Sunday of Gaudete

There are many questions in the Gospel

1. Who are you?

I’m not the Christ, the anointed, because among the Jews the expectation was so great that the Messiah will come soon.

Then they asked Are you, Elijah?

They asked that because it was prophesied that Elijah will come before Christ, but is no Elijah but his spirit, his preaching.

Are you the Prophet? They were waiting for a great prophet like Moises, Jhon answer not.

I was foretold that a new Moises have to come, this is Jesus

Today the gospel pointed to John, the one that came to prepare with the penance the coming our Lord.

Jhon prepare this way truth the penance, trough the sorrows, trough the suffering, but with a meaning, to prepare our heart to receive Jesus.

There is no a person without suffering, suffer the rich, the young, the old… We cannot live without test some days small suffering, or sometimes a big pain, since the fall our fathers the suffering is with us, at the time of been born there is cry, at the time of death there is also Cry.

But if the suffering is painful the thing that make the suffering worse, is to suffer without meaning, without sense… When we experience the pain without sense, that pain is hard to bear.

But when we suffer with a propose, we can carry this suffering because we suffer with a sense,

A mother can carry the suffering because she loves, but because she knows that with the time it will bear joy.

1. In the middle of our sufferings Rejoice

So in the middle of the penance of advent, the Church tell us today, rejoice because Christ is close, even if you are suffering, rejoice because Jesus is close to you.

That is the secret if you are suffering but, you suffer with Christ this sorrow will turn on to joy.

2. When we accept this suffering, is no us is Christ who is suffering in us.

When the jailer heard the groans of childbirth, he remarked, "What will you do when you are exposed before the wild beasts if you cry like that now?" Felicitas only said to him: "Today it is I who suffer; Tomorrow, Christ will suffer for me, for I will suffer for Him."

Saint Felicitas

3. God is with Us

12 Why are you downcast, my soul,

why do you groan within me?

Wait for God, for I shall again praise him,

my savior and my God.

4. Mother Mary is with you.

“Listen, put it into your heart, my youngest and dearest son, that the thing that frightens you, the thing that afflicts you, is nothing: do not let it disturb you…Am I not here, I who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need something more? Let nothing else worry you or disturb you.”