
theirs was a spiritual warfare. In spite of persecutions from the Emperors, and
other trials, they were conscious that their archenemy was Satan. The Church on
its part was faithful to the divine commission, both in its teaching and in its
liturgical and pastoral practice. The exorcist did hold a specific ministry of
exorcising the catechumens at the beginning of every baptismal catechesis, as
he led them to renounce the pagan world and the world of magic. But, &quot;in
our days,&quot; as the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith observes,
&quot;the characteristic ministry of the exorcist is not more than a very
occasional service ... for the Church no longer attaches the same importance to
exorcism, as in the early Centuries&quot; (Christian Faith and Demonology).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Unfortunately today people are allowing themselves
to be oppressed by the devil in a variety of ways and letting themselves be
caught up in the ideological seductions of fashionable errors, which are cracks
through which the devil can easily penetrate and work upon the human mind (Pope
Paul VI). In early 1997, the Vatican newspaper, L&#39;Osservatore Romano, carried a
series of six well-documented articles on &#39;Sects and Satanic Cults&#39;. These only
confirmed the conclusions of the two seminars I attended on &#39;Satanism&#39;
organized by the Luther and Catholic Churches in East Berlin in 1995, that Satanism
has succeeded Communism as the greatest scourge of Christian Europe today. A
statement of the Italian Bishop&#39;s Conference corroborates this. &quot;We are
currently witnessing a rebirth of divination, sorcery, witchcraft and magic
often mixed with a superstitious use of religion.&quot; Macumba, a form of
spiritism, has become so widespread in Brazil as to become the scourge of what
is the largest Catholic country in the world.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;What has then been the response of the Church in
such an alarming situation? It has been the same as the admonition given by St.
Peter, &quot;Be calm but vigilant, because your enemy the devil is on the
prowl&quot; (1 Peter 5:8). Already in 1971, Pope Paul VI cautioned about
&quot;some preternatural thing, which has come into the world precisely to
dispute, to suffocate the fruits of the (Vatican) Ecumenical Council,&quot; and
on 20 June 1972, he warned about the smoke of Satan entering the temple of God.
Pope John Paul II is more optimistic. &quot;The Church shares in Christ&#39;s
victory over the devil,&quot; he said on August 20 1986. &quot;The Church
exercises such victorious power through faith in Christ and prayer, which, in
specific cases, can assume the form of exorcism.&quot;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Nevertheless, there is not a single exorcist
appointed in many countries, and even in many dioceses of the other countries,
and so many of our people in diverse needs go either to unquestionable
spiritists or to questionable neopentecostal healers. Fortunately the Catholic
Charismatic Renewal has stepped in the gap in this spiritual warfare through a
renewed ministry of deliverance, one of its greatest contributions to the
Catholic Church today. Far from competing with the official ministry of
Exorcism, this ministry rather complements and supports it, as many exorcists
have told me personally.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Many priests and lay people in the Charismatic
Renewal are today exercising this ministry, under ecclesial authority, which
becomes activated by the emergence and manifestation of the charism of
deliverance, when they come in contact with and pray for persons that are presumably
under demonic influence. Like all the other charisms of the Holy Spirit, this
specific charism too is needed for the New Pentecost in the Church prayed for
by Pope John XXIII in preparation for Vatican Council II, and is necessary for
the New Evangelization of the world called for by Pope John Paul II in 1983, in
order that the New Millennium may usher in &quot;a great springtime for
Christianity&quot; (RM 1990).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It is becoming clearer, however, ever since
September 11, 2001, that the ministry of deliverance should progress from
praying just for individuals or families, to interceding like Abraham for a
whole city, and like Moses for a whole nation. Today, the Church is realizing
the necessity of such a prayer of solidarity (Mt. 18:19,20), and is recognizing
the urgency of standing united in intercession, for the protection and
deliverance of the whole Church and the whole world, with the prayer of Jesus
himself, its head, &quot;Father, protect them from the Evil One. Father, may
they all be one&quot; (Jn 17:15,21), just as, all the time Peter was in prison,
the whole Church prayed to God for him unremittingly (Acts 12:5).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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before, the Lord&#39;s Prayer, &quot;But deliver us from the evil one&quot; (Mt
6:13); and the prayer of the Church in the Mass, &quot;Deliver us, Lord, from
every evil and grant us peace.&quot; Perhaps we need also to recite Pope Leo
XIII&#39;s prayer to the Archangel Michael, as our Holy Father encouraged us to do
on April 24, 1994, &quot;to obtain help in the battle against the forces of
darkness and against the spirit of this world.&quot; Let us not forget too
that, just as Our Lady of Fatima helped in the victory over the antichrist of
Communism, so she will also help the Church to be victorious over other more
aggressive antichrists of today. For, even though it seems as if &quot;the
whole world lies in the power of the Evil One&quot; (1Jn 5:19), Jesus has said
and continues to assure us: &quot;But be brave: I have conquered the
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Quais são as maiores necessidades da Igreja hoje?&quot; Esta foi a pergunta que o Papa Paulo VI colocou ao público em geral em 15 de novembro de 1972, ele mesmo deu a resposta, ele disse que não deve surpreender-los como sendo mais simples ou até supersticiosa e irreal:. &quot;Uma das maiores necessidades é a defesa de que o mal, que é chamado o diabo. &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Pois, quando nossos primeiros pais capitulou ao tentador e pecaram contra Deus, eles trouxeram a humanidade inteira com eles sob o domínio do inimigo. Mas Deus ainda amava o homem, tanto que ele prometeu enviar o seu próprio Filho, que iria esmagar a cabeça da serpente (Gn 3:15, João 3:16). Assim, o Filho de Deus apareceu para &quot;desfazer a obra do diabo&quot; (1 Jo 3:8), para &quot;derrubar o príncipe do mundo&quot; (Jo 12:31), para &quot;salvar-nos da força dirigente das trevas.&quot; e &quot;transferir-nos para o seu reino&quot; (Cl 1:13).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;A luta começou com Satanás no deserto,&quot; o Papa João Paulo II comentou em 3 de Junho de 1998 &quot;, continua por toda a vida de Jesus Uma de suas atividades típicas é a de exorcista e as pessoas gritam de admiração:. Ele manda mesmo espíritos imundos e lhe obedecem &quot;(Mc 1:27). É assim que Pedro resume o ministério de Jesus: &quot;Deus ungiu com o Espírito Santo e com poder, e porque Deus estava com ele, Jesus passou fazendo o bem e curando todos os que tinham caído em poder do diabo&quot; (Atos 10:38).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jesus foi igualmente bem sucedida na preparação de seus discípulos para seu ministério, para que eles voltaram exultantes sobre sua vitória: &quot;Senhor, até os demônios se submetem a nós, quando usamos o seu nome&quot; (Lc 10:17). Depois de sua ressurreição, ele comissionou seus apóstolos: &quot;Ide pelo mundo inteiro, proclamai o Evangelho a toda a criatura; as mãos sobre os doentes e curá-los, e expulsar demônios em meu nome&quot; (Mc 16:17-18). Ele prometeu que eles receberiam o poder do Espírito Santo para fazer isso (Atos 1:18), e garantiu que ele estaria sempre com eles (Mt 28.20), para que eles pudessem, assim, realizar as mesmas obras que ele fez-se, e obras ainda maiores (Jo 14:12). E assim, depois de Pentecostes, como eles pregaram por toda parte, Jesus, agora sentado à direita de Deus, trabalhou com eles, confirmando a Palavra com os sinais que a acompanhavam (Mc 16:20).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Na Igreja primitiva, os cristãos estavam cientes de que a deles era uma guerra espiritual. Apesar das perseguições dos imperadores, e outros ensaios, eles estavam conscientes de que seu arquiinimigo era Satanás. A Igreja, por seu lado, foi fiel à missão divina, tanto no seu ensino e na sua prática litúrgica e pastoral. O exorcista fez realizar um ministério específico de exorcizar os catecúmenos, no início de cada catequese baptismal, como ele os levou a renunciar ao mundo pagão eo mundo da magia. Mas, &quot;nos nossos dias&quot;, como a Sagrada Congregação para a Doutrina da Fé observa, &quot;o ministério característica do exorcista não é mais do que um serviço muito ocasional ... para a Igreja já não dá a mesma importância ao exorcismo, como nos primeiros séculos &quot;(Fé Cristã e Demonologia).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Infelizmente hoje as pessoas estão deixando-se oprimidos do diabo em uma variedade de formas e deixando-se apanhados nas seduções ideológicas dos erros na moda, que são fissuras por onde o diabo pode facilmente penetrar e trabalhar sobre a mente humana (o Papa Paulo VI). No início de 1997, o jornal do Vaticano, L&#39;Osservatore Romano, realizou uma série de seis artigos bem documentados sobre &quot;seitas satânicas e cultos&quot;. Estes só confirmou as conclusões dos dois seminários que participei em &quot;satanismo&quot;, organizado pelas Igrejas Lutero e católicos em Berlim Oriental em 1995, que o satanismo conseguiu o comunismo como o maior flagelo da Europa cristã hoje. Um comunicado da Conferência Episcopal italiana corrobora isso. &quot;No momento, estamos a assistir a um renascimento da adivinhação, magia, feitiçaria e magia, muitas vezes misturado com um uso supersticioso da religião.&quot; Macumba, uma forma de espiritismo, se tornou tão difundido no Brasil como para se tornar o flagelo do qual é o maior país católico do mundo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Muitos padres e leigos na Renovação Carismática são hoje exercer esse ministério, sob a autoridade eclesial, que torna-se ativado pelo surgimento e manifestação do carisma da libertação, quando eles entram em contato com e orar por pessoas que estão supostamente sob influência demoníaca. Como todos os outros carismas do Espírito Santo, este carisma específico também é necessário para o Novo Pentecostes na Igreja rezou por pelo Papa João XXIII, em preparação para o Concílio Vaticano II, e é necessário para a Nova Evangelização do mundo chamado pelo Papa João Paulo II em 1983, a fim de que o Novo Milênio pode inaugurar &quot;uma grande primavera cristã&quot; (RM 1990).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;É cada vez mais claro, no entanto, já desde 11 de setembro de 2001, que o ministério de libertação deve progredir de orar apenas para indivíduos ou famílias, para interceder como Abraão para uma cidade inteira, e como Moisés para uma nação inteira. Hoje, a Igreja está percebendo a necessidade de uma oração de solidariedade (Mt 18:19,20), e está reconhecendo a urgência de estar unidos em intercessão, para a proteção e libertação de toda a Igreja e para o mundo todo, com a oração do próprio Jesus, a sua cabeça: &quot;Pai, protegê-los do Maligno. Pai, que todos sejam um&quot; (Jo 17:15,21), assim como, o tempo todo Pedro estava na prisão, toda a Igreja orou a Deus para ele incessantemente (Atos 00:05).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Precisamos orar, de um modo que nunca fizemos antes, a Oração do Senhor: &quot;Mas livrai-nos do mal&quot; (Mt 6:13); ea oração da Igreja na missa, &quot;Livrai-nos, Senhor, de todo o mal e concede-nos a paz.&quot; Talvez precisemos também de recitar a oração do Papa Leão XIII do Arcanjo Miguel, como o nosso Santo Padre nos encorajou a fazer em 24 de abril de 1994, &quot;para obter ajuda na batalha contra as forças das trevas e contra o espírito deste mundo.&quot; Não esqueçamos também que, assim como Nossa Senhora de Fátima ajudou na vitória sobre o anticristo do comunismo, então ela também vai ajudar a Igreja a ser vitorioso sobre outros anticristos mais agressivas de hoje. Pois, mesmo que pareça como se &quot;o mundo inteiro jaz no poder do Maligno&quot; (1 Jo 5:19), Jesus disse e continua a garantir-nos: &quot;Mas ser corajoso: Eu venci o mundo&quot; (Jo 16:33).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Fique conectado com a gente&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.padrerufus.net.br/feeds/1311408050703819333/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/4673730688005127676/1311408050703819333?isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4673730688005127676/posts/default/1311408050703819333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4673730688005127676/posts/default/1311408050703819333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2014/07/defence-from-devil.html' title='Defence from the Devil'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05586001792145512776</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4673730688005127676.post-259970605928703411</id><published>2014-07-18T01:08:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2014-11-23T19:08:36.729-02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="103 The Power and Ministry of the Priesthood"/><title type='text'>The Power and Ministry of the Priesthood</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; margin: 0.55pt 0cm 3.25pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with
him, Jesus went about doing good, and healing all who had fallen into the power
of the devil&quot; (Acts 10:38)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It was in 1976 that I had my first case of Exorcism
or Deliverance. We had just celebrated on 16th July, the Feast of Our Lady of
Mount Carmel, the patron of my parish of Mt. Carmel, Bandra, Mumbai. (It was
also a very special day for me, since it was the anniversary of my having
received the cassock or soutane, as a seminarian and cleric of the Diocesan
Seminary of Bombay). As a souvenir of our Parish Feast, we had distributed to
every parishioner a beautiful picture of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel as well as a
Prayer to the Holy Spirit, so that the same Spirit that overshadowed Mary would
now come down upon the parish, priests and people, as by a New Pentecost.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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India, called Secunderabad, to give a charismatic retreat to the Sisters of St.
