“ACCEPTING PATERNAL CORRECTIONS” (REV 3:19)

186th Meditation

Those whom I love, I rebuke and correct” (Rev 3:19) – the Lord tells us in the Book of Revelation, and it is a grace to experience this. Indeed, our Father’s love for us is not only a tender and warm love that gives us security and shelters us; it is also a love that forms us. He wants to educate us so that we may advance on the spiritual path. Read More

Third O antiphon: “O Radix Iesse”

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O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples;

before you kings will shut their mouths,

to you the nations will make their prayer:

Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.

 

In many parts of the world, O Lord, Your sign is raised up: the sign of the Cross.

Exalted in it, You exclaim: “I am the salvation of the nations”.

 

“Why this uproar among the nations, this impotent muttering of the peoples? Kings of the earth take up position, princes plot together against Yahweh and his anointed” (Ps 2:1-2).

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