296th Meditation
“I will say, ‘Let the darkness cover me, and the night wrap itself around me,’ even darkness to you is not dark, and night is as clear as the day” (Ps 138:8).
There is nothing that cannot be illuminated by the light of God. Read More
295th Meditation
“‘It is fulfilled’; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit” (Jn 19:30).
Today, together with the Heavenly Father and all the faithful, our gaze rests on the Cross on which the beloved Son hung. There, on the Cross erected on Calvary, the power of evil was broken by the manifest love of God. It is the Father who grants us true life through the sacrifice of His Son; a new life, which no longer has to hide from God because of its faults. “He was bearing our sins in his own body on the cross” (1 Pet 2:24), and we have been set free. Today is the great Friday, Good Friday! God, the Good One, has done all things well (cf. Mk 7:37). Read More
294th Meditation
“Abba, Father! For you everything is possible. Take this cup away from me. But let it be as you, not I, would have it” (Mk 14:36).
These words of Jesus have deeply marked all those who have accepted suffering at the hands of the Father. It is not easy to recognise His fatherly love in them, even less so when it is a question of suffering that we have not brought on ourselves through our own fault. A person can find himself in deep darkness and only naked faith helps him to get through that situation: faith in the Father’s love. Read More
293rd Meditation
“I live close to man, (…) I can see his needs, his toils, all his desires, and My greatest happiness lies in helping him and saving him” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Today we look at another aspect that makes our Father happy. Two days ago we had meditated on His joy in being among us; today we consider His tender and paternal happiness in assisting us in all situations, in doing us good and caring for those He loves. Read More
292nd Meditation
“Hand over to Me all that wants to burden you. I am your Father” (Inner Word).
The Father invites us to constantly hand over to Him the shadows that hover over our soul, wanting to overwhelm it and – if possible – to bring it to despondency. He is certainly not referring to that noble sadness that we may feel, for example, at our sins or at the death of a loved one. It is rather that vice which the desert fathers called “tristitia”. They even saw in it a demon, which takes over or even provokes melancholic feelings. Read More
291st Meditation
“The joy I feel in being with you is no less great than that which I felt when I was with My Son Jesus during His mortal life” (Message of the Father to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
What an affirmation of our Father! He introduces us into the mystery of His love to such an extent that we can hardly grasp it. Read More
290th Meditation
“I have deep confidence in my beloved Father in heaven that, in the end, everything will turn out well. Therefore, I await with inner serenity all the things that are coming” (Blessed Ludwig Andritzki). Read More
289th Meditation
“Whatever good others do, prompted by us, will increase the splendour of our glory in heaven” (St. John Bosco).
This phrase fits very well into our daily reflections on God the Father, and we can place it in context with the Father’s Message, in which He asks us to pass on to people a deeper knowledge of God. How much will the splendour of our glory increase if others, prompted by us, begin to turn again to the Father and praise Him! Read More
288th Meditation
“Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will gather me up” (Ps 26:10).
Even the most bitter human suffering is sheltered in God’s hands. We could add to the words of the psalm: “Though all people reject me and point the finger at me, the Lord will take me in”. Read More
287th Meditation
“I have trusted in the Lord without wavering” (Ps 26:1b).
Trust in our Father makes our life upright and secure. It anchors us in His heart and makes our God inclined to show us His love in a special way. Read More
