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THE PATH TO SELFLESS LOVE
“Since man’s creation, I have never for one moment stopped living beside him. As his Creator and Father, I feel the need to love him” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Let us deeply understand the extent to which the Father loves us, with total selflessness. God does not need us for Himself, because He is perfect in Himself and lacks nothing. This is how He describes it in His message to Sister Eugenia: “It is not that I need him, but My love, as Father and Creator, makes Me feel this need to love man”. Read More
Agnes in the wake of the Lamb (Part 2): Unyielding in tribulation
TRUE PEACE
The great longing for peace which dwells in the hearts of so many people can be realised if they turn to the true source of peace. First of all, it is necessary to be at peace with God, living according to His will. This He offers us in His Son, through whom “He wanted to reconcile all things to him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, by making peace through His death on the cross” (Col 1:20). To his disciples He says: “My own peace I give you” (Jn 14:27).
Agnes in the wake of the Lamb (Part 1): Bride of Christ
The Struggle for Purity
During the last three meditations, we developed an indirect advice given to us by St. Anthony Abbot, a wise desert father. In this context, we reflected on the combat in what we hear, speak and look at, and saw how necessary it is to place these important areas of human life under God’s dominion and to defend them against multiple attacks.
ETERNAL LIFE
Raising his eyes to heaven, Jesus said: “Father, glorify your Son (…), so that, just as you have given him power over all humanity, he may give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him. And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (Jn 17:2-3).
THE GLORIFICATION OF GOD
Over the next few weeks, we will meditate verse by verse on the 17th chapter of St. John, which is the supreme expression of the profound relationship between the Father and the Son.
“Jesus said, ‘Glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you’ ” (Jn 17:1b).
The combat in what we look at
Let us meditate once more on these words of St. Anthony Abbot:
“He who sits in the desert and seeks to have a calm heart, has been spared from three combats: that of listening, that of speech and that of sight. He has only one battle left to fight: the battle against impurity”.
The last two days, we had reflected on the fight against what we hear and what we speak. Today, we will devote ourselves to the struggle in relation to what we look at.
The combat in what we speak
In today’s meditation, we continue the theme we had begun yesterday, in memory of Saint Anthony Abbot. Let us listen again to the words of this father of the desert, to continue to describe the combat that we Christians are called to wage:
“He who sits in the desert and seeks to be calm of heart, has been spared from three combats: the combat of listening, the combat of speech and the combat of sight. He has only one battle left to fight: the battle against impurity”.