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00:00After the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC, the people began to perform
00:14Celebrations took place at the temple ruins. The celebrations combined prayer and fasting.
00:20as a sign of grief and mourning. This set of actions helped to maintain hope.
00:27of a future reconstruction. The first book from the time of exile is an expression
00:33A literary work filled with sorrow, it is a song of sadness, the book of lamentations. This book
00:40It consists of five poems in which Jerusalem is portrayed as a woman who
00:47She has been widowed and, like a mother, weeps for the suffering and death of her children.
00:53Poets who meditate on the misfortunes that have befallen Jerusalem complain of their
00:59They suffer pain and anguish, but find no comfort in anyone except Yahweh, who has punished them.
01:08because of their sins and unfaithfulness. But God is compassionate and one day He will forgive Judah.
01:14And the city will flourish again. A renaissance will come in times to come.
01:20We said that this book is composed of five lamentations, that is, funeral hymns
01:29to describe the painful experience of the destruction of the town, of the temple, by
01:35The loss of institutions, their homes, and their own freedom. But in the pain, one finds strength.
01:41He glimpses hope in God's patient faithfulness, for the Lord's love never ends.
01:48Nor does his compassion run dry. The author of this book not only expresses his sorrow for the
01:55tragedy experienced, but maintains firm faith and trust in the Lord, knowing that
02:01It is often necessary to wait in silence. Let us read what the third one tells us about this.
02:08lament.
02:12The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to all who seek him. It is good to wait.
02:19quietly waiting for the Lord to come and save us.
02:23This same theme had already been addressed by Isaiah when he prophesied about a promise of
02:33mercy from the Lord toward his people. The prophet affirms, the Lord is
02:40Eager to show him his mercy, blessed are those who wait for him. To know how to wait.
02:48This is certainly a difficult topic for human beings, much more so for the
02:56Modern man is used to everything happening almost instantaneously. We don't know
03:02Wait, at least not those of us who live in the city. Perhaps the atmosphere in the countryside is different.
03:08there where one takes the time to sit and wait for a sunset or a sunrise to be
03:14contemplated. But we, those who let ourselves be carried away by the current of
03:20Instantaneous, we have lost the ability to wait. Faced with the loss of a job,
03:26We would like to have one the next day. Faced with illness, we would like to recover.
03:32Just by asking. But immediately. In the face of betrayal, pain, doubt, discouragement,
03:40All this that disturbs our soul, we want nothing more than for it to disappear quickly. We must understand
03:48that these moments help us to see our own lives and the lives of others from a different perspective.
03:55Those who do not know darkness will never be able to appreciate the light. It is precisely in these moments of trial that we truly understand the importance of light.
04:02that the people learn that they can do nothing but wait. To develop the virtue of
04:09Patience. They're not having a good time at all. However, they understand that it's necessary to do it.
04:16who must trust in the God of promises, the one who has remained faithful to his people every step of the way.
04:23Similarly, for each of us, in moments of exile, in that place outside our
04:30accustomed to our comfort zone, where we are tested and subjected to pain, we must not forget
04:36Never that patience is the virtue we need to know how to wait while the Lord shows his
04:43a powerful hand over our lives.
04:46In the midst of the pain caused by the exile, a new prophet emerges, called Deutero-Isaiah,
05:00because his work was inserted in the book attributed to this prophet and covers chapters 40 through 55.
05:08This collection of books has been called the Book of Consolation. A voice rises up
05:16calling the deported people in Babylon to undertake a new exodus, a departure from this country to
05:23to return to Jerusalem and thus be able to restore it. Israel felt disoriented. The God of their faith was no longer there.
05:31It corresponds with the God who has accompanied them throughout their history. It seems rather that he has
05:38abandoned. But the prophet clarifies that God is much more than the people think. He is more powerful than
05:45The God of the Babylonians, for the Lord who created the universe is the Lord of history. He can
05:53To raise a savior anywhere in the world. This is where God's mercy is shown.
06:00It brings forth in the very person of the Persian king an ally of the people, someone who, without being a
06:08The believer becomes the instrument of salvation for the deportees. King Cyrus rises up with his
06:16power and puts an end to Babylonian power. Thus the people can hear the prophet who tells them,
06:23Comfort, comfort my people, says the Lord. The path through the desert is prepared once more.
06:31so that the people may undertake a new exodus, leaving Babylon to go to the land that God
06:38He betrayed them once. In exile, the voice of God addresses the prophet and all his followers,
06:46ordering them to console his people, comfort them, help them heal from their pain, let them know that the
06:55The punishment time is over. But he asks them to do this with a characteristic sign of their own.
07:04God. Speak to them with love, that is, from the heart, convincing them by using language.
07:13of love. How important is the way God delivers his message. This same point applies
07:22For all of us. How many times have we found ourselves in the need to speak to our neighbor?
07:28of the message of salvation? But often this message sounds hollow, just empty words,
07:36because it lacks the most important element that we must consider when speaking
07:42of God. A God whose essence is love, which is why our words should always have
07:50This burden of love and tenderness, which only God as Father knows how to give, and which we, members of his family, can give.
