“Setting off…” Novena to venerable Brother Gabriel 16 – 24 January0
“Setting off…” We have started the New Year. We could say that is a time of setting off, of beginnings, of searching… This month we will follow the reflection of Pope Francis, text in which we can see reflected the life of Brother Gabriel setting off: “When preaching is faithful to th
Novena to venerable Brother Gabriel 16 – 24 December0
In the present day, as the Church is charged with the task of the new evangelization, the theme of mercy needs to be proposed again and again with new enthusiasm and renewed pastoral action. It is absolutely essential for the Church and for the credibility of her message that she hers
Novena to venerable Brother Gabriel 16 – 24 November0
Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life. All of her pastoral activity should be caught up in the tenderness she makes present to believers; nothing in her preaching and in her witness to the world can be lacking in mercy. The Church’s very credibility is seen in how she show
Novena to venerable Brother Gabriel 16 – 24 October0
We are called to show mercy because mercy has first been shown to us. Pardoning offences becomes the clearest expression of merciful love, and for us Christians it is an imperative from which we cannot excuse ourselves. At times how hard it seems to forgive! And yet pardon is the inst
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Novena to venerable Brother Gabriel September0
What moved Jesus in all of these situations was nothing other than mercy, with which he read the hearts of those he encountered and responded to their deepest need. (M V nº 8) In the parables devoted to mercy, Jesus reveals the nature of God as that of a Father who never gives up unti
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Novena to venerable Brother Gabriel – August0
His person is nothing but love, a love given gratuitously. The relationships he forms with the people who approach him manifest something entirely unique and unrepeatable. The signs he works, especially in favour of sinners, the poor, the marginalized, the sick, and the suffering, are
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Novena to venerable Brother Gabriel – Julho0
With our eyes fixed on Jesus and his merciful gaze, we experience the love of the Most Holy Trinity. The mission Jesus received from the Father was that of revealing the mystery of divine love in its fullness. “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8,16), John affirms for the first and only time in al
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Novena to venerable Brother Gabriel – June0
In short, the mercy of God is not an abstract idea, but a concrete reality with which he reveals his love as of that of a father or a mother, moved to the very depths out of love for their child. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this is a “visceral” love. It gushes forth from
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