Harpa Dei

Download MP3 Download PDF If, at the beginning of the year, we set our gaze on the Mother of the Lord, as the Church urges us to do, then everything becomes enlightened, despite the dark clouds that currently hang over the world. Everything becomes enlightened, because you, O Mary, were chosen as the daughter of […]

Download MP3 Download PDF Beloved Child, we have almost reached the end of these Christmas meditations, and also the year is about to end. Beloved Lord, it has been such a strange and even absurd year for many people… To whom can they turn if not to You, who even in such confusing times are

Download MP3 Download PDF Hardly had You come into the world, O Divine Child, when Your parents had to flee with You to Egypt. The obedience of Your adoptive father, St. Joseph, in leaving immediately after having received this order in a dream, is admirable (Mt 2:13-14). Toil, hardship and adversity, suffering and death characterise

Download MP3 Download PDF As Jews faithful to the Law of the Lord, eight days after Your birth Your parents circumcised You and gave You the name of Jesus, the Saviour (Lk 2:21). When, forty days later, they brought You to the Temple to present You to the Lord, You met Simeon, one of the

Download MP3 Download PDF Beloved Child, we could exult with joy without ceasing, especially when we look at Your incomparable Mother and Saint Joseph…. What warmth surrounds the Holy Family! With its humanity, permeated by the Spirit of God, it sanctifies the core of human society: the family. How must Mary and Joseph have felt,

Download MP3 Download PDF You wanted to choose simple people: they were shepherds (Lk 2:8-20). You, Beloved Child, love simplicity. You can enter more easily into a simple heart. And You also make us simple. It is not necessary to know everything at once. It is more important to let Your love burn in us

Download MP3 Download PDF “Glory sing the cherubs in the fields of Bethlehem…” You are not only the joy of Israel and of all mankind; you are also the joy of the angels, our friends in heaven. How you must have rejoiced, beloved angels, when you recognised in God’s light His immense Wisdom in choosing

Download MP3 Download PDF Now you are here, Divine Child! What moved You to come to us, to such a hostile world? The reason can only lie in Your immeasurable love for our Heavenly Father, and in Your infinite love for us men. Who can understand it? I simply believe it and I can perceive

Download PDF How long the Israelites waited for the Messiah! Then, when he came and the promises began to be fulfilled, they did not recognise him. What a tragedy! Now the believing Jews are still waiting for him… They are also waiting for the coming of the Prophet Elijah, who is to precede the Messiah.

Download PDF O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their Saviour: Come and save us, O Lord our God. O Emmanuel, King and Master all that you say and do serves as instruction and for our salvation. You teach us the right way (Mt 22:16); You reveal to us