Latest / Vitamina O: Evangelio dominical comentado / T1.E189| San Marcos 16, 15-20: La Ascención de Jesús
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- 0:04Frozen foods. A isband the best selection of pre- cooked and ultra-
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- 0:17to prepare, find them in all supermarkets in the frozen section. Welcome to
- 0:24this space of vitamin or prayer, together with Francis hermengold a few brief spiritual
- 0:30Bible thought capsules that entertain, teach and lift the soul. Good morning.
- 0:39Today we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption and read the Gospel of Mark.
- 0:45At that time Jesus appeared to the eleven and told them go into the whole
- 0:50world and program the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will
- 0:56be saved. Whoever does not believe will be condemned. Those who believe will
- 1:00be accompanied by these signs, cast demons in my name, speak new tongues,
- 1:07take snakes in their hands, and if they drink a deadly poison,
- 1:11it will not hurt them. They will impose their hands on the sick and
- 1:15they will be healthy. After speaking to them, the Lord Jesus was taken
- 1:19to heaven and sat at the right hand of God. They went to preach
- 1:23the gospel everywhere and the Lord cooperated by confirming the word with the signs that
- 1:27accompanied them. Forty days after his resurrection and on several occasions when his disciples
- 1:36were found resurrected, Jesus irreversibly enters with all his humanity into the divine glory
- 1:42in heaven. This event of Jesus may seem a little relevant to us as
- 1:51very theoretical and far from our everyday reality. What added value does the fact
- 1:57that Jesus has gone up to heaven more. It cannot seem to us that
- 2:01Jesus abandons us and moves away. However, it is a relevant fact.
- 2:07Left to his natural forces, to his natural abilities, The human being does
- 2:13not have the ability to access the father' s house, to heaven,
- 2:17to eternal life, to God' s happiness. Only Christ has been able
- 2:23to open this access to man. The fact that all of Jesus' humanity,
- 2:27also his body, enters heaven, is a sign that tells us that
- 2:30we, bodily, will also enjoy eternal life in heaven. Our body is
- 2:38not the prison of the soul, as Plato might say, but is an
- 2:43essential part of the human being. And Jesus redeemed the whole human being,
- 2:46both soul and body. The ascension of Jesus teaches us that the ultimate destiny
- 2:52of every human being is not nothing, nor to merge with Brahman, but
- 2:57to enjoy the fullness of the creature eternity. This opens the doors for Christians
- 3:02of something wonderful, which is the virtue of hope. It makes us people
- 3:08of hope, not just optimistic people. That' s very different. The
- 3:14Christian is not a naive optimist who thinks that everything is going to be fine,
- 3:17because I believe that we all experience in life that there are many things
- 3:22that are not right and that do not result as initially desired. Blind and
- 3:27naive optimism is not Christian. The Christian has hope that, as I say,
- 3:32it is different. Hope is not to think that everything will go well,
- 3:37but to be certain that everything that happens, even what we do not
- 3:40understand at some point, will become meaningful. A second idea. Before going
- 3:46up to heaven, Jesus leaves a command to the apostles go all over the
- 3:52world and preach the gospel to all creation. Evangelization is not an option of
- 3:59the Christian, it is a mandate spirituality, the relationship with God is given
- 4:03in an environment of intimacy. Yeah, but we shouldn' t be locked
- 4:08in the cage of intimacy. Intimacy is one thing. Intimism is another.
- 4:13In other words, the experience of God is not only for me, but
- 4:16I must communicate it. From the ascension of Jesus, his apostles continued that
- 4:23missionary work which the Lord had undertaken But unlike the time of the old Covenant,
- 4:28of the Old Testament, in which the nations were expected to come to
- 4:31the Temple of Jerusalem for their worship, now the Church is sent to the
- 4:39end of the world in order to make a universal appeal to all nations.
- 4:46It is not expected that the nations will come, but that it will go
- 4:48to all nations. It does not seem strange that Jesus' command to go
- 4:56all over the world and then he will leave. In fact, he does
- 4:59not leave because from heaven he sends us his spirit, the holy spirit to
- 5:03accompany us. Jesus Christ, having entered once and for all into the sanctuary
- 5:09of heaven, constantly intercedes for us as the mediator who permanently assures us of
- 5:15the infusion of the holy spirit and a third election. Then there are the
- 5:20signs that accompany those who believed to cast demons, speak new tongues, catch
- 5:27snakes in their hands, survive deadly poisons and heal sick people. What do
- 5:32these signs mean? The proclamation of the Gospel, which leaves everything as it
- 5:38is, which does not transform anything, is not true proclamation. Rather than
- 5:43interpreting these signs literally it would seem to you that the apostles would have become
- 5:48invincible beings and the story of their later martyrdom confirms otherwise. I would broaden
- 5:55its meaning. They are signs that it is God who works through his own
- 6:00humanity, the humanity of the apostles. Those who believe, those who welcome
- 6:05God in their lives will be able to cast out demons or be able to
- 6:13eradicate evil from their own lives and lives. Love is stronger than evil.
- 6:17With the help of the power of the Holy Spirit, a Christian can overcome
- 6:23temptation, can move away from the circumstances that lead him and lead him to
- 6:27evil. Speak new languages. Surely the event of Pentecost comes to mind for
- 6:31all, but to tell the truth, no one knows for sure how that
- 6:36of the gift of tongues works. I like to think more about charity.
- 6:43Love like that new language, like the universal language that is able to connect
- 6:46with anyone. It' s the language everyone can understand. Charity taking snakes
- 6:53from your hands. Christians should not be pussy or with cowardly flight away from
- 7:00people’ s problems. We should not let ourselves be overcome by fear,
- 7:06by evil and difficulties, because we are not alone. Jesus is with us.
- 7:11Taking the snakes from the hands would also be a way to mean that
- 7:15the Christian is a courageous person, able to face the difficulties of life,
- 7:20but to flee from them. They' ll survive deadly poisons. Love,
- 7:27the grace of God is stronger than any evil. Therefore there is always hope
- 7:32of redemption for any human being, because no poison, no evil is superior
- 7:39to the antidote of divine love. Jesus returns to heaven today to tell us
- 7:45that there he awaits us and accompanies us day by day with his spirit.
- 7:48As long as the time for our own entrance into heaven does not come.
- 7:54We must proclaim the message of Christ, live in intimacy with him, not
- 7:59in a way that is not earth ourselves, but by learning and practicing his
- 8:03universal language, which is the language of charity that God blesses you. Enjoy
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