‘In the Old Testament, I created and chose prophets to live among men. To them I told My desires, My sorrows and My joys, so that they could communicate them to everyone’ (Message of God the Father to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
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GOD SEEKS FRIENDS
‘In the Old Testament, I created and chose prophets to live among men. To them I told My desires, My sorrows and My joys, so that they could communicate them to everyone’ (Message of God the Father to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
OUR FATHER LOVES US MORE THAN HIMSELF
‘In the end, man was created! I was pleased with My handiwork. Man sins, but it is precisely then that My infinite generosity shows itself’ (Message of God the Father to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Being omniscient, our Father knew that man would be separated from Him by sin. However, His love did not allow this knowledge to prevent Him from creating man and taking pleasure in His work. In response to man’s sin, God showed even greater goodness and paved the way of salvation for us. All of us who follow His Son, Jesus Christ, know this way, and through it, we can understand the love of our Father ever more deeply. In the Message to Mother Eugenia, after explaining how men forgot Him and created laws according to their vices, offending Him along the way, the Heavenly Father expresses the extent of His love: ‘I did not stop there. Understand well that I loved you, as it were, more than My beloved Son, or rather, more than Myself’.
CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD
“I am the Eternal One, and when I was alone, I had already thought of using all My power to create beings in My image” (Message of God the Father to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Thus, we human beings have always been part of the loving plan of our Heavenly Father. The certainty that He has always had us in mind lifts us above the ordinary course of time. This is true of every life that is born of our Father’s goodness. It is accepted, it is wanted, it is called into being because our Father has always willed it and has prepared everything for it. With infinite wisdom and care He has foreseen all that we would need to live. This is how He expresses it in His Message to Mother Eugenia:
GOD DELIGHTS IN THE MASTERPIECE OF HIS CREATION
In the following reflections I will draw on passages from God the Father’s Message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio, a private revelation from 1932, which is worth reading in its entirety. It can be found at the following link:
https://www.fatherspeaks.net/eugenia_msg.html#THE%20FATHER%C2%B4S%20MESSAGE,%20book%201,%20part%201
DEVOUT PRAYER
“Any day a man gains more by devout prayer than the whole world is worth” (St Bonaventure).
This wonderful phrase should penetrate deeply into our hearts and enlighten our minds, for it clearly shows us the true hierarchy of values. Devout prayer, uttered in the Spirit of the Lord, which embraces our whole existence, traverses heaven and earth and reaches the Heart of our Father.
THE SIGN OF GRACE
‘A spiritual joy is the greatest sign of the divine grace dwelling in a soul’ (St. Bonaventure).
St Bonaventure refers to joy in God and for God’s sake, and identifies it as the surest sign of divine grace in man. Indeed, where could this joy come from if not from grace? It is not merely a natural joy, however beautiful that may be. There are people with a very cheerful temperament and a positive attitude towards life, which can be very attractive to others. But this is not yet the joy in God.
THE GOOD MASTER
‘I have a good Master, that is God; it is to Him I look in everything and to none other’ (Saint Joan of Arc).
The Maid of Orleans made the right choice! “One is your Master”, the Lord tells us in Mt 23:8. Although we can receive help from people filled with the Holy Spirit, and should be grateful when we meet them, or even if we have someone to accompany us spiritually, this guidance only becomes a priceless gift when it is imbued with God’s wisdom.
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER TO GOD
“I would rather die than revoke what God has made me do” (St. Joan of Arc).
Only those who are deeply united to the Lord and who live in truth can dare to say such words. Joan of Arc spoke them knowing that her life was in danger. She had placed herself completely under the guidance of God, and it was only from Him that she drew her safety. The young Joan had to defend herself against the accusation of witchcraft in an unjust ecclesiastical trial convened by a bishop who collaborated with her enemies. She faced a large number of scholars, most of whom were ready to condemn her.
IN HIS STRENGTH I WILL DARE AGAIN AND AGAIN
“It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength I will dare and dare and dare until I die” (Saint Joan of Arc).
These words were spoken by Saint Joan of Arc, to whom the Lord entrusted the great mission of leading the legitimate King of France to his coronation and driving the English occupying troops out of her country. She did everything with her eyes fixed on the Father, and God alone was her consolation during the most difficult period of her life, when, while still very young, she was seized by her enemies, who subsequently condemned her to the stake.