Today's devotion: what does the word "God the Father" mean to you?

ON THE WORD "FATHER"

1. God and Father of all. Every person, even just because he has come out of the hands of God, with the image of God carved on the forehead, in the soul and in the heart, protected, provided and nourished every day, every moment, with paternal love, must call God, Father. But, in the order of Grace, we Christians, adoptive or predilection children, recognize God our Father doubly, also because he sacrificed His Son for us, forgives us, loves us, loves us, wants us safe and blessed with Himself.

2. Sweetness of this Name. Does it not remind you in a flash how much more tender, more gentle, more touching to your heart? Doesn't it remind you of an immense number of benefits? Father, says the poor man, and recalls the providence of God; Father, says the orphan, and feels that he is not alone; Father, invoke the sick person, and hope refreshes him; Father says every
unfortunate, and in God he sees the Just One who will reward him one day. O my Father, how many times have I offended you!

3. Debts to God the Father. The heart of man needs a God to come down to him, take part in his joys and sorrows, whom I love ... The name of Father who puts our God in our mouth is a pledge that he is truly such for us. But we, the children of God, bear various debts that remind us of the word Father, that is, the duty of loving him, of honoring him, of obeying him, of imitating him, of submitting us to him in everything. Rammentalo.

PRACTICE. - Will you be a prodigal son with God? Recite three Pater to the Heart of Jesus so as not to become him.