Beloved Holy Spirit, one of the most wonderful gifts that You can make grow in us as fruit is joy. It is that joy which, like love, makes everything easier and overcomes the weight that life so often brings with it. A joy that is contagious, and gives a ray of light and some comfort to the other person, as long as they are not closed. Read More
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THE NAME OF JESUS
337th Meditation
“Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name- the name you gave me- so that they may be one as we are one” (Jn 17:11b).
The Name of Jesus…
How loudly it resounds in the heart!
His Name can and must become the great love of our life. Read More
I CAME FROM THE FATHER
336th Meditation
“I came from the Father and have come into the world and now I am leaving the world to go to the Father” (Jn 16:28).
This is the all-embracing reality of our Lord Jesus. The Lord proceeds from the Father, fulfils His mission in the world and returns to the Father. Everything is oriented to the Father; all the words Jesus speaks, all His works, everything is a living testimony of the Father’s love for the Son and for us, as well as of the Son’s love for the Father and for us human beings. Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (5/14): THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD
Beloved Jesus, what a joy it must have been for You to return to the Father after having accomplished Your work! You were “for a short while made less than the angels” (Heb 2:9), but now You return to the fullness of glory, with which You will return at the end of time. Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (4/14): THE SELF-CONTROL
Holy Spirit, in the beginning you hovered over the waters (cf. Gen 1:2) and brought order to the chaos. You also want to bring order to the chaos caused by sin, order in our inner and outer life. So much has been confused with original sin and the sins that follow it, that even your friend Paul lamented that a different law dwells in his spirit than in his body and – worse still – that he follows the law of the flesh (cf. Rom 7:23). With him we lament: Who will deliver me from this body? (cf. Rom 7:24) Read More
“THE FATHER HIMSELF LOVES YOU FOR LOVING ME”
335th Meditation
“When that day comes you will ask in my name; and I do not say that I shall pray to the Father for you, because the Father himself loves you for loving me, and believing that I came from God” (Jn 16:26-27).
Jesus has granted us direct access to our beloved Father, and no one goes to the Father except through Him (Jn 14:6). Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (3/14): GENTLENESS
Beloved Holy Spirit, You gentle soul guest, let grow in us the spirit of gentleness, that spirit that permeates everything, that transforms and softens our heart, purifying it from all hardships; that is as mild as Your wonderful Bride, our Mother. Read More
“YOU WOULD BE GLAD THAT I AM GOING TO THE FATHER”
334th Meditation
“If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I” (Jn 14:28b).
Jesus introduces His disciples to a different logic, which they can only gradually assimilate. The greatest thing for our Lord Jesus Christ is to return to His Father. Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (2/14): A PURE HEART
Beloved Holy Spirit, come You, the eternal and pure light and penetrate us, so that nothing can remain hidden from You, no shadow can live on in our soul, every darkness may go away and everything be inflamed by Your love. Awaken us from all inertia and purify our heart so that it may love as God loves; love as You love, so that You and I may be intimately united in the praise of the glory of God. Read More
“ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER”
333rd Meditation
“If you know me, you will know my Father too. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father” (Jn 14:7,9).
These words of our Lord lead us to the knowledge of the Father. Our Saviour wants to make the Father known to us, and we understand that He does the works of His Father so that the Father may be glorified and we may know Him as He truly is (Jn 10:37-38). Read More