Today we will continue with the study of the daily messages of Saint Joseph,
entering the month of April 2016,
and we will do it in a different way, with a different inspiration.
We are in the town of Assisi, in Perugia, Italy,
where Saint Francis left imprinted his experience of service for the neediest,
of the forgetting of self,
of the love for his fellow beings and for the Kingdoms of Nature, of unity with God.
Arriving here with the pilgrimage for peace,
we thought of recording a program of Saint Joseph to leave everyone with all the airs of this place,
which holds a precious treasure in its silence.
And seeking a confirmation, we began to study the messages of the month of April
and, in Saint Francis, we found a living example of all the instructions
that Saint Joseph was giving us;
it was like reading His words and finding his example here, so as to know how to follow them.
Let us allow ourselves to be flooded by the silence of Assisi, by the poverty, by the simplicity,
and by the humility of Saint Francis,
that today, together with Saint Joseph, he may teach us the art of serving.
Thinking about the little we know of the life of Saint Francis,
we see that his example is very close and accessible to any of us.
Saint Francis had everything, a young man given to the things of the world,
who was touched by God and woke up to planetary reality,
to service on all of its levels, beginning by giving everything to those who were poorest,
by being among those who were most in need,
until finding in his closest brothers and sisters the focus of his service,
learning to love the imperfections of those who surrounded him,
so that they might be transformed based on this love.
He learned to serve the Kingdoms of Nature
and to find in them the presence of God.
And in the end, he learned to find all things in God,
and in the solitude with God, he served all life, all of Creation,
having as sustenance the truth that the Creator is in all things,
and by loving Him and serving Him. Even if in silence and solitude,
we can transform the history of humanity just as Saint Francis of Assisi did.
In our life, we follow a path similar to that of Saint Francis:
most of us used to live an ordinary life,
filled with the needs of survival,
with the search for comfort, for distraction, and for pleasure,
until God awakened us to a higher reality.
He had us see that, in truth, He had not created humanity simply
to grow, study, work, and enjoy retirement at the end of life.
God spoke to our heart, giving us a meaning for our existence,
and each one of us, in the way that we were able,
answered and still answer this Celestial Call
that each day expands and deepens in our lives.
In the first steps of our spiritual life,
we discover service as a simple path for the awakening of love,
to move out of the gross indifference that so often blinds us,
to learn to do something for our fellow beings and not just for ourselves.
And some more, some less, we trod the path of giving of self.
Inspired by Saint Francis and so many other examples of charity,
we went to the poorest, to donate food, a shelter, a smile,
and little by little, our hard heart gradually opened and expanded,
showing us that it is alive within us.
Many times we remained at this point, because of not knowing how to deepen our spiritual life,
and Saint Joseph comes to be another hand that helps us and gives us the impulse to walk on.
On the first of April, Saint Joseph speaks with love to all servers,
all those spirits who have already learned to serve,
and those who are beginning to take their steps in a life of service.
He speaks to us about a service that begins in the very depths of our being,
which goes beyond all of our longing to be with the poor,
of donating food, of offering shelter.
A service that does not exclude actions that place us in close contact with a need,
but rather deepens what until today we know as an act of service.
In previous studies, Saint Joseph revealed to us the art of serving through prayer,
which is also an invisible service,
but which resounds deeply in the human heart and also even relieves the Heart of God.
Now we will learn to deepen in service,
uniting with what we already know: the service of fraternity,
of self-surrender, and of unity with one's fellow being.
On the first day of April, Saint Joseph began by telling us the following,
If you want to learn to serve, you will have to be meek, humble, and simple.
The true server does not impose their service.
It is the Father Who has your surrender
at His disposal to draw to Himself the hearts most in need
and the more urgent situations,
to be healed and resolved under the spirit of love and of peace.
When we begin to serve, it is normal for us
to seek out the places, the situations, or ourselves;
we go to those places that encourage us, that bring us enthusiasm,
that give us certain impulses,
also so that our personality can gradually adhere to service.
Some may want to be like Saint Francis,
searching for extreme situations, absolute surrenders,
letting themselves be taken by a "holy madness".
But gradually, as we grow spiritually,
we encounter aspects of our consciousness that are gratified by serving,
that become exalted and aggrandized
because of serving in a world in which indifference is the usual experience of humanity.
And in this sentence, so simple, spoken by Saint Joseph, we find
that He comes to work with this in us, making our service purer and purer,
so that we may be not only beings of goodwill, but also instruments of God.
Thus, He invites us to be attentive to any personal will when it is time to serve,
any preference for serving something in a certain way,
because this is the difference between our doing good things for ourselves
or our fulfilling the Will of God.
We understand here that Saint Joseph calls on us so that, in the time to serve,
we are able to offer our heart to God,
letting Him guide us to where it is most necessary,
since He is Who knows which are the truly most urgent situations.
Because we may, for example, want to serve in another city,
in another country, with distant peoples,
and all of a sudden, God shows us the urgency of aiding this soul that is beside us,
becoming lost for not having our assistance.
Continuing with our study, thinking about the words of Saint Joseph
and of the life of Saint Francis,
we will concurrently find that moment
in which other brothers join Saint Francis,
and who in the impetus of their awakening, aspire to serve the poorest
and find a true meaning for their lives.
In this moment, then, Francis finds himself before a new challenge,
a new service, which is that of group life.
