Beloved Holy Spirit, one of Your wonderful gifts is peace. It is a peace that the world cannot give (cf Jn 14:27), but neither can it take. This points to a peace different from the peace we usually know – it is a peace that lasts. Read More
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I WANT THEM TO BE WITH ME
339th Meditation
“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am” (Jn 17:24a).
In these words, Jesus fully expresses His love for us. He wants to have us with Him forever. To no better place could He take us than to His eternal Kingdom, in communion with the Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit, and all those whose hearts belong to God. Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (7/14): THE KINDNESS
Holy Spirit, it is said of You that You are a kind and human loving Spirit, and that a fruit that You make grow in the human soul is kindness!
Kindness is an agreeable attitude of man by which one easily wins the other person and makes him feel loved and acknowledged! Read More
RECOGNIZING GOD AS FATHER
338th Meditation
“In My fatherly goodness I will give you everything, provided that all regard Me as a true Father” (Father’s message to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
Our Father can and wants to give us everything; to give us Himself together with all that we need for our natural and supernatural life; to give us joy in the present life and unceasing joy in eternity. And the condition He sets for us to receive all this is very easy but indispensable: we must recognize Him as our Father. Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (6/14): THE JOY
Beloved Holy Spirit, one of the most wonderful gifts that You can make grow in us as fruit is joy. It is that joy which, like love, makes everything easier and overcomes the weight that life so often brings with it. A joy that is contagious, and gives a ray of light and some comfort to the other person, as long as they are not closed. Read More
THE NAME OF JESUS
337th Meditation
“Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name- the name you gave me- so that they may be one as we are one” (Jn 17:11b).
The Name of Jesus…
How loudly it resounds in the heart!
His Name can and must become the great love of our life. Read More
I CAME FROM THE FATHER
336th Meditation
“I came from the Father and have come into the world and now I am leaving the world to go to the Father” (Jn 16:28).
This is the all-embracing reality of our Lord Jesus. The Lord proceeds from the Father, fulfils His mission in the world and returns to the Father. Everything is oriented to the Father; all the words Jesus speaks, all His works, everything is a living testimony of the Father’s love for the Son and for us, as well as of the Son’s love for the Father and for us human beings. Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (5/14): THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD
Beloved Jesus, what a joy it must have been for You to return to the Father after having accomplished Your work! You were “for a short while made less than the angels” (Heb 2:9), but now You return to the fullness of glory, with which You will return at the end of time. Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (4/14): THE SELF-CONTROL
Holy Spirit, in the beginning you hovered over the waters (cf. Gen 1:2) and brought order to the chaos. You also want to bring order to the chaos caused by sin, order in our inner and outer life. So much has been confused with original sin and the sins that follow it, that even your friend Paul lamented that a different law dwells in his spirit than in his body and – worse still – that he follows the law of the flesh (cf. Rom 7:23). With him we lament: Who will deliver me from this body? (cf. Rom 7:24) Read More
“THE FATHER HIMSELF LOVES YOU FOR LOVING ME”
335th Meditation
“When that day comes you will ask in my name; and I do not say that I shall pray to the Father for you, because the Father himself loves you for loving me, and believing that I came from God” (Jn 16:26-27).
Jesus has granted us direct access to our beloved Father, and no one goes to the Father except through Him (Jn 14:6). Read More