Download MP3 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, having you […]
MEDITATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS (4/8): You have not come to a paradise Read More »
Download MP3 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 and to
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Download MP3 “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 this way
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Download MP3 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 it in
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Rom 16:25-27 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret for long ages but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, according to the command of
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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 Masterall that you say and doserves as instruction and for our salvation. You teach us the right way (Mt 22:16); You reveal to us the mystery of man… You are
Seventh Antiphon O: “O Emmanuel” Read More »
O King of the nations, and their desire,the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race,which you fashioned from clay. All peoples are waiting for you, O King of nations. Deep down they know it: There must be the One who truly loves us; There must be the One whom we willingly serve,
Sixth O Antiphon: “O Rex gentium” Read More »
O Morning Star,splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness:Come and enlighten thosewho dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. When Thou, O Sun of righteousness, arisest,thus diffusing the uncreated light, You pierce through all darknessand everywhere comes life, true life. There is nothing that can dim Your light;no shadow can darken You (Mal
Fifth antiphon O: “O Oriens” Read More »
Download PDF O Key of David and Sceptre of the house of Israel,Who dost open and no man doth shut,Who dost shut and no man doth open,come and bring forth from his prisonhousethe captive that sitteth in darkness and in the shadow of death. “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to
Fourth O Antiphon: “O Clavis David” Read More »
Download PDF O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples;before you kings will shut their mouths,to you the nations will make their prayer:Come and deliver us, and delay no longer. In many parts of the world, O Lord, Your sign is raised up: the sign of the Cross.Exalted in it, You exclaim:
Third O antiphon: “O Radix Iesse” Read More »
