Author: Gabriele

  • The Lord upholds me

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    It is in the darkest and most vulnerable moments that I can feel God is distant and removed from me. It is as if wounds and challenges create a separation between us – at least in my emotions. Painful events can even make us feel as though we are being punished or rejected by God.…

  • With healing in its rays

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    “The day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and the evil-doers will be like stubble. […] But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will shine out with healing in its rays.” Malachi 3:19-20 Jesus is the Sun of righteousness spoken of by the Prophet Malachi, who comes…

  • My way is sure…

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     “My way is sure, and I am not mistaken in following it.” With these words, Sister Therese of Lisieux (then a Servant of God) commented on her little way being a true and worthwhile way of following the Lord after her going to Heaven. This statement would reach the sisters in her French convent, effectively as an…