07:57people, we are called to reproduce in our own person, not only to satisfy ourselves with
08:03These, but above all to get them to those who need them most, to those who require
08:10of the comfort of our Lord. The words comfort, console, appear nine times in Deuteronomy
08:18Isaiah. This tells us that it is no longer about the hour of judgment, but about salvation for the
08:25people. Therefore, this new exodus is proof of this consolation coming from God. But it will be
08:33It is necessary that they do their part; they must prepare the way for the Lord. This passage tells us
08:40Remember once again that everything passes, but the word of God remains forever. This Isaiah
08:49He presents King Cyrus as God's chosen Messiah, but in his reflection he glimpses the true
08:56servant of God who will serve Him with his own life and who will save His people through docile surrender and
09:04faithful to his own life. In order to understand God's purposes and their fulfillment in Jesus,
09:12Messiah. The first Christians will study the scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments.
09:18They illuminate each other. The evangelist Mark begins his work with a quotation from Isaiah 40 that
09:27announces the coming of Christ. For his part, Luke tells us that Jesus appeared in the synagogue and
09:34He read a passage from the prophet to announce his own mission, to speak of bringing the good news. This action
09:41It has to do with the Lord comforting his people, thus expressing divine action
09:48experienced by the people during their return from Babylon. The people, on their journey back to
09:55Jerusalem now has the hope of a better life. This is what the prophet announces when he says,
10:01You will leave there with joy. You will return to your country in peace. Seeing you, the mountains and hills
10:10They will burst into songs of joy and all the trees in the field will applaud.
10:16The Book of Tobit is one of the seven books called deuterocanonical, since it was not included
10:28in the canon used by the separated churches. Although the book may have been written during the time of the
10:35Seleucid domination; the setting the author uses is the Assyrian exile in Nineveh. This book seeks
10:44To highlight the traditional virtues of the righteous man in the eyes of God. A man called
10:50Tobit, a man of the tribe of Naphtali, becomes this model of human justice, for he knows
10:57to remain faithful to divine law, even though the Babylonians had a strict prohibition against it
11:04the practice of his religion, which is why he goes blind. Let's read this passage.
11:10During the reign of Esaudardon, I returned home and was reunited with my wife Anna and my son Tobias. Once
11:22We were celebrating our feast of Pentecost, also called the Feast of Weeks. I had
11:29A fine banquet was prepared, and I sat down at the table. The table was set, and several dishes were brought out.
11:35prepared. Then I said to my son Tobias, son, go and see if you can find any Israelites who have
11:44come exiles to Nineveh, who have been faithful to God with all their heart and who are poor, and invite them to
11:51eat with us. I'll wait for you, son, until you return. Tobias went to find some poor Israelite and then
12:00He came back and called me. "What's wrong, son?" I answered. "Father," he said, "there's an Israelite who's been murdered and is lying in..."
12:09The square. They just strangled him. I didn't even try the food. I quickly went to the square, I took
12:16I took the body from there and put it in a room, waiting for nightfall to bury it. I went back to
12:23I went home, washed myself thoroughly, and ate with great sadness. Then I remembered what the prophet had said.
12:31Amos speaking against Bethel: I will turn festive celebrations into mourning for the dead and songs into wailing.
12:38funerals. And I started to cry. When night came, I went, dug a grave, and buried the dead man. My neighbors
12:48They were making fun of me, they said. Last time they were looking for him to kill him for doing that. And he escaped. And
12:56He's still not afraid. There he is again, burying the dead. That night I washed myself thoroughly and left my house.
13:04And I lay down next to the outside wall with my head uncovered because it was hot. I didn't know that
13:11Above me on the wall were some birds, which dropped hot droppings into my eyes
13:18And clouds appeared in them. I went to see doctors to get them to cure me, but the more I went, the worse it got.
13:26They rubbed remedies on me, but I grew more and more blind from the clouds in my eyes until I lost my sight completely.
13:32Complete. Four years later, Tobit regains his sight through the intervention of the archangel Raphael.
13:42whom his son Tobias had met on a trip he took. In this story he makes his
13:47A young woman named Sara appeared, from the same family as Tobit, who was beautiful, intelligent and
13:54She was virtuous, but a terrible curse weighed upon her. When she was given in marriage, her husband
14:01She died on her wedding night, without the marriage being consummated. This had happened to her.
14:08Seven times already. The archangel Raphael is the one who encourages Tobias to go to Sarah's father's house to ask for her.
14:16in marriage, which the young man did not want to agree to, as he knew of Sara's misfortune, arguing
14:23that a demon is the one who kills her current husband. Rafael gives her precise instructions on how to achieve
14:30to defeat this demon of death, also instructing him in the practice of the most powerful weapon
14:37Against the devil, prayer. This passage teaches us the importance of prayer for everyone.
14:45We, but particularly married couples, since through the prayer of the
14:51Spouses, a love is expressed that transcends, a spiritual love that teaches us to see with
14:58the eyes of faith, the holiness of this vocation.