{"id":6955,"date":"2011-11-03T15:21:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-coming-revelation-of-the-father\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:37:33","slug":"the-coming-revelation-of-the-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-coming-revelation-of-the-father\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Revelation of the Father","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
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ONE<\/strong> of the great graces of the Illumination<\/a><\/em> is going to be the revelation of the Father’s<\/em> love. For the great crisis of our time\u2014the destruction of the family unit\u2014is the loss of our identity as sons and daughters<\/em> of God:<\/p>\n

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The crisis of fatherhood we are living today is an element, perhaps the most important, threatening man in his humanity. The dissolution of fatherhood and motherhood is linked to the dissolution of our being sons and daughters.\u00a0<\/strong> \u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI (Cardinal Ratzinger), Palermo, March 15th, 2000\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At Paray-le-Monial, France, during the Sacred Heart Congress, I sensed the Lord saying that this moment of the prodigal son, the moment of the Father of Mercies <\/em> is coming. Even though mystics speak of the Illumination as a moment of seeing the crucified Lamb or an illuminated cross, [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. Revelation Illumination<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>