338th Meditation
“In My fatherly goodness I will give you everything, provided that all regard Me as a true Father” (Father’s message to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
Our Father can and wants to give us everything; to give us Himself together with all that we need for our natural and supernatural life; to give us joy in the present life and unceasing joy in eternity. And the condition He sets for us to receive all this is very easy but indispensable: we must recognize Him as our Father. Read More
337th Meditation
“Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name- the name you gave me- so that they may be one as we are one” (Jn 17:11b).
The Name of Jesus…
How loudly it resounds in the heart!
His Name can and must become the great love of our life. Read More
336th Meditation
“I came from the Father and have come into the world and now I am leaving the world to go to the Father” (Jn 16:28).
This is the all-embracing reality of our Lord Jesus. The Lord proceeds from the Father, fulfils His mission in the world and returns to the Father. Everything is oriented to the Father; all the words Jesus speaks, all His works, everything is a living testimony of the Father’s love for the Son and for us, as well as of the Son’s love for the Father and for us human beings. Read More
335th Meditation
“When that day comes you will ask in my name; and I do not say that I shall pray to the Father for you, because the Father himself loves you for loving me, and believing that I came from God” (Jn 16:26-27).
Jesus has granted us direct access to our beloved Father, and no one goes to the Father except through Him (Jn 14:6). Read More
334th Meditation
“If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I” (Jn 14:28b).
Jesus introduces His disciples to a different logic, which they can only gradually assimilate. The greatest thing for our Lord Jesus Christ is to return to His Father. Read More
333rd Meditation
“If you know me, you will know my Father too. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father” (Jn 14:7,9).
These words of our Lord lead us to the knowledge of the Father. Our Saviour wants to make the Father known to us, and we understand that He does the works of His Father so that the Father may be glorified and we may know Him as He truly is (Jn 10:37-38). Read More
332nd Meditation
“As long as man does not live in the truth, he cannot taste real freedom” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Without truth, there can be no real freedom. “The truth will set you free” – the Lord tells us in the Gospel. Only living in accordance with the Father will lead us to where true freedom dwells. Read More
331st Meditation
“Though night still covers the earth and darkness the peoples, on you the Lord is rising and over you his glory can be seen” (Is 60:2).
Do these words not accurately describe the present situation of the world, if one does not close one’s eyes to reality? Is not the loss of faith increasingly obscuring the life of peoples? Has not confusion penetrated even into our Holy Church? Read More
330th Meditation
“Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! Do not let my heart incline to any evil” (Ps 141:3-4a).
The tongue is “a whole wicked world” (James 3:6) and it is from our heart that evil proceeds (cf. Mt 15:19). This is what Sacred Scripture tells us, with its incomparable sobriety and without beating about the bush. “Who can discern his errors?” (Ps 19:12). Read More
329th Meditation
“Let faithful love and constancy never leave you: tie them round your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart” (Prov 3:3).
God’s fatherly admonitions point us in the right direction. We must never neglect the path of virtue, and we must always return to it if we have strayed even a little. After every defeat we must get up again and get back on track. Read More
