143rd Meditation
“You need not know my plan in everything, but simply trust in me, as did your beloved Mother, my Daughter”(Interior Word).
The plans of our Heavenly Father are always plans of salvation and not of misfortune (Jer 29:11). We are called to trust in God Himself, and not in what we know or think we know.
Phil 4:10-19
As for me, I am full of joy in the Lord, now that at last your consideration for me has blossomed again; though I recognize that you really did have consideration before, but had no opportunity to show it. I do not say this because I have lacked anything; I have learnt to manage with whatever I have. Read More
142nd Meditation
“Fear nothing and no one, for I am your Father” (Interior Word).
As Sacred Scripture tells us, our Father wants us, in the certainty of His love, to travel our way through time. There are so many terrible things in this world, so many things that frighten us. Jesus Himself tells us: “In the world you will have sufferings, but take heart: I have overcome the world” (Jn 16:33). Read More
Jn 10:11-18
A reading for the memorial of St. Charles Borromeo
Jesus said at that time, “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep do not belong to him, abandons the sheep as soon as he sees a wolf coming, and runs away, and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep; he runs away because he is only a hired man and has no concern for the sheep. Read More
141st Meditation
“You can awaken love even more, so that it may inundate you completely. This is what love wants, and for this it seeks you” (Interior Word).
Love has no limits, because “God is love” (1 Jn 4:16). This is how Sacred Scripture describes it to us. There is nothing more important than to live in love, “for love covers a multitude of sins” (1 Pt 4:8). Read More
140th Meditation
“The joy I feel in being with you is no less great than that which I felt when I was with My Son Jesus during His mortal life” (Father’s Message to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
Who could please our Father as much as His only-begotten Son, who was obedient to Him even unto death? And what a joy it must have been for the Father to hear the Virgin Mary’s “yes” to His Will! Read More
Phil 3:3-8
We are the true people of the circumcision since we worship by the Spirit of God and make Christ Jesus our only boast, not relying on physical qualifications, although, I myself could rely on these too. If anyone does claim to rely on them, my claim is better. Circumcised on the eighth day of my life, I was born of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrew parents. Read More
Commemoration of the Faithful Departed
Lam 3:17-26
I have been deprived of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is and thought, ‘My lasting hope in the Lord is lost.’ Bring to mind my misery and anguish; it is wormwood and gall! My heart dwells on this continually and sinks within me. Read More
138th Meditation
“It is necessary for you to have a transformed heart, totally focused on God; a vigilant, attentive and loving heart. Only then will you be able to understand God’s plans and be able to work for peace” (Inner Word).
Our Father, who is the source of true unity and peace among us, invites us to cooperate in the plans of salvation. He grants us a new heart from which, under the influence of grace, streams of living water will flow for the world (cf. Jn 7:38). Read More
Rev 7:2-4,9-14
Then I saw another angel rising where the sun rises, carrying the seal of the living God; he called in a powerful voice to the four angels whose duty was to devastate land and sea, ‘Wait before you do any damage on land or at sea or to the trees, until we have put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.’ And I heard how many had been sealed: a hundred and forty-four thousand, out of all the tribes of Israel. Read More
