2nd Easter Sunday or Divine Mercy Sunday [12 April 2026] *First Reading from the Acts of the Apostles (2:42–47) Here is a glimpse of the very first Christian community, as…
The Easter Triduum and Easter [2–5 April 2026] Holy Week, the most important week of the year for us Christians, allows believers to immerse themselves in the central events of…
Palm Sunday and the Passion of the Lord [29 March 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin Mary protect us! We enter Holy Week, of which Palm Sunday…
5th Lent Sunday (year A) [22 March 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us! This Sunday touches upon the theme of death and of life that…
4th Lent Sunday [15 March 2026] Laetare May God bless us and the Virgin protect us! This Sunday is a pause of light in the penitential journey. In the Gospel,…
Third Lent Sunday (year A) [8 March 2026] May God bless us and the Virgin Mary protect us! Have a good Lenten journey as we pause today with Jesus at…
Second Lent Sunday (year A) [1st March 2026] *First Reading from the Book of Genesis (12:1-4) The few lines we have just read constitute the first act of the entire…
First Lent Sunday [22 February 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us. I apologise if I dwell too long today on the presentation of the texts,…
Feb 16, 2026

Ash Wednesday

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Ash Wednesday [18 February 2026] May God bless us and the Virgin protect us! I am now sending the texts for Ash Wednesday and Wednesday those for Sunday. *First Reading…
VI Sunday in Ordinary Time (year A) [15 February 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us. The theme of the two paths, so dear to the…
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (year A) [8 February 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us! We are approaching Lent. Let us begin to prepare ourselves…
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple [2 February 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us! Here is also a brief commentary on the texts of the…
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (year A) [1 February 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us. Rereading and meditating on the Beatitudes in Matthew's Gospel is…
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) [25 January 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin Mary protect us! Today marks the end of the week of prayer…
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (year A) [18 January 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us. Today begins the week of prayer for Christian unity (18-25…
Baptism of the Lord (year A) [11 January 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us! Today marks the end of the Christmas season, as we give…
Epiphany of the Lord (year A) [6 January 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us! Happy Epiphany! *First Reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah…
Second Sunday after Christmas (year A) [4 January 2026] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us. In the Christmas season, the liturgy constantly leads us to meditate…
Mary, Holy Mother of God (year A) [1 January 2026] May God bless us and the Virgin protect us! Best wishes for the new year, invoking God's blessing throughout 2026…
Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (Year A) [28 December 2025] May God bless us and may the Virgin protect us! Here is a commentary on…
Dec 21, 2025

Christmas Day

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Christmas Day 2025 [Midnight Mass] May God bless you and may the Virgin Mary protect us. Best wishes for this holy Christmas Day of Christ. I offer for your consideration…
IV Sunday in Advent (year A) [21 December 2025] May God bless us and the Virgin protect us! As we approach Christmas, the Word of God reminds us of the…
Thus, paradoxically, from a sign of condemnation, death and failure, the Cross becomes a sign of redemption, life and victory, through faith, the fruits of salvation can be gathered (Pope Benedict)
Così la Croce, paradossalmente, da segno di condanna, di morte, di fallimento, diventa segno di redenzione, di vita, di vittoria, in cui, con sguardo di fede, si possono scorgere i frutti della salvezza (Papa Benedetto)
[Nicodemus] felt the fascination of this Rabbi, so different from the others, but could not manage to rid himself of the conditioning of his environment that was hostile to Jesus, and stood irresolute on the threshold of faith (Pope Benedict)
[Nicodemo] avverte il fascino di questo Rabbì così diverso dagli altri, ma non riesce a sottrarsi ai condizionamenti dell’ambiente contrario a Gesù e resta titubante sulla soglia della fede (Papa Benedetto)
Those wounds that, in the beginning were an obstacle for Thomas’s faith, being a sign of Jesus’ apparent failure, those same wounds have become in his encounter with the Risen One, signs of a victorious love. These wounds that Christ has received for love of us help us to understand who God is and to repeat: “My Lord and my God!” Only a God who loves us to the extent of taking upon himself our wounds and our pain, especially innocent suffering, is worthy of faith (Pope Benedict)
Quelle piaghe, che per Tommaso erano dapprima un ostacolo alla fede, perché segni dell’apparente fallimento di Gesù; quelle stesse piaghe sono diventate, nell’incontro con il Risorto, prove di un amore vittorioso. Queste piaghe che Cristo ha contratto per amore nostro ci aiutano a capire chi è Dio e a ripetere anche noi: “Mio Signore e mio Dio”. Solo un Dio che ci ama fino a prendere su di sé le nostre ferite e il nostro dolore, soprattutto quello innocente, è degno di fede (Papa Benedetto)
We see that the disciples are still closed in their thinking […] How does Jesus answer? He answers by broadening their horizons […] and he confers upon them the task of bearing witness to him all over the world, transcending the cultural and religious confines within which they were accustomed to think and live (Pope Benedict)
Vediamo che i discepoli sono ancora chiusi nella loro visione […] E come risponde Gesù? Risponde aprendo i loro orizzonti […] e conferisce loro l’incarico di testimoniarlo in tutto il mondo oltrepassando i confini culturali e religiosi entro cui erano abituati a pensare e a vivere (Papa Benedetto)
The Fathers made a very significant commentary on this singular task. This is what they say: for a fish, created for water, it is fatal to be taken out of the sea, to be removed from its vital element to serve as human food. But in the mission of a fisher of men, the reverse is true. We are living in alienation, in the salt waters of suffering and death; in a sea of darkness without light. The net of the Gospel pulls us out of the waters of death and brings us into the splendour of God’s light, into true life (Pope Benedict)
I Padri […] dicono così: per il pesce, creato per l’acqua, è mortale essere tirato fuori dal mare. Esso viene sottratto al suo elemento vitale per servire di nutrimento all’uomo. Ma nella missione del pescatore di uomini avviene il contrario. Noi uomini viviamo alienati, nelle acque salate della sofferenza e della morte; in un mare di oscurità senza luce. La rete del Vangelo ci tira fuori dalle acque della morte e ci porta nello splendore della luce di Dio, nella vera vita (Papa Benedetto)

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