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I want to tell you about my divine Friend, because He is so good to me that I really have to share about Him with you. It is not that I think that you do not know Him and that He is exclusively my Friend – of course not! But if I tell you about […]

Now you have come, beloved Holy Spirit. This time you came in a violent wind (cf. Acts 2:2), not as you did with your friend Elijah (cf. 1 Kgs 19:11-13). Then it was more hidden, as you usually work in the souls of the people who let you in. But today it was different as

“On the faithful, who adoreAnd confess you, evermoreIn your sevenfold gift descend; Give them virtue’s sure reward;Give them your salvation, Lord;Give them joys that never end.” The faithful, the people of God… Who belongs to them? From the point of view of vocation, all human beings belong to the people of God, because He wants

“O most blessed Light divine,May that light within us shineAnd our inmost being fill! Where you are not, we have naught,Nothing good in deed or thought,Nothing free from taint and ill.” The Spirit of God penetrates deeply into our souls, that is, he wants to reach the very centre of our being and dwell there,

“You, of comforters the best;You, the soul’s most welcome guest;Sweet refreshment here below; In our labor, rest most sweet;Grateful coolness in the heat;Solace in the midst of woe.” The Holy Spirit is the Comforter whom the Lord has given us. The Apostle Paul tells us: “He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we

“Come, Father of the poor!Come, source of all our store!Come, within our bosoms shine”. The term “poor” includes all of us, especially those who are aware of their own poverty. In our spiritual life we learn that we are always in need. It is the Holy Spirit who teaches us how great God’s love is

Having concluded our journey through the Acts of the Apostles, in which we have accompanied these tireless witnesses of the Gospel on their missionary journeys, with all their sufferings but also with their joy at the spread of the faith, we now wish to focus our attention on the Holy Spirit, in keeping with the

Shortly after Paul was taken to Caesarea, the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and the lawyer Tertullus to bring their charges against him before the procurator Felix (Acts 24:1). However, Paul defended himself, and Felix found no grounds for condemning him, so he postponed the case (v. 22). So Paul remained in

After the series of the last three meditations, in which we addressed the crisis of the Church’s mission in the light of the witness of the apostles, we will now turn to the last chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. We will do so with a slightly different outline than in the last few

In addressing today the question of whether there are signs suggesting that Leo XIV is leading the Church back onto the right path, in accordance with Sacred Scripture and Tradition, I will focus primarily on the theme of mission, which we have discussed in the last two meditations. We have a first speech by the