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GOD'S WORD TODAY - Jonjee C. Sumpaico, S.J. () - May 29, 2011 - 12:00am
It is kind of awkward that being a priest, I have to begin this article with a R
confession.
Here it goes. I have been allergic to the color green for a very long time. This
reaction has grown in me ever since I entered preparatory school at the Ateneo
de Manila way back in 1978. And after thirty-three years of being connected
with the institution, especially when college basketball season sets in, my
dislike for the said color heightens. In fact, my defenses go up when I see
green and I find myself ready to go unto the fray.
End of confession. (And I hope you continue reading.)
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In recent years however, I have experienced a growing fascination over an oft-
repeated line in the prayers uttered by those from the greener side of the fence.
This line that I find most endearing ends many, if not all, La Sallian prayers. It
goes like this: “Live Jesus in our hearts. . . forever!”
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The line is so striking as it makes a personal request from our Lord Jesus to
make one’s heart His dwelling place. This prayer, this request comes from a
person who knows that his heart may not be the most ideal place on earth to
abide in. For one certainly knows that the heart our emotions, our desires has
in one’s life been the cause of many hurts, misunderstanding, frustrations,
helplessness, pains and a whole lot more. Yet as one invites Jesus to be with
him, he trusts that God would transform a seemingly unlivable heart into the
humble home of His Son. To ask Jesus to live in one’s heart is therefore to ask
in total surrender, total trust and humility.

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The request also comes about as something which is communal. It is not a

prayer of a heart, but the prayer of many hearts. It is not just a prayer of my
heart, but a prayer of our hearts. The prayer begs Jesus to be a living part of
the communities we live in. It implores Jesus to reign in our thoughts, our
words and our actions in our daily lives.
The readings of this Sunday particularly ask us to have our hearts ready for
Jesus Christ.
St. Peter, in the first reading, even exhorts his flock to “sanctify Christ as Lord
in your hearts.” The Gospel also shows us Jesus’ promise that he will not leave
us alone. Jesus’ promise of sending us his Spirit is his assurance that we will
not be abandoned when we do not see him before us. He assures us that we
will know the presence of the Spirit in the manner by which we look inside our
hearts as we follow his ways. The Gospel even reminds us that to have our
hearts in the heart of Christ is to love Him and obey his commandments.
We obey his commandments not because of fear that someone greater than
us might become angry at us if we don’t follow what is prescribed. We obey his
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To love is to see that one becomes happy when one’s beloved is happy. To love
is to understand that one feels sadness when one’s beloved feels sad. To love
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Jesus Christ invites us to be our honest loving selves before Him. He gives
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this invitation so that we may be fully alive and celebrate our relationship with
Him without fear. Jesus invites us to have this sense of closeness to Him so
that we may “feel with his feelings, with the sentiments of his heart.”
As we live life loving God, with all our mind, with all our heart, with all our soul,
with all our strength; and as we love others as ourselves, let us therefore
surrender our lives with hearts that are free and let us continue to invite Jesus
to let His Spirit dwell in us and be familiar with his loving presence in our lives.
Surrendering with a heart that is free is to choose the ways of one’s beloved.
Joseph Tetlow, S.J. writes a beautiful prayer on choosing Christ in the world: D
“I choose to breathe the Breath of Christ that makes all life holy.
I choose to live the flesh of Christ that outlasts sin’s corrosion and decay.
I choose the Blood of Christ along my veins and in my heart that dizzies me
with joy.
I choose the Living waters flowing from his side to wash clean my own self
and the world itself.
I choose the awful agony of Christ to charge my senseless sorrows with

meaning and to make my pain pregnant with power.
I choose You, good Jesus, You know.
I choose You Good Lord;
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Make me safe from all that seeks to destroy me.
Summon me when I come to close my eyes in death.

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Summon me to come to You.
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Then for this time, Father of all, keep me, from the core of myself, choosing
Christ in the world. Amen.”
May the choices of our hearts always be moments of growing freedom. To

that, I have to agree with the imploring sentiments of my La Sallian brethren. I
salute them with a loud “One Big Fight!” And I share their prayer, “Live Jesus in
our hearts. . . forever!”
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