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294th Meditation

 

“Abba, Father! For you everything is possible. Take this cup away from me. But let it be as you, not I, would have it” (Mk 14:36).

These words of Jesus have deeply marked all those who have accepted suffering at the hands of the Father. It is not easy to recognise His fatherly love in them, even less so when it is a question of suffering that we have not brought on ourselves through our own fault. A person can find himself in deep darkness and only naked faith helps him to get through that situation: faith in the Father’s love. Read More

293rd Meditation

“I live close to man, (…) I can see his needs, his toils, all his desires, and My greatest happiness lies in helping him and saving him” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).

Today we look at another aspect that makes our Father happy. Two days ago we had meditated on His joy in being among us; today we consider His tender and paternal happiness in assisting us in all situations, in doing us good and caring for those He loves. Read More

292nd Meditation

“Hand over to Me all that wants to burden you. I am your Father” (Inner Word).

The Father invites us to constantly hand over to Him the shadows that hover over our soul, wanting to overwhelm it and – if possible – to bring it to despondency. He is certainly not referring to that noble sadness that we may feel, for example, at our sins or at the death of a loved one. It is rather that vice which the desert fathers called “tristitia”. They even saw in it a demon, which takes over or even provokes melancholic feelings. Read More

291st Meditation

“The joy I feel in being with you is no less great than that which I felt when I was with My Son Jesus during His mortal life” (Message of the Father to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).

What an affirmation of our Father! He introduces us into the mystery of His love to such an extent that we can hardly grasp it. Read More

290th Meditation

“I have deep confidence in my beloved Father in heaven that, in the end, everything will turn out well. Therefore, I await with inner serenity all the things that are coming” (Blessed Ludwig Andritzki). Read More