369th Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
The most important and essential must take first place in our life.
“‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said to him, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment” (Mt 22:36-38). Read More
368th Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
By accepting the grace that Our Lord Jesus Christ offers us and by reciprocating His love, we honour the One who sent Him. We will never have sufficiently honoured the Son of God, who perfectly fulfilled the Will of His Father. Every witness we bear to Him, every proclamation, every confession and every defence of His commandments and of His Church also honours the Father, who is the Author of all. Read More
367th Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
We honour our Heavenly Father when we earnestly strive to tread the path of holiness. That “taste of holiness” of which I spoke yesterday is intensified when we try to fulfil the task entrusted to us in this world in a spirit of holiness. Read More
366th Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
How much we honour our Father when we gratefully admire His wisdom, not only in arranging the natural order of Creation, but even more in leading us lost men back home to His Kingdom, and in choosing the precise path for it! Read More
365th Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
As we render glory to our Father and adore His holiness, we also honour Him for the fact that He has called us to life.
How wisely He has done everything! He has placed all things at our disposal and created us in His image and likeness. Read More
364th Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
These three things our Heavenly Father asks of us in our relationship with Him. All three are interrelated. The more we know the Father, the more we will honour and love Him.
The honour we pay to God is kindled by the knowledge of His holiness. All authentic gestures of piety and worship to the Heavenly Father point to His holiness. He alone is worthy of adoration! Read More
361st Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
How can we fail to mention the incomparable knowledge of the Father that we acquire through His Son? Every word and gesture of Jesus, whether recorded in Scripture or handed down by Tradition, bears witness to our Heavenly Father. Read More
362nd Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
When the trusting relationship between the Father and us has grown, that is to say, when we have come to know Him more deeply, we will notice how God begins to make us sharers in the desires of His heart. He will make us realise that we must go with Him in search of the “lost sheep” of humanity, to lead them back to the Father’s house. Read More
361st Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
The knowledge of our Father through His daily details for us, through His Word and through the richness of the holy sacraments is intended to lead us step by step to understand that our whole existence is due to the great YES of God to us. This great YES is not only valid on a general level for all people, but has a very personal character: “I have called you by your name, you are mine” (Is 43:1). Read More
360th Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
It is necessary that we perceive in our daily life God’s loving care and gentleness towards us. When we know that we are loved by a person, we notice with gratitude even the smallest and sometimes insignificant gestures of love. These speak to us about that person, so that by perceiving them, we learn to know them better. With the passage of time, we may come to understand that their details towards us are not just transitory or sporadic gestures; but that they come from the heart of that person. Read More