Ann of Providence. I had hardly retired to my room for a much-needed rest,
after the solemn Mass and festive lunch on the last day of the retreat, 26th of
July, the Feast of St. Anne, when, to my annoyance, there was a knock at my
door. The Provincial, the Superior and the Novice Mistress, apologised for
disturbing me but they said that two women, blood sisters, of a well known
Catholic family in the parish, wanted me to come and pray over the son of one
of them who was hospitalised in the mental asylum in the city. For, after
hearing my talk on healing at the outreach the previous evening, they felt very
strongly that the young man was not mentally sick but possessed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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not accept that in these modern times people could get possessed, and said that
I would not be able to come with them to pray over the young man, but that they
should pray by themselves. They went on, however, insisting that the many
physical sicknesses and emotional disturbances tormenting their families were
due to the affliction of a popular demon goddess, whose high priests their
pagan ancestors had been, and that in spite of attending daily Mass and saying
the daily family Rosary they were not getting any better.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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existed. In fact when I received the minor order of exorcist at the Collegio
Urbano de Propaganda Fide, in Rome, I took it very lightly, not foreseeing that
this would turn out to become for me a major disorder in my life, so to say.
Moreover, I must admit, I was even somewhat irritated with the Sisters and the
family for disturbing my siesta. So I just told them to keep on praying even
more. As the last resort they pleaded, &quot;But can&#39;t you pray for us
now.&quot; I retorted that I would, hopefully, pray for them later by myself.
But just then it seemed as if the Lord was speaking to me, &quot;Rufus, these
people have come asking you as a priest to pray for them now. You pray for them
NOW.&quot; Well, I was somewhat annoyed with the Lord. Anyway I did pray,
rather reluctantly and casually, I am sorry to say, and softly, that Jesus
would free this family from that demon — again if he existed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The shorter woman, the pious one, who had been narrating to me all their woes
while continuously fingering her rosary beads, was hurled to the ground with
great force, and — for the first time in my life, I came face to face with the
evil one. I hid behind the nuns, as it screamed obscenities at me and shouted
at me to return to Bombay — in English, which she did not know, and tried to
spring on to me and throttle me. I did not know what to do — since I was not
trained in the seminary for such unexpected hazards. I just felt powerless to
do anything at all. I had no courage to ask it to come out of the woman — I
presumed by now that it was the devil himself or herself. The 20 young novices
did come to my rescue as they poured bottles of holy water onto the woman — but
to no avail.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Suddenly I felt a reassuring anointing of the Holy
Spirit, empowering the grace of my priesthood, and guiding me to pray softly
but confidently in tongues, the doorway, I had been told, to the charisms of
knowledge and power. I realised later that I had been unwittingly duplicating
the experience of St. Paul, &quot;The Spirit too comes to help us in our
weakness, for, when we do not know how to pray properly, then the Spirit
personally makes our petitions for us in groans that cannot be put into words&quot;
(Rom 8:26). There was an equally instant transformation in the woman, from a
devilish face of hate and claw like hands, to an angelic countenance of
gentleness and hands lifted up in praise of God — even though she was still
flat on her back on the floor. She was now so weak and lifeless, but peaceful
and joyful, that the family had to take her home in a vehicle.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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retreat to priests. As I was praying for the general public one by one at a
healing service on 4th of August, the feast of St. John Mary Vianney, the
patron of priests in the pastoral ministry, victorious in his daily conflict
with the Evil One, suddenly there stood in front of me the same two women, that
had come for prayers in St. Ann&#39;s Convent the week before, and their families.
On noticing them, I said to myself, &quot;Oh, not again!&quot; and spoke rather
curtly, &quot;But, I have already prayed for you.&quot; They said that they had
come this time not to ask but to thank God for the great deliverance and
healing that they, even as a joint family, had experienced.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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and was now freed, related how their father had left the family when they were
very small, and they had blamed their mother for his desertion, since she was
just impossible to get on with. But ever since that day of liberation she had
become a totally different woman — so gentle and caring, and then they knew
that the family break up had not really been her fault. They added that their
mother had lost complete vision of one eye and had only 50% vision in the
other, due to a thorn poke. But ever since that day she had recovered complete
vision in both her eyes. The nuns also confirmed that the whole family had
become thereafter a healthy and happy family.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;This was my first case of deliverance, and it was a
case that ended so quickly and completely — only with the authority of Jesus
and by the power of his Holy Spirit (and, I believe, through the intercession
of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and of St. Anne), and like St. John Mary Vianney, not
through my intelligence, knowledge, experience, training or special gift. There
was a time when I myself was afraid of evil spirits, even though I was not sure
if they existed, till I realised right from this first case that they are more
afraid of the power of our Baptism and especially of the power of the
Priesthood, just as the seventy-two could say triumphantly, &quot;Lord, even
the devils submit to us when we use your name&quot; (Lk 10:17).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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and diverse needs go either to unquestionable spiritists or to questionable
neo-pentecostal healers. Fortunately the Catholic Charismatic Renewal has been
helping in this spiritual warfare through a renewed ministry of deliverance,
activated by the emergence and manifestation of this specific charism of the
Holy Spirit, when the priest, or layperson exercising this ministry under
ecclesial authority, prays for a person that is presumably under demonic
influence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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II, Pope John XXIII had led the Church in a prayer, &quot;O Holy Spirit ...
