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September 11, 2013
Children of the one Father – Thought for the day
“We are all called to be children of the one Father and brothers among ourselves . . . God is reality with a capital ‘R’ . . . a Father of goodness and infinite mercy” (Pope Francis,Letter to Eugenio Scalfari, 2013). Filed under: Being the Father's Child, God the Father, Infinite Mercy, Pope Francis, Thoughts […]
The wasteland and the Almighty Father
The world in general has become a wasteland once again and will continue to become even more so. However, our Father never gives up; He provides hope, love and graces for salvation even at the very end. It is up to us to accept the graces He gives us for even though He infinitely desires […]
September 8, 2013
The first words Adam said to God the Father
These were the first words Adam said to God our Father after he realized who had created him: “I love You, my God, my Father, the Author of my life” (Iannuzzi, 2013,The Gift of Living in the Divine Will in the Writings of Luisa Piccarreta). Filed under: Adam, Glorifying the Father, God the Father Tagged: […]
September 2, 2013
Notice – Card of the icon of Our Lady the Protectress
The card of the holy icon of Our Lady the Protectress, also known as Our Lady of Springfield, is now available for Kindle on Amazon. The iconwas completed at Clare Priory, Suffolk, UK and blessed at the altar during the Divine Liturgy at the chapel of the priory on the Solemnity of the Most Holy […]
August 29, 2013
The Icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father – More apologetics – 1
“Visible icons are the seeing of the invisible. They are products and representations by visible images of divine traits and ineffable and elevated contemplations” (Dionysus the Aeropagite). “God sketched His image in the creature and this divine image is, therefore, imageable”(Bulgakov). According to iconoclasts and many iconographers of the traditional stripe, it is impossible – […]
August 28, 2013
The Father who loves – Thought for the day
He will never abandon you, if you turn to Him, especially if you do so with your whole heart. The pure Father cannot but love, most intensely, for He is Love. Filed under: God the Father, Thoughts for the Day Tagged: Christianity, God, God the Father, Religion and Spirituality, Thoughts for the Day
August 24, 2013
The Father who saves
“Why don’t you go to church?”(One Saturday evening in early September 2007). I had not been to church in a while as I only went when I felt like it. Having been stripped of everything and everyone that really meant anything to me between that year and the previous year, that day I had just […]
August 20, 2013
The Father’s Divine Heart is the treasure of treasures
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field (Mt 13:44) . . . [but] Jesus came to reveal the love of the Father [and His] whole mission was to […]
August 18, 2013
The Fifth Seal of Revelation
1) “Lift Your footsteps to wreak eternal ruin, to avenge everything that the enemy has harmed in the Sanctuary. Your enemies have roared amidst Your meeting place; they made their signs for signs. They fixed their emblems over the entrance, emblems never known before. Their axes deep in the wood, hacking at the panels, they […]
August 11, 2013
The pierced Heart of the Father – 2
We have pierced His Divine Heart with our sins. But, above all, with our ongoing refusal to return to Him. What is it going to take, for us to realize the extent to which we have pierced our Father’s tender Heart? He loves and grieves, precisely because He loves with an intensity you cannot begin […]