Today we are called to form a kind of army for peace,
a group of souls that is capable of living under a single purpose
and a single will, which is the Will of God.
and just as Saint Francis found himself before this challenge,
in the deepening of our spiritual life, we also find ourselves before it.
So Saint Joseph teaches us to include group life n the life of service,
and tells us:
Children, the greatest service in these times is the experience of love
and unity among the soldiers who are self-called.
When your souls learn to love and to move beyond the obstacles imposed
by your own inability to accept the differences and limitations of others,
when you are able to live unity and fraternity without fear,
without competing, without offending,
you will see that you will open a larger door into the world
than the one you open with a plate of food for a poor and famished soul.
If servers were to discover that the essence of service
is the love and union among themselves,
if they build between themselves an unbreakable fortress
based upon a unity and love of the Divine Plan,
then, yes, in these times
and in the times to come
they will be true instruments of God.
Today, with the words of Saint Joseph and the impulses of Saint Francis,
we did not want to linger over those things that we all know well,
which are the ones that prevent us from living this love and from deepening in our service.
Because we believe that most of us have already lived or are living
an experience in which there is a perception of a lack love for fellow beings,
a unity, that there is a lack understanding.
So, let us place our consciousness upon that which inspires us to love others.
Having the certainty that arises in our hearts upon hearing the words of Saint Joseph,
that our service is really broader,
and that we become instruments of God when we unite,
when we overcome the barriers of imperfection,
and when we place a foundation of love under the imperfections of our brothers and sisters,
so that we may transform together.
And with this study, we will go a little beyond what seems utopian or even naïve,
recognizing all the aspects that pull us backwards,
but putting our attention on what leads us forward,
seeking ways of living that to which Saint Joseph summons us.
On the following day, the 2nd of April of 2016,
Saint Joseph spoke to us about how to love our fellow being, how to live true love.
In reality, there is no handbook to live love,
because each one of us expresses it in a different way
and each situation we experience places us before a new challenge, a new way of loving.
So the words of Saint Joseph are like constant impulses
that help us step out of ordinary human thinking
and place us before a new behavior
that, in spite of being very simple,
we are so bound to the ancestral way of living of humanity.
He tells us:
In order to love your fellow being, you must be humble of heart.
There is no true love that is not born of the Source of Divine Humility,
because true love does not seek feedback, nor merits;
it does not create possessions or property,
it does not expect to be loved for love,
it does not expect the other to be perfect in order to love them.
True love is that which recognizes the essence of each being,
that knows what they are and that they do not in any way resemble what they appear to be.
This is why I tell you that, in order to love, you must be humble.
In many places we find that teaching about a love that holds nothing of itself,
without a need for feedback, including in the words of Saint Francis, in his life, in his example.
It is something that God calls us to live in many ways,
yet is difficult for us, because humility is still a great mystery for us.
Let us thus be open to have small experiences of love,
even though it may seem forced or not very real to us;
because it is through practicing and trying
that our heart finds the real one within itself.
We still do not live humility and have not awakened love,
because we risk little in loving another,
when they ignore us, to serve the one who does not see our service,
forgive those that do us harm and love those who persevere in evil,
praying that one day they will find a Light that will guide them.
Saint Joseph is calling upon us to live a love that, besides not asking for feedback,
many times will be seen only by God.
And there is where we consolidate our humility and awaken our Faith.
On that same 2nd of April, He tells us:
It is not simple, for a humanity that has always cultivated pride,
recognition, and superiority,
to live a love that does not give visible returns to human eyes.
This love has its true merit in the life of the spirit.
Even if you love someone who hates you
and that never may want to receive your love,
that invisible experience will remain engraved in the human consciousness.
When we think of Saint Francis, the image comes to our heart of a free spirit,
free from itself, free of the conditions of its period,
free from the atavisms that prevented it from living love,
free of the conditions that so many times the human being imposes on loving someone.
And upon reading this message of Saint Joseph,
we find the invitation to live freedom,
the invitation to make a decision in our lives
of stepping out of the captivity of indifference,
of selfishness, and to launch into the true adventure,
which is to live the love for which God created us.
Saint Joseph says:
The one who decides to live a slightest experience of love and of forgiveness
as I have asked of you so many times
and does not fear being empty of self, in order to recognize their own errors,
will see before them the doorway to their own liberation.
There is no greater freedom than unconditional love,
of giving without the need to receive.
The greatest prison for humanity is the permanent quest for results,
for recognition, and for the superficial love of others.
You spend the greatest part of your lives struggling to be "someone",
when in reality you are here to be "no one"
It is why, My beloveds, that true joy is known to few,
and wholeness to almost none.
Let us finish our study with this call to live wholeness.
And let us ask our heart today,
"Do you want to be whole in God?"
And we open ourselves to receive all the impulses that will come from the Father,
so that we may live His Will.
Which will not be something easy,
but we believe there is nothing so yearned for by our spirit in this time
than that of finding wholeness in something real
and setting aside the independence we sought so much,
to finally find freedom.
Let us continue then with the studies of the daily messages of the month of April 2016,
inspired by Saint Francis and by all those examples of holiness
that God places on our path, so that we may learn how to love.
We invite all to deepen in these messages
and we wish you all a successful study,
a good coming together with the wholeness of the Heart of God.
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