Renew thy wonders in this our day as by a new Pentecost.&quot; That prayer has
been answered in an incredible manner, by a revival and profusion of charisms,
which, as the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church states, &quot;are useful for
the renewal and expansion of the Church.&quot; This is what Pope John Paul II
meant, when in 1983 he called for a New Evangelization, new in zeal, in methods
and in expressions. This is what he had in mind, in looking forward with
glorious expectation to the New Millennium becoming &quot;a great springtime
for Christianity&quot; (RM 86).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Deus o havia ungido com o Espírito Santo e com poder, e porque Deus estava com ele, Jesus passou fazendo o bem e curando todos os que haviam caído no poder do diabo&quot; (Atos 10:38)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Foi em 1976 que eu tive meu primeiro caso de exorcismo ou Deliverance. Nós tínhamos acabado de celebrar no dia 16 de julho, a Festa de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, padroeira da minha paróquia do Monte. Carmel, Bandra, Mumbai. (Ele também foi um dia muito especial para mim, já que era o aniversário da minha ter recebido a batina ou batina, como seminarista e sacerdote do Seminário Diocesano de Bombaim). Como uma lembrança de nossa Paróquia Festa, tínhamos distribuído a cada paroquiano uma bela imagem de Nossa Senhora do Monte. Carmel, bem como uma oração ao Espírito Santo, para que o mesmo Espírito que ofuscou Mary seria agora descerá sobre a paróquia, sacerdotes e povo, como por um novo Pentecostes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Alguns dias mais tarde, eu fui para uma cidade na Índia Central, chamado Secunderabad, para dar um retiro carismático para as Irmãs de Santa Ana da Providência. Eu mal tinha se retirou para o meu quarto para um descanso tão necessário, após o almoço missa solene e festiva no último dia do retiro, 26 de julho, a Festa de Sant&#39;Ana, quando, para minha irritação, houve uma batida na minha porta. O Provincial, o Superior eo Iniciante Mistress, pediu desculpas por me incomodar, mas eles disseram que duas mulheres, irmãs de sangue, de uma família católica bem conhecido na paróquia, queria que eu fosse e orar sobre o filho de um deles, que foi hospitalizado no asilo mental na cidade. Pois, depois de ouvir minha palestra sobre a cura no evangelismo na noite anterior, eles se sentiram muito fortemente que o jovem não estava mentalmente doente, mas possuído.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Eu apenas ri baixinho para mim mesmo, já que eu não podia aceitar que nestes tempos modernos, as pessoas poderiam ficar possesso, e disse que eu não seria capaz de ir com eles para orar sobre o jovem, mas que orassem por eles mesmos. Eles continuaram, no entanto, insiste que as muitas doenças físicas e distúrbios emocionais atormentando suas famílias, foram devido à aflição de uma deusa popular, demônio, cujos sacerdotes alta seus ancestrais pagãos tinha sido, e que, apesar de assistir à Missa diária e dizendo que a diária Rosário família não estavam melhorando.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Eu não acreditava, então, que esses demônios realmente existiu. Na verdade, quando eu recebi a ordem menor de exorcista no Colégio Urbano de Propaganda Fide, em Roma, eu peguei muito leve, não prevendo que este viria a tornar-se para mim uma doença importante na minha vida, por assim dizer. Além disso, devo admitir, eu estava até um pouco irritado com as irmãs ea família para perturbar meus siesta. Então, eu só disse a eles que continuem a orar ainda mais. Como o último recurso que suplicou: &quot;Mas você não pode orar por nós agora.&quot; Retorqui que eu iria, esperançosamente, oramos por eles mais tarde, por mim mesmo. Mas então, parecia que o Senhor estava falando para mim &quot;, Rufus, essas pessoas têm vindo a pedir-lhe como um padre para rezar por eles agora. Você reza para eles agora.&quot; Bem, eu estava um pouco irritado com o Senhor. De qualquer forma eu rezava, com certa relutância e casualmente, eu sinto muito a dizer, e em voz baixa, que Jesus iria libertar esta família de que demônio - de novo, se ele existisse.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A reacção foi instantânea e mais inesperada. A mulher mais curto, o piedoso, que tinha sido narrando para mim todos os seus problemas, enquanto continuamente dedilhando as contas do rosário, foi arremessado para o chão com muita força, e - pela primeira vez na minha vida, eu fiquei cara a cara com o maligno. Eu me escondi atrás das freiras, como gritou obscenidades para mim e gritou para mim para voltar a Bombaim - em Inglês, o que ela não sabia, e tentou saltar em cima de mim e me estrangular. Eu não sabia o que fazer - uma vez que não foi treinado no seminário para tais perigos inesperados. Eu me senti impotente para fazer qualquer coisa. Eu não tinha coragem de pedir que ele saia da mulher - I presume até agora que foi a si próprio diabo. Os 20 jovens noviços veio em meu socorro, pois serviu garrafas de água benta para a mulher -, mas sem sucesso.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Este foi o meu primeiro caso de libertação, e foi um caso que terminou tão rapidamente e completamente - apenas com a autoridade de Jesus e pelo poder do seu Espírito Santo (e, creio eu, por intercessão de Nossa Senhora do Monte Carmelo. e de St. Anne) e, como São João Maria Vianney, não pela minha inteligência, conhecimento, experiência, formação ou presente especial. Houve um tempo em que eu me estava com medo de espíritos malignos, mesmo que eu não tinha certeza se eles existiram, até que eu percebi desde este primeiro caso de que eles têm mais medo do poder do nosso Batismo e, especialmente, do poder do Sacerdócio , assim como a setenta e dois poderia dizer triunfante: &quot;Senhor, até os demônios se submetem a nós, quando usamos o seu nome&quot; (Lc 10:17).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;É triste que hoje muitos de nossos povos em suas muitas e diversas necessidades ir tanto para espíritas inquestionáveis ​​ou curandeiros neo-pentecostal questionáveis. Felizmente, a Renovação Carismática Católica tem ajudado nesta guerra espiritual através de um ministério renovado de libertação, ativado pelo surgimento e manifestação deste carisma específico do Espírito Santo, quando o sacerdote ou leigo exercer esse ministério sob a autoridade eclesial, ora por um pessoa que é, presumivelmente sob a influência demoníaca.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Isto porque, em preparação para o Concílio Vaticano II, o Papa João XXIII tinha conduzido a Igreja em oração, &quot;O Espírito Santo ... Renove as tuas maravilhas neste nosso dia, como por um novo Pentecostes&quot;. Essa oração foi respondida de uma maneira incrível, por um reavivamento e profusão de carismas, que, como a Constituição Dogmática da Igreja afirma, &quot;são úteis para a renovação e expansão da Igreja.&quot; Isto é o que o Papa João Paulo II quis dizer, quando, em 1983, ele chamou para uma Nova Evangelização, novo no zelo, nos métodos e nas expressões. Isto é o que ele tinha em mente, ao olhar para a frente com gloriosa expectativa para o Novo Milênio se tornar &quot;uma grande primavera cristã&quot; (RM 86).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Partindo dali Jesus foi para a região de Tiro e Sidônia, um outro país.
Uma mulher da Cananeia vinda daquela região pôs-se a gritar “Senhor, filho de
Davi, tem compaixão de mim. Minha filha é cruelmente atormentada por um
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Ele não lhe respondeu palavra alguma. Seus discípulos aproximaram-se e
lhe pediram “Manda embora essa mulher, pois ela vem gritando atrás de nós”. Ele
tomou a palavra “eu fui enviado somente às ovelhas perdidas da Casa de Israel”.&lt;/div&gt;
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E começou a implorar. “Senhor, socorre-me.” E ele lhe disse “Não fica
bem tirar o pão dos filhos para jogá-los aos cachorrinhos”. E ela insistiu, “É
verdade, é verdade, Senhor, mas os cachorrinhos também comem as migalhas que
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Diante disso Jesus respondeu “Mulher, grande é a tua fé. Como queres, seja
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Glória a vós, Senhor.&lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Eu queria dar um nome a esta pregação, que aí a diretora de palco não
vai perguntar no final, mas não só para ela anotar na fita, mas para você
também. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O nome que eu queria dar a essa pregação é “Roteiro de Cura Interior, Roteiro
de Milagre, Roteiro de Cura Interior”.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O que é um roteiro? É uma rota. É um texto ou um mapa que indica a rota
pela qual eu tenho que passar. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Então, Roteiro de Cura Interior é, se você quer receber a cura interior,
o roteiro está aqui. Mas que roteiro difícil... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Vamos nos colocar nesse texto. Onde Jesus estava? Num país estrangeiro,
e aí veio uma senhora, mulher.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Vejam, de vez em quando aparece na televisão uma mulher oriental, como
a mulher é tratada, lá embaixo, tanto que o judeu reza todo dia “eu te louvo, Javé,
por ter nascido judeu, e eu te louvo por não ter nascido mulher”.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Isso é oração que ele faz. E eles dizem que serve para proteger a
mulher, que proteção mais besta, e isso é machismo puro.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Então nós estamos falando de um caso muito sério, de uma mulher
estrangeira, num outro país, e essa mulher tinha um problema seriíssimo. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Qual? &lt;/div&gt;
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A filha dela estava terrivelmente atormentada pelo “encardido”. Não era
uma... um probleminha qualquer. Para vocês terem uma ideia, no Brasil, o último
caso conhecido de possessão demoníaca foi no Rio Grande do Sul em 1947. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Portanto, aqui nunca ninguém viu até hoje uma pessoa terrivelmente
atormentada pelo demônio. Não estou falando da pessoa que dá uns tremeliques
nela, esses tremeliques é fanatismo, isso é pessoa destemperada, pessoa
atrapalhada. Aqui está se dizendo que é um caso muito, muito, muito grave. “A
minha filha está ‘terrivelmente’...” e olha a tradução que a Bíblia da CNBB usa,
“Senhor, filho de Davi, a minha filha é ‘cruelmente’”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Cruelmente atormentada por um demônio. E Jesus não disse a história
daquela mulher, Jesus não disse que era um problema psicológico, logo era um
problema sério.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Eu digo com toda honestidade sem conhecer você, você nunca passou por
um problema desse graças a Deus. E digo mais, se juntar o problema de todos nós
aqui, não dá um problema desse. Porque nós, só de estarmos aqui num lugar de
Deus, já significa que nem estamos atormentados e muito menos cruelmente pelo
encardido, já é um grande sinal. Não é verdade? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Essa mulher, não era um probleminha qualquer, não. Essa mulher tinha um
problema, um não, essa mulher tinha uma penca de problemas. Mulher, estrangeira,
devia ser viúva ou o marido largou dela, porque ela estava sozinha. E a mulher
não podia aparecer em público sozinha a não ser que fosse viúva, separa ou
prostituída. Nós não sabemos o que tinha acontecido com essa coitada. Sabemos
que ela tinha uma filha e essa filha estava cruelmente, terrivelmente
atormentada por um demônio. Não sabemos se era uma doença física, psíquica ou
espiritual. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A ideia que o texto dá é que envolvia tudo, porque para dizer que era
cruelmente atormentada, vivia numa tormenta, era num sofrimento.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Quem sabe estava num vício muito grande? &lt;/div&gt;
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Quem sabe tinha tido uma vida de pecado terrível?&lt;/div&gt;
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Quem sabe estava vivendo um trauma?&lt;/div&gt;
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Quem sabe estava paralítica?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Nós não sabemos. Nós sabemos que era um problema muito, muito, muito
grave, e que louvado seja Deus, aqui nunca ninguém, nenhum de nós passou por
algo semelhante. E é muito importante que você preste atenção nisso, era um
problema muito grave.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A minha filha estava cruelmente atormentada por um demônio.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Essa mulher estava rezando só? Ela estava gritando. Prestaram atenção
no texto? Uma mulher cananeia, estrangeira, vinda daquela região, outro país, pôs-se
a gritar.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Não é aquela oraçãozinha que a gente faz escondido, não. “Oh, meu Jesus,
ajuda eu...”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E também não é aquela oração que a pessoa só pensa em sim... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Oh, meu Senhor, ajuda eu conseguir a emagrecer”... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Mas se eu não conseguir emagrecer, faz que as minhas amigas engordem...”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Amém.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
É oração que Deus tapa os ouvidos.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A oração dela era desesperada, tanto que ela gritava. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Gritava. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Gritar de oração, ela derramava sua alma na presença de Jesus e gritava
blasfêmia? Não era igual umas pessoas que estavam ali na cantina gritando, falando
palavrão que estava atrasando o lanche, gritando e xingando. Não era assim, não.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Não é que nem uma pessoa que fica jogando sujeira e falando mal dos
outros por aí a fora, porque ficou lá na porta, esperando fulano para falar, fulano
não falou. Se você veio aqui para ver fulano, já devia ter ido embora faz
tempo. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Você tem que vir aqui para ver Jesus Cristo. ((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Ontem uma senhora falou para mim “vou ficar com raiva do senhor porque
o senhor não quis assinar na minha Bíblia”...”fica pelo amor de Deus, eu não
vou assinar na sua Bíblia que quem escreveu a Bíblia foi Deus e Jesus, não eu”.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Deixa de ser besta, é para você viver. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Ah, mas eu quero levar de lembrança”. Então escreve aí o meu nome, mente
que fui eu. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E pronto.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E tem pessoa que não percebe isso, gente. E isso dentro da igreja tem
que ficar muito claro, porque depois são essas pessoas que ficam por aí falando
bobagem, falando mal, reclamando... &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “Ai,
porque eu queria ir ela falar com ele, falar com ela”. Nós viemos aqui com uma
função e quando termina o nosso serviço a gente tem que falar “Senhor, sou um
servo inútil, não fiz nada mais do que a minha obrigação”.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Grave bem essa frase, o dia que você tiver um problema sério você vai
atrás, e quem não tem um problema sério inventa. Quem não tem um problema cria.
