{"id":6210,"date":"2022-06-10T18:26:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2022-06-10T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T22:42:57","slug":"homily-for-confirmation-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/homily-for-confirmation-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Homil\u00eda para la Confirmaci\u00f3n 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"Tell me, do you find it always easy to know things and people, to understand things and people, to be wise, or\r\nto give good advice and counsel, to stay true to your relationship with God, or even have a sincere respect for\r\nGod? Do you find these things easy to do?<!- wp:more --><!--more-->\r\nIf you were perfectly honest with yourselves and with me, you would answer \u201cno\u201d to all these things.\r\nAnd, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that either. We don\u2019t always understand what\u2019s going on or the way people\r\nare. Sometimes things, new things, are not so easy to understand and people, well\u2026they can be\r\ncomplicated, just like we are.\r\nWe can also say that we are not wise all the time. To become a wise person, we need to know and to\r\nunderstand and even to have experienced what we know and understand. Wisdom comes from our\r\nexperiences and how we have reflected on those experienced and what we have learned from them.\r\nLearning from our experiences has a lot to do with wisdom.\r\nNow, we get into giving advice. You and I know that the blind cannot lead the blind. Sometimes people give\r\nbad advice because they are more interested in saying something than what they are really saying. Good\r\nadvice can only come from a person who knows, understand, and has had experienced with the things that\r\ntheir advice is saying. Good advice comes from wise people.\r\nSo\u2026next time you give advice, make sure you know what you understand what you are talking about,\r\notherwise, you\u2019re going to give really bad advice. And, if you ever realize that you don\u2019t understand\r\nsomething, I hope you are not too proud to seek the advice of a wise person. Someone who will give you\r\ngood and sound advice, and not necessarily what you want to hear. Sometimes there\u2019s a big difference\r\nbetween what we want to hear and what we really need to hear.\r\nHow about fortitude? Do you know what it is? Fortitude is about being strong and focused in the good things\r\nthat you want for yourself and for others. Fortitude is about inner strength\u2026it\u2019s what builds solid character and\r\nwhat makes some people really good at what they do, how they do it and how they live their lives and treat\r\nothers. When a person is focused, for example, on being a good athlete, a good student, a good friend, or\r\nsimply on being a good person, that person puts all of her focus and energies into that. It takes discipline,\r\nand, although it may not always be easy, it pays out big at the end\u2026.because it builds your character and\r\nyour self-respect in experiencing yourself being successful\u2026not only in doing things, but, most of all, in\r\nbecoming someone who you can be proud of.\r\nWell, let\u2019s move to something more spiritual, although all the things I\u2019ve already spoken about are also\r\nspiritual. How about our relationship with God? Do we know God enough or know ourselves good enough to\r\nsay \u201cthis is who I am before the eyes of God?\u201d Do I understand how my relationship with God affects me and\r\nmy life? Do I allow my friendship with God make me wiser and a better person? The gift of piety is the gift of\r\ntaking good care of my relationship with God so that it leads me to a deep respect for God.\r\nWhat I have spoken about are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom,\r\nCounsel, Fortitude, Piety, and Respect of the Lord. This is what has been given to you on the day of your\r\nbaptism and are now doubly given to you today in your saying \u201cyes\u201d to you faith. These are powers given to\r\nyou by the Holy Spirit if you desire them.\r\nThe power of God is not magical. It doesn\u2019t come to us by making us magicians or superhuman beings.\r\nThe power of God comes to us in the most ordinary of ways and sometimes we don\u2019t even know that it\u2019s\r\nthere, but we can become aware of it through the way we live, the way we treat people, and the type of\r\nperson we become. The power of God is for the taking, but it also requires your participation and\r\ncollaboration.\r\nIt will never be given to us on a silver platter or in a thunderbolt. It is given to us within our own willingness to do good and be good. The power of God is never given to do bad things or to do bad to others.\r\nThe power of God comes from whom God is\u2026Love.\r\nThus, we can say that the gifts of the Holy Spirit come from Love, they are destined to be practiced for the\r\ngood of oneself and others, and they ultimately return to the love of God from which they came in the first\r\nplace. So, we pray for the gift, receive the gift, and we practice the fruit of these gifts for the sake of\r\neverything that is good and loving. The gifts of the Holy Spirit can only be given to those who intentionally\r\nwant them for the good of themselves and the good of others.<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me, do you find it always easy to know things and people, to understand things and people, to be wise, or to give good advice and counsel, to stay true to&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-heart"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6216,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}