Apostolate of the Divine Heart's Blog, page 58
May 6, 2013
Thy Kingdom come – 1 – Thought for the day
“Thy Kingdom come:” how beautiful and profound are those three words in the Lord’s prayer. Inherently, though some are still unaware of this, those three words of Jesus Christ, which He taught us to say daily, mean that we are asking our beautiful Father to come and live in us as we live in Him. [...]
May 5, 2013
The love of God in the desert – Thought for the day
Our Almighty Father always comes through and never lets us down, especially when we are living in the desert; the wilderness. It is, in fact, in the desert that we become purified and refined to experience His mighty love with ever-increasing intensity and profundity. No one can grow in the love of God and neighbor [...]
May 2, 2013
Saddening our Father’s Heart – Thought for the day
“It is not the thoughts and all the other miseries which obsess you which will make you offend God. You sadden His paternal Heart only by lacking confidence in His goodness, in thinking too little of Him as a good Father who cherishes you and wishes to save you” (Fr. H. Courtes, Letter to J. [...]
May 1, 2013
Fidelity – The key to the Father’s Heart
Fidelity in Christ is the key which opens the door to our Almighty Father’s Heart, as He is unable to resist the pleas and supplications of those who remain faithful to Him, especially when under duress. Love Him, therefore, above all else. Put His Will before yours and ask Him for the grace of perseverance [...]
April 30, 2013
What is sin? – Response to a question
The question was asked, “What is sin?” The short answer is simple, though complicated for and by some due to their emphases on rationalization and subjectivity. Sin is anything that violates the commandments of love: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your [...]
April 29, 2013
The power and love of God the Father – A response
If you only knew how loving and powerful our Almighty Father is! Nothing is impossible for Him. If you knew, truly knew, how our Father really is, you would not stay away a moment longer. You would approach Him with great rapidity and ask Him, without fear or hesitation, to take you back into His [...]
April 28, 2013
Description of God the Father – 6
FOR HIS GLORY The Father on the Doorstep You came once again that Thursday morning at around 6.15 am. I had recently woken up and was preparing to go to early morning Mass, when suddenly the dining room became all lit up. It was as though multiple, strong spotlights had been placed all throughout the [...]
On poverty – 1
To not be wanted as a human being, a person: that is the most abject form of poverty. It is a poverty which trumps all other kinds of poverty, including that arising from ongoing material deprivation. Rejection of the person themselves – especially the systemic rejection, the repeated throwing away, of the person as a [...]
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April 24, 2013
Description of God the Father – 5
FOR HIS GLORY The Divine Heart of God the Father Encompassing All Hearts -Original Narrative of 26thMay 2010 At around 5.45pm, I was again in an inner room in my house. The sun came right back at me, in front of all the trees I have at the back of my house (normally the trees [...]