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O dia que você tiver um problema, você faz igual a essa mulher. Essa
mulher tinha um problema sério, era um problema para valer, era um problema que
não tinha solução humana, ela não tinha saída. “A minha filha está cruelmente
atormentada por um demônio”. E ela gritava “Senhor, filho de Davi, tenha
piedade de mim”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Era uma oração linda.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Era uma oração profunda.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Primeiro passo da cura&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O primeiro passo da cura, eu vou falar os quatro, é um roteiro.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Qual foi a resposta de Jesus? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Nada.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Está no Evangelho.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Eu vou seguir esse roteiro, pode ficar com a Bíblia aberta, eu não vou
dar um passo fora desse texto. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Versículo 23, ele não lhe respondeu palavra alguma. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Que... meu Deus... que insensibilidade de Jesus. Uma mulher, estrangeira,
num outro país, sofrendo? E isso comove a gente. Outro dia eu assisti um jornal
não sei em qual canal de televisão, mostrava uma mulher no Japão, que foi para
lá e daí o pessoal que levou ela dava emprego, não deu mais o emprego para ela.
E aí a coitada dessa mulher estava desempregada e sem ter isso, sem ter aquilo.
E quando eu vai os meus olhos estavam cheios de lágrimas. A gente fica com dó.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Agora, uma mulher sozinha, estrangeira, abandonada, a filha cruelmente
atormentada por um demônio, ela não fez uma oraçãozinha não, ela gritou “Senhor,
filho de Davi, tem piedade de mim, minha filha está cruelmente atormentada por
um demônio!”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E o que é que Jesus fez? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Ele não respondeu palavra. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E nem fé deu ao que ela tinha dito. 93.8 por cento dos católicos, nesse
momento, desistem da sua caminhada. 93 por cento dos católicos, nessa hora, mudam
de religião.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Eu rezei, eu fiz novena, eu fiz isso, eu fui na Igreja, e Deus não me
atendeu. Fiz promessa para Nossa Senhora. Eu tinha um problema sério”. “E Deus
não me atendeu. Eu não vou mais lá, o padre não atendeu eu. Eu não vou mais, aquele
carismático, eu precisava tanto dele... eu estava... não atendeu eu... nem
olhou para o meu lado, fez de conta que não viu eu...”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Você está nesse grupo? &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Eu já estive muitas vezes.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Mas acontece que essa mulher tinha um problema sério, e quem tem
problema sério, não desiste. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Grave isso. Se você desistiu, é porque não era sério.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quando você gosta de uma coisa, você não larga.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A moça largou do noivado, terminou o noivado. E o rapaz falou “por que
é que você terminou o noivado?”, “mudaram meus sentimentos em relação a ele”, “ah,
mas por que é que você ainda está usando esse anel de brilhante que ele deu?”, “os
meus sentimentos ao anel não mudaram. Do anel eu gosto”... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quem não tem problema, cria. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Gente fraca, se enrosca em qualquer graveto. Faz tempestade em copo d’água
e às vezes o copo nem está cheio.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Desiste à toa.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quem não sabe para onde vai, para em qualquer lugar.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Mas quem sabe para onde vai, há uma mãe que tem um filho doente, desesperada
para ver se salva essa criança e não tem recurso, ah, ela põe nas costas, ela
atravessa o rio nadando, ela sobe morro, ela desce morro, ela vai atrás.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Os meus pais fizeram isso muitas vezes para me salvar. E se hoje eu sou
padre e sirvo para alguma coisa na Igreja, é graças ao meu pai e a minha mãe e
uma mula que meu pai tinha, a “Sucena”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E punha a gente na carroça, na charrete, bagageira, e ia para cidade. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Eu tinha bronquite.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Os meus pais tinham perdido quatro filhos antes de mim, inclusive as
gêmeas que nasceram antes de mim.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Eu tinha bronquite.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E não foram os meus pais que me contaram. Foram os meus tios que me
contaram, porque eles nunca me cobraram o amor que me deram.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Olha, meu filho, o seu pai e a sua mãe saíam daqui da Barra, 32 km até
Itajubá, debaixo de chuva, estrada de terra... não tinha ponte, tinha que
passar por dentro do rio, rezando... o papai tocando a mula, a mamãe comigo no
colo, debaixo da capa rezando a Deus para o menino não morrer. Levava a noite
inteira, e quantas vezes a mula atolava, o pai descia, correndo, puxava a mula,
tirava no braço aquilo...”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Não era assim? &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Agora quem não tem problema, diante de qualquer coisinha desiste, nós
estamos criando gente de raça muito fraca.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Jovem que qualquer probleminha vai para a droga.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Qualquer probleminha vai ter que tomar quilos de remédio para isso e
para aquilo.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Qualquer coisinha desiste.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O lugar de gente fraca é o inferno. É para lá que vão todos, e se você
for fraco... ó! &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quem tem problema luta, quem tem uma dificuldade vai atrás. Quem sabe
por que vive, esse enfrenta a vida, levanta, dá a volta por cima, sacode a
poeira e vai lá. Não para. Agora, quem não tem problema, fica sempre olhando
para trás... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Ah, como eu sofri...”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Ai, o que é que isso? O que é que é aquilo?”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Por que é que na minha vida dá tudo errado?”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
É porque você é muito fraco. O buraco foi feito para você jogar lixo. Se
você vive num buraco, é por isso que está cheio de lixo em cima.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Nós estamos acostumando as pessoas a uma oração mágica.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Oh, Jesus, resolve meu problema. Amém. Obrigado, Senhor”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E você vê na televisão, e nesse canal graças a Deus não vê. E se você
vir, você mude, o dia que ver esse canal de televisão, a Canção Nova fazendo
isso, mude de canal na hora. Você não vai ver a Canção Nova dizer “Vem cá, que
eu rezo por você e resolvo o seu problema”. Nunca.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Você vai ouvir muitas vezes a Canção Nova dizer “Venha conosco, vamos
rezar juntos, vamos pegar firme, que você faz parte desse projeto” e cada vez
dá passo maior, maior, maior.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Por quê? &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Porque você está vislumbrando na frente. Não desista porque alguém
falou mal, porque alguém criticou, porque alguém mandou um e-mail, porque
alguém mandou uma carta, porque alguém telefonou... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Enquanto os cães estão latindo, a caravana está passando e quem sabe
para onde vai não desiste.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A cura interior, ela é fundamental para fortalecer o meu coração, do
mesmo jeito que eu se não como fico fraco, o meu coração, se ele não se
alimenta de Deus, no livro Cure o Seu Coração, nós trabalhamos dessa temática.
