Category Archives: love/mercy of God
His goodness is never one whit diminished
In the matter of God’s goodness we have got to be irrational. This is the way it is, with love, for instance, and with any other deep down, visceral persuasion. We go beyond reason, we do not trust appearances. All surface indications to the contrary we have got to believe that God is good, unfailingly …
God the Father’s love for you
This is the love of God the Father for you: Pope Francis among the little ones
Friday: from the archives
Something from Amy Carmichael: 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. Let us take time today to consider the love of God. Some of us are tempted to fear about ourselves. …
Walking and loving in darkness
Catherine Doherty writes about the love that finds us in the darkness: Through faith we are able to turn our faces to God and meet his gaze. Each day becomes more and more luminous. The veil between God and man becomes less and less until it seems as if we can almost reach out and …
Lowly, yet chosen
In 2006, Pope Francis, then Cardinal Bergoglio, chose a children’s hospital in Palermo (Buenos Aires) to celebrate The Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper. There, he washed the feet of 12 sick children. His episcopal motto is “miserando atque eligendo” (lowly, yet chosen). Thank you, Lord, for this man, a true Witness to Hope.
True obedience
The meditation for today from the Magnificat Advent Companion: How appropriate that commemoration of the events that lead to the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe begin immediately after the feast of the Immaculate Conception. For Mary, preserved from original sin, knows that the deepest and truest need of our heart is to be loved by God …
The source of hope
Ponder this: “Hope does not come from what I do, but from the awareness that there is Someone who loves me with this everlasting love, who calls me into being every instant, having pity on my nothingness.” (Fr. Julian Carron)
