Apostolate of the Divine Heart's Blog, page 40
April 2, 2015
Relics of Jesus Christ
Here are two small reliquaries showing relics of Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father and Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The reliquary on the right shows a fragment of the pillar (ex columna flagellationis) to which Christ was tied when He was being scourged. This is a first class relic because […]
December 8, 2014
On deification – 1
What is deification? Deification is the attaining of likeness to God and union with Him so far as is possible (Dionysus the Aeropagite, EH 1.3, PG 3.376a). God, you see, wants to make you a god; not by nature, of course, like the One whom He begot but by His gift and by adoption (Augustine […]
December 5, 2014
For Christmas
Filed under: God the Father
December 1, 2014
God the Father icon in Approaching the Divine – A Primer for Iconography
The diptych ecumenical icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father Encompassing All Hearts has just been featured in the newly released bookApproaching the Divine – A Primer for Iconographyby the world-renowned iconographer and Villanova University professor of art, Fr. Richard G. Cannuli, O.S.A. (Hope & Life Press, 2014). The icon is featured in […]
November 26, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving 2014 to all readers
Filed under: God the Father
November 16, 2014
A tribute to God our Father by Sr Margaret Mary, S.D.M.
The site God the Father Calls: The Great Circle of Loveis a tribute to our loving Father set up a few years ago and maintained by Sister Margaret Mary, S.D.M., a Catholic hermitess in Maine. I am posting it here in public recognition of the humble, but never failing, work Sister Margaret did to encourage […]
November 7, 2014
On God the Father – 3 – Thought for the Day
He comes in humility, without any fanfare – just like His Son came when He was born.Filed under: God the Father, Thoughts for the Day Tagged: Christianity, God, God the Father, Religion and Spirituality, Thoughts for the Day
October 26, 2014
The Father and the Son
How much the Son, Jesus Christ, loves the Heavenly Father! Christ does not just love us with the whole of Himself to the extent of having died on the Cross for us. He loves the Father – His Father and our Father – with the entirety of His being. It is a love inconceivable and […]
October 20, 2014
On the Divine Heart of God our Father – 12
“Our Father’s Paternal Heart is a refuge, a fortress, anda sanctuary for us. It is an ocean of love and mercy, a sea of bliss,and a paradise for each and every child to return to, when he orshe is left alone in a world of emptiness and false illusion. OurFather’s Heart is, as Christ showed […]
October 15, 2014
On God the Father’s Divine Heart – 11
“Everything has been entrusted to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him” (Mt 11:27).Filed under: God the Father, Spirituality of the Heart, The Core of the Divine Heart, The […]