O meu coração precisa dos mesmos cuidados que precisa meu corpo.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Se eu não alimento meu coração eu vou ficando fraco.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E gente fraca é derrotada. Gente fraca desiste fácil.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Gente fraca só quer moleza. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
É a história de dois burros.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Os dois burros&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Na fazenda tinha dois burros. Um era burro, o outro burro e meio.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O burro e meio acha que é mais inteligente que o outro. Que a pessoa, quanto
mais besta, mais inteligente ela acha que é. A pessoa que é inteligente, mesmo,
ela não fala que é inteligente. A pessoa que é humilde, já não fala que é
humilde.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Então, os dois burros, aquele burro e meio, sempre encostando no outro.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quando eu fazia um serviço, ele sempre jogava o serviço pior para o
outro burro.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E aquele outro burro, coitado, nasceu para ser um burro, mas era um
burro que prestava. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Ele nasceu para ser um burro santo. Ele era o melhor burro que podia
ter.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Você também nasceu para ser santo. Que seja o melhor, não melhor do que
os outros, melhor para os outros.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Você não tem que ser melhor que seu marido, você tem que ser melhor para
o seu marido.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Você não tem que ser melhor que a sua irmã de comunidade, você tem que
ser melhor para a sua irmã de comunidade.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Para Deus a gente dá o melhor.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E para as pessoas de Deus, a gente tem que dar o melhor também.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E aquele burro, então, só escolhia serviço fácil.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quando tinha que puxar um arado, ele inventava desculpa e não ia.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O outro ia.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Aí um dia o patrão recolheu todos os burros. E falou para o capataz: &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Arrume os burros, põe uma cangaia firme – cangaia é aquele negócio que
põe nas costas do burro – que nós vamos fazer uma viagem longa. Vamos
transportar muito material”. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
No dia seguinte, aquele burro e meio já chegou na frente dos outros
para olhar, que ele queria a carga mais leve.&lt;/div&gt;
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Aí ele viu ela um monte de palha, falou “Rapaz, eu vou levar essa palha
aí. Eu vou ficar aqui perto e aí eu levo ela”.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Era uma carga enorme, porque palha dá um monte, né. E do lado tinha uns
sacos de sal. E ele falou:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“É... esse aí eu vou deixar para o colega meu, né? “&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Porque um saco desses é 60 quilos”. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E aí foi encostado ali, como quem não quer nada e chamou o colega. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Vem cá, fulano, ficar conversando aqui...”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Sabe que os burros conversam, né. Eles têm diálogo: “hoon, hi-hoon”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E falou “O capataz chega e coloca o sal no colega, e a palha em mim”.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Dito e feito, capataz olhou, bateu nele...”Ô, burrão... vai levar a
palha”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Fazer o quê? Estamos aí, né.”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Parece alguns carismáticos que a gente conhece, né.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E pos aquele monte de palha, aquela carga enorme, e ele fingindo que
estava pesado... e aí o outro pos seis sacos de sal, em cada lado da cangaia. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Argh!”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Nossa! Você está fraco, né”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Não almoçou não? Olha eu aqui, o tamanho da minha carga!”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E o outro não sabia que o sal era mais pesado, “Eu tenho que ser o
melhor burro” e olha para o outro.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O outro burro falava para ele “ó! A gente tem que olhar bem onde a
gente anda”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Que nada, deixa de ser bobo. A vida... a vida, é dos espertos. É só
você olhar onde o outro passa, que você passa atrás sossegado. Você não precisa
prestar atenção em nada, não.”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E ele foi indo, sossegado, e o outro do sal cansado. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E de repente tem que atravessar um rio.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Tem que se atravessar o rio, o burro da palha, muito gentil, um líder
carismático inspirado... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
... falou “Ó! Vai lá irmão, você pode ir na frente”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Mas esse rio está meio fundo, hein?”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Que nada, os outros passaram aí”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Bom...” e o burro que estava com os sacos de sal entrou no rio, e o
rio era fundo. E o rio ia batendo o sal na água, que derretia. E derretia. E
ele foi ficando mais leve, e conseguiu passar.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O outro burro “Não falei para você? Ó! Espera eu agora”... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Ô, abre alas que eu quero passar...”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E começou o desfile. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A palha, na água... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
... vai encharcando, vai encharcando, vai encharcando... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
... quando estava no meio do rio, encharcou tanto que a correnteza
levou o burro.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E o encardido, ele quer fazer isso com você. Ele quer te dar uma vida
bem suave, ele quer que você carregue palha. Mas, na hora que você tiver que
passar o ribeirão da vida, meu filho, você vai morrer encharcado. Não tem outro
jeito.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Não procure as coisas fáceis. Nós precisamos educar as pessoas para a
luta, e foi isso que Jesus ensinou no Primeiro Passo da cura interior. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O Primeiro Passo da cura interior é não desistir, mesmo que o Cristo parece
não me ouve.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Segundo passo da cura interior&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Segundo Passo.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Os apóstolos ficaram decepcionados com Jesus. Eles devem ter pensado
“que coisa, coitada da mulher, berrando”, ”problema sério”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E chegaram em Jesus. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Sempre dá um jeitinho de arrumar um grupinho para fazer uma pressão e
os apóstolos vão fazer uma pressão para ver se atende a mulher.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E seus discípulos se aproximaram e lhe pediram “Manda embora essa
mulher, pois ela vem gritando atrás de nós”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Oração da chantagem: “leva embora”, “já que o Senhor não quer atender, manda
embora”, “ó! Meu Deus, leva eu de uma vez”, “por que é que eu não morri”, “eu
não pedi para nascer”... – e pedir de que jeito se você não existia?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Ó! Senhor, coitada da mulher”... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E sempre acha um grupo de gente para te dar razão, e às vezes discípulo
de Jesus, às vezes dentro do seu grupo. “Não é verdade?” “No seu grupo não foi
assim? Eu estava ela, eu vai, ela foi falar com o padre, o padre virou as
costas”. “Não é possível”. “É verdade. Infelizmente é verdade. Eu mesmo já
falei para o padre ‘por que o senhor já não dispensa a coitada de uma vez? Por
que é que o senhor já não proíbe ela de vir aqui na missa?’”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A primeira resposta de Jesus, a indiferença. Nem ligou. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A segunda resposta de Jesus, desprezo.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Olha a segunda resposta que Jesus disse. O que é que Jesus falou? Uma
resposta de desprezo e petulância. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Eu vim para as ovelhas perdidas da Casa de Israel”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Meu Deus... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Se a indiferença doi, o desprezo dois mais ainda. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Por que é que o outro é melhor que eu? Por que é que ele está
atendendo fulano e não eu? Onde já se viu fazer isso comigo?” ((choroso)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Aqui, mais uns 93% dos católicos abandonam, já sobrou só 4%. Você ainda
está naqueles quatro, ou já desistiu lá atrás? Ou você desistiu porque você
rezou, rezou, e Deus parece que tapou as orelhas? &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Ou quando você rezou, rezou e rezou, e recebeu uma chapoletadinha leve?
“Eu vim para as ovelhas perdidas...”, “Você não é digno”, “Eu não vou atender
você”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E aí, a pessoa que já tem problema, pronto. Já se sente... era a hora
da mulher falar:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Ah... eu nasci para quê? O meu marido me abandonou. E eu sozinha aqui...”
((faz voz de choro)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Era a hora... se o encardido estivesse perto daquela mulher, ele já ia
dar elementos para a oração da lamúria. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Olha, gente, o tanto que a gente sofre, que eu estou pedindo aqui, pedindo
para ele... ((chora)) eu chamei ele de Senhor... ajuda eu, a minha filha está
((choro)) atacada pelo demônio...” ((lamuria)) “Os discípulos foram falar com
ele. E sabe o que é que ‘ele’ falou? Desprezou eu”... ((choro)) &lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ele falou “Eu vim para as ovelhas de...”&lt;/div&gt;
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“Fica com as ovelhas, com os cabritos, com os carneiros, desgraçado!”, “eu
não estou querendo fazer criação de carneiros, eu só queria que ele atendesse a
minha filha...” ((choroso)) “eu não estava pedindo doação para ele”, “eu não...
eu não ia pedir cabritinho para ele”, “e o que é que eu tenho a ver com esses
carneiros dele? Com as ovelhas dele!”, “ele que fique com as o’velhas, o’velhos
dele”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Se o encardido estivesse por perto... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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... ela desistia. E para chegar na cura interior, tem que passar por
esse caminho. E a maior parte para no primeiro, quando você reza e parece que
Deus não escuta. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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E segundo, quando você reza e você não vê o fruto acontecer na sua vida,
vê acontecer na vida do outro. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Por que será que fulano chegou esses dias na comunidade, e já está
cantando e já está lá rezando, e eu que já estou aqui há seis anos!” &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“É injustiça. Não, é porque eles só gostam de gente rica. É por isso
que os evangélicos estão crescendo, é por isso que eles estão crescendo. É isso,
a culpa... que eu estou aqui há seis anos, que é para varrer a igreja eu estou
lá. Quando é para trabalhar na quermesse eu estou lá. Agora que teve esse
congresso aí? Chamou aquela moça, sabe? Aquela sirigaita que está lá na frente...
por que é que Deus não escuta eu?”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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E Jesus dizendo “eu vim para as ovelhas perdidas”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Palavra.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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E a mulher, então desistiu? Foi embora? Quem tem problema, não desiste.
&lt;/div&gt;
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Insiste. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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A mulher mudou a estratégia dela, é fantástica a mudança que ela dá no
texto. A mulher vinha lá de trás berrando. Quando escutou a chapoletada de
Jesus, ou melhor, quando não escutou, e depois, quando os discípulos
intercederam, e ele deu aquela resposta até para os discípulos daquele jeito. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Ela foi embora? Ela andou mais depressa e se... se prostrou na frente d’Ele.
O detalhe do texto é fabuloso. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mas a mulher veio prostrar-se diante de Jesus e começou a implorar e aí
ela não gritou mais e aí ela não contou mais a história dela. Ela não tinha
mais força para fazer uma oração. Ela já tinha perdido o livrinho que ela
comprou do Padre Léo rezando a vida, onde tem as orações, ela já não tinha mais.
Ela já tinha perdido o CD “O Pai me Ama”, onde tem uma linda oração do padre
Jonas de cura interior. Ela tinha perdido tudo. Ela estava sozinha ali. Ninguém
tinha entendido, ela já tinha lido livro do Dom Cipriano, do Padre Jonas, o
Combate na Oração, e não adiantou nada. Ela largou tudo e foi embora? Não. Ela
já não tinha argumento para Jesus, ela já contado o problema para Jesus, ela já
tinha berrado “Senhor, a minha filha, senhor, filho de Davi, tenha piedade de
mim, a minha filha está cruelmente atormentada por um demônio. Ela berrou lá
atrás, os discípulos fizeram intercessão por ela, fizeram grupo, reuniram, não
adiantou nada. E o que é que ela fez? Foi embora? Não. Quem tem problema sério,
não desiste. Mas a mulher veio prostrar-se. E o que é prostrar? É deitar, chegou
lá e deitou na frente dele e ficou lá. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E a única que conseguiu fazer, “Senhor, ajuda-me”. Como quem diz, agora
o Senhor vai passar por cima do meu cadáver. Agora o Senhor chuta eu, então. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Que oração!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Prostrar-se é deitar! &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Ontem teve gente aqui que não se ajoelhou diante do Santíssimo, ou
ajoelhou dois minutos, já sentou, já ficou andando. Um dia uma senhora chegou
para mim e falou “Padre, eu vou desistir, padre. Meu marido... meu filho, padre,
eu já fiz de tudo”. E ela estava com a saia aqui, assim. A senhora podia
levantar a saia um pouquinho? ((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Credo, padre!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Então, a senhora faz favor, levanta não até em cima, eu quero ver só o
joelho da senhora. &lt;/div&gt;
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Para que, padre? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A senhora levanta a saia um pouquinho? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Olhou o joelho da senhora e falou “A senhora ainda não fez tudo, não. Não
tem calo no joelho. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Se tiver calo no joelho eu acredito”. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Eu não acredito em quem fala de Deus se não tiver calo no joelho e
muitos aqui não foram curados e não serão enquanto não dobrar o joelho diante
de Jesus. E para valer.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Terceiro passo da oração&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Terceiro passo da oração.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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O terceiro passo da oração, é prostrar-se, jogar-se no chão, deitar-se
diante de Jesus e soltar lá do fundo do seu coração, uma oração profundamente
linda, maravilhosa e curta...”Senhor... ((silêncio)) socorre-me... socorre-me, Senhor”.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Gente, socorrer? Nós temos em português, no mesmo sentido, pronto-socorro.
