“If only My people would turn, if only they would seek Me with all their heart and return to Me, how I would welcome them and shower them with blessings!” (Inner Word)
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THE ADVENT JOURNEY – Day 5: “Judges, Kings, and Prophets”
Everything would be so simple if men submitted themselves to the loving rule of the Lord, allowed themselves to be filled with His Spirit, and, in this relationship of love with God and with one another, led a full and holy life.
Is this just a dream? Is it simply a desire that dwells in our imagination because we want to escape from a reality that often seems so different? Is it a mere utopia?
No! It is not a dream! Rather, it is the reality that awaits us in eternity if we welcome God’s work in us and respond to it as we should. This reality, foreseen by God, already begins in this earthly life, even though it is still subject to the limitations of our fallen human condition.
“CAN THERE BE ANYONE MORE GENEROUS THAN YOU?”
“Can there be anyone more generous than You when it comes to giving, if only You find someone to receive? Who repays more generously than You for the services rendered to You?” (Saint Teresa of Avila)
THE ADVENT JOURNEY – Day 4: “Abraham and Israel”
God’s love finds those who do not close their hearts to Him. Not everyone has turned their back on Him; not everyone lives indifferently as their earthly life passes by; not everyone remains mired in lethargy or keeps their ears closed to God’s call. There are also those who are faithful to Him!
After Noah, God found Abraham, the father of believers (cf. Rom 4:1-3), and said to him: “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves” (Gen 12:1-3).
THE ADVENT JOURNEY – Day 3: “God seeks man”
“Adam, where are you?” (Cf. Gen 3:9).
The Heart of God seeks man who, having fallen under the seduction of the powers of darkness, has turned his back on Him. As Jesus shows us in the parable of the prodigal son, God is always waiting—awaiting our return.
Man wanders through this world without knowing where he comes from or where he is going. He no longer knows God as He truly is. With each new derailment, the memory of that trusting relationship with God—the memory of his true home, Paradise—fades away.
DISPEL CONFUSION IN THE HEART OF GOD
“Never let yourself become confused, and keep your heart in Me” (Inner Word).
THE ADVENT JOURNEY – Day 2: “God has loved us from all eternity”
The first step on our Advent journey is to deeply assimilate the concept of God’s loving Providence, for it allows us to understand that it was God’s love that called us into existence and constantly blesses us with His presence. We are not a random product or a whim of nature, which comes and goes until it dissolves into nothingness. No! God created us to live in communion with Him and to share in His fullness (cf. Eph 1:4–6). The Lord tells us:
“I have called you by name, you are mine” (Is 43:1). Read More
THE FATHER GIVES TO ALL ABUNDANTLY
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him” (James 1:5). Read More
THE ADVENT JOURNEY – Day 1: “Introduction”
Today, we begin the season of Advent to prepare for the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord. This year, I would like to share a series of updated meditations that I wrote during Advent 2020 as a kind of “spiritual retreat” for this liturgical season.
At that time, the Coronavirus crisis had erupted. It was said that all of humanity was in danger and that everyone had to be vaccinated multiple times to avoid catastrophe. The pharmaceutical industry, politics, the media, and even the Church were all rowing in the same direction. The latter insisted that vaccination was an act of charity toward one’s neighbor. Read More
FLOWERS OF LOVE
“At the end of our lives, we will be judged by our love” (St. John of the Cross).