“You can do everything in Me, and everything will work out if only you remain in Me and live this love.” (Inner word)
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THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: “A Glimpse of Saint Elizabeth! (Part 1)”
NOTE: According to the traditional liturgical calendar, today is the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We will therefore hear the Gospel account of her wonderful encounter with Saint Elizabeth.
Luke 1:39-47
In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she entered the house of Zechari′ah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.” And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”
SOLEMNITY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THE LORD: “Purified by His Blood”
NOTE: According to the traditional liturgical calendar, today the Solemnity of the Most Precious Blood is celebrated. We will therefore hear the Gospel reading designated for this day.
Jn 19:30-35
When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished”; and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him; but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth—that you also may believe.
“ON THE OCCASION OF THE SOLEMNITY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD”
Preliminary note: Today, I would like to extend my greetings and gratitude to our new Brazilian collaborators who, starting today, will help us continue to share my meditations and the “3 Minutes for Abba” in Portuguese.
“I have chosen this day to begin My work among men because today is the feast of the Precious Blood of My Son Jesus. I intend to bathe in this Blood the work I am beginning, so that it may bear great fruit among all mankind.” (Message from God the Father to Sister Eugenia Ravasio)
Faith can calm storms
Mt 8:23-27
Then he got into the boat followed by his disciples. Suddenly a storm broke over the lake, so violent that the boat was being swamped by the waves. But he was asleep. So they went to him and woke him saying, ‘Save us, Lord, we are lost!’ And he said to them, ‘Why are you so frightened, you who have so little faith?’ And then he stood up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. They were astounded and said, ‘Whatever kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?’
“Whatever kind of man is this?” In the light of faith, it is easy for us to answer this question, “This man is the Son of God, therefore He has authority over everything created, even over the winds and the sea.”
“BEARING WITNESS TO THE TRUTH”
“Every hour in which the poison of false teaching and false practice works unnoticed poisons the Body of the Lord.” (Inner Word)
„THE FATHER’S WORK OF LOVE“
“If all men who are far from our Catholic Church heard people talking about this Father Who loves them, Who is their Creator and their God, about this Father Who desires to give them eternal life, then many of these men, even the most obstinate ones, would come to this Father of Whom you had spoken to them.” (From the Message of God the Father to M. Eugenia Ravasio).
Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul: Completing the Race
2 Tim 4:6-8.17-18
‘As for me, my life is already being poured away as a libation, and the time has come for me to depart. I have fought the good fight to the end; I have run the race to the finish; I have kept the faith; all there is to come for me now is the crown of uprightness which the Lord, the upright judge, will give to me on that Day; and not only to me but to all those who have longed for his appearing. But the Lord stood by me and gave me power, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed for all the gentiles to hear; and so I was saved from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from all evil attempts on me, and bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.’
Dying to sin
Rom 6:3-11
You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glorious power, we too should begin living a new life. If we have been joined to him by dying a death like his, so we shall be by a resurrection like his; realising that our former self was crucified with him, so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be freed from the slavery of sin. Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin. But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too. We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power over him any more. For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God. In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus. Read More
“LOVE IN ABUNDANCE”
“For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” (Matthew 25:29)
We know Jesus’ words in the context of the talents entrusted to us, which were to be multiplied.