¿Qué Haría Jesús? - RETIRO DE MES - Mayo 2025 - "María, Madre de la esperanza"

Episode Date: May 3, 2025

Predicador: P. Juan Pablo Durán,LC. En este retiro del mes de mayo meditaremos en 4 grandes misterios de la vida de María, y como se hacen visibles hoy en nuestras vidas tambiénRecuerda compartirlo a quien creas que le pueda ser de ayuda. ¡Dios te bendiga!

I would start this meditation, this retiro of Mayo invocating to the Spirit Santo and piviened

to the Spiritu Santo that my and that your and the heart and the

heart of all those who are this meditation. In the the

God, the God, and the Spirit Santa, amen. V

in Spirit Santo, gena the God, and and it's the

fire to you the fire to the Spirit, Creator, and renewa the face of the earth. O'Reemus, O God, that has illuminated the heart of your

children with the light of the Spirit Santo, make us docile to his inspirations to gustavere always of the good and gozard of his consoler. For Christ, our Lord, Amen. And we ask us to the Virgin Maria, that is the theme of this meditation,

that we come back, that we our bestigua, that we can't protect, saying, God is Salve, Maria, Jena is of grace, the Lord is with

you. Bendita you are you and all the women, and is the fruit of your v.

Jesus. Santa Maria, Mother of God, Ruega for us the other and the hour

of our murder of our death, Amen. In the name of the father and the

God and and the Spirit Santo, amen. Well, we're in a

moment very special for the the church. I'm I'm doing this meditation two days after the

fallaciment of our dearer the Father, the Papa Francisco. When you

hear this, it can the cardinels are the conclave, it can we get a

new, and all the church is like, all the church is, in Christe

but at the same time, in an infinite confiance in the the Misericordia of God in

his bondad and also with an gratitude almost difficult to put in the

Papado of the Papa Francisco, for his person, what he was

how he said, how he showed that he had to go to the

other the other the other how we the

the Misericordia of God, the Rostro Mercutious of God, how he's entrue to the final. His ultimate audience was the Domingo of Resurrection, the Urbietorri. And he, he also, after giving us the benedition, he was to be in the Papa Mobile and give a world for all the plaza,

then to go to the Via of the Conciliation, which is the street that is in front of the basilica. And he was still being, to the morning the next, at the seven of the morning,

I'm in the only he's got in that he's not, he was, he's not could be able the eyes,

not could be to be able to and move us. But he was just to the paper of a of an

total, that radical. Dehemus that this example we know, we've moved,

us the church we need that wecees for all those defunters

for more that have had been a life of saints. Juan Pablo II, he was canonized there

even. And I think the Papa Francisco entered the right. But the church us ensued,

to be a good mother, to restar for all those diffunts. So,

we're also for our great Papa. Rece for his legado

also, what we're to the church, that all we're our

heart to our to be to Christ these and these

and also put them in practice in our life.

This meditation is about about the Virgin Mary and we can't a moment in the

grand carino that the Papa Francisco he had to the

before he before the before the time the person

in the church in the church there's there a man who the

papal and he always and he was his marriage to the

Virgin Maria, his, his discurses, his encounters, the people to be

to be to find, he was to be to say, he was to the time,

and I know, and I went to the first part of this church,

the new, and this image, to thank to the time, to give us to the

Lorde, maybe, you know, you have seen, that the Papa has

been enterado just in this church, which is a little different to

the other papas that are being in the tradition in the church

in the church of but this Papa, the Papa Francisco with that

this alma that that is a time that did you

have to be that the church that you have

had got there a there and a image

that the person that the and us to us even with his murder to the

Virgin Maria. What beautiful, see the papas, in reality, all the

we know and we've known, the papas of the people who have talked all

all of all the message that is a message that they're that we're also,

we're to take to our that the vicario of Christ has been in our lives always so devoted of the Virgin

