The feast, my feast, consists in my keeping today, that is every day, that I have no existence far away from the Christ of God. This is what Jesus came to gift me with at His Nativity. My gift to Him is to accept His gift to me.
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Love and You Will Be at Peace
When, on the day Jesus was born, the angels said: “and on earth peace”, they meant Christ as a person, or as He is present in His poor brethren. I will repeat to you what happened on that glorious day. There were “shepherds keeping watch over their flock by night”. The angels appeared, sang, and ...
Read moreEternity Before Eternity
The Apostle Paul’s word: “that I may know Him…” (Philippians 3:10), the way it seems to its reader, refuses to consider knowledge, that is, our knowledge of Christ, an event that happened to us at a certain time, in a distant or a recent past, and then has become part of a history to which ...
Read moreLove Your Enemies
This commandment is the pearl of the New Testament (Matthew 5:44). The true Christian is known by these two words, that is, by his ability to open his heart to any human being. A writer, whose work I was reading a few days ago, helped me to be practical in writing these lines for you. ...
Read moreThe Precept of Precepts
When a friend of mine travels abroad, to pursue his studies, for example, if he asks for advice, I advise him to strengthen his friendship with “the righteous Joseph the All-Comely” (read his biography in Genesis 30…). This is the precept of precepts that we learn, in the company of the saints, to remain, wherever ...
Read moreThe Perfection Seeker
He who seeks to be perfected in God, the closer he gets to realizing his endeavor, God shows him that there is something he still lacks (Mark 10:21). This is him, the one who seeks God every day, while he has a day.
Read moreTo Pray
As long as we eat and drink more than we pray, work more, teach more, and have more fun, as long as our prayers always come in the second, third, tenth or last degree, it is expected that we, ourselves, will increase! If we really know that what we want in our life is for ...
Read moreCommunion in Love
One of my committed friends told me that he had told a priest who is serving them with new fervor, about a regeneration work taking place in another Church. The story seemed out of place! He who was hearing it replied its conveyor: “it seems that you are unaware of the activity taking place in ...
Read moreTo the Feast
I love, in this “little fast”, the Nativity fast, that it is great in its depicting the requisites of this forty-day period of the liturgical year, that is, in its revealing publicly the insistence of the Church that we implant, “in our flesh and blood”, to be in need of the coming Jesus. Take heed ...
Read moreWords of Love
In order for the words about God and about life with Him to cut to the hearts of people, it is needful that they see us sleeping and rising on God’s love. No words are truer than love.
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