“Live in the certainty of God’s love and you will be able to love yourself” (Inner Word).
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BEAR WITH YOURSELF
“One must bear one’s own imperfections in order to reach perfection” (St. Francis de Sales).
Eyes to see and ears to hear
Mt 13:16-17
(Gospel for the Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne)
At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: “Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them, and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them”. Read More
COOPERATORS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD
“We must not neglect anything that could help us to reach the goal of the efforts that God has placed in our hands, but always on condition that we also know how to accept failure with serenity and meekness” (St. Francis de Sales).
Service is the true greatness
Mt 20:20-28
Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him. Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can. He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father. And the ten hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren. Read More
You must go to all to whom I send you
Jer 1:1,4-10
The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests living at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. The word of Yahweh came to me, saying: ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you came to birth I consecrated you; I appointed you as prophet to the nations.’ I then said, ‘Ah, ah, ah, Lord Yahweh; you see, I do not know how to speak: I am only a child!’ But Yahweh replied, ‘Do not say, “I am only a child,” for you must go to all to whom I send you and say whatever I command you. Read More
KEEP YOUR HEART ANCHORED IN GOD
“Do not let yourself be confused and keep your heart anchored in Me” (Inner Word).
THE FATHER WANTS TO BE IN OUR MIDST
Our Father loves to be close to us. This is how He expresses it in the Message to Mother Eugenia:
“Realize then, o men, that for all eternity I have had but one desire, to make Myself known to men and be loved by them. I wish to stay for ever with them!” (Father’s Message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio). Read More
The true parentage of Jesus
Mt 12:46-50
He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. Someone said to him: Your mother and brothers are standing outside and want to speak to you. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, ‘Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?’ And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.’ Read More
The love of Christ constraineth us
2 Cor 5:14-20
Optional reading for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
For the love of Christ constraineth 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. Read More