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In Biblical Meditations

Salt of the earth, light of the world

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Mt 5:13-16

You are salt for the earth. But if salt loses its taste, what can make it salty again? It is good for nothing, and can only be thrown out to be trampled under people’s feet. You are light for the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp to put it under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand where it shines for everyone in the house. In the same way your light must shine in people’s sight, so that, seeing your good works, they may give praise to your Father in heaven. Read More

In 3 Minutes for God the Father

TO KNOW THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part 4)

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362nd Meditation

To know, honour and love the Father…

When the trusting relationship between the Father and us has grown, that is to say, when we have come to know Him more deeply, we will notice how God begins to make us sharers in the desires of His heart. He will make us realise that we must go with Him in search of the “lost sheep” of humanity, to lead them back to the Father’s house. Read More

In 3 Minutes for God the Father

TO KNOW THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part 3)

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361st Meditation

To know, honour and love the Father…

The knowledge of our Father through His daily details for us, through His Word and through the richness of the holy sacraments is intended to lead us step by step to understand that our whole existence is due to the great YES of God to us. This great YES is not only valid on a general level for all people, but has a very personal character: “I have called you by your name, you are mine” (Is 43:1). Read More

In 3 Minutes for God the Father

TO KNOW THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part 2)

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360th Meditation

To know, honour and love the Father…

It is necessary that we perceive in our daily life God’s loving care and gentleness towards us. When we know that we are loved by a person, we notice with gratitude even the smallest and sometimes insignificant gestures of love. These speak to us about that person, so that by perceiving them, we learn to know them better. With the passage of time, we may come to understand that their details towards us are not just transitory or sporadic gestures; but that they come from the heart of that person. Read More

In Biblical Meditations

An open heart

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Mk 12:35-37

While teaching in the Temple, Jesus said, ‘How can the scribes maintain that the Christ is the son of David?  David himself, moved by the Holy Spirit, said: The Lord declared to my Lord, take your seat at my right hand till I have made your enemies your footstool. David himself calls him Lord; in what way then can he be his son?’ And the great crowd listened to him with delight.  Read More

In 3 Minutes for God the Father

“MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?”

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358th Meditation

“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Ps 22:1).

These are the words of Psalm 22 that Jesus pronounces shortly before He dies.

Our Father never forsook Him, but because Jesus bore all the sin of this world and nailed it to the Cross, God allowed Him to experience “in the flesh” the full weight of estrangement from God, that terrible inner state of being excluded from love and true life, “like the slaughtered lying in the grave” (Ps 88:5). Read More