“If the Son sets you free, you will indeed be free” (Jn 8:36).
Only God can give us true freedom, for it consists in living in His Will, thus corresponding to the loving plan with which He created us. Often people believe that freedom consists in doing whatever one pleases, and so they fall into many dependencies. Read More
The Father loves simplicity. In the Gospel we hear how Jesus rejoices in this: “I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, for that is what it has pleased you to do” (Lk 10:21).
Simplicity does not mean lack of intelligence; it means simplicity of heart. Read More
“If you knew how much I love you, you would always be joyful” – these words I recently heard inside myself.
If we internalise such a statement, our Father will be able to pierce through all the darkness that can spread in our soul. Thus, all the “no’s” in us can vanish through His loving “yes”. Read More
Hope is a theological virtue, which makes us expect from the Lord what we do not yet see. If we place our hope in Him, the Father can transform our hearts. This is what He tells us in the Message to Mother Eugenia:
“Remember, o men, that I wish to be the hope of humanity. Am I not already? Man would be lost if I were not his hope. But it is necessary for Me to be recognized as such, so that peace, confidence and love may enter men’s hearts and put them in contact with their Father in heaven and on earth!” Read More
To live in an intimate relationship with God the Father, as He desires and even asks, carries with it a great responsibility on our part. Let us think of priests, to whom the great treasure of the sacraments has been entrusted. Let us look especially at the greatest of these, the Body of Christ present in the Sacrament of the Altar. Read More
St. Benedict Abbot recommended to his monks to live consciously in the presence of God. This is excellent advice, which enables man to awaken to full reality! Indeed, time and again the truth is described to us that God constantly watches over His own. God’s gaze rests upon everything and everyone. Read More
Even though our Father knows in advance what we need, He wants us to ask Him for it. It is precisely this prayer of petition that leads us into the right relationship with God: on the one hand, because we become aware of Who it is that we are addressing; and, on the other hand, because we take the right attitude towards Him, that is, a trusting attitude, knowing that we are dependent on God and firmly believing that He will listen to us. Read More
“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe” (Jn 20:29).
It is not so easy for us human beings to embark on the path of pure faith, because we usually want to grasp reality through the senses. A materially inclined world tends to accept only what it is capable of understanding. Read More
How much we admire the love of a mother, who stands by her child even in the most difficult circumstances! For not a few people, this motherly love is perhaps the only thing they can rely on amidst the waves of life’s confusion and distortion. Read More
Nowhere can we experience such purity of love as in the encounter with God. We humans are in need of love and cannot live without it. This is not a deficiency; it is part of the nature with which God, in his wisdom, created us. Thus, we are receptive to love and, in turn, we give it to other people, serving them in this way. Read More
