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In Biblical Meditations

The time of God’s forbearance

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Rom 3:21-30a

‘God’s saving justice was witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, but now it has been revealed altogether apart from law: God’s saving justice given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. No distinction is made: all have sinned and lack God’s glory, and all are justified by the free gift of his grace through being set free in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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In Biblical Meditations

I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves

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Lk 10:1-9

After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.  And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.  Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.  Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and salute no one on the road.  Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’  And if a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest upon him; but if not, it shall return to you. 

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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

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480th Meditation

“The Holy Spirit is always ready to enlighten and strengthen you” (Message of the Father to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).

The great gift of the Holy Spirit, sent by the Father and the Son, causes our soul to be enlightened by the supernatural light of God, so that we learn to see everything from the perspective of our Heavenly Father. He is the light of light, and as soon as we turn to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to enlighten us, He will open our inner eyes so that we can better see and perceive the glory of the Father. Read More

In 3 Minutes for God the Father

A PICTURE OF GOD THE FATHER

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479th Meditation

“I desire that the tangible sign of My invisible presence be a picture to show that I am really present. Thus, all men will carry out all their actions under their Father’s gaze” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).

This is one of the desires that our Heavenly Father communicated to Mother Eugenia Ravasio. As a result, a picture of God the Father was made and spread. I (Br. Elijah), who is writing this meditation, asked a Bulgarian iconographer to write an icon according to the specifications of the existing image. This icon is in the crypt of perpetual adoration in our monastery in Germany, and when we receive requests, we also send copies of this image (contact@jemael.org). Read More

In Biblical Meditations

God manifests Himself in the works of Creation

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Rom 1:16-25

‘For I see no reason to be ashamed of the gospel; it is God’s power for the salvation of everyone who has faith – Jews first, but Greeks as well- for in it is revealed the saving justice of God: a justice based on faith and addressed to faith. As it says in scripture: Anyone who is upright through faith will live. The retribution of God from heaven is being revealed against the ungodliness and injustice of human beings who in their injustice hold back the truth.

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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

MAY MY MEDITATION BE PLEASING TO HIM

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478th Meditation

“May the glory of the Lord endure for ever, may the Lord rejoice in his works,

may my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord” (Ps 104:31,34).

How wonderful it is when, instead of looking at ourselves, we learn to focus our hearts on God; when we no longer spend so much time looking at ourselves, but rather seek to do what pleases the Lord! Indeed, when we begin to seek to please Him, when we ask our Heavenly Father how we can bring Him joy today, our eyes are lifted up and we can easily find the “golden clue” that will mark our day. Read More

In 3 Minutes for God the Father

GOD COMES DOWN TO US

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477th Meditation

“I am making Myself similar to you so as to make you similar to Me” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).

Our Heavenly Father wants us to know Him. He cannot introduce us to the eternal contemplation of His glory, face to face, without first preparing us. We must first make our way on earth as redeemed human beings. In the person of His Son, our Father descends into our human nature and becomes one of us, “equal to us in all things except sin” (Council of Chalcedon, 451 A.D.). Thus God descends and communicates Himself to us in the realm of our human experience. Read More

In Biblical Meditations

The wedding garment

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Mt 22:1-14

And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’  But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

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