Although we are in the “Passion Time”, I would like to dedicate today’s meditation to the “Message from the Father”, as we do on the 7th of every month.
When we meditate on the Passion, we usually think of Our Lord Jesus Christ and visualise His suffering all the way to the Cross. We probably also have in mind the Mother of the Lord, who stood by the Cross and accompanied her Son until his redemptive death. But perhaps we do not think so much of the suffering of our Heavenly Father. Read More
On the occasion of the current war in Ukraine, I would like to refer today to the “Prayer for the true peace of peoples”, which we have just published as a song, so that many people can access it (https://youtu.be/vxJkLKPSTMg). Everyone is cordially invited to pray this prayer with us! Read More
As we usually do on the 7th of each month, we will meditate again today on an excerpt from the “Message of the Father” to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio. On this occasion, I have consciously chosen a passage that relates to the current situation in the world. Read More
In times like the present, with the uncertainty of what the future may bring and with the threat of a spirit looming like a shadow over many people, issues such as trust and freedom become particularly important and topical, even though they are always elementary for the Christian life. Read More
Let us meditate once more on these words of St. Anthony Abbot:
“He who sits in the desert and seeks to have a calm heart, has been spared from three combats: that of listening, that of speech and that of sight. He has only one battle left to fight: the battle against impurity”.
The last two days, we had reflected on the fight against what we hear and what we speak. Today, we will devote ourselves to the struggle in relation to what we look at. Read More
As in the previous year, I would also like to dedicate the 7th of each month to our Heavenly Father in a special way this year, and in that sense we will also continue to use the meditation on that day to meditate on a passage from the “Message from the Father” to Sr Eugenia Ravasio. Read More
If, at the beginning of the year, we set our gaze on the Mother of the Lord, as the Church urges us to do, then everything becomes enlightened, despite the dark clouds that currently hang over the world.
Everything becomes enlightened, because you, O Mary, were chosen as the daughter of the human race. You not only gave birth to the Son of God, but you also followed Him as a disciple. Thus the Lord included you in a special way in the plan of salvation. This gives us hope, because our Father, who entrusted you with his only begotten Son, also made you the Mother of redeemed humanity.
Therefore, at the end of the Christmas Octave and at the beginning of the New Year, we turn to You, O Mother of this Beloved Child, and we place all people in Your heart.
When all our efforts to bring people to Jesus fail; when hearts seem stubborn and hardened; when minds are as if blinded, we entrust to your intercession especially those for whom we struggle. You know ways to reach the hearts of men, which we do not know.
But, beloved Mother, it is not only certain souls in particular who are in danger; but “though night still covers the earth and darkness the people” (Is 60:2). It would seem that the prince of darkness wants to subdue all peoples, promising them an artificial paradise and usurping their freedom. But he will achieve only pyrrhic victories, because Your beloved Son came into the world to destroy the works of the devil (1Jn 3:8), and indeed He did.
And you, beloved Mother, were called to crush the head of the serpent (Gen 3:15)… and so it happens!
Plead with your Son that many people may be converted this year; obtain for us a Church on fire for the salvation of souls; intercede that the mighty may be cast down from their thrones (cf. Lk 1:52), so that the anti-Christian darkness may be driven away and a time of consolation may come (cf. Acts 3:20).
Beloved Child, we have almost reached the end of these Christmas meditations, and also the year is about to end.
Beloved Lord, it has been such a strange and even absurd year for many people… To whom can they turn if not to You, who even in such confusing times are present, and perhaps in a special way when You see people’s need and distress? Read More
Hardly had You come into the world, O Divine Child, when Your parents had to flee with You to Egypt. The obedience of Your adoptive father, St. Joseph, in leaving immediately after having received this order in a dream, is admirable (Mt 2:13-14). Read More
As Jews faithful to the Law of the Lord, eight days after Your birth Your parents circumcised You and gave You the name of Jesus, the Saviour (Lk 2:21). Read More
