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
“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
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary: His mother kept all this in her heart
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
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: The Lord seeks His sheep
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
LOVE DRIVES AWAY IDOLS
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
CASTING THE NET OF LOVE
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
Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist: JOHN’S TESTIMONY
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
The way of your precepts
Ps 119:33-37.40
Teach me, Yahweh,
the way of your precepts,
and I will observe them.
Give me understanding
and I will observe your Law,
and keep it wholeheartedly. Read More
THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT
Our loving Father wants to dwell in our souls and build his temple in them. As St. Paul tells us, we are called to be the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:9). So it is not only the majestic and beautiful cathedrals where the Lord dwells in the tabernacle; but at all times and in all places we can find Him in our own heart, which becomes the tabernacle of His grace. Thus speaks the Father in the Message concerning the action of the Holy Spirit: Read More
The prayer of Hezekiah
2 Kgs 19:9b-11,14-21,31-35a,36
Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, ‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this, “Do not let your God on whom you are relying deceive you with the promise: Jerusalem will not fall into the king of Assyria’s clutches. You have learnt by now what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Read More