NOTE: Those of you who have been following these daily meditations for some time will remember that we used to reserve the 7th of each month for a meditation on God the Father. However, for some weeks now, we have been offering each morning a brief impulse to know, honour and love the Heavenly Father more deeply, under the motto “3 minutes for Abba”. Therefore, all people who wish to deepen their relationship with God the Father are cordially invited to join the following Telegram channel: https://t.me/threeminutesforAbba
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THE DELICACY OF LOVE
To live in an intimate relationship with God the Father, as He desires and even asks, carries with it a great responsibility on our part. Let us think of priests, to whom the great treasure of the sacraments has been entrusted. Let us look especially at the greatest of these, the Body of Christ present in the Sacrament of the Altar. Read More
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE FATHER
St. Benedict Abbot recommended to his monks to live consciously in the presence of God. This is excellent advice, which enables man to awaken to full reality! Indeed, time and again the truth is described to us that God constantly watches over His own. God’s gaze rests upon everything and everyone. Read More
God is the home of our heart
Hos 10:1-3,7-8,12
Israel was a luxuriant vine yielding plenty of fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; the richer his land became, the richer he made the sacred pillars. Theirs is a divided heart; now they will have to pay for it. He himself will hack down their altars and wreck their sacred pillars. Read More
Labourers for the harvest
Mt 9:32-38
They had only just left when suddenly a man was brought to him, a dumb demoniac. And when the devil was driven out, the dumb man spoke and the people were amazed and said, ‘Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.’ But the Pharisees said, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he drives out devils. Read More
ASK AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU
Even though our Father knows in advance what we need, He wants us to ask Him for it. It is precisely this prayer of petition that leads us into the right relationship with God: on the one hand, because we become aware of Who it is that we are addressing; and, on the other hand, because we take the right attitude towards Him, that is, a trusting attitude, knowing that we are dependent on God and firmly believing that He will listen to us. Read More
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN AND YET BELIEVE
“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe” (Jn 20:29).
It is not so easy for us human beings to embark on the path of pure faith, because we usually want to grasp reality through the senses. A materially inclined world tends to accept only what it is capable of understanding. Read More
God’s love is courting us
Hos 2:16,17b-18,21-22
Thus speaks the Lord: I am going to seduce her and lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. There I shall give her back her vineyards, and make the Vale of Achor a gateway of hope. There she will respond as when she was young, as on the day when she came up from Egypt. Read More
Praise to the Holy Cross
Gal 6:14-18
But as for me, it is out of the question that I should boast at all, except of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. It is not being circumcised or uncircumcised that matters; but what matters is a new creation. Read More
I WILL NOT FORGET YOU
How much we admire the love of a mother, who stands by her child even in the most difficult circumstances! For not a few people, this motherly love is perhaps the only thing they can rely on amidst the waves of life’s confusion and distortion. Read More