O socorro é aquilo que vem de fora. Socorro é quando você pede socorro. O
socorro do bombeiro, quando alguém é acidentado não deve mexer na pessoa, chama
o bombeiro, é chamar o pronto-socorro. É levar às pressas, a ambulância faz
oooooooooooo-ó! E os carros vão saindo, o sujeito vai buzinando, é socorro. É
uma casa pegando fogo, e o bombeiro vem com aquele negócio, a sirene, oooooooo-ó!
E o carro vai encostando, é preciso ter pressa para socorrer, socorro é isso, quando
não tem mais jeito. Socorro significa que se eu não chegar lá, a pessoa morre!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E a mulher falou isso para Jesus “Senhor, socorre-me. Eu não tenho mais
força para rezar, senhor. Eu não aguento mais. Eu já fui desprezada, eu já
falei para o Senhor, eu já falei tudo, eu expliquei tudo, eu pedi tudo para o
senhor e o senhor não me atendeu? Os discípulos já falaram... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A sua oração será ouvida no dia em que você puder traduzir toda a sua
dor, todo o seu sofrimento, toda a sua angústia nessa única frase, “Senhor, socorre-me”.
E sem justificativas. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Não tem justificativa.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Quantas e quantas vezes eu tenho falado para o Senhor diante de um
filho com um problema lá em casa?” &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Esses dias eu fiz essa oração muitas vezes. De São Paulo, falei com a
Jucélia por telefone, “o senhor é consagrado responsável de Curitiba, tinha
sido internado”.e dentro do avião eu fui e essa frase vinha “Socorre-me Jesus, socorre-me
senhor”. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E quando eu desci no aeroporto de Navegantes, até lá em casa dá 100 km,
até Curitiba dá 200 km. Liguei e falei “Júlio, estou indo para Curitiba”. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Socorre-me Senhor”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Não liguei o rádio, nada. O que é que eu vou fazer? Não sou médico. O
que é que eu vou fazer? &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Só cheguei lá, dei um beijo nele, falei uma piada para ele rir. E falei
o quê? O que é que eu vou falar diante de um filho que eu amo de paixão? Mas
está com câncer... e um câncer terrível, a medicina já matou ele não sei
quantas vezes ele venceu? E ele está lá. Está o restinho dele. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Vou falar o quê? &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Socorre-me Senhor”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quando vem um filho de 15-16 anos e fala “padre, eu estou com AIDS, padre”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quando vem uma mulher com 3-4 filhos e fala “eu estou com AIDS, padre”.
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O que é que eu vou falar? Eu vou fazer terapia da vida passada para ela?
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Socorre, Senhor”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
O que é que eu vou fazer? Quando eu me encontro em situação de pecado, que
eu não consigo vencer, meus próprios pecados! &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E às vezes é terrível, porque o padre, quando ele está no pecado, é
terrível, é mais do que para você. Porque às vezes você está num pecado, sabe
que é grave. Sabe que é um pecado mortal. E eu já dei vários exemplos de pecado
mortal aqui, e você está marcado para presidir a Eucaristia logo em seguida? E
aí? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Você magoou alguém. Pecado mortal. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E logo em seguida você tem que dizer “isso é meu corpo”? &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Bethania me ajuda muito nisso. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
A nossa missa e o nosso ato penitencial é sempre partilhado, e os
meninos e as meninas fazem aquelas orações profundas, a maior parte das vezes é
tudo para mim. Muitas e muitas vezes eu vou pegando o meu terço bizantino e
andando lá em Bethania rapidinho e só pedindo... &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Senhor, socorre-me, senhor, ajuda-me Senhor, eu sou um monte de bosta.
Ajuda-me, Senhor”.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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Ajuda... eu não tenho o que falar. &lt;/div&gt;
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Essa é a oração, gente, que quando você não tem argumentos. Eu vou
argumentar o quê? Deus já fez tanta coisa na minha vida, Deus é tão maravilhoso
comigo e mesmo assim eu não emendo, eu não mudo. Eu queria mudar mas eu não
consigo. Eu queria ser diferente, eu queria amar certas pessoas mas eu não
consigo, a minha vontade é de enfiar a mão na cara daquela filha da mãe... &lt;/div&gt;
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Eu estou pedindo, Senhor, muda o meu temperamento. E Ele não muda. Eu
vou fazer o quê? &lt;/div&gt;
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Socorre-me, Senhor.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Eu queria largar esse vício do cigarro, eu queroa largar esse vicio de
prostituição, eu queria lutar e largar essa tendência homossexual que eu tenho,
eu queria largar de falar mal da vida dos outros, eu queria largar, Senhor, de
ser consumista, mas eu não consigo. Eu não tenho outra coisa a não dizer, “Senhor,
socorre-me Senhor”. “Vem Senhor, socorre-me, socorre-me... socorro... eu estou...
eu estou afundando, Senhor”. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
É quase igual a Pedro quando está afundando na água, “Senhor, salva-me”.
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ele podia ter virado para o pessoal do barco e falado “joga uma corda”.
Ele estendeu a mão para Jesus, que estava pisando na mesma água que ele estava
afundando. Não tem lógica, porque dois na água afunda mais rápido.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Socorre-me, Senhor”. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Esta é a oração mais profunda que você pode fazer. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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E qual foi a resposta de Jesus? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Violenta. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Esse terceiro passo, minha Nossa Senhora, Maria sabe, porque eu leio a Bíblia,
eu não leio a Bíblia e vou conversando com a Bíblia. Falo “isso aqui está
errado”, “isso aqui não está certo” até eu entender. E aqui eu parei muitas
vezes. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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A mulher chega numa humilhação dessa, ela não tem mais onde ir, ela se
jogou no pé de Jesus. Já esgotou, esgotaram-se todos os seus argumentos, ela
berrou. Ela rezou direitinho, “Senhor, filho de Davi, tende piedade de mim, minha
filha está terrivelmente, cruelmente atormentada por um demônio”. &lt;/div&gt;
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“Os discípulos pediram e nada. A primeira vez ele nem escutou. Na
segunda vez ele ainda deu uma cacetada em mim ainda, falando que veio para as
ovelhas lá. E na terceira vez eu me prostrei, eu me joguei no chão e falei ‘socorre-me,
Senhor’.”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E qual foi a terceira resposta de Jesus? Aqui, 99.999 por cento dos
católicos abandonam Jesus. Nessa hora. Não passa do terceiro passo. Se você na
sua vida você não conseguiu ainda a sua cura, você não passou do terceiro passo,
a mulher descabelada joga-se no chão. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Senhor, socorre-me. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Versículo 26, Ele lhe disse “não fica bem tirar o pão dos filhos para
jogar aos cachorrinhos”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Jesus chamou essa mulher do quê? Ele comparou ela com o quê? Com a
cadela. Já pensou? &lt;/div&gt;
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Se isso acontecesse hoje, imediatamente a pessoa estaria no Ratinho... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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... com 300 advogados.&lt;/div&gt;
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“Senhor Ratinho, nós viemos aqui com um problema muito sério, é uma
senhora, coitada, estrangeira... abandonada pelo marido, a filha atormentada
por um demônio, foi pedir para aquele padre lá, pedir oração. E ele, ele fez
que nem escutou. Os... os auxiliares dele foram lá pedir e ele nem deu bola. E
quando ela se humilhou na frente dele, o senhor sabe o que é que ela falou? Chamou
ela de cachorra, e ele não estava ensaiando baile funk no Rio de Janeiro. E
isso está certo?”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ah, eu imagino as manchetes no dia seguinte. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Religioso é preso por ofender publicamente estrangeira”. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Ia ter matérias no Cansástico aos domingos... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Vejam essa noite... o depoimento, as pessoas que viram quando o
reverendíssimo padre humilhou publicamente a pobre coitada...”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“Se você acha que esse padre deve ser preso ligue 0800-90-58”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Se você acha que não, que ele deve continuar humilhando as pessoas
desse jeito, ligue, porque aqui é você quem resolve”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Pensa.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Jesus chamou a mulher de...? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Você continuaria indo na missa? Imagina o padre Jonas? O padre Jonas
sempre, se for falar “bobão”, “desculpa”. Imagine o padre Jonas. Imagina essa, você
imagina? Você consegue imaginar essa frase na boca do padre Jonas? O padre Leo,
ainda vai. Mas do padre Jonas, você imagina? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((risos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Imaginem o padre Rufus falando aqui? &lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;“Em ingrês”? “She is a dog”? &lt;/span&gt;Hein? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Imaginem... e você voltaria para o acampamento? Se você reclama porque
lá não te atenderam na hora? Reclama por isso? Reclama por aquilo? Reclama por
aquilo? Reclama por aquilo? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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E a hora que o padre Jonas... eu estou abaixando bem o nível, padre Jonas.
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Porque quem falou foi Jesus.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
E nós, eu, o padre Jonas, só somos os representantes dele. Você imagine,
você continuaria nessa comunidade? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Verdade. Por quanta coisa muito menos você perdeu amigos? Por bobagem
você não fala mais com determinadas pessoas? Por bobagens muito menores, porque
a pessoa falou uma bobagemzinha e que você ficou sabendo e nem sabe se ela
falou, você já passou a acusar a pessoa, a descer a lenha na pessoa e falar mal
da pessoa. Terceiro passo para a cura interior, é violento, porque você vai ter
que virar um cachorro... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Jesus chamou a mulher de “cachorra”. E o que ela fez? Latiu. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Está aí. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Cain, cain, cain... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ela insistiu. &lt;/div&gt;
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Pode traduzir ela então, “latiu”. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
“É verdade, Senhor. O senhor está certo. Mas os cachorrinhos também
comem as migalhas que caem da mesa de seus donos”. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Me dá o resto, senhor...”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Diante disso, é aqui que vem a cura. Olha o roteiro de cura interior. Esse
é o próximo livro que eu estou escrevendo, chama “Roteiro de milagres”. Está
aqui. Se aparecer alguém antes, copiaram de mim, viu? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((riso)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Mas ninguém vai escrever do meu jeito também, e pronto, né? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Quarto passo da cura interior&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Você chega até esse quarto passo, verdade verdadeira, não pode ser
mentira mentirosa, ou desistiu lá no primeiro já? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Quantos chegam nesse passo? Todos aqueles que recebem a graça da cura
interior. &lt;/div&gt;
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Para chegar na cura, você tem que chegar nesse passo. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Chamou de cachorro? Então eu lato. &lt;/div&gt;
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Diante disso, versículo 28, diante disso, depois disso, só por causa
disso, só então, depois dessa caminhada toda, então, diante disso, “, ” e é
disso, não disto, se fosse disto podia ser algo mais longe, é disso, é aqui, diante
desse fato aqui, ó! Não é disso no sentido disto, ou que está lá. É isso. É
aqui. É diante “desse fato”, português é muito claro também. E os bispos
mandaram traduzir, é muito bem feito isso daqui. Diante disso, Jesus respondeu...
