DAILY WORD of BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE 2024
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of our founder, Blessed James Alberione, we will reflect on his words and use them as our daily guide.
PRAYER INTENTION for JUNE
If Jesus is continually present in the Holy Tabernacle, it corresponds to us the duty to visit him. He awaits us. But our God has to always wait in vain for these men who are busy with a thousand things and forget the One who is the Supreme Good, the One who said: “I will be with you.” Jesus waits for us (APD56, 210).
Ask to enter into this intimacy with Jesus. Do not consider him distant, so distant; how could Jesus get closer to us than by making himself our food? Why consider it distant? Eh, he lives in us... So talk to him with familiarity, tell him many things, all our thoughts, worries, desires
(APD56, 229).
O God, who sees how we do not trust in any of our actions, graciously grant us to be defended against all adversity by the protection of St Paul, Doctor of the Gentiles. By myself I can do nothing; with God I can do everything. For the love of God I want to do everything. To God the honour, to me Paradise (PR 54).
Faith, morals and worship.A deeper faith, morals, that is, a more virtuous life, and worship, that is, more piety, more devotion (APD56, 329).
Certainly we must do things well not for men, but we must do them well because God sees. Men deceive themselves, countless times, but God sees the heart, God sees the thoughts. Let us always do good and never let it go, let us always do it in view of the reward that God will give (APD56, 367).
Let there be detachment from the world and attachment to God, union with God, in charity, when one can truly say: I love you with all my heart, I love you above all things, especially myself, above my pride and selfishness; and I love my neighbour as myself, out of love for God (APD56, 363).
Arise! Do not get lost in nonsense. How many times do we stop and waste time reflecting on things that are not meritorious. Arise! The grand reward awaits you: Paradise (APD56, 329).
We are not only to bring to God the outside or give him the gift; Cain also made some gifts to the Lord, but his heart did not love the Lord. And Abel instead made his gift to the Lord, but for the love of the Lord. And therefore, love for the Lord is first (APD56, 344).
The Lord created us and gave us grace and offers us his help constantly, if we pray, and invites us to heaven. But after this he allows us to be free. Man is free (APD56, 350).
When there is good will, poverty is loved; when there is good will, one is delicate of conscience, great account is taken of small defects and great account of small virtues.
When there is good will, one `feels better if no one observes than when one is being observed (APD56, 41).
Acknowledge God as our beginning... acknowledge God as our end, therefore, to whom we must direct all our efforts, our whole heart, all we do in life; and recognize God as the one who is providence, that is, the one who governs us... This is adoration (APD56, 48).
Thanksgiving includes our gratitude, loving gratitude for all the benefits received. I thank you, my God, for having created me, made me a Christian, a religious, for having dedicated me to this apostolate. I thank you for the inner inspirations, for faith, hope, charity, for the vocation (APD56, 49).
The beautiful soul, dear to God, will thank the Lord, therefore, for all the benefits, for all the inspirations, for all the graces and especially for the grace of graces: the correspondence, that is, to the graces of God. The recognition to the Lord, who is love (APD56, 375).
We need to let Jesus live in us because Communion is destined for this and can bear this fruit: the birth of Jesus in us. But if then our thoughts, our views, our sentiments, our whims, the attachment to our will continue to be the real thorns, indeed, they suffocate Jesus
(APD56, 273).
The righteous man inside and outside of him has peace of soul. The Christian who lives the life of a Christian, imitating Jesus Christ, practicing faith, hope and charity, knows he is heading towards a beautiful Paradise (APD56, 326).
The present life is very short compared to eternity. A comparison cannot even be made. But whoever is faithful for a short time will have an eternal reward; even a small act of virtue, there will be a corresponding great and eternal reward in heaven. Let us orient ourselves well. Let us understand well this great gift of life (APD56, 328).
The immense benefits that God has done to man: creation, redemption, the Church, the Sacraments, the Gospel, the priesthood, the religious state. How appropriate, then, is the chaplet to the Heart of Jesus, the one that is printed in our prayer book. Give thanks (APD56, 497).
O Jesus, Divine Master, I thank and bless your most loving heart for the great gift of the Eucharist. Your love makes you dwell in the Holy Tabernacle... May I know you, O hidden God! Let me draw healing waters from the fountain of your heart! (PR 136).
Here are two hearts that have loved men so much and spared nothing for them. O Most Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, grant me the grace to better know you, love you, imitate you. I offer you my heart, that it may always be yours (PR 105).
Make the heart most pure by following the example of Mary’s immaculate heart, which was a generous heart, a pious heart, a humble heart, a most sacred heart (APD56, 179).
I bless you, O Jesus, for having given St Paul a heart so full of love for God and for the Church, and for having saved so many souls through his zeal. And you, our friend, obtain for me a lively desire to exercise the apostolate of social communication, of prayer, of example, of
work and of word (PR 210).
I bless you, O Jesus, for having elected the Apostle Paul as a model and preacher of holy virginity. And you, St Paul, my dear father, guard my mind, my heart, my senses, so that I may know, love, serve only Jesus, and conserve all my strength for his glory (PR 209).
God is always flooding the soul, the soul will never be able to have, to enjoy a perfect and therefore entire fullness of God. God is still always more lovable, more beatific and happier than what the finite soul can understand. He is the eternal, infinite bliss (APD56, 401).
When the love of God, the spirit of faith dominates a soul, you will always see admirable progress, in patience, in goodness, in daily sacrifice. They grow from virtue to virtue (APD56, 390).
And what will the judgment be? It is a judgment entirely of love for those who have done well, a judgment that comes from the most loving heart of the Savior. “Come, my beloved.” And the soul will launch itself towards Jesus, it will embrace his feet (APD56, 379).
If one truly renounces everything, one will enjoy Everything, one will have Everything which is God, the supreme Good, eternal happiness. The more the profession is made entirely, is lived entirely, the more one will possess eternal wisdom, eternal goodness, eternal joy (APD56, 400).
Not even a leaf moves without God’s will, how much more what passes in our heart, in our mind, what sometimes brings us humiliation, what sometimes brings us encouragement. It is our most loving heavenly Father who disposes or permits everything (APD56, 423).
I bless you, O Jesus, for the great mercy granted to St Paul in changing him from a fierce persecutor into an ardent apostle of the Church. And you, O great Saint, obtain for me a heart docile to grace, conversion from my principal defect and full configuration to Jesus Christ (PR 209).
I bless you, O Jesus Good Shepherd, because you formed yourself in Peter and Paul, the two greatest pastors of the Church, and you saved countless brothers through their ministry. And you, holy Apostles, obtain for me the gift of conversion and a great love for my vocation (PR 210).
Examination must start here: do I love God, or do I love myself? Does self-love dominate me or does love of God dominate me? “Caritas Christi urget me,” said the Apostle Paul. It is the charity of Christ that makes me work, that pushes me (APD56, 135).
Our foundress
Venerable Thecla Merlo
night of 31 December 1900 and felt obliged “to do something for God and for the people of the new century.”
Our founder Blessed James Alberione
Fr James Alberione encountered the Lord in the
Eucharistic adoration on the
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