
Sisters and Brothers! If the lamp of faith which you are carrying in your soul is getting empty of the divine oil which comes from God himself, if you feel that the flame of your faith is fading I invite you to make your way to Mother Julian of Norwich. You don’t need to travel to England. In this church of ours you can turn to her, our saint, in your prayer and recalling all the situations which can make it hard for you to believe and trust God repeat what God revealed to her: ‘All will be well.’ Keep repeating it and God will give you his divine oil to make your faith burn so strongly and brightly that you will be able to look to the horizon of eternity. Like St Paul did as we could hear in our reading today from the First Letter to the Thessalonians: ‘At the trumpet of God, the voice of the archangel will call out the command and the Lord himself will come down from heaven, those who have died in Christ will be the first to rise, and then those of us who are still alive will be taken up in the clouds, together with them, to meet the Lord in the air. So we shall stay with the Lord forever. With such thoughts as these you should comfort one another.’ What did St Paul tell the Thessalonians two thousand years ago? What is he telling us today? ‘All will be well.’ Out the mess of this world, which has been caused by sin God will eventually bring good. ‘All will be well.’
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