Maria, inviting us, recording us, that we should that she be our mother and also that we

learn about all the virtues. In this meditation, I'd focus me in the Virgin

Maria as a model of the we're in the jeperance inaugurated by the

Papa Francisco. The Jubileo no had to have to say to say,

a name, a title, simply is a jubileo that's a good of 25 years. But the

Pope he's called the jubileo of the life. For that we're

renovated our and that we're not a year entire to make that the time

to make that the I'm in the four moments in the life

of the Virgin Maria. And even it may that may make sure for

a one there is a continuity, that is the same presence of the Virgin Maria. And in those

four moments, the four moments corresponden to the four groups of mysteries of the rosario, which are

those of those luminos, those doloros, and those of the glory. In the mysteries

of gozo, the first mystery of gozo is the an angel to the virgin Maria.

And I would, I would hear the text, I would that we'd

enfocaramos in the Virgin Maria as model of the Esperance, but specifically, model of the spirit of the prayer. Here is the text. At the sixth month, envioed God, the angel Gabriel to a city of Galilea,

called Nazareth, to a virgin despotsada with a name, called Joseph, of the house of David. The name of the virgin was Maria, and entraned he said, Alagratte, Jena of

grace, the Lord is with you. She's turbaned for these words,

and she asked, what would mean, the Salud. The angel said,

no you don't you know, because you've found of God, you're

to be in the son and you're to give a a man to the

God he's God he's he's he's the Altissimo, and the Lord

God will give to David, his father. Reignarer over the Casa of Jacob for the years, and his reigns and his reign no will finder sin.

Maria, responded to the angel, how is this, as this, as I know I know this, the angel he responded,

the Spirit Santo will be over you, and the power of the Altisim you'll be covered with

his sombra. For so, the that has to be a to be a child of God.

Look, also Isabel, your parient, has conceived a child in his his age,

and this is yet the sixth month of that she said that was steryl. Because

no there nothing impossible for God. Dio, I am here the slave of

the Lord, aghase in me according your power. And the angel,

Dehander her, she went. Contemplemplem a moment to the Virgin Maria, to this little

maybe of 16 years, that they have been to change all the plans.

She probably was saying and meditating, thinking in God, thinking

in the misericordias of God, felis, in his youth in his innocence,

and of the angel, it's reappece, and he will change the life for always, and he will reveler the motive for the which she was thought, conceived,

created. The angel commenced to his anuncture, that is inesperated and that he changes to the parents of the Virgin Maria, with the word, alagreate. And the Virgin permit that this

word, alagrate, enter in the most profound of her her not put in a doubt the bond of God, not they're in

a good that this will be a real thing a experience of

grace imagine what possibly would have been had

been of the person more, or maybe the temptation

that in the mind of the Mary to to be to

say what will what will do this a little, and if we don't get and if

then the words of the angel not be going to say, and what I know,

this, this, no, me does it. The Virgin does say, to be a woman

of a person of a person of when God's that's we're going to we're

we're doing sabotage to the Thank you, we're that we're we're because

we're that the fear, the fear, the that's a part

essential to be a person of the thing, precisely in the moments

in the times in the we're, we're more felices, and

more more more, and the year. After this episode in

the life of the Virgin, are going to pass 30

years in those is that will have the the joy of to convivir with with Jesus.

He will to give his own his own a lot of a car, he will to change

the paulalels, he will to learn of him to what means to be a little,

he will be to to be to learn to be to be like a young,

it will be like an adult. For 30 years are to

It's the most So, it's the most circano to the sky that's that's that's

that he says, Alagratte. Alagratte. I'm am I'm thinking now in an

friend that was out with a child, and he he, he, for motives of

his work, he went to a child, after two years, she was she was

a more enamorada, but he he cuted. And a time after I've passed like two years and

