"From Him, the

Master, the whole

light…. " Contemplating

the picture of the Master

The great objective of our

life, confirmed always

by the Blessed Alberione is

this:

"To live Jesus, in Jesus,

for Jesus, with Jesus.

Establish our life in Him."

The central point of our

spirituality

is an attraction that produces

a deep interpersonal

relationship:

"Come to me".

The Master is the one

who attracts us to himself,

who invites us to enter in his

logic and in his horizons…

Let us invoke the light

of the Spirit to

understand always

better what

he wants to tell us

"to establish our life

in the Master",

what it means

to be called to

communicate

the unfathomable

riches

of the love of God.

Let us feel being gazed

by Jesus Master and let us

look

at the details of the picture

that expresses a visual

synthesis of the Pauline

charism.

All the characteristic

elements

of the Pauline vocation

are present.

The open book The open book

in the left hand in the left hand

and the writing: and the writing:

"I am the Way "I am the Way

and the Truth and the and the Truth and the

Life"Life" (content to (content to

receive and receive and

to communicate every to communicate every

day in the apostolate); day in the apostolate);

The gesture The gesture

of the exhortation of the exhortation

by the right hand by the right hand

of the one who asks of the one who asks

for listening and for listening and

attention…attention…

"learn from me""learn from me"

The standing entire figure: The standing entire figure:

not sitting as the ancient not sitting as the ancient

teachers teachers

but an itinerant Master but an itinerant Master

on the paths of men and on the paths of men and

women women

of every time. of every time.

A Master who wears sandals…

Standing on the terrestrial globe… Standing on the terrestrial globe… not with the globe in hand as in some pictures, not with the globe in hand as in some pictures,

but on the path of men and women, but on the path of men and women, always on the move.always on the move.

A Master who has the signs of the passion A Master who has the signs of the passion

on the hands and on the feet (he is a crucified on the hands and on the feet (he is a crucified

Master), Master),

that not only teach but gives life, that not only teach but gives life,

he is the Master with the heart of a Shepherd. he is the Master with the heart of a Shepherd.

The signs of the passion are dazzling: the The signs of the passion are dazzling: the

bright cross bright cross

as halo around the head, which points out that as halo around the head, which points out that

our Master is a crucified and risen Master: our Master is a crucified and risen Master:

Living and glorious. Living and glorious.

In front of this

beautiful picture

that is very

significant

for us, let us

welcome

in silence the

invitation of the

Master:

"Come to me… Come

to me, totally, with

your whole person."

"In November 1900, at the end of the Holy Year, Leo XIII promulgated an encyclical which was destined to look into the new century that was beginning and to

give a direction to Christianity of the new century. The

direction was this: to study, to imitate, to follow Jesus Christ who is Way, Truth and Life. It is not a beautiful

expression, nor a suggestion, but it is the substance of the

Congregation, to be or not to be Paulines. There must not be any

deviations. The study has to be conformed to the devotion

to Jesus Master the Way, the Truth and the Life; the religious discipline has to conform itself to Jesus

Master the Way, the Truth and the Life; prayer life has to conform itself

to Jesus Master the Way, the Truth and the Life; the apostolate has to give this. When it does not give this,

it is out of place and it is not blessed. When it gives this, it is on his path, the way of God.

Then follows benedictions after benedictions…".

(James Alberione)

"Oh, when grace takes

possession

of a soul, it is like when the

yeast

is placed in the dough! It makes

it

to grow so much as to change it

into Jesus and that soul then

will speak like Jesus, thinks like

Jesus, gazes like Jesus, loves

like Jesus; this souls life is no

more ones own but Jesus lives

in it (…) ".

Through us Jesus wants to

speak, think, love and live…. Meditation to the FSP

on December 10th 1932

Jesus Master, may I think with your mind and wisdom.May I love with your heart.May I see with your eyes.May I speak with your tongue.May I hear with your ears.May I relish the things you relish.May my hands be yours.May my feet follow in your footsteps.May I pray using your words.May I treat others as you do.May I celebrate the Eucharist with your self-immolation.May I dwell in you as you do in me, to the point that I disappear. (James Alberione)

Heavenly Father,

you have invited us

to follow you more closely.

Today renew for us that call,

which has marked forever our life

and the life of the Founder:

"Come to me, all of you".

Grant us the same spirit of

Blessed Alberione, so that we

may enter into

a journey of transformation,

to be not only of Christ

but to become Christ (cf VC 109),

to be the place of his life in

imitation of our Father St. Paul:

"I live, but no longer I, but

Christ lives in me" (Gal 2,20).