372nd Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
We understand that, through the first commandment, our Heavenly Father invites us to correspond to His love with our whole existence, without withholding anything from Him. Read More
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TO LOVE THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part III)
371st Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
Even if our heart – which sometimes feels cold – seems to correspond so poorly to the Father’s love and is saddened by it, He gives us the opportunity to show Him our love in yet another way. It is also worth noting that the very fact that we are saddened by loving Him less ardently and perseveringly than we would like to is already a sign of love, because here the heart suffers when the expression of love does not flow from it and when we cannot enter into an intimate heart-to-heart relationship with God. Read More
TO LOVE THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part II)
370th Meditation
To know, honour and love the Father…
Our Father wants us to love Him with our whole heart, and we turn to the Holy Spirit to ask Him to accomplish this in us, detaching our hearts from all that hinders us from corresponding to this great love. Read More
TO LOVE THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part I)
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
TO HONOUR THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part V)
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
TO HONOUR THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part IV)
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
TO HONOUR THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part III)
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
TO HONOUR THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part II)
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
TO HONOUR THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part I)
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
TO KNOW THE HEAVENLY FATHER (Part 5)
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