Riccardi

We often make resolutions. We are not always successful at keeping them. But in some rare cases you realize it is not you making them. It is Another who is calling you sweetly, but decisively, from within. It then seems you cannot but keep those resolutions. We have to thank God for these divine moments in which he calls us to Another life that lives inside of us, where every note is in harmony, every darkness is enlightened, every distortion is straightened, every emptiness is filled with him. And this can happen at any moment of the day. We feel there are two of us: he in me and I in him. Yet we are one: I, water From this source, a flower from this divine seed, the witness of his reality that fills my being. This indeed is living. God alone knows how to shape himself in us. We know only how to ruin it. from Essential Writings (La dottrina spirituale, Mondadori 2001)

Commetary on the Word of Life: Do not conform yourself to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect. (Rm 12:2) This word of life is found in the second part of Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans. The apostle is describing the actions of a Christian as the expression of the new life — real love, real joy and real freedom — that God has given to us. It is Christian life understood as a new way of facing the various situations and problems encountered in everyday life with the light and the strength of the Holy Spirit. In this verse, which is closely connected to the preceding one, the apostle describes the goal and underlying attitude that should characterize our behavior, that is, to make of our lives a song of praise to God, an act of love carried out across time in the constant quest of his will,

I must never forget that Reality lives in me and that I must give to my brothers and sisters, above all, the vital fluid that rises from the depths of my soul, which is the subtle voice of God that urges and enlightens. We have to silence everything in us in order to discover his voice. And we have to extract this voice, as we would take a diamond out of the mud, clean it, place it in view and give it when opportune, because it is love, and love must be given. Like a fire fed with straw, love blazes when it is communicated, otherwise it will die out. Let’s run because the light remains lit only in the soul where love is in motion, is alive. from Essential Writings, (La Dottrina Spirituale, Mondadori 2001)

I must never forget that Reality lives in me and that I must give to my brothers and sisters, above all, the vital fluid that rises from the depths of my soul, which is the subtle voice of God that urges and enlightens. We have to silence everything in us in order to discover his voice. And we have to extract this voice, as we would take a diamond out of the mud, clean it, place it in view and give it when opportune, because it is love, and love must be given. Like a fire fed with straw, love blazes when it is communicated, otherwise it will die out. Let’s run because the light remains lit only in the soul where love is in motion, is alive. from Essential Writings, (La Dottrina Spirituale, Mondadori 2001)