427th Meditation
“Your love is better than wine. (…) You will be our joy and our gladness. We shall praise your love more than wine; how right it is to love you!” (Ct 1:2b.4).
Incomparable and overwhelming is the love of God. All forms of true love are a gift of the Father’s goodness; a participation in His being, because “God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him” (1 Jn 4:16). Read More
Mt 23:1-12
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
Ruth 1:1,3-6,14b-16,22
In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons. And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her sons. And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called Orpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt there ten years.
426th Meditation
“The world may know that I love the Father” (Jn 14:31).
This phrase alone would suffice for us to truly encounter the Heart of our Redeemer. This affirmation allows us to know Him in great depth, because this is the most intimate desire of our Lord: “The world may know that I love the Father”. Read More
425th Meditation
“When your soul dwells too long in the world of nothingness, it grows emptier. Certain interests weaken your soul and keep it trapped in infertile spaces” (based on an inner word).
This exhortation is addressed to those who have already seriously set out to deepen their spiritual life. Even if the fundamental decision to follow the Lord unconditionally has already been made, it is necessary to remember it again and again and to defend it with wisdom from the influences of this world. Read More
Jn 1:45-51
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth. And Nathanael said to him: Can anything of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. Read More
424th Meditation
“I will once more cast the net of my love. Cast the net with me!” (Inner Word).
Are we ready to cooperate in the Lord’s great catch of fish? Do we still have hope that many people will find faith, precisely in these dark times that loom over humanity? Read More
Mt 20:1-16
The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle. Read More
Lk 1:26-38
Reading for the feast Queenship of Mary
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, you who enjoy God’s favor! The Lord is with you.’ Read More
423rd Meditation
“Entrust everything to me and be completely without worry” (Inner Word).
Trust and carelessness go hand in hand when the relationship with our Heavenly Father becomes deeper and deeper. Many things want to weigh us down and worry us, making life difficult for us. But the Lord Himself exhorts us to a holy unconcern: “Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on” (Mt 6:25). Read More
