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Grave sins

Elija27th June 202227th June 2022

Am 2:6-10.13-16

“Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes of Israel, I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have sold the upright for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals, because they have crushed the heads of the weak into the dust and thrust the rights of the oppressed to one side, father and son sleeping with the same girl and thus profaning my holy name ,lying down beside every altar on clothes acquired as pledges, and drinking the wine of the people they have fined in the house of their god. Read More

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Called to be free

Elija26th June 202225th June 2022

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Gal 5:1,13-18

Christ set us free, so that we should remain free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be fastened again to the yoke of slavery. After all, brothers, you were called to be free; do not use your freedom as an opening for self-indulgence, but be servants to one another in love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in the one commandment: You must love your neighbour as yourself. Read More

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THE DESIRE OF GOD

Elija26th June 202225th June 2022

A beautiful flower in our Father’s heart is His mercy. With it, and not with inflexible severity, He wants to judge the world. Mercy is His unsurpassable motivation to be ever vigilant and to go out again and again in search of men, so that they may open themselves to His love. Read More

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CREATED IN HIS IMAGE

Elija25th June 202223rd June 2022

“God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him” (Gen 1:27).

This simple sentence is of unfathomable depth, for it answers man’s search for his true identity and is at the same time an eternal declaration of God’s love for us human beings. Read More

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Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary: His mother kept all this in her heart

Elija25th June 202224th June 2022

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Lk 2:41-51

Every year the parents of Jesus used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. Read More

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Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: The Lord seeks His sheep

Elija24th June 202223rd June 2022

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Ezek 34: 11-16

“For the Lord Yahweh says this: Look, I myself shall take care of my flock and look after it. As a shepherd looks after his flock when he is with his scattered sheep, so shall I look after my sheep. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered on the day of clouds and darkness. Read More

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LOVE DRIVES AWAY IDOLS

Elija24th June 202222nd June 2022

If we learn to love our Heavenly Father more and more, all idols will have to depart from us. If in the Old Covenant the Israelites had to renounce idols with determination and were strictly forbidden to pay homage to them, today too our Father wants to prevent us from going astray. Read More

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CASTING THE NET OF LOVE

Elija23rd June 202221st June 2022

To know our Father better means to love Him more. When the gifts of the Holy Spirit unfold in us, especially the gift of understanding and wisdom, we experience a stronger encounter with the love of our Father. It kindles in us a fire that can completely seize us. Then we also understand better the following words of the Father’s Message: Read More

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Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist: JOHN’S TESTIMONY

Elija23rd June 202222nd June 2022

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NOTE: Since this year the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus falls on 24 June, the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist was postponed to today.

Acts 13:16,22-26

Paul stood up, raised his hand for silence and began to speak: ‘Men of Israel, and fearers of God, listen! After he deposed Saul and raised up David to be king, whom he attested in these words, “I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will perform my entire will.” Read More

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