Harpa Dei

After the ever stronger growing together of peoples the question becomes important for the church how it should deal with the non-Christian religions. It has increasingly chosen the path of dialogue with other religions. In the texts of the Second Vatican Council – which understood itself as a so-called pastoral council and therefore did not […]

On July 22nd we already touched on this topic in our reflections, but we wanted to deepen this very important point once again. It is part of a spiritually ordered life to meet the Lord and all that he has created in his love in the right way, or we could also say to give

All people must be led to keep the commandments of God. There is no way around it if life is to succeed and true peace is to reign. Already in the times of the Old Covenant, the transgressions of God’s commandments led to bitter consequences and to further apostasy from God if there was no

We heard yesterday what significance it has for the Lord that the heavenly Father is glorified. Jesus did it perfectly. But also we humans are called to glorify God in the way that corresponds to our vocation. We should sincerely search for it and let the Spirit of the Lord show it to us. We

There is no greater desire for our Lord Jesus than to glorify His Father. That is what he has come to do, to introduce us to him. If we love the Lord more and more, then this desire also becomes our desire: The complete glorification of our Father, the praise of his goodness! “I have

We have already pointed out in the preceding meditations that the fulfillment of the first commandment to love God with all one’s heart and with all one’s strength is the basis for all actions arising from love. The good that we do on the basis of our decision will only gains its full splendour when

f we open ourselves to of God, then the Holy Spirit can loosen what is frozen in itself, he can direct what has missed the way, man begins to heal. But the Father does not only address the ice layer around mankind. He also points to the imprisonment of human beings, which results from the

In the Holy Scriptures and in the proclamation of the Church we encounter the concrete salvific will of God, who wants all people to be saved. We know where God’s will of salvation has led him: to death on the cross of the Lord, to redeem all people. Can there be a greater love? No!

If we understand mission, that is, the mission of the Risen One to preach the Gospel to all creatures (cf. Mt 28,19), as the seeking love of our Father for His children, then we come very close to the innermost heart of God. He has entrusted participation in this search for his children and thus opened

The great theme that runs through the Father’s message is the love of God in two ways. The love of the heavenly Father for us and our love for him. This theme is particularly important today, even if in the Church it is not uncommon for a primacy of charity and the improvement of this