The Wedding Dress

There is one condition in order to take part in the Wedding Banquet: a wedding garment is needed…

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Mt 22,1-14

Jesus began to speak to them in parables once again, ‘The kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son’s wedding. He sent his servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come. Next he sent some more servants with the words, “Tell those who have been invited: Look, my banquet is all prepared, my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding.” Read More

The law kept us under guard

The law as disciplinarian

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Gal 3:21-29

As it is, scripture makes no exception when it says that sin is master everywhere; so the promise can be given only by faith in Jesus Christ to those who have this faith. But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the Law, locked up to wait for the faith which would eventually be revealed to us. So the Law was serving as a slave to look after us, to lead us to Christ, so that we could be justified by faith. Read More

Children of Abraham

“Scripture… announced the future gospel to Abraham in the words: All nations will be blessed in you.”

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Gal 3:7-14 

Be sure, then, that it is people of faith who are the children of Abraham. And it was because scripture foresaw that God would give saving justice to the gentiles through faith, that it announced the future gospel to Abraham in the words: All nations will be blessed in you. So it is people of faith who receive the same blessing as Abraham, the man of faith. Read More

The gift of salvation

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Gal 3:1-5

You stupid people in Galatia! After you have had a clear picture of Jesus Christ crucified, right in front of your eyes, who has put a spell on you? There is only one thing I should like you to tell me: How was it that you received the Spirit – was it by the practice of the Law, or by believing in the message you heard? Read More

Our Lady of the Rosary and the “inner cell”

“Our Lady of Victory” (The Battle of Lepanto)

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In the future I would like – if possible – to write a Father mediation every 7th of the month and start it today. But before I do so, I would like to take a brief look at today’s commemoration day.

This day of remembrance is not directly dedicated to the prayer of the Rosary, but to the “Queen of the Rosary”. Read More

Good and blind zeal

“You have surely heard… how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God.” (The Stoning of Saint Stephen)

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Gal 1:13-24

You have surely heard how I lived in the past, within Judaism, and how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God in my attempts to destroy it; and how, in Judaism, I outstripped most of my Jewish contemporaries in my limitless enthusiasm for the traditions of my ancestors. Read More

No other gospel

“Anyone who preaches to you a gospel other than the one you were first given is to be under God’s curse.”

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Gal 1:6-12

I am astonished that you are so promptly turning away from the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are going over to a different gospel- not that it is another gospel; except that there are trouble-makers among you who are seeking to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we ourselves or an angel from heaven preaches to you a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let God’s curse be on him. Read More

Sweet grapes should grow in the vineyard

Sweet grapes were to be brought by the vineyard, fruits of love and justice, God’s glory was to be reflected in the life of man.

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Isa 5:1-7

Let me sing my beloved the song of my friend for his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug it, cleared it of stones, and planted it with red grapes. In the middle he built a tower, he hewed a press there too. He expected it to yield fine grapes: wild grapes were all it yielded. And now, citizens of Jerusalem and people of Judah, I ask you to judge between me and my vineyard. Read More

The real joy

The Holy Rosary, a simple yet powerful prayer.

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Lk 10,17-24

The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said, ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Look, I have given you power to tread down serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Read More

To listen to the Angels

Feast of the Guardian Angels

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Ex 23,20-23

‘Look, I am sending an angel to precede you, to guard you as you go and bring you to the place that I have prepared. Revere him and obey what he says. Do not defy him: he will not forgive any wrong-doing on your part, for my name is in him. If, however, you obey what he says and do whatever I order, I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. My angel will precede you and lead you. Read More