Apostolate of the Divine Heart's Blog, page 52
November 10, 2013
Why is an icon wonder-working?
You work wonders through created things, O Lord, while men have lost the gift of wonder working.You take fire and water for Your servants, while people refuse to serve You.To wood and metal You give Your power, while it is returned to You, despised by people.Through earth and grass You bestow mercy on Your chosen […]
October 30, 2013
What is the meaning of the divine inheritance?
The question was asked, “What does ‘the divine inheritance’ mean?” The response is simple, though by no means brief if answered in depth. The divine inheritance means we are called to literally inherit everything God the Father has, with Himself as Perfect Love above all else. And you have no idea what that is like, […]
October 26, 2013
In the desert – For the universal Church
“And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, that there they should feed her, a thousand two hundred sixty days” (Rv 12:6). In the desert, just like the Children of Israel after their exodus from Egypt, we are stripped of everything that attaches us to our present world. […]
October 25, 2013
What does it mean to be a child of God?
To be a child of God means to be an adoptive member of the Divine Family. When we become children of the living God by taking steps to rediscover our true heritage and giving the Almighty Father ourfiatwith sincerity of heart, in essence and in fact, we become adoptive members of the Divine Family. The […]
The greatness of God
“He who lives for ever created all the universe.The Lord alone will be found righteous.He has given no one the power to proclaim his works and who can fathom His magnificent deeds?Who can assess His magnificent strength and who can go further and tell of His mercies?Nothing can be added to them, nothing subtracted; it […]
October 20, 2013
What is the icon of the Father’s Heart? – Thought for the day
“Visibility of the invisible, this portrayability of the unportrayable, is what the icon is” (Bulgakov). Filed under: God the Father, The Icon of the Divine Heart, Thoughts for the Day Tagged: Christianity, God, God the Father, Icons, The Divine Heart, Thoughts for the Day
October 18, 2013
A call to those with a heart of flesh
For those of you who have a heart of flesh, not of stone or of granite: Please make reparation to God our Father for the abandonment of His Son once again, exposed, in various chapels and churches. He is left there all alone, in the full nakedness of His sacred Body, with absolutely no one […]
October 15, 2013
Against Jerusalem – For the universal Church and the People of God
“Trouble is coming to the rebellious, the defiled, the tyrannical city! She would never listen to the call, would never learn the lesson; she has never trusted in Yahweh, never drawn near to her God. The leaders she harbours are roaring lions, her judges, wolves at evening that have had nothing to gnaw that morning. […]
September 28, 2013
Lamentation in Zion
“‘Raise the wail and lamentation for the mountains, the dirge for the desert pastures, for they have been burnt: no one passes there, the sound of flocks is heard no more. Birds of the sky and animals, all have fled, all are gone. I mean to make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a jackal’s lair, […]
September 19, 2013
What does it mean to be a human being?
To be a human being is to be a child of God. Many of us do not know what this means anymore and many others have not learned. We live in our physical bodies. Yet we do not live; we just exist. We go through the motions every day, but this is the extent of […]
