My Times are in Your Hand

Following the book on the spirituality of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, titled, And the Whole House Was Filled with the Fragrance of the Ointment, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Grand Master, received several requests from Knights and Dames who wished to have guidance to continue progressing along their life of faith. From these requests comes I miei giorni sono nelle tue mani (My Times are in Your Hand), a small volume of meditations, published by San Paolo, for now available in Italian.

A spiritual life is never static, for it is made of steps forward and pauses, of detours, of reconsiderations. It is a continuous search, which sometimes finds decisive turning points in encounters that can make us change direction.

Commencing with the lives of men and women who have encountered Christ and allowed that meeting to transform their existence, this book travels through the history of faith: beginning with distant figures such as Abraham and Moses, it enters the home of Mary and Joseph, follows the path of the Magi, listens to the voice of John the Baptist and the tears of Mary Magdalene, up to Peter and Paul. Then the journey opens again, passing through Helena, mother of Constantine, Augustine, Thomas, Francis of Assisi, and arriving at the saints of our own time: Charles de Foucauld, Edith Stein, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, witnesses who became words made flesh and who made the gifts of Christ visible in their concrete lives. Cardinal Filoni offers his readers pages that resemble brushstrokes of colour on a canvas, and the reader can piece them together and create their own picture. At the centre, in filigree, there is always Jesus.

But since discipleship is never complete, the book remains open, waiting for each of us to write our own story with God in the remaining pages. On the path, we see the footprints of Jesus, and on them we can place our own feet, deciding as well, like the Psalmist, to say: “My times are in your hand” (Ps 31[30]:16).

(October 2025)