three years, he's he's he's said, I've been thinking I'd

would be that you would be you'd give us another opportunity what you

see? And I can't imagine what you what you what happened what

she because he was he was was very I was very sad, I was offended, he was

but then there's and then I'm going to love to him, and if I will be to

do you this not function and if this not doesn't, he had had an

experience very powerosa and a conversion very great and I was

I was I was I a year and a year and a family

that's important is to let us not surprise. And that our hope, like the

Virgin Maria, be more more than our fears, that our anxieties,

and that our own and if you can put a pause to this meditation, ask us

to ask us, if there any there's a question, some in the

that maybe not I've confided in God, or maybe in this moment I'm not I'm

not I'm not I'm not a lot of a great of a thing that

he's that he is maybe maybe maybe may be a

surprise in my family maybe maybe maybe is something

that I'm that I'm there there there I

know there I'm there there I and let's

that the in the oido, in the ears of the heart and me comparta a little of your experience for that also I can imitate her

and convert me in a man or in a woman of a woman of a other scene that I'd think I'd

reflectionar, to share with you know, the mysteries of the mysteries of those mysteries luminos

and the second mystery luminos is the mystery of the bodes of Cana. Here

the text, it's the Evangelio of San Juan, Capitulo 2, of the verseicles 1 to 11.

Three days after, was there was a wedding in Canada of Galilea, and was

there was there was there was was the husband with his disciples.

And not they had wine, because he had had had the

wine of the body. He said to Jesus his mother,

no they're Vino. Jesus He responded, What I have I with you? Mugher? Toadier

not has yet yet has yet his mother to the servants, make what he says.

There were there six tinajas of the purifications of the Jews, of two or

three measures each one. Let's Jesus, jen the tinajas of the

water and they're done up. Sacken it now, let's say, and geten it

to giveen to the majordom. They're when the majordom provo the water

converted in wine, how he was the the servants, the

the people who had been got to the know the and he said

he's all the one the when they're being

the the inferior but you have guarded, the wine good

after now. Tal comience of the signos in Cana of Galilea, and manifesto

his glory, and crelieren in him his disciples. If in the first moment, in the

first text evangelical, us then the Virgin, how to have a

power, here we can learn to her, how to have hope

in the necessity. Meditemos for a moment, imagine let's the

scene. There's a boad a music much music, much

conversation, much a risa, much food, many people,

many and much wine. And after the final of

the dinner, he's does call Jesus. He he responds

to something something That would a theme for other meditation. But here we know that for Jesus, this event is much more than simply a sin. A miracle. This event is the initial of what will be a service,

that will be to be a cross and resurrection, his or a famous. For that the response can be a little mysterious. But the fact is that Jesus, immediately, atient, atient, the necessity that the Virgin Mary

he made and the Virgin Mary no has no that Christ will be the miracle. She has

well, but knows that his his son, know the the soul of the

soul, and know the God he has a this, this necessity, this

detail in the life of this first a person, a We sometimes we can think that God no

our necessities, that God, to God, only, to God, only, they're so transcendent and grandes. It's interesting that in this Evangelio, Christ, well, not a, a parable, no cure a un-enfermo, no resuscita a woman, but if it's a person, but

But still attend the necessity that this pair of the celebration, of the joy, of the family, of the memory that this boda was going to to have to be in the minds of

many of the many of them that were put up to form a family. God put attention. God knows, God be. What we need

to us important to us, he It's important to Jesus. The necessities that we have in the most profound in our hearts, God does and does it, and does and it, and, in some way,

sal to the encounter of these necessities. In my family, that we're five brothers, four brothers, a brother, a brother, well, my mom, has much faith.

And when we were little, we're little, we're going to rest, to make the sun. Or we're going to to rest for that

day no it's a way in this bad. And a sometimes we're

we're really he's a God the climate? Really between many many

things that are going to be to the way to be to

that there and there there really really God put

attention to these things he really And second, if is capable of

to change these things so they're in the things, we've been many

conversations theological of much fruit. But what I've learned and I

have done is that God respond to the needs that

we present with a heart and that God

doesn't we want to we not there there there

space that And the Virgin Maria is the first in to teach us this. He says, Falta Vino, Jesus, encargette you. What I've done

is that God put attention to the thoughts of our heart. Because he wants to be in conversation

continua with us. God, in reality, not only only only only put attention to the

needs, to the petitions, that we do, but put attention to all, put attention to any moment

that we're our heart to be able to him, and say something, sympathetic, important, less important,

there is God to hear us and to start to our encounter. And this is what this mystery of

