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308th Meditation

“Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine on us and we shall be safe” (Ps 80:19).

How often we are in need of our Father to lift us up and restore us, and how often He does it! Who is not heard when they turn to Him?

To restore us means to strip us of the heaviness: whether it is the heaviness of our faults, the burden of our many failures, the discouragement of not being as good as we would like to be, the weight of a troubled life, the burden of a difficult situation… Read More

307th Meditation

“I pour out my worry in his presence, in his presence I unfold my troubles” (Ps 142:2).

We can and even ought to speak openly to our Father about all that distresses us; to ask Him the questions we carry in our hearts, especially those for which we have not found an answer and whose answer we perhaps even fear in some way. We know many verses in the psalms in which the psalmist expresses the depths of his anguish. He is unable to overcome them on his own and so he turns to the heavenly Father. Read More

306th Meditation

“Who can detect his own failings? Wash away my hidden faults” (Ps 19:13).

Our Heavenly Father’s concern for our eternal salvation covers not only the realm of sin and bad attitudes that we are aware of and can work to overcome; it also includes all those spheres of which we are unaware and which nevertheless have an effect within us. Read More

305th Meditation

 

 “Lord, mount a guard over my mouth, a guard at the door of my lips” (Ps 141:3).

Who can control his tongue? The Apostle James answers us: “Nobody can tame the tongue — it is a pest that will not keep still, full of deadly poison” (James 3:8). Read More

304th Meditation

 “Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son” (2 Jn 1:9b).

Our Father has entrusted us with a great treasure, which the Church has faithfully guarded: the teaching of Christ. It provides our understanding with supernatural light, so that we do not go astray and thus fall into the snares of the Evil One. Error in matters of faith tarnishes our relationship with God, because it is a “false light” that penetrates our soul, taking the place of the true knowledge of God. Thus, false doctrine also affects our capacity to love, because it hinders a deeper knowledge of God, which, in turn, would increasingly awaken our love for Him. Read More