TRIUMPHANT CONFIDENCE

92nd Meditation on God the Father

 “Trust in Me with a confidence so deep as to transform yourselves: this I shall be unable to resist. I shall then forgive your errors and lavish the greatest favours upon you.” (Message of the Father to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).

Trust in God opens wide the door to true life, so that a certain happiness may enter our hearts, which can heal many things in us, as well as serve other people. Our life then acquires a security and freedom never before experienced, and our Father can communicate to us day by day in a simple way, so that we can understand Him better and better. Read More

THE HAPPINESS OF THE FATHER IN OUR SOUL

91st Meditation on God the Father

“As for the souls who live in justice and sanctifying grace, I show My happiness by living in them. I give them Myself. I transmit to them the use of My power and through My love they find a foretaste of heaven in Me, their Father and their Saviour!” (Father’s Message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).

Isn’t it comforting to hear someone tell you that he loves you, and to know that he means it and is really capable of loving? How much more wonderful if the one who declares His love to us is God the Father Himself, who even assures us that His happiness is to be with us! Read More

A FLAMING SWORD IN THE HANDS OF GOD

90th Meditation on God the Father

“Pray to Me, so that I will be able to accomplish My work of love in all souls” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).

One of the most beautiful and fruitful tasks that our Father entrusts to us is prayer. Not only is it of inestimable value for our own sanctification but it benefits all humanity.

What is it that makes prayer so valuable, to such an extent that God calls some in our Church to consecrate their whole lives to it, withdrawing from the world and considering it their main mission for the Church and the world, along with the path of holiness? Read More

ADAM, WHERE ARE YOU?

89th Meditation on God the Father

“But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked” (Gen 3:9).

These are the first words that the Father addresses to man after he has fallen into sin. He expresses all his love in how he seeks us.

This search of God for us will continue until we have reached eternity, where we will be able to fully accept God’s love, and our faith will become beatific vision. Read More

LOVE FOR MY CREATURES

88th Meditation on God the Father

“My love for My creatures is so great that I have no greater joy than that of being among them.” (Message of the Father to Sister Eugenia Ravasio)

At first, these words are certainly surprising. If we do not remain with our eyes closed in the face of our own misery and if we get to know ourselves and other people a little, if we take a look at history and listen to the accounts of Sacred Scripture, the question will easily arise in us: “Lord, what is it that you find in us that you are so pleased to be in our midst?” Read More

I WILL COME VERY CLOSE TO YOU

87th Meditation on God the Father

“My presence among you is like the sun on the earth. If you are well disposed to receive Me, I will come very close to you, enter into you, light you up and warm you with My infinite love” (The Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).

On a natural level, the sun gives us light and warmth, awakening us to life. It is a wonderful gift from God. The Father uses this example to compare it with His presence and His work in our midst. Read More

I AM THE HOLY ONE IN YOUR MIDST

86th Meditation on God the Father

“I will not give rein to my fierce anger, I will not destroy Ephraim again, for I am God, not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I shall not come to you in anger” (Hos 11:9).

Undoubtedly many acts committed by man attract the wrath of God, for He is merciful but also just. Let us remember, for example, how Jesus expelled the merchants from the Temple (Jn 2:14-16), because they, instead of worshipping God, were doing their business in the sacred precinct, thus contributing to its profanation. Read More

MY HEART RECOILS WITHIN ME

85th Meditation on God the Father

“Ephraim, how could I part with you? Israel, how could I give you up? How could I make you like Admah or treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender” (Hos 11:8).

If only we could know our Father’s heart better! Then the layer of ice around our heart would begin to melt, so that His love could penetrate it, transforming us and making us capable of loving like Him. Read More

I LEAD THEM WITH LEADING-STRINGS OF LOVE

84th Meditation on God the Father

“I lead them with human ties, with leading-strings of love. With them, I was like someone lifting an infant to his cheek, and I bent down to feed him” (Hos 11:4).

The Father uses a thousand ways to show His love to mankind. In many forms he bends down to us, and this happens most clearly in the birth of the Son of God, who came to us as a man, so that we might understand how close God wants to be to us, how precious we are to Him…. Read More

THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT I HEALED THEM

83rd Meditation on God the Father 

“I myself taught Ephraim to walk, I myself took them by the arm, but they did not know that I healed them” (Hos 11:3).

The Father and His chosen people… What a love story with so many facets! In yesterday’s verses we heard that the more God called them, the more the children of Israel turned away from Him and turned to idols. Read More