313th Meditation
“Better one day in your courts than a thousand at my own devices” (Ps 84:10).
How much the psalmist understood what it means to be in the nearness of God! Indeed, isn’t that so? Even if it were only one day that we could spend close to our beloved Father, how incomparable it would be in relation to all the other days when we were not near Him! Read More
312th Meditation
“If only my people would listen to me, if only Israel would walk in my ways, I would feed him on pure wheat, would give you your fill of honey from the rock” (Ps 81:13.16).
This is what our Heavenly Father has in store for us: a life in abundance, a life in His loving presence, abundantly supplying the bodily and spiritual needs of His children and filling them with His overflowing and unceasing love. These are the intentions of our Father, which remain unchanging! With the eyes of faith we can recognise them and rejoice in the Father day by day. Read More
311st Meditation
“My people would not listen to me, Israel would have none of me. So I left them to their stubborn selves, to follow their own devices” (Ps 81:11-12).
These verses of the psalm describe the consequence of not listening to the voice of our Father. God makes us see that with our will we refuse to obey Him: “Israel would have none of me”. Read More
310th Meditation
“Listen, my people, while I give you warning; Israel, if only you would listen to me!” (Ps 81:8).
We know a little of the great suffering that results when we do not listen to the voice of the Lord, when we do not heed His warnings and directives, when we deviate from His commandments… When this happens, a person turns away from the guidance of the Lord and can even fall under the sway of influences hostile to God. Thus, life can become a disaster. Read More
309th Meditation
In the Message to Mother Eugenia, the Heavenly Father tells us, “You cannot see Me, apart from a single person, the one to whom I am dictating this message! Only one among all of humanity! Yet I am talking to you, and in her whom I see and to whom I am talking I see you all and am speaking to each and every one of you, and I love you as if you could see Me!” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio). Read More
308th Meditation
“Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine on us and we shall be safe” (Ps 80:19).
How often we are in need of our Father to lift us up and restore us, and how often He does it! Who is not heard when they turn to Him?
To restore us means to strip us of the heaviness: whether it is the heaviness of our faults, the burden of our many failures, the discouragement of not being as good as we would like to be, the weight of a troubled life, the burden of a difficult situation… Read More
307th Meditation
“I pour out my worry in his presence, in his presence I unfold my troubles” (Ps 142:2).
We can and even ought to speak openly to our Father about all that distresses us; to ask Him the questions we carry in our hearts, especially those for which we have not found an answer and whose answer we perhaps even fear in some way. We know many verses in the psalms in which the psalmist expresses the depths of his anguish. He is unable to overcome them on his own and so he turns to the heavenly Father. Read More
306th Meditation
“Who can detect his own failings? Wash away my hidden faults” (Ps 19:13).
Our Heavenly Father’s concern for our eternal salvation covers not only the realm of sin and bad attitudes that we are aware of and can work to overcome; it also includes all those spheres of which we are unaware and which nevertheless have an effect within us. Read More
305th Meditation
“Lord, mount a guard over my mouth, a guard at the door of my lips” (Ps 141:3).
Who can control his tongue? The Apostle James answers us: “Nobody can tame the tongue — it is a pest that will not keep still, full of deadly poison” (James 3:8). Read More
304th Meditation
“Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son” (2 Jn 1:9b).
Our Father has entrusted us with a great treasure, which the Church has faithfully guarded: the teaching of Christ. It provides our understanding with supernatural light, so that we do not go astray and thus fall into the snares of the Evil One. Error in matters of faith tarnishes our relationship with God, because it is a “false light” that penetrates our soul, taking the place of the true knowledge of God. Thus, false doctrine also affects our capacity to love, because it hinders a deeper knowledge of God, which, in turn, would increasingly awaken our love for Him. Read More
