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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

THE TRIUMPH OF THE FATHER IN THE HEART OF MARY

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“The Heart of Mary is a pure and holy enclosure for encountering God” (Interior Word).

Is there another heart besides that of Jesus in which Our Father could dwell with all His love? Yes, in the Immaculate Heart of Mary. As the Church truthfully teaches us, the Virgin Mary, by an act of God’s grace, was preserved from original sin in view of the mission that was to be entrusted to her. She pronounced an unreserved “yes” to God’s will, thus making visible in Mary what our Father willed for His own. Read More

In Biblical Meditations

The Wise Virgins

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Mt 25:1-13

A reading for the memorial of St. Hildegard of Bingen

Then the kingdom of Heaven will be like this: Ten wedding attendants took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones, though they took their lamps, took no oil with them, whereas the sensible ones took flasks of oil as well as their lamps. The bridegroom was late, and they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. But at midnight there was a cry, “Look! The bridegroom! Go out and meet him.” Read More

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THE SAVIOUR OF HUMANITY

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“No one comes to the Father, but by me” (Jn 14:6).

How important it is that we Christians never relativize, let alone deny, this affirmation! These are words spoken by the Son of God at the command of our heavenly Father, and they are therefore an invitation to all humanity. Those who think that the Sacrifice of the Lord can be set aside and that every religion will find its own way to God are mistaken. Whoever holds this view has not understood the Christian faith, because our Father wants us to come to Him through His Son. It was He who prepared the way for us; moreover, He Himself became the way for us. Read More

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The End Times

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Lc 21:9-19

Gospel of the memorial of St. Cornelius and Cyprian according to the traditional lectionary

Then Jesus said to his disciples: “When you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. Read More

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LOVE OVERFLOWING

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“Love must inundate you. This is what it desires and for this it seeks you” (Inner Word).

This is what our Father wants, because since He is love Himself, He cannot help but seek a recipient for this love. Let us remember the prayer that our Father Himself asked us to address to Him in the message to Mother Eugenia: “Ask me to establish the work of my love in the souls of all people”. Read More

In Biblical Meditations

The need for faith

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Mc 8:27-35

Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesare′a Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Eli′jah; and others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”  And he charged them to tell no one about him. And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. Read More

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The Cross: sign of salvation

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Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Phil 2:6-11

Christ, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names; so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus and that every tongue should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Read More