EVEN SIN CAN BRING US CLOSER TO THE FATHER

209th Meditation

“My son, even sin can become a stepping stone that brings us closer to God, that raises us up, that leads us even more surely to Him, provided that sin is followed by the deep grief of having committed it, when we sincerely resolve not to repeat it, when we feel how badly we have acted against God’s mercy, when it is capable of tearing at the hardest fibres of our heart, causing tears of repentance and love to flow from them” (St. Pio of Pietrelcina). Read More

The fear of death

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Heb 2:14-18

Brethren, since all the children share the same human nature, he too shared equally in it, so that by his death he could set aside him who held the power of death, namely the devil, and set free all those who had been held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death. For it was not the angels that he took to himself; he took to himself the line of Abraham. Read More