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• Unity of the Divine and Sacred Hearts

  God the Father leads us to Jesus, similarly to the manner in which Jesus leads us to our Father. In fact, Jesus said that, “everyone whom the Father gives Me... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Heart of the Soul

  Within the deepest recesses of a soul is a place that has been created by God the Father; this place can only be accessed by Himself as First Person of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Free-will Choice

  On one side of our lives is God the Father, the Alpha and Omega of the universe, with His infinite life, light and love; together with the peace, joy, hope, lov... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• More on God the Father - 4 - Patristics

  Reblogged from THE DIVINE HEART OF GOD THE FATHER: After we have undergone purification and illumination, "God no longer comes to us as before without appearanc... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Reference Point for God’s Existence is His Fatherhood – 3

  “The Father derives from Himself His being, nor does He derive a single quality from another. Rather He is Himself the beginning and cause of the existence of... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Reference Point for God’s Existence is His Fatherhood – 2

  In worshiping ‘God of God’ we both confess the distinction of Persons and abide by the Monarchy (Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit, 18; PG 32). Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Reference Point for God’s Existence is His Fatherhood – 1

  The Father willed His own hypostasis (Athanasius the Great, Third discourse against the Arians). A single God because a single Father (Athanasius the Great). Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• We Do Not Know the First Person Unless We Call Him Father

  If only we ourselves loved Him, our heavenly Father, in a truly filial way! (Seraphim of Sarov)“The name Father has thus been revealed to men . . . [but] what i... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• God the First Person is Father Not Mother – 4

  Why is it more fitting to call God the first Person of the Trinity as ‘Father’ and the second Person as ‘Son,’ rather than as mother and daughter? Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• God the First Person is Father Not Mother – 3

  The Father is greater than I (Jn 14:28)“The very center of a saving faith is the belief not merely in God, but in God as a Father; not merely in Christ, but in... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• God the First Person is Father Not Mother – 2

  “There never was a time when the Father was and the Son was not, but always the Father and always the Son, Who was begotten of Him, existed together. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• God the First Person is Father Not Mother – 1

  Israel has not known Me and My people have not understood Me (Is 1:3)It has become common these days, especially among modernists and feminists, to conceive of... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• On Love – 2

  The love of God is infinite and ever-present, yet we want neither Him nor His love. We think we know best what we want and need but we do not – not in a... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• On Fatherhood and the Father of Fathers

  How can fathers – any fathers – fulfill the fatherhood bestowed upon them, natural or otherwise, to its maximum potential, if they do not know or continue... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Futility of Deified Rationalism

  “In wishing to know everything in a completely or merely rational manner, the human being is left with only that aspect of the world and of the human body that... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Sorrow of the Father

  If only we knew, in the depths of our souls, how beautiful, tender, sweet and loving our Heavenly Father is! But we do not want to know because we do not want... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Without the Heavenly Father

  Without the Almighty Father – His grace and, yes, His direct intervention – we cannot live. We find ourselves in a world growing darker by the minute, but we... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Turn to the Father

  After the senseless tragedy which occurred in Newtown, Connecticut, whereby several elementary school children were killed, Benedict XVI “asks God, our Father,... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The State of Our World

  Love for God our Almighty Father has become largely absent in the hearts, minds and souls of humankind, making the world spiritually barren – a wilderness – onc... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Waiting in the Third Ark

  God our Father waits for us patiently, with the ark of His Divine Heart offered to us with overwhelming love in His hands: the ark which will lead us with safet... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY