Autor: Gustavo Rizzo

Only Christ will save your soul from eternal suffering. There is nothing more important than this. We waste our lives in vain arguments and forget to care for our most precious possession: our soul.

What good is it to gain the world and lose our soul? What good is it to accomplish extraordinary deeds, transformations, and achievements in this world of flesh and blood, while our soul continues to suffer anguish, apathy, and loneliness? What good is it to be esteemed by others when there is only emptiness and pain within our soul?

Nothing in this world should matter more than our own soul. We must care for how we feel, just as we care for and protect our treasures, because, in truth, the true treasure is not found in the things of the Earth, but rather in the inner world, the Kingdom of God that is within us.

There is nothing in this world more important than our peace. We must not trade our peace for anything. Our soul is our most precious possession.

We must seek, in communion with God, to heal ourselves of everything: of our fears; of our guilt, forgiving our past mistakes; of the hurts, resentments, and pain involving our brothers and sisters; of our anxieties about the future.

We must learn, in the presence of God, to have compassion for ourselves and cultivate a loving inner dialogue with ourselves. We must preserve our peace, learning to cultivate a feeling of love in our hearts toward ourselves and toward our neighbors.

The only value greater than this is the transcendental love of our Lord, our God, the eternal and endless love of Christ, which shatters our ego and frees us from all pride and all selfishness.

In this transcendental love lies true happiness, true peace, true joy, because, when stripped of all human selfishness, we find the infinite and ideal altruistic divine love, which, even in the face of pain, gives itself completely, because its true happiness has never been found in itself, but rather in the sublime act of loving.

Lord, I want to bless You, I want to honor You, I want to exalt You. There is no one like You.

Your love floods our lives with a completely new meaning of what it means to live. Nothing else matters without You. After knowing Your love, Jesus, nothing is ever the same again. The emptiness in my soul, whose cause I could never understand, disappears by Your side, and everything is seen through a new lens.

I need You, I depend on You. I have a new life by Your side. A completely, permanently renewed life by Your side.

All I have is this present moment, and in it, I have everything my soul needs: silence in the company of Christ. Endless love that emanates from You.

Lord, I have always placed so many expectations on the future, but now I know that everything is here with me, now, in the present.

Your Holy love is everything. It is all I need.

Thank You, Jesus.

You are all I need, You are all I have ever needed. Here and now, nothing else matters, only this moment in which I give my whole heart to You.

In this moment, You make me realize that love is all I need. And I always have Your love; I only need to be with You in my thoughts.

Lord, I am not worthy to plead for Your intercession. I am a filthy sinner, but I do not pray for myself, but rather for the entire world.

I am not worthy that You should hear my prayer, but I ask not on my own behalf, but through the infinite merciful grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who paid for our sins and redeemed our souls through His painful sacrifice on the cross. I now beseech You for Your intercession.

May Your Kingdom come upon us. May Your will be done. May the New Jerusalem come upon the Earth. May all things be renewed and made anew. Come to us, our Lord Jesus Christ. We thirst and hunger for You.

Lord, have mercy on us and on the whole world. No longer allow evil to have control over us. Do not allow the plans of the evil one to spread plagues, wars, famine, and death throughout this world to prevail. No longer allow the enemy to have power.

I do not ask You to punish them, but rather to take away only their strength, so that they may no longer commit evil against Your people; may they not be struck down, but instead be given the chance to repent.

I earnestly beseech You, Lord, that evil throughout the world may lose all its strength. May weapons fail to fire; may their bodies fall unconscious before they can attempt to take the life of a servant of the Lord; may their lies be uncovered; may their wicked nature be made known.

May their plans be exposed and may they be stopped before they can bring about evil. May no weapon, no plan, no evil attempt prevail against us, Your people, and all of humanity.

We are infinitely loved, valued, respected, cared for, protected, instructed, and perfected. Our duty is to love as Jesus loved.

To love our Lord, our God, with all our strength, with our entire being, with everything we can. To love, love, and love; to return all the affection we receive every day from our Heavenly Father.

This is all that matters: all that God wants from us is simply our love, our relationship and communion with Him.

Everything in life, if it brings us closer to this, is beneficial; if it draws us away from this, it is harmful. Our soul is made in the image and likeness of the Lord. In love, we live in harmony; without love, we live in disharmony.

This is what the law establishes: “And Jesus said unto him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” — Matthew 22:37–39.

The Lord, King of the Universe, is also like our Father and our Mother. The infinite, the incalculable, the immeasurable God treats us as His children.

