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My Father in Heaven, how sweet it is to know that You are my Father and that I am your Child!
Especially when the skies of my soul are cloudy and my cross weighs more heavily, I feel the need to repeat
to You: Father, I believe in Your love for me!
Yes, I believe that You are a Father to me at every moment of my life, and that I am Your child!
I believe that You love me with an infinite love!
I believe that You are watching over me night and day and that not a hair falls from my head without your
permission!
I believe that, in Your infinite Wisdom, You know better than I what is good for me.
I believe that, in Your infinite power, You can bring good even out of evil.
I believe that, in Your infinite goodness, You make everything to the advantage of those who love You; even
under the hands of those who strike me I kiss Your hand which heals!
I believe, but increase in me faith, hope and love!
Teach me always to see Your love as my guide in every event of my life.
Teach me to surrender myself to You like a baby in its mother's arms.
Father, You know everything. You see everything, you know me better than I know myself; You can do everything, and You love me!
My Father, since it is Your wish that we should always turn to You, I come with confidence to ask You, together with Jesus and Mary....(here request the favor that you desire).
For this intention, and uniting myself to their Most Sacred Hearts, I offer You all my prayers, my sacrifices and mortification's, all my actions, and greater faithfulness to my duties (*).
Give me the light, the grace and the power of the Holy Spirit!
Strengthen me in this Spirit, that I may never lose Him, never sadden Him and never allow Him to become weaker in me.
My Father, I ask this in the name of Jesus, Your Son! And You, Jesus, open Your Heart and place in it my own, and, together with Mary's, offer it to our divine Father! Obtain for me the grace that I need!
Divine Father, call all men to Yourself. Let all the world proclaim Your fatherly goodness and Your divine mercy!
Be a tender Father to me and protect me wherever I am, like the apple of Your eye. Make me always a worthy son/daughter; have mercy on me!
Divine Father, sweet hope of our souls, may You be known, honored and loved by all men!
Divine Father, infinite goodness poured out on all peoples, may You be known, honored and loved by all men!
Divine Father, beneficent dew of humanity, may You be known, honored and loved by all men!
(Mother EUGENIA)
Partial Indulgence
+ GIRARD, Vicar Apostolic of Cairo, October 9th, 1935
+JEAN, Cardinal VERDIER,
Archbishop of Paris,
May 8th, 1936
Mother Eugenia
(*) If this prayer is to be recited as a novena, add "I promise to be more generous, especially during these nine days, in a given circumstance, to such and such a person ..."
Reflection
"My Father in Heaven, how sweet it is to know that You are my Father and that I am your Child!"
;bromar4/Padrito:
What does it mean to have God as my Father. Firstly , it means that I am loved; that I was created by Love for Love because God is Love. This means that the uncreated being that is God, wants me; and for no other reason than to have the relationship that is a Father with His child. Whatever type of relationship that you had with your father, it is unjust to reduce a relationship with The Father, Who is God, to that of a human relationship. God is love and God is truth, therefore He always wills your good, and your happiness in this life as well as the next, just never to the extent of sacrificing your eternal happiness. Happiness is not a feeling or emotion, however; it is peace which is the presence of God, since feelings and emotions come and go, and peace is lasting because God is eternal. God is truth, and therefore His will is always based in the full reality which He sees from the future since He is not bound by space and time, knowing full well the infinite consequences of each of our actions which allows Him to know which actions will truly make us happy in the moment, in the future and eternally.
To be continued...