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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

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

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” (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

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

Nowhere can we experience such purity of love as in the encounter with God. We humans are in need of love and cannot live without it. This is not a deficiency; it is part of the nature with which God, in his wisdom, created us. Thus, we are receptive to love and, in turn, we give it to other people, serving them in this way. Read More

On our way of following Christ, we have to deal with our weaknesses again and again. Often we do not succeed in overcoming them as we would like to and, despite our sincere efforts, they catch up with us. Sometimes we fall into sin, and then feelings of despair may even arise because we are simply not able to resist the temptations. Read More

Our Father loves it when, in secret, we speak with Him and take time to be with Him (cf. Mt 6:6). In these moments, intimacy, friendship, trust, sensitivity to perceive his presence grow… There, in secret, he can easily speak to our hearts and build his holy temple in us. Read More

“All who call on the name of the Lord will be saved”, Holy Scripture affirms (Rom 10:13).

Perhaps we do not always immediately understand that it is so easy to be saved… Indeed, we are also familiar with those other statements in Scripture about the narrow gate that leads to eternal life and the wide and spacious road that leads to destruction, and the Lord warns that “many take it” (Mt 7:13). Read More

We lost so much when the gates of Paradise were closed to us! Even if we have become accustomed to it and no longer perceive it with great pain, it is a deep misery into which man plunged when he fell into sin. But in the depths of our souls there is still a longing for Paradise, which can become an incentive for us to seek God. Read More