Rosario, the Baudes of Cana, us we can't, we can't we can't we can't

maybe there there is a necessity that no we've wanted to present to Jesus because we have felt a a special. If there's something that

we're quite we're too a much, or a committe, that we've wanted to talk with

God. We'll see to the Virgin, this model perfect of the that'sperance for that

she can't us inspire, us can't, us corriga, us God and to present to him what he ever

that we'll get him in the heart. And as I said before, if you want to put a moment of pause in this meditation to reflection about this, it can be a very good, a very good practice,

a very good moment to converser in profundity with God. And if there is something that is now right now, presentensel to Jesus.

In reality, it's quite easy to restar. It's simply say, Lord, all these

his thoughts, I'll do you. The third moment that I'd

think I is the crucifixion of Jesus which is the fifth mystery

doloros and as we know there was there was present the Virgin

Maria. So, we're to this text, it's very brief,

it's in the chapter 19 of the Evangelio of St. Juan. In the verse 25 to 27. Juntal the cross of Jesus

were his mother and the mother, Maria, Mugher of Clopaz, and Maria Magdalena. Jesus, vying to her mother and, to her, the disciple, to whom amaba, says to his mother,

woman, there you a child then you then you you're a your mother and from

and from the disciple the disciple who took you in the first the first we

we're we're contemplabes a virgin model of the the

and in the other in the last text of the boughs of cana

contemplam a virgin Maria as model of the Here we can contemplate a Virgin Maria as model

of hope of hope of the power contempling us for a moment although we are in the month of May the Miss of the Virgin, a month of the day of the springvera we're in the resurrection

even as well as the church has not much was contemplating the cross of Christ and in this the cross, we we're at

the cross, always fiel to the Virgin Maria, to the Virgin of the

Dolores. We can put our our person, see a woman of a

person so pure and so perfect. Acompan to his son until the

ultimate moment. We can't see another moment of

desgarro of her. How many times had pre-viced this moment when I said that

Christ's his own his own your own his crucifixion his rechazo

also incredible contemplar the Virgin Maria that there receive the don

of a maternity universal what which means that a maternity

that a mother our motherness is there while his

heart is a wrong, he's that Jesus he's to say it's

engrande and ampling the heart for that we're we're in that

he's and in that he Mary mother of all the mother of

all that son Juan that he that he he

he he I want I want here a

text This text is the documento with which officially initially initially initiated the year jubilar of the Esperanza in which we are. The Papa Francisco, The Esperanza encounter in the Mother of God his testimony more alto. In her, we know that the experience

not a futile optimism, but a don of grace in the realism of the life. Like a mother, every every every that Maria mirab

to his little and the certainly in the heart and they're

in the words that Cimeon he had been in the temple.

This man was a cause of a elevation for

many in Israel. It's sign of contradiction and to you myself

a a time to you know the the

cross. For so at the cross, while he a

Jesus innocent suffering and to even aught even over a

repressable his si, without the without the confidence and

the other. She cooperable for us in the compliment

of what had said his saying that he should

be to be much and the sub-sacacacos and the

sub-sacred and the to be condemned to death and resuscite after three days. And in the tormentor of that the dolor

offered for love, it was a mother, mother of the spirit of the

power. No is casual that the Piedad popular is inbocating to the Saintiss

Staris, Estrella of the Marr or a middle of the mar. A title expressive of

the the hope of certain that, even in the borrassosos of the life, the mother of God, comes in our

auxiliary, us has and we invite to to confiard and to keep the Virgin

Maria, to continue to keep to the cross? Each one of his two,

of those five sentidos, he said that the words of the angel were in

a a I'm the most the more he was the

he's he had fracasas with his own the burles

of the shardotes and the ladron that was crucified by

Jesus blasphemand it with his hands possibly took

those her most hands and trespas by a

crossasas by all that she saw and I said, what you

promised you God, no is the truth. And, and then the Virgin, in that moment, cregou,