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E esse é um conceito de cura interior que eu quero explorar muito nesse
livro, cura interior é uma resposta. &lt;/div&gt;
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Resposta à pergunta, resposta à oração, resposta à garra, resposta à
luta. &lt;/div&gt;
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E Jesus respondeu. &lt;/div&gt;
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E como é que ele respondeu? Que coisa linda. “Mulher...” e qual foi a
outra pessoa que Jesus chamou com esse título? A mãe dele. Percebe? Esse
“Mulher” aqui, com ‘M’ maiúsculo, é o mesmo que ele falou para Maria em Canaã?
“Mulher”. &lt;/div&gt;
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“Mulher”. &lt;/div&gt;
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É o título mais alto que uma mulher é “Mulher com ‘M’ maiúsculo”. &lt;/div&gt;
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É Mulher na sua plenitude. &lt;/div&gt;
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“Mulher, grande é a tua fé. Como queres, “, ”, te seja feito”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Então você diz “Deus não atendeu a minha oração “, e por que? Porque
você não quis ainda verdadeiramente. Deus não me curou ainda, porque você ainda
não quis ser curado. &lt;/div&gt;
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Jesus está dizendo aqui, a oração de cura é resposta. E é uma resposta
nítida, sem subterfúgios, direta. “Grande é a tua fé”, e enquanto a sua fé não
for grande, pode esquecer. “Como queres”, do jeito que você quer, eu faço
conforme você está falando. “Te seja feito”, conclusão. &lt;/div&gt;
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E a partir daquela hora sua filha ficou curada. &lt;/div&gt;
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Se você não conseguiu um milagre ainda, é porque você está parando no
meio dessa estrada. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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O milagre não vem nem no primeiro passo, o primeiro passo é quando eu
monto a minha oração linda e maravilhosa? Não. Aquela oração que você vai ler
no meu livro “Rezando a vida”, que tem todas as etapas, tem a oração do corpo, da
cabeça, da mão, da orelha, do pé, tem a oração do trabalho, do banho, do carro,
do fogão, tem tudo. Esse é o primeiro passo. &lt;/div&gt;
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Você vai ouvir o CD “O Pai me Ama”, do padre Jonas, é o primeiro passo,
porque eu escrevi o livro, padre Jonas gravou o CD e escreveu livros, então se
criando. Então, todos que já escreveram, Bárbara, e outros que já escreveram
sobre cura interior, é a primeira parte. É para você ter... o padre Alírio, o
Pedrinho. Bem lembrado, o meu querido irmão, meu querido amigo, padre Alírio, o
mestre que nos ensina tanto, tanto e tanto da cura interior... na oração de
amorização, mas outro livro dele que dá bem a ideia disso “Práticas de cura interior”,
é prática. Percebem? É a primeira parte. &lt;/div&gt;
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Então vai ler o livro, o livro vai ajudar. Se você vai pegar esse livro,
por exemplo, “Rezando a vida”, você encontra cada sacramento, textos bíblicos
para você rezar depois, e tem aí, oração. Oração, mesmo, oração rezada da
gestação, do nascimento, da infância, da adolescência, namoro, sexualidade, casamento,
sacramento da ordem, perda de alguém, até para o final da vida, a melhor idade,
acompanhado de salmos, é só a primeira parte. &lt;/div&gt;
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Eu não estou fazendo propaganda, eu não estou dizendo para você “ó! Resolve
a metade dos seus problemas”, não adianta comprar: Eu estou dizendo que aqui
você tem um roteiro. É a primeira parte. &lt;/div&gt;
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Deus inspirou para ser um roteiro bem feito, graças a Deus que muita
gente dando testemunho de cura. Mas é o primeiro. &lt;/div&gt;
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E vem o segundo passo. O segundo é a intercessão, intercessão da minha
comunidade, é a intercessão do meu grupo, é a oração feita no plural, é
participar da Eucaristia, é participar de retiros. &lt;/div&gt;
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Vem a terceira, é a terceira, é a hora que a gente não aguenta mais. É
a hora que a gente pensa em entregar os pontos, é a hora em que a gente pensa
em entregar os pontos. É a hora que a gente fala “não vai dar mais”, “eu não
sei o quê fazer. Eu já fui no padre Rufus. Eu já fui no padre Leo. Eu fui no
padre Jonas. Eu... eu pedi para Luzia, eu fui lá, não adianta mais”. &lt;/div&gt;
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Mas esse é o terceiro passo ainda. &lt;/div&gt;
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O terceiro passo, tem a hora que você leva aquela bordoada na cara. &lt;/div&gt;
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Mas Jesus disse na segunda resposta, “eu vim para as...?”, “ovelhas
perdidas”... ele comparou o povo judeu a qual animal? Ovelha. E comparou a
mulher a qual animal? Cachorro. &lt;/div&gt;
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A ovelha é o bicho mais besta que tem no mundo. A ovelha, se você pegar
ela daqui, botar lá, ela morre lá, ela não sabe voltar. Ela não tem senso de
direção. A ovelha não enxerga mais do que 10 metros na sua frente. A ovelha, se
ela se machucar no mato, o pastor tem que largar todas as outras para ir lá
atrás dela, que se não ela morre. A ovelha, se não cortar os pelos dela, vai
juntando carrapicho e ela morre. &lt;/div&gt;
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Jesus fez foi um elogio para ela, porque cachorro não desiste. O
cachorro está contigo até. Olha, todos os seus amigos podem abandonar você, o
cachorro está ali, do seu lado. E ele está te lambendo, o cachorro está pulando
no seu colo. Se você deixar ele longe, ele late, late, late, late. E eu vejo as
minhas cachorrinhas, se você prender lá e eu passando elas latem. Onde eu vou, elas
estão indo atrás, elas sentem o cheiro de longe, às vezes eu estou lá no meio
do mato, daqui a pouco eu vejo aquele barulhinho, elas vem sentindo o cheiro do
meu pé, e não é que é fedendo não. Ela vem mesmo. &lt;/div&gt;
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((acha graça)) &lt;/div&gt;
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E acha a gente. Cachorro insiste. Cachorro vai atrás. Cachorro enfia a
cara assim e vai cavocando, vai cavocando... jesus fez um elogio! E nós temos
que ser esse cachorro, de correr atrás. &lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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De insistir.&lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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De ser fiel. &lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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O cachorro não te abandona se é rico ou é pobre, o cachorro está lá. &lt;/div&gt;
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Um dia, vindo para fazer a tenda, peguei um táxi no aeroporto, chovendo,
estou ali lendo jornal, e de repente, não sei o porquê, o trânsito parado. Eu
levanto a cabeça, olho lá, debaixo do viaduto em São Paulo tinha um homem
deitado, sujo. E o cachorrinho assim, daqueles vira latas, em pezinho, do lado
dele. &lt;/div&gt;
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E eu comecei a pensar, ó! Meu Deus... que maravilha. O cachorro está
dizendo para ele “Deus te ama”, cachorro está dizendo para ele “não importa se
você foi rico ou você foi pobre”, “se foi honrado, se foi desonrado”, o
cachorro está dizendo “eu estou com você, mesmo que você me dê só osso, eu
estou com você”. O cachorro é o sinal do próprio Deus para nós, nós damos só
osso para Deus, só o que não presta para Deus e ele está latindo dia e noite
“eu te amo”, “eu te amo”, “eu te amo”, “eu te amo”, “eu te amo”, “eu te amo”, e
às vezes a gente reclama como uma ovelha que não enxerga 10 palmos na frente, porque
acha que ele cortou o pelo da outra, ela é mais bonita. Se você quer chegar a
essa cura interior, você tem que passar por essa experiência. &lt;/div&gt;
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Não desistir. &lt;/div&gt;
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Não olhar para trás. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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((aplausos)) &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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E eu convido você a fazer isso hoje. &lt;/div&gt;
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A Eucaristia que nós vamos celebrar nessa tarde tem esse sentido. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Nós temos que pedir a intercessão hoje dos mártires macabeus, que ali, na
beira da morte, prestem atenção nas leituras de hoje. Não desistam. Porque Deus
olha o nosso coração. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Fala com Deus agora. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Talvez você esteja igualzinho ao filho pródigo. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Talvez faça tempo que você não fala com Ele. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Alguém me pediu e eu vou atender essa pessoa, porque é oração. E é oração
muito bonita. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Oração “Alô meu Deus”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
Reze comigo. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Transforme em oração, se tiver longe de Deus, liga para ele. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Alô, meu Deus, fazia tanto tempo que eu não mais te procurava. Alô meu
Deus, senti saudade suas, e acabei voltando aqui. Andei por mil caminhos, e
como as andorinhas, eu vim fazer meu ninho, em sua casa e repousar. Embora eu
me afastasse, e andasse desligado, meu coração, cansado, resolveu voltar.”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Diga para Deus...”eu não me acostumei nas terras onde andei”...”eu não
me acostumei nas terras onde andei”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Alô, meu Deus, fazia tanto tempo que eu não mais te procurava. Alô meu
Deus, senti saudades suas, e acabei voltando aqui. E gastei a minha herança
comprando só matéria, restou-me a esperança de outra vez te encontrar. Voltei
arrependido, de coração ferido, mas volto convencido que esse é o meu lugar”. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“Eu não me acostumei nas terras onde andei”.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Diga para Deus “eu não me acostumei nas terras onde andei... eu não me
acostumei nas terras onde andei... eu não me acostumei nas terras onde andei”.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;
É verdade, Senhor. Eu não me acostumei, eu não me acostumo a viver
nesse pecado. Muitas e muitas vezes, Senhor, o meu coração está terrivelmente
atormentado pelo egoísmo, pelo ódio, pela mágoa, pelo ressentimento, pela
angústia, pela tristeza. Muitas e muitas vezes, Senhor, meu coração está
terrivelmente atormentado por um espírito de impureza, de prostituição, de
violência. Muitas e muitas vezes, Senhor, o meu espírito está terrivelmente
atormentado pela soberba, pelo orgulho, pela preguiça, pela vaidade, pela
intolerância. &lt;/div&gt;
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E muitas e muitas vezes, Senhor, eu já gritei “tende piedade de mim”, e
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Quantas e quantas vezes eu já me decepcionei, porque eu acreditava
tanto! Me falaram que era só ir lá que dava certo, e eu fui não senti nada. E
igualzinho Jesus fez com essa mulher, Ele nem deu bola para ela. Comigo
aconteceu assim, Senhor. Eu fui lá e rezei, parece que nem estava lá. Mesma
coisa de eu não ter ido. E meu coração foi ficando, Senhor, a cada dia cada vez
mais atormentado. E aí vinha os vícios. E eu tinha que me esconder, Senhor, eu
não podia mostrar quem eu era. E eu fui criando uma máscara, fui criando uma
