1 Pe 1:17-21
Bretheren, if you address as Father him who judges without favouritism according to each individual’s deeds, live out the time of your exile here in reverent awe. For you know that the price of your ransom from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors was paid, not in anything perishable like silver or gold, but in precious blood as of a blameless and spotless lamb, Christ. Read More
311st Meditation
“My people would not listen to me, Israel would have none of me. So I left them to their stubborn selves, to follow their own devices” (Ps 81:11-12).
These verses of the psalm describe the consequence of not listening to the voice of our Father. God makes us see that with our will we refuse to obey Him: “Israel would have none of me”. Read More
310th Meditation
“Listen, my people, while I give you warning; Israel, if only you would listen to me!” (Ps 81:8).
We know a little of the great suffering that results when we do not listen to the voice of the Lord, when we do not heed His warnings and directives, when we deviate from His commandments… When this happens, a person turns away from the guidance of the Lord and can even fall under the sway of influences hostile to God. Thus, life can become a disaster. Read More
Jn 6:16-21
That evening the disciples went down to the shore of the sea and got into a boat to make for Capernaum on the other side of the sea. It was getting dark by now and Jesus had still not rejoined them. The wind was strong, and the sea was getting rough. They had rowed three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming towards the boat. Read More
309th Meditation
In the Message to Mother Eugenia, the Heavenly Father tells us, “You cannot see Me, apart from a single person, the one to whom I am dictating this message! Only one among all of humanity! Yet I am talking to you, and in her whom I see and to whom I am talking I see you all and am speaking to each and every one of you, and I love you as if you could see Me!” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio). Read More
Jn 6:1-15
After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee – or of Tiberias- and a large crowd followed him, impressed by the signs he had done in curing the sick. Jesus climbed the hillside and sat down there with his disciples. The time of the Jewish Passover was near. Read More
308th Meditation
“Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine on us and we shall be safe” (Ps 80:19).
How often we are in need of our Father to lift us up and restore us, and how often He does it! Who is not heard when they turn to Him?
To restore us means to strip us of the heaviness: whether it is the heaviness of our faults, the burden of our many failures, the discouragement of not being as good as we would like to be, the weight of a troubled life, the burden of a difficult situation… Read More
Acts 5:27-33
When they had brought them in to face the Sanhedrin, the high priest demanded an explanation. ‘We gave you a strong warning’, he said, ‘not to preach in this name, and what have you done? You have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and seem determined to fix the guilt for this man’s death on us.’ Read More
Jn 3:16-21
For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. For God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will be judged; but whoever does not believe is judged already, because that person does not believe in the Name of God’s only Son. Read More
307th Meditation
“I pour out my worry in his presence, in his presence I unfold my troubles” (Ps 142:2).
We can and even ought to speak openly to our Father about all that distresses us; to ask Him the questions we carry in our hearts, especially those for which we have not found an answer and whose answer we perhaps even fear in some way. We know many verses in the psalms in which the psalmist expresses the depths of his anguish. He is unable to overcome them on his own and so he turns to the heavenly Father. Read More
