“Shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace” (Eph 6:15).
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THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
“Put on the breastplate of righteousness” (Eph 6:14b).
GIRDED WITH TRUTH
“Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth” (Eph 6:14).
If we do not live in the truth, how can we resist in such an unequal battle against “the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph 6:12)? Read More
IN THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD
“Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty!” (Ps 45:3).
THE CHILDREN OF GOD
“Would not this love that you offer me [as children], under My impulse, become an active love, extending itself to the rest of humanity who still do not know this Christian society and who know even less Him Who created them and is their Father?” (Father’s Message to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
THE ‘WEAK SIDE’ OF GOD
“One must know how to take [God] by the heart; this is His weak side…” (St. Therese of the Child Jesus).
GOD FIRST LOVED US
“We love because He first loved us” (1 Jn 4:19).
IMITATING THE LONG-SUFFERING OF GOD
“Let those by mercy now be cured, whom loving – kindness long endured” (Lauds hymn of Lent).
THE LORD IS GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL
YOU DO NOT KNOW ME AS I AM
“The missionaries have spoken and still speak of God as far as they know Him, but I assure you, you do not know Me as I am, because I am coming to proclaim Myself the Father of all and the most tender of fathers, in order to transform your love, which has become distorted by fear” (Father’s Message to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
The words of the Father’s Message, which we heard recently, exhorted us to witness “how sweet it is to live in truth”. The passage we meditate on today shows us how important it is to also transmit the right image of God. Read More