“I spend days, sometimes years, close to some souls to be able to ensure their eternal happiness. They do not know that I am there waiting for them, calling them every moment of the day… However, I never become weary…
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YOU OVERLOOK THE SINS OF MEN
“Yet you are merciful to all, because you are almighty, you overlook people’s sins, so that they can repent” (Wis 11:23).
These words of Sacred Scripture reveal to us why our Father often waits so long for humans to convert, while we would have long since lost patience and invoked judgment upon them. The disciples also had to learn this lesson, when they wanted to bring down fire from heaven on a village that did not welcome Jesus (Lk 9:51-56).
We can only understand – at least a little – the immeasurable love and long-suffering of our Father towards the sinner when this same love has begun to transform our hearts in conformity with His own. Without in the least relativizing sin or trivializing its ugliness, He goes out in search of the sinner and always offers them the possibility of conversion. That is why He waits… The Father does not want His children to be lost; He wants them to be with Him for all eternity. This is the reason for His tireless waiting!
During the time of waiting, He calls us unceasingly until the last hour. This patience of God should by no means be a reason for people to live frivolously and lightly, because the point may also come when it is too late to convert.
Rather, God’s long-suffering is the great hope for humankind; and for us, who want to obey our Father, it is a deep consolation together with the firm confidence that even those who are far from God can still be saved.
In tomorrow’s meditation, I would like to illustrate with a passage from the Message to Sr. Eugenia this patience of God for us, how He overlooks our sins and continues to wait for us with love even though we turn away from Him. It is a story that the Father Himself tells about a man who, having lived far from God, finds himself at death’s door… There is no need to comment on it, for the story speaks for itself!
MY HOLINESS ADORNS YOUR SOUL
Our Father’s love is poured out upon us especially through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, whose worthy celebration and participation He commends to us. Here again we are the recipients and the guests – as long as we are in a state of grace – and we simply give God the opportunity to shower us with His goodness, as He is so fond of doing.
YOU HAVE ONLY TO COME TO ME
After having thematized in these last two daily reflections the goodness of our Heavenly Father and His desire to forgive even our most atrocious sins, I would like to simply “let” the Father Himself speak today, by quoting two passages from the Message to Mother Eugenia Ravasio on this subject.
LOVE PAYS FOR EVERYTHING
“Even if your sins were as repulsive as mud, your confidence and your love will make Me forget them, so you will not be judged! I am just, it is true, but love pays for everything!” (Father’s message to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
Our Father speaks here of grave and repugnant sins, which perhaps we ourselves find it difficult to forgive. Not infrequently it happens that people, once they recognize the magnitude of their faults, fall into despair and are unable to forgive themselves. Thus, they block their own lives and, despite having received God’s forgiveness, sin continues to cast its shadow over them. Read More
ONE SMALL STEP
“I am the best of Fathers! I know My creatures’ weaknesses! Come to Me, come with confidence and love! I will forgive you after you have repented” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
It is that simple… That is how simple God’s love is offered to us day by day.
It was God who took upon Himself our faults, nailing them to the Cross. He carried all our sufferings and sins to Mount Calvary. Read More
THE WAY OF SIMPLICITY
“Nothing is difficult if you love God” (Venerable Anne de Guigné).
This sentence of a young French saint hits the nail on the head. It is love that transforms everything. In fact, it was love that brought us salvation, because “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son” (Jn 3:16). Read More
TAKE CARE OF YOUR ARMOR
“Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints” (Eph 6:18).
With this last exhortation of the Holy Apostle, we conclude our little series on the armor of God.
HELMET AND SWORD
“Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Eph 6:17).
Once again, our Father provides us with everything we need for the hard battle. As a helmet, He offers us the salvation in Christ.
FIGHT FOR THE GOSPEL
“Shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace” (Eph 6:15).