and she did the prophecy that had heard of St. Isabel, which is, bendita

that she created in the power of God. Bendita, the that has

created. In these moments of of the Lord, what sustains the hope of

the Virgin Mary, is confiar in the word of God. The

word of God is rock, is security. The word of God is Jesus

himself. And he says, although the sky and the earth

will passer, my power not passer. What means that will

have moments in our life, in the we can not we can confiar

in what we can see in what we're in the circumstances or in the other

in the economy, in the market, or in my sentiments and we

can, we can not we're not in the the word of God,

which is Jesus Mism. The Virgin Maria as we said the Papa, we mustra,

maybe the form more high of confidence, or us we're going to the extreme more limit of what is

the experience. Maybe someone is going to a moment so, desgarrador, and, and,

and, that's, there is, that moment, I would also, I'd also to be able

an oration if this person is you, and commend to, elevate to God and the

Virgin Mary for that receive you in this moment that that's that

your heart that that's that's that not that not the

God the is the virgin of the don't the hope it

but it did it to to fervararce to God and not not

to get in the in the in the desperation not to be able to undire in the in the distress, in the angustia,

but in the fond of that sorrow, there was a rock firm, over the world the Virgin could be to be able to

the cross. In this moment, as I said before you, can put pauses if you want, and I invite to

reflect on this question, if there's some there's some moment of my

life, that I'm not I'm affronting with with a or some

difficulty that me is causing much a but that I

think I think I do with some a kind of a

kind of kind of kind of kind of that and it's a lot of a of God, but I know what I mean what I mean

this. I know the word of God. Well, there I'll invite to take the scripture, that

they're that they're listening this podcast, that has a reflection very day about the

word of God, we have to get us and let us to talk for the word of

God. What means, then, then give time, give the space,

to give for that the word of God can be something in the life of each one of us after the

after I'm to contemplar a Maria at the cross I'd want to to contemplar a Maria

in the mysteries gloriosos and specifically in the resurrection of Jesus I

require a more of imagination for so because the evangelio not us that the

first encounter that Jesus and the Virgin Mary. San Agustin, that is one of the fathers of the church and has some of the important about the evangelio, we say that, although not it narrated the evangelists, we can,

with security, supponer it. And he he says that the evangelists not were things that were obvious, and he'd vivier much more close to the events than us. I think that, reading the evangelist, We can't ever see that Maria Magdalena and the other,

the other, the other, the other women, van, are the tomb, the dominoes for the morning. But the Virgin Maria no, go to the tomb, the dominole for the morning. Pedro and Juan, salemps, are going to hear that not is there. The Virgin Maria no, started going to go to the tomb.

For the time, she, yeah, I saw that Jesus not there. How was it? Because Jesus, he appeared. It's, It's almost obvious, we could we say, that after past 30 years with the Virgin Mary,

despite to share his secretes most intimate with the Virgin Maria, that was full of grace and that was full of the Spiritu Santo, from the moment of his conception, that Jesus not would carry her, to have brazzar her, and to share this moment with her. Also, we know that Jesus he appeared first

to those that were at the cross, to Mary Magdalena, the tomb, to Maria,

the wife of Clopas, very probably when they were going to into A. Maus. San Juan is

the first in creer of the apostles, and Maria, obviously, at the the foot, was the

first to who Jesus is the there is a very emosos of the church, that is

a day during the time of Pasqua. At the 6th of the morning, according to the tradition of the monks, say it was at the 6th of the morning, a midday, and at the 6th of the time. And this oration

takes the place of what during the rest of the year is the angelus, which is the record of the angel that is the encounter

with Maria in the moment of the annunciation. This or this is called Regina Chelli or Reina of the

CELOS is, is it's a conversation between the angel and the Virgin Maria. So I

would hear this oration that helps a little to imagine the scene and what are the

feelings of the Virgin Maria in this moment. The oration

in Spanish is is so. Reina of the So, that

Elgrate Alalue because the Lord to who has merced

to have Alleluia, has resuscited according his word, hallelujah. Ruega

the Lord for us God, God, gozate and alegrate, Virgin Maria,

hallelujah, because really have resuscited the Lord, hallelujah. And there an

one of that's the comments of the angel, that says the next.

