MEDITATING AND LIVING

Immediacy, efficiency, and speed have been accepted as the criteria for life. By contrast, the life of faith is slow and demands a superhuman constancy; its progress is oscillating and cannot be verified by exact methods

The Poor Man had been tempted by the currents and ideas of the time. But through a process of prayer and discernment in the solitude of the desert, he had discovered that his path was different.

Since the days of Moses, there was an ordinance according to which every firstborn male—“whether human or animal”—was the special property of the Lord. The firstborn animal was offered in sacrifice

Jesus is now twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He is a ripe wheat field, an apple tree laden with golden fruit. Any sensitive observer could notice a different glimmer in him, as if the Father's radiance enveloped him with a serene maturity

During this holy Christmas season, we would like to send you our warmest greetings. May the Child Jesus, born in the simplicity of Bethlehem, fill us with the light of his love.

To know what Mary's feelings were like during the days of gestation, let's put ourselves in analogous situations. If we ask a pregnant woman today—who is also a woman of great faith and deep interiority

One of the most overwhelming sources of human sadness is failure. Failure is a relative and subjective concept; once again, a product of the mind. You had a project; you calculated that the project would reach

I arrived and entered the deepest solitude of my being. ¡I lit the light of faith and, oh, wonder!  that solitude was occupied by an Inhabitant: the Father.

It is getting dark. It was a bright and warm day. In the course of its hours, frequently, upon stopping my steps, a strange sensation would invade me: someone has taken my place, I would tell myself

Poverty was demanding in Rivotorto during the autumn and winter months. They barely held their own against the frost and downpours. They lit bonfires to get warm and dry. Sometimes they had nothing to eat

The first condition to "be" with the Father, according to Jesus, is: "Go into your room." The concept of that "room" must be broadened, understanding it in a figurative sense. Today

Mary, as she appears in the Gospels, was never a passive or detached woman. She questioned the angel's proposition (Lk 1:34). On her own initiative, she departed quickly, crossing mountains