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
Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord: “Light up the fire of love”
Eph 3:2-3a,5-6
You have surely heard the way in which God entrusted me with the grace he gave me for your sake; he made known to me by a revelation the mystery. This mystery, as it is now revealed in the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, was unknown to humanity in previous generations: that the gentiles now have the same inheritance and form the same Body and enjoy the same promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Read More
Brotherly love
1 Jn 3:11-21
This is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another, not to be like Cain, who was from the Evil One and murdered his brother. And why did he murder his brother? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s upright. Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. Read More
Introduction to the Way of the Lamb
Jn 1:35-42
The next day as John stood there again with two of his disciples, Jesus went past, and John looked towards him and said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God.’ And the two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus. Read More
The virtue of hope
1 Jn 2:29-3:6
If you know that he is upright you must recognise that everyone whose life is upright is a child of his. You must see what great love the Father has lavished on us by letting us be called God’s children – which is what we are! Read More
The richness and glory of our heritage
Ef 1:3-6,15-18
Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in Christ. Thus he chose us in Christ before the world was made to be holy and faultless before him in love, marking us out for himself beforehand, to be adopted sons, through Jesus Christ. Read More
The Mother of God
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).
Your light will drive away the darkness
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
Nothing can separate us from Your love
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
Light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel
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