Oh, God, that in the glorious resurrection of your son, has devolved the aligre to the world entire? For intercession of the Virgin Maria, conceden us

to enjoy the joy of the life eternal. For Christ, our Lord, Amen. We can imagine us the sentiments of the Virgin Mary,

of a gozo total. And the disappearance of all the fear,

all the fear, all risk all fear, the murder

has been been been been for his his God, for his

god, for his master, and is there present to to have

to this thing that important after after to

contemplate to the Virgin Mary as a model of the world, in the life, in the

necessities more intimate of the life, in the the the

other than the time, contemplarer now here, in what is the

victory final and the victory definitive of Christ. The resurrection

of Jesus is the fundamental of our the of the fact

he's to read them the paper also this text

is the ultimate audience of the pastor that he

he he he he he he he a

monseur that he had a little he he

he he he was the he said the

the the Yes, the resurrection of Jesus is the fundamental of the experience. A part of this event, is a matter, is not an illusion. No, thanks to Christ crucified and resuscitado, the hope not defraud a spess non-confundits.

And not is an esperanza evasive, but not alienate but it that's those are the words

of the Papa what what is what is what means in the life of

in the life of and in the life of Maria that actually that is that I'm

that the fundamental the fundamental of the that is in

to recognize always to get in the heart always, meditate in our oration, with our memory, and with our imagination, and with our sentiments,

the victory definitive of Christ. A Maria, so he was Jesus after this. He had Jesus in the Eucharistia, the sacraments, the people, the apostles,

the people, they were their own own, but he was always in his mind and in his heart, this fundamental of your hope of the

hope of the time the Virgin Maria us we're to find

in the word of God here, to find the hope the

the Virgin Maria we can't that we have always

in our mind and in our memory the victory of Jesus

over the death. That victory of Jesus is the that never is a problem that never is to runper. All we know

a person that has been we've gone. We've got to the Papa, maybe some of his parents, his abelos, maybe a

one, an brother, and, children, the only that can make that the

hope that is in that the corner that still those remember with

with that's with a year and a year and is the the

hope that we we're to be to see and why? Because

Jesus Christ has resuscited between the Murtes Virgin

Maria Alagrate Hermano Irman Irman Amen let's in the

Lord that is the significant more profound of the spirit of Christian. And the

Virgin Maria us and we show and us model a what is that is that

this is the last passage that we're going to come to but also I'm

to put pause that we take us a moment to make to make

these questions I I'm with how much frequency I

think in the resurrection of with how frequency I think in the

sky for me the is a reality or I prefer more than not think in what

when it's after the death if some of us has any

of us my recommendation is that we're we're we're we're

we're we're all the all the apparitions of Jesus

after of their resurrection are in the four

evangelion My recommendation is that we're going to a capilla where is present Jesus Resuscitated in the

Eucharistia and that there are to be our hope our hope that our

my recommendation is that we'resees the mysteries glorios of the Rosario

Pidien specifically this grace to have a faith like the

Virgin Maria. In resum we can we we're that the

Virgin Maria is model of for all our life, in any moment of our life, in moments of our life, in moments of a legion, moments of necessity,

moments of dolor, and as a fundamental and a spirit of a definitive. I'm imitandons to us to us, to getomed the Rosario, as a that one, that's a

school of a spirit of Maria, and that we'll take us to make us to make us every way to this mother that

that's a mother that he's always that he's that he I'm in my heart I'm

I want to all of you that's that I'm that you God you'll thank you

God and with much good I'm a name of the Father and the Spirito Santo, amen

Thank you.