Comforting and encouraging the faithful

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Acts 14:21-27

In those days, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, comforting the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith and telling them: ‘We must all experience many hardships before we enter the kingdom of God.’ In each of these churches they appointed elders, and with prayer and fasting they commended them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe. Read More

The prophetic service

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Acts 12:24-13,5

In those days, the word of God continued to spread and to gain followers. Barnabas and Saul completed their task at Jerusalem and came back, bringing John Mark with them. In the church at Antioch the following were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. Read More

Faithfulness to the Lord and His Church

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Acts 11:19-26

In those days, those who had scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they proclaimed the message only to Jews. Some of them, however, who came from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch where they started preaching also to the Greeks, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus to them. Read More

To make God the Father reign

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As we do on the 7th of every month, we will meditate today on a passage from the “Message of the Father” to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio:

Has My kingdom come? You honour very fervently the Kingship of My Son Jesus, it is true, and in Him you are honouring Me! But will you deny your Father this great glory of proclaiming Him ‘King’, or at least, of letting Me reign until all men can know and love Me? Read More