“This feast would bring a great light. It would teach men that they all have the same Father in heaven: the One Who gave them Jesus, towards Whom He draws them as members of His Mystical Body in the unity of the same Spirit of Love!” (Msgr. Alexandre Caillot)
Bishop Caillot of Grenoble was responsible for overseeing Madre Eugenia Ravasio, and he recognized the revelation she had about God the Father as coming from God.
These words express the principle of true unity among humankind and how it can be achieved. The realization that all people have the same Father who loves them above all else and wishes to give each person his or her intended place could resolve countless conflicts. If the Father’s love were to enter people’s hearts and transform them, so that vices would be overcome and virtues, together with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, would shape people’s lives, then peace would come.
Bishop Caillot thus also identifies the Church’s mission, for she is the mystical Body of the Lord, in which all people can find a home.
When we consider all this, we understand why this bishop specifically wanted to support the introduction of the feast of “Father of All Mankind”. He writes:
“Might not such a feast call them, then, “from within”, to worship the Father Who hides Himself, and to offer themselves in a filial and generous oblation to the Father, the only source of the life of the Holy Trinity in them?”
May all people allow themselves to be found by the love of our Heavenly Father and find true unity in Him!