ICWG Weekly Reflections

We pray constantly that we may be docile to the work of the Holy Spirit in our soul, and that he may not cease to move and inspire the people of these times in which we live, who are particularly hungry for the Spirit, and so much need his protection and his help.

There in Heaven, where we have a place prepared for us, Jesus awaits us, the same Jesus who is with us, who awaits us in prayer and with whom we have often been in intimate friendly conversation.

At the beginning the Christian faith took root mainly among simple people: ordinary soldiers, labourers in the woollen industry, slaves, and merchants too.

We should learn to become better and better friends of God who is dwelling within us. Through this divine presence, our soul becomes a miniature heaven. Reflection on that thought can help us enormously.

The precept of sanctifying holy days responds also to the need to give public cult to God. We cannot be satisfied on such occasions with a merely private cult. Some people try to relegate dealing with God to the realm of conscience as if it did not necessarily have to have external expression...

Our faith in the risen Christ impels us to go to those people, to tell them in a thousand different ways that Christ is alive, that we unite ourselves to him by faith and love every day, that he guides and gives meaning to our lives.

We do well then to contemplate Our Lord’s Passion: in our personal meditation, when reading the Gospel, in the sorrowful mysteries of the Holy Rosary, in The Way of the Cross ...

During this Lenten period we could perhaps concentrate especially on a scene we contemplate in the Rosary: the agony of Jesus in the Garden.... A Lenten Reflection

Following Our Lord closely implies finding, even in the area of tiny contradictions or in the case of more serious injustices, the way to holiness... A Lenten Reflection from Scepter Publishers

Normally Jesus does not show himself to us with any special manifestations. Rather, we have to learn to find Our Lord in what is ordinary, every day, and we must flee from the temptation of ever wanting anything extraordinary.

God is always beside us. Whenever we are confronted with a temptation He says, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. And we place all our trust in him because we know we would achieve very little by ourselves.

We are at the beginning of Lent, a time of penance and interior renewal to enable us to prepare for Easter. The Church’s liturgy unceasingly invites us to purify our souls and to begin again.