Beloved Holy Spirit, You gentle soul guest, let grow in us the spirit of gentleness, that spirit that permeates everything, that transforms and softens our heart, purifying it from all hardships; that is as mild as Your wonderful Bride, our Mother. Read More
334th Meditation
“If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I” (Jn 14:28b).
Jesus introduces His disciples to a different logic, which they can only gradually assimilate. The greatest thing for our Lord Jesus Christ is to return to His Father. Read More
Beloved Holy Spirit, come You, the eternal and pure light and penetrate us, so that nothing can remain hidden from You, no shadow can live on in our soul, every darkness may go away and everything be inflamed by Your love. Awaken us from all inertia and purify our heart so that it may love as God loves; love as You love, so that You and I may be intimately united in the praise of the glory of God. Read More
333rd Meditation
“If you know me, you will know my Father too. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father” (Jn 14:7,9).
These words of our Lord lead us to the knowledge of the Father. Our Saviour wants to make the Father known to us, and we understand that He does the works of His Father so that the Father may be glorified and we may know Him as He truly is (Jn 10:37-38). Read More
“You Holy Spirit, you kiss of the Father and of the Son, you sweetest and most intimate kiss” (Saint Bernard of Clairveaux), we want to know and love you better. Therefore, descend into our soul, “like the sun which illuminates everything where it finds no obstacle. Reach out like an arrow of flame to the deepest part of our soul. You do not rest in proud hearts and high spirits; rather you open your dwelling in humble souls” (St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi). Read More
332nd Meditation
“As long as man does not live in the truth, he cannot taste real freedom” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Without truth, there can be no real freedom. “The truth will set you free” – the Lord tells us in the Gospel. Only living in accordance with the Father will lead us to where true freedom dwells. Read More
Act 16:1-10
From there Paul went to Derbe, and then on to Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timothy, whose mother was Jewish and had become a believer; but his father was a Greek. The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him, and Paul, who wanted to have him as a travelling companion, had him circumcised. Read More
331st Meditation
“Though night still covers the earth and darkness the peoples, on you the Lord is rising and over you his glory can be seen” (Is 60:2).
Do these words not accurately describe the present situation of the world, if one does not close one’s eyes to reality? Is not the loss of faith increasingly obscuring the life of peoples? Has not confusion penetrated even into our Holy Church? Read More
Act 15:22-31
Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose delegates from among themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas, known as Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men in the brotherhood, and gave them this letter to take with them: ‘The apostles and elders, your brothers, send greetings to the brothers of gentile birth in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia. Read More
330th Meditation
“Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! Do not let my heart incline to any evil” (Ps 141:3-4a).
The tongue is “a whole wicked world” (James 3:6) and it is from our heart that evil proceeds (cf. Mt 15:19). This is what Sacred Scripture tells us, with its incomparable sobriety and without beating about the bush. “Who can discern his errors?” (Ps 19:12). Read More
