Divine Goodness

Physical pain and illness: a call to reflect, to correct the course, to re-signify values and priorities.

Disappointment with loved ones: an opportunity to connect with the Forces Above, beginning with carefully listening to one’s own conscience, which represents the Heavenly Powers.

Unemployment, bankruptcy, death in the family: an occasion to be reborn for [...]

Peace, wisdom and everything else

Pacify your heart and calm will emerge.

With tranquillity, clear thinking will arise.

With clear discernment, judicious choices will spontaneously sprout.

With the right decisions, the appropriate pattern of conscience and conduct for living will naturally be established.

With the adequate intimate compass and tenor of behavior, the creature will be aligned with God’s [...]

From humor to love

Love is the beginning and the end of everything.

But, before it, there is goodness, tenderness, compassion.

If you cannot feel even this, beloved child, try to experience friendship, fraternity, sympathy, or have a good laugh with someone — as long as you do not laugh at anyone. When love is not possible, start [...]

The miraculous paradox of the cross

Jesus referred to the “good part”¹ in the exchange between Martha and Mary, Lazarus’ sisters, saying that whoever chose it would never be deprived of it.

As a rule, however, human beings understand the “best choice” as the easiest, most pleasant, and/or the one that presents immediate beneficial results.

The most appropriate attitude

Do not harden your heart when stony hearts seek you out or collide with yours.

Offer your fraternal service wherever and with whomever you are, not as a favor to others, but as a duty to fulfill before the altar of your own conscience.

Defend yourself and protect people, ideas, values or institutions within [...]