“Satan tries everything, but his plans will be frustrated” (Inner Word).
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The prayer of Hezekiah
2 Kgs 19:9b-11,14-21,31-35a,36
Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, ‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this, “Do not let your God on whom you are relying deceive you with the promise: Jerusalem will not fall into the king of Assyria’s clutches. You have learnt by now what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Are you likely to be saved? Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers’ hands and read it; he then went up to the Temple of Yahweh and spread it out before Yahweh. Hezekiah said this prayer in the presence of Yahweh, ‘Yahweh Sabaoth, God of Israel, enthroned on the winged creatures, you alone are God of all the kingdoms of the world, you made heaven and earth.
OUR HEART WAS CREATED FOR GOD
“Man will not enjoy true happiness except with his Father and Creator, because his heart is made for Me alone” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
How often do people search for happiness and joy without finding it! How much suffering and disorientation, how much disappointment, inner emptiness and even despair result from this! Read More
The vocation of Saint John
Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist
Isa 49:1-6
Coasts and islands, listen to me, pay attention, distant peoples. Yahweh called me when I was in the womb, before my birth he had pronounced my name. He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the shadow of his hand. He made me into a sharpened arrow and concealed me in his quiver. He said to me, ‘Israel, you are my servant, through whom I shall manifest my glory.’ Read More
THE OPEN DOOR
“Knock and the door will be opened for you” (Interior Word).
In the Book of Revelation, the Lord says: “Behold, I have set before you an open door” (Rev 3:8). These words apply to all those who seek the Lord with all their hearts. We no longer need to seek the door, for He is the door (Jn 10:9). We need only enter through it and trust in His gentle leading. Read More
A New Creation
2 Cor 5:14-17
‘For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died; his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life. From now onwards, then, we will not consider anyone by human standards: even if we were once familiar with Christ according to human standards, we do not know him in that way any longer. So for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is there to see!’
FAITHFULNESS AND FEARLESSNESS
“Be faithful to me and be without fear” (Inner Word).
Carefree in the Love of God
Mt 6:24-34
‘No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money. ‘That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and what you are to wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body more than clothing! Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are? Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these.
A Lesson for the Spiritual Life
Mt 6:19-23
‘Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and woodworm destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworm destroys them and thieves cannot break in and steal. For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be too. ‘The lamp of the body is the eye. It follows that if your eye is clear, your whole body will be filled with light. But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkness. If then, the light inside you is darkened, what darkness that will be!’
YOU ARE MINE
“You are mine, and no one can separate you from me” (Inner Word).