Blessed be Your name, our Lord. Blessed are we by divine grace. Nothing is purer, sweeter, or more beautiful than Your magnificent love.

May our infinite God be revered by all, acknowledged by all, for His mercy toward us encompasses the entire world.

Know your God, the God of the sea and the Earth, of the rain and the sun, of space and the stars, of the infinite and the microscopic, the God who created life, beauty, nature, love, the everlasting blessing of eternal life.

Almighty God, of infinite love, eternal is Your grace. Prosperous are the days I dedicate to being by Your side; hopeful are the nights when I pray to meet You and feel the love that only Your glorious presence possesses.

Eternal is Your charm, merciful are Your destinies, radiant is Your face, miraculous are Your deeds.

Your power extends to the farthest reaches of the entire universe, but Your throne is claimed by love: the infinite love that moves even the hardest hearts; the love that brings peace and forgiveness to hearts burdened by the deepest anguish; the love that goes in search of the children lost in the dark night of the soul; the love that never departs; a love that never gives up; a benevolent, everlasting, endless love.

We live in a time of transition, between a world shaped by survival, focused on materiality—a human, animal reality, full of pride and selfishness—and a completely new world, shaped by love, truth, humility, and solidarity, a subtle reality where a new paradigm of spirituality reigns.

Not everyone will be permitted to be an inhabitant of this new world. From this arises the beautiful allegory of the wheat and the tares.

The wheat and the tares will have different destinies: the wheat will inherit the New Earth: “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” — Matthew 5:5.

And the tares will be taken away, cast out: “The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause offense, and those who commit iniquity. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire…” — Matthew 13:41–42.

Reaching heaven is not about accomplishing extraordinary deeds; it is fundamentally a grace. But it requires a certain disposition from us. It is about choosing what is right and not what is improper.

It is not about appearing good, it is not about keeping up appearances or having a record worthy of prestige. It is born from something much simpler, but far more important: choosing courage instead of fear, choosing humility instead of ego, choosing gratitude instead of sadness, faith instead of anxiety, understanding instead of hatred.

It is about recognizing that, in ourselves, we are insufficient to attain all these things on our own. It is about recognizing our imperfection and our sinful nature.

But it is also about recognizing that, through our complete surrender and personal devotion, by means of a continuous, loving relationship with the divine presence of Christ, we will attain mercy and overcome evil with good, not by our own strength, but by the strength of Christ within us.

And thus we will be able to overcome fear with courage, overcome ego with humility, overcome sadness with gratitude, overcome anxiety with faith, overcome hatred with understanding, and each time we will be closer to perfection, living through love.

“Therefore, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” — Matthew 5:48.

I do not know how this happened, but I stopped doubting. I stopped doubting myself. I stopped questioning whether what I receive is real or not.

Knowing is individual; truth is individual. No one can convince anyone of the truth; each person must learn the truth based on their own experiences.

It is not about convincing people; it is only about being an example. It does not matter what you say or what others think; all that matters is being true to yourself.

It is not about time, about doing more in less time, doing more than others; it is only about doing what must be done with what is true within you.

It is not about the past, who you were or what you could have been, what you once had or could have had, what you did or could have done; it is only about what you choose to be now, what you have now, what you can do now.

And it is not about the future either—what you will be, what you will have, what you will do. It is only about the now. What is true for you now? What is important now?

Placing our thoughts in the past and the future takes our presence away from the present and causes feelings that do not serve us. All that matters is the now.

Allowing yourself to think this way is to learn a little more to respect yourself, to love yourself, to have a constructive relationship with yourself.

Neither in the past nor in the future lies our salvation, but only in the present, in choosing now love over hatred, joy over sadness, trust over anxiety, life over death, God over oneself.

Our thoughts, every day, dwell on the same matters, and it is only in the company of God that we will transform them more and more for the better.

To remain distant from God is to choose the same imperfect thoughts of our imperfect personality again and again and again. Only with Christ will we be able to transform them into better thoughts, less imperfect, more closely resembling the will and mercy of the love in His words.

There is nothing we can do to change what the truth is; we can only accept it and choose the best path. And this path is the path that Jesus walked, the truth that Jesus proclaimed, the life as He lived it.

Better than arguing is simply to begin walking, and along the way, you will understand.

Lord, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Do not allow evil to destroy the world, but combat evil with good. May all evil lose its strength until it vanishes from the face of the Earth, and may good gather strength to overcome evil by orders of magnitude.

May we be a world united in love and worship of the true God, proclaimed by Christ Jesus. May we embody the teachings of Christ in such a way as to make natural a new way of living in harmony with the infinite laws of love of the universe.