casca grossa no meu coração porque a minha decepção, por não ter sido atendido
na primeira vez que eu fui, e eu acabei, senhor, não acreditando mais, mesmo
naquelas pessoas que vieram lá, rezar, falaram que ia dar certo, mandaram eu
ter calma e paciência, mas como ter calma e paciência, senhor, diante de tanto
problema? &lt;/div&gt;
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Parece que o senhor não me escuta, parece que o senhor não enxerga que
eu estou aqui desesperado? Que eu estou precisando da sua ajuda, senhor? &lt;/div&gt;
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Muitas vezes senhor, eu já desisti, eu não passei desse segundo passo. &lt;/div&gt;
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Eu me joguei na sua frente, senhor, eu me prostrei, Jesus. Eu me
humilhei. Está certo que eu não conseguia mais rezar, a única coisa que eu pedi
foi “Senhor, socorre-me”. E aí foi o pior dia, Jesus, porque eu ouvi cada
chapoletada, inclusive tinha gente me dizendo “você merece isso”. “Você não
vale nada”. E eu mesmo achei que eu não era nada, senhor. Eu mesmo cheguei a
brigar contigo e dizer “eu não sou nada, é por isso que Deus não me atende”. Ah,
Senhor, me doeu tanto. Senhor, eu fui tratado pior que um cachorro, Senhor, nem
deu bola para mim... &lt;/div&gt;
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E muitas vezes eu desisti ali, Senhor. &lt;/div&gt;
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Mas hoje, Senhor, hoje que o senhor me trouxe nessa Canção Nova, hoje
eu quero pedir uma grande graça, Senhor. A graça de não desistir. Eu quero
pedir a graça, Senhor, de ser feito um cachorrinho correndo atrás do senhor, cheirando,
Senhor, os seus rastros, mas não me deixa desistir, Senhor, me joga nem que
seja um resto de osso, Senhor, mas não me deixa desistir porque eu preciso, Senhor,
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Eu preciso ser esse homem novo, essa mulher nova, Senhor. Esse padre
novo. Eu preciso, Senhor, me ajuda, senhor. É por isso que eu estou te ligando,
é por isso que eu estou te implorando, é por isso que eu estou te contando, é
por isso que eu estou me confessando, senhor. &lt;/div&gt;
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É por isso, Senhor, que eu estou pedindo, insistentemente, não me deixe
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“Alô, meu Deus, fazia tanto tempo que eu não mais te procurava. Alô meu
Deus, senti saudades suas, e acabei voltando aqui. Gastei a minha herança
comprando só matéria, restou-me a esperança de outra vez te encontrar, voltei
arrependido, de coração ferido, mas volto convencido que este é o meu lugar”. &lt;/div&gt;
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“Eu não me acostumei nas terras onde andei... eu não me acostumei nas
terras onde andei”... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Fique conectado com a gente&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.padrerufus.net.br/feeds/2855982907884293883/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/4673730688005127676/2855982907884293883?isPopup=true' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4673730688005127676/posts/default/2855982907884293883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4673730688005127676/posts/default/2855982907884293883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2014/07/roteiro-para-cura-interior.html' title='Roteiro para a cura interior'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05586001792145512776</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4673730688005127676.post-1651930988920191417</id><published>2014-05-03T11:50:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2014-05-03T11:50:23.444-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Padre Rufus - Lembrando os Dois Anos de sua Morte</title><content type='html'>O tempo passa. Já fazem dois anos que Padre Rufus morreu, deixou este meio para sempre.&lt;br /&gt;
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Padre Rufus nasceu em 5 de maio de 1933 e morreu em 2 de maio de 2012.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ele entrou na igreja com cerca de 10 a 12 anos (não sabemos ao certo, as informações vão sendo coletadas sem contato direto com sua família, espalhados em várias palestras e artigos que o padre escreveu).&lt;br /&gt;
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Ele se ordenou padre na década de 1950 e conheceu a Renovação Carismática em 1972, movimento pelo qual se identificou. Desde então, com a presença do Espírito Santo residindo em seu coração, dedicou-se ainda mais à sua vocação.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ele era um menino tímido (quase não falava), era o mais baixo e magro da turma de seminaristas. Nem tinha poder espiritual.&lt;br /&gt;
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Um dos seus casos mais surpreendentes foi quando a sua mãe ia ter o braço amputado. Ela havia quebrado seu cotovelo e através da oração de uma freira muito devota, um milagre aconteceu. Os fragmentos dos ossos daquele cotovelo, devidamente registrados em Raios-X, acabaram se curando, evitando a amputação do braço dela.&lt;br /&gt;
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Outros acontecimentos foram provando ao Pe. Rufus, que se julgava um religioso racional, a se render ao sobrenatural poder de Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;
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Assim é que era o padre. Publicamos agora alguns postos marcantes nesses três anos do blog e dois anos da morte de Padre Rufus.&lt;br /&gt;
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Entrevista do Padre Rufus a um jornal de Fortaleza.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2013/01/o-demonio-nao-gosta-de-mim.html&quot;&gt;http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2013/01/o-demonio-nao-gosta-de-mim.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A morte do Padre Rufus&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2012/06/sua-vida-e-sua-morte.html&quot;&gt;http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2012/06/sua-vida-e-sua-morte.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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O testemunho emocionante de Valquíria Stark&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2013/03/padre-rufus-testemunhos-valquiria-stark.html&quot;&gt;http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2013/03/padre-rufus-testemunhos-valquiria-stark.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Fique conectado com a gente&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.padrerufus.net.br/feeds/1651930988920191417/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/4673730688005127676/1651930988920191417?isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4673730688005127676/posts/default/1651930988920191417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4673730688005127676/posts/default/1651930988920191417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.padrerufus.net.br/2014/05/padre-rufus-lembrando-os-dois-anos-de.html' title='Padre Rufus - Lembrando os Dois Anos de sua Morte'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05586001792145512776</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4673730688005127676.post-254274146669960266</id><published>2014-04-15T06:21:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2014-11-23T19:10:21.985-02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="12 faculdades"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Caso: A maldição de geração para geração"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Caso: Adultério"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Caso: O 12 filhos"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Caso: O pequeno primeiro anista"/><title type='text'>Caso: O Pequeno Primeiro Anista</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px; margin: 6pt 0cm; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Caso: O pequeno primeiro anista&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Fonte: P&lt;i&gt;asso a passo para a cura&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(2000)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Eu estava dando um programa na Índia, e eu estava hospedado na casa de um famoso médico. Sua esposa também era médica, ambos são líderes carismáticos daquela região. Eu estava na mesa tendo um jantar com eles, e batendo papo com a família. E perguntei para o filho mais jovem, talvez de cinco ou seis anos e eu perguntei &quot;Que série você está?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Mas antes dele falar o pai falou, “Ele está na segunda série”. E então o garotinho se virou para o pai e falou “Pai, eu estou na primeira série”. O pai ficou um pouco embaraçado e mudou de conversa. Mas depois de cinco minutos o menino disse de novo. “Pai, eu estou na primeira série”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Caso: O 12 filhos, 12 faculdades&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Fonte: P&lt;i&gt;asso a passo para a cura&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(2000)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Em outra ocasião um jovem veio me ver, ele estava casado e com crianças pequenas, ele estava fazendo um retiro e eu perguntei de seus problemas. E ele, para minha surpresa, disse “O meu pai não me ama”. Mas eu pensei “Mas o que mais um pai pode fazer para as crianças? Era uma família grande, de doze crianças. Todas as crianças estudaram até a faculdade, umas estudaram no exterior alguns com duas graduações, todos têm casa, carro, o que precisam...” o seu pai era um homem muito importante na Índia, era um político importante na sociedade, na igreja, obviamente muito rico.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Então eu disse para esse homem, “Me dê pelo menos uma razão para dizer que o seu pai não te ama”. E ele me disse “Bom, o meu pai nunca soube certo em que série que cada um de nós estávamos”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Esse pai estava tão ocupado dando aos seus filhos tudo, exceto atenção, ele não sabia nem mesmo em que classe eles estavam estudando.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Caso: Adultério&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Fonte: Passo a passo para a cura (2000)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Quando eu fiz retiros para casais, uma senhora me disse. Ela teve um relacionamento errado, infelizmente, e eu sei que ela é uma mulher é muito boa, e ela me disse, “Padre a razão pela qual eu acabei caindo numa relação errada, é porque eu estava precisando de coisas do meu marido que eu nunca tive”. - E eu me lembro de uma delas dizendo - “Padre, tudo o que eu precisava ter do meu marido era um pouco de compreensão, atenção e carinho” e eu não consegui obter isso dele, consegui de outra pessoa”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Eu tenho visto que no relacionamento marido e mulher é o que a mulher precisa, atenção, compreensão e carinho.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Caso: A maldição de geração para geração&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Fonte: Passo a passo para a cura (2000)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;Eu estava dando um retiro para viúvas, e havia círculos de partilha de cinco pessoas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;E então de um grupo desses me veio a informação, elas disseram assim, que todas eram viúvas, partilhando entre elas, que todas elas tinham um mesmo problema, que cada um dos nossos filhos mais velhos é alcoólatra, que cada um desses filhos mais velhos não demonstrava nenhum carinho ou cuidado com os seus filhos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;&quot;&gt;“Então nós percebemos, nós cinco, que os nossos amigos maridos eram alcoólatras e eles não partilharam nenhum carinho ou amizade com os filhos”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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