260th Meditation
When we begin to give heartfelt thanks to our Father, we go deeper and deeper into the reality of our existence. We discover more and more how much He has given us. Everything that we often take for granted, becomes from this perspective a reason for us to thank the Father unceasingly and joyfully, and enables us to grow in the awareness of His love for us. Read More
259th Meditation
“The Lord is tenderness and pity, slow to anger, full of faithful love” (Ps 145:8).
One of the wonderful qualities of our Father is His long-suffering. He waits patiently for us. Again and again He offers people the possibility of conversion, and He fights until the last moment to save them. Read More
258th Meditation
“Come, my children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord” (Ps 34:11) – the psalmist tells us, and the Book of Proverbs stresses, “The first principle of wisdom is the fear of the Lord” (Prov 9:10).
We know the fear of God as one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. It teaches us a great gentleness in our relationship with God, which will later also have an effect on our relationship with our neighbour. Read More
257th Meditation
“Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed” (Ps 34:4).
When we always try to raise our eyes to the Father, our whole life is illuminated and transfigured by His light. Life becomes transparent, because when we live consciously under the gaze of our Father, nothing impure can resist. St. Benedict urged his monks to live always in the awareness of God’s presence. Read More
256th Meditation
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, prosperity for your homes!” (Ps 121:6).
Just by hearing the word “Jerusalem”, beloved Father, many people’s hearts begin to beat fast and light up. We want to love all that you love, and therefore we want to know more deeply your love for Jerusalem. Read More
255th Meditation
“You know when I sit, when I rise, you understand my thoughts from afar” (Ps 138:2).
Knowing that you, beloved Father, created us out of love and entrusted us with a mission in this world, we can move freely before you, as redeemed children. Our surrender to you makes us free to live in this world and to deal with it according to your Will. Read More
254th Meditation
“How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” (Rom 11:33b).
How often do we understand only later what our Father has done and permitted for our good!
Indeed, God’s ways are not simply laid out before our eyes like an open book, in which we can read everything in detail and find it meticulously traced out. However, there is a “divine plan” for each of us. Read More
253rd Meditation
“You knew me through and through, my being held no secrets from you, when I was being formed in secret, textured in the depths of the earth” (Ps 138:15).
When we were marked with the cross of ashes, we heard the words: “Remember, you are dust, and unto dust you shall return” (cf. Gen 3:19). These are words that place us in our full creaturehood, for from God we come and to Him we return. Our body will be transformed for eternal life. This is another of the works of our loving Father that we still await, for “this mortal nature must put on immortality” (cft.1 Cor 15:54). Read More
252nd Meditation
“I have dispelled your acts of revolt like a cloud and your sins like a mist. Come back to me, for I have redeemed you” (Is 44:22).
This is what we can expect especially in the Lenten Season that has begun, because our Father keeps His promises. Read More
251st Meditation
Our Father calls us to return home….
Conversion means to open ourselves to God’s love and goodness, to turn away from wrong or useless ways, to turn our hearts to the Lord.
God’s heart is open to us! He never closes it and is always ready to welcome us when we seek Him. A single word from a sincere heart, a single “You are my Father”, has the power to deliver us from eternal damnation. Read More
