Pills of faith December 20 "Mother of all living"
MEDITATION
"Mother of all living" (Gen 3,20)
"I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, come down from heaven, from God, ready as a bride adorned for her husband" (Ap 21,2). As Christ first came down from heaven on earth, the Church, his bride, also has its origin in heaven; it was born of the grace of God, descended with the Son of God himself and is inextricably united with him. It is built with living stones (1 Pt 2,5); and the foundation (Eph 2,20:XNUMX) was laid when the Word of God assumed human nature in the womb of the Virgin. At that moment, the bond of the most intimate union, which we call the nuptial union, was established between the soul of the divine Child and the virginal soul of his mother.
Hidden from the whole world, heavenly Jerusalem had descended to earth. From this first wedding union all the stones that would make up the powerful building were to be born, all the souls that grace would wake up to life. In this way the mother bride had to become the mother of all the redeemed.
GIACULATORIA OF THE DAY
My mother, trust and hope, in you I entrust and abandon myself.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Dearest Heart of my Jesus sacrament, what outrages do you receive in the most holy Eucharist! Here you make the last effort of your love and men make the last effort of their ingratitudes.
O my Jesus! Unfaithful who don't believe, heretics who deny you, Catholics who forget you, sinners who offend you, souls consecrated to you who are unfaithful to you.
O heart, of my Jesus, horribly outraged and vilified! And I have been in the number of so ungrateful souls! Such a thought fills my heart with bitter pain. Oh, I could with my tears wash away all my faults! I could have all the hearts of men to offer them to repair many outrages.
Angels of paradise, compensate you with your adorations for the confrontations that Jesus receives from men. Holy Mary, your Heart full of grace compensate your Son for our ingratitudes.
And you, most lovable Jesus, accept these reparations of ours and forgive our infidelities. That if these deserve revenge, avenged by a loving Father by throwing in our hearts a spark of your divine fire that burns our heart and makes it a victim of love in life and death and unites it to you for all eternity. Amen
What Padre Pio said to his spiritual children and he says it to us too
(ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE BLOG ON 26 SEPTEMBER 2016)
1.Pray ... hope ... do not get upset ... God is merciful and will listen to your prayer.
2.Jesus and Mary convert all your pains into goias.
3.When the enemies of our health roar around us it is a good sign; it means that the enemy is outside and not inside our soul.
4. We always despise the devil and his evil arts; he never said anything, including the truth, for the benefit of souls.
5. A spiritual son asked Padre Pio: Father when we can no longer see you among us where to find you? Where to talk to you?
6.The Father replied: go before the Blessed Sacrament and you will find me there.
7.Father how much do you love your children? The Father replied: how much is the distance between earth and heaven, how much I love my soul itself.
8.Father the devil torments me. The Father replied: let it be done for now that afterwards we will torment him.
9. Does Father suffer a lot from the devil because of you? Answer: He says I make him suffer more than San Michele.
10. Father I suffer a lot! Answer: Son, remember that the proof that for your love I had to give you has crossed my heart first.
11. Father I see many consecrated persons who do not serve but hinder or oppose the Lord! Son, the Church does not criticize itself but loves itself.
12. The Holy Father Pio said in his writings about the fall into sin and the discomfort that derives from it: when we fall into sin, even if serious, we must regret yes of our failings, but with a peaceful pain, always trusting in his infinite mercy. Let us run immediately and as soon as we can to the tribunal of justice and forgiveness where he anxiously awaits us and, after the forgiveness he has given us, we place over our errors, as he places us, a sepulchral stone.
The forgiven sin is forgotten by Di, said the Father, and, honestly as God does, I don't know and the Father didn't know it either.
Mistrust, despair, despondency, anxiety and disquiet are the merchandise of the enemy and do not come from God. Since it does not come from God it is produced by the devil or by our simulated pride and therefore must be hunted. We must always have total and unshakable trust in his infinite mercy. Forgiving is the profession of the Most High and asking for forgiveness must be our first occupation. Find another who loved us like him if you can! I believe that no one has died on the cross so far and has suffered as much as he did for the sake of his crucifixors. And very rare are also those who allow themselves to die for loved ones or friends.
The Holy Father Pio suffered the unthinkable and the unimaginable and all that a poor human creature could suffer. He himself, however, said, that to get to the sufferings of our Redeemer it takes and ... if it takes ...
Let us therefore console ourselves that we are loved so much and he will always take care of himself and recover us as long as we have faith in his love.
Another thing that the Father recommended was that of not rethinking forgiven sins with the doubt whether acquitted or not, whether confessed well or not, provided that it was not done with deliberate will, because it offends the Lord. He no longer remembers anything we have done wrong to him and why doubt his forgiveness? It is a great offense to His loving Heart.
If a thought for this must enter our heart it is to always contemplate its great goodness.
13. Father I did like the prodigal son, I dispelled all the gifts of God. How to regain lost time? Answer: Multiply the good works.
14. Father, tell me if I love Jesus. Answer: And what is this continually striving for him? What are these moans? Isn't it love?
15. Father, the Lord is so generous to me, I am not so generous to him. Answer: if you cannot do great things humiliated.
16.Father, everything is harder than before, why? Answer: because before it was the consolations that made you run, but now, my daughter, it is you who run after love. Love wants to be tried.
17. Father, how can I respond to this grace granted to me? Answer: expand your soul in gratitude to Jesus. We give everything to Jesus, as He gave everything to us, without reservation.
18. Father, I feel cold in the love of God. Answer: the heart can be of stone, then ... of flesh, then ... divine.
19. The Father said that love is synonymous with bitter. Only in Heaven will our happiness be total and unimaginable and said that there will be no desire that will not be promptly granted. We will be able to be individually with Jesus despite being among a multitude of souls that cannot be counted.
20. He still said: my daughter I love you in the same way as my soul, but poor you who have come into these hands. It meant that you are walking towards God either out of love or out of strength. He wants his children all early in Heaven and indeed if possible he wants to spare him Purgatory too. Among his children, it is said that he said that he waits for them in the threshold of Paradise. It is still said that when Jesus welcomed him with so much glory to the door of the Holy Paradise to let him enter the Holy Father Pio said: Jesus allow me to stay here at the entrance of your Holy Paradise until I have seen the last of my children enter ... then my joy will be complete and we will have a great and eternal celebration of Your Love and Your Goodness. This makes it clear how much he loved and how much he loves each of his children. He still said I'm all of each. Every son of mine can say Padre Pio is mine.
21. A daughter asked him: Father the enemy wants me to believe that he will divide me from you. He replied: do not worry my daughter, you are unity to me in the Love and Blood of Christ and what God has joined in His Divine Love can never be separated but remains united for eternity.
22. A son asked him: Father I prayed because you had to give me the grace, but after praying so much, the grace had not come to me. I prayed to your parents Grazio and mother Giuseppa and grace immediately came to me, why? Answer: You have found the right path. A son must obey his parents.
A daughter asked him: Father Jesus loves repentant souls like the right souls? He replied: you have an example in Magdalene. The Lord Jesus not only does not reject repentant souls, no matter how sinful they may be, but he also constantly searches for obstinate souls.