Apr 7, 2026

2nd Sunday in Easter

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(1 Peter 1:3–9) 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; in his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope…
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…
"God is love" (I Jn 4: 16): in this simple affirmation the Evangelist John has enclosed the revelation of the entire mystery of the Triune God. And in meeting with…
Our meeting today puts us into direct contact with the depths of the mystery of God’s love. We are in fact taking part in Vespers in honour of the Most…
Apr 7, 2026

Light or darkness

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Today's Gospel proclaims that God sent his Son to save men, not to humble them. The distinction is: he who believes has the same life as the Eternal, but he…
“God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son” (Jn 3:16). This is the heart of the Gospel; this is the source of our joy. The Gospel message…
Eternal life was opened to us by the Paschal Mystery of Christ and faith is the way to reach it. This is what what emerges from Jesus' words to Nicodemus…
6. The identity of the Son of Man appears in the dual aspect of representative of God, herald of the kingdom of God, prophet calling to conversion. On the other…
Today's passage from the Johannine Gospel highlights Jesus' dialogue with Nicodemus. The latter represented the group of Jews who sensed the value of the novelty of the young Rabbi's teaching…
When we look to the Cross where Jesus was nailed, we contemplate the sign of love, of the infinite love of God for each of us and the source of…
The Gospel presents to us a person by the name of Nicodemus, a member of the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem who sought out Jesus by night. He was a well-to-do man,…
1. Nicodemus said to him: "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb a second time and be born again?" (John 3,…
Apr 5, 2026

From water and the Spirit

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In the opening verses of John 3 Jesus emphasises to the Pharisee Nicodemus, who questioned him, the urgency of being born again from above by the Holy Spirit. In the…
There are people - we too, very often - who cannot live in the light because they are accustomed to the dark. The light blinds them, they are unable to…
Christ is risen! Peace to you! Today we celebrate the great mystery, the foundation of Christian faith and hope: Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified One, has risen from the dead…
The Upper Room in Jerusalem too was a kind of “school of faith” for the Apostles. However, in a sense, what happened to Thomas goes beyond what occurred near Caesarea…
On the first day of the week Jesus went behind closed doors into the place where the disciples were gathered. He gave them the mandate to proclaim the Good News,…
We must get out of ourselves and go out onto the roads of man to discover that the wounds of Jesus are still visible today on the bodies of all…
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation” (Mk 16:15); “make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19). With these words, Jesus sends the Apostles to…
Dear Young People, 1. In an extraordinary way the Lord blessed the Sixth World Youth Day which was celebrated last August at the shrine of Jasna Góra in Czestochowa. In…
Apr 3, 2026

Believing and proclaiming

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The Risen Jesus manifested Himself several times to the disciples and, despite their unbelief and hardness of heart, sent them out into the world to proclaim the Gospel to every…
Transmitted not to convince but to offer a Treasure The Gospel of Mark was the first to be written. It is simple, a simple style, very close […] In the…
Peter’s call to be a shepherd, which we heard in the Gospel, comes after the account of a miraculous catch of fish: after a night in which the disciples had…
1. "Just as the day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach" (Jn 21: 4). At the crack of dawn, the Risen One appeared to the Apostles, who had just…
The Risen Jesus returned to manifest Himself to His disciples on the Lake of Tiberias, inviting them to go fishing. The disciples believed and immediately experienced the fruitfulness of gestures…
Apr 2, 2026

In daily life

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Today’s Gospel recounts the third apparition of the Risen Jesus to the disciples, with the account of the miraculous catch on the shore of the lake of Galilee (cf. Jn…
This day [...] in the Gospel according to Luke we meet the Risen Jesus who presents himself to the disciples (cf. Lk 24:36) who, startled and incredulous, think they are…
1. Shine upon us, Lord, the light of your face! (cf. Ps 4:7) With such words the Church prays in today's liturgy. He asks for divine light. He asks for…
The Risen One, before ascending to the Father, revealed himself to the Eleven and the other disciples, making his great commission: to be witnesses of new life, preaching the Gospel…
At the centre [...] there is the encounter with the Risen One experienced by his disciples, all together. This is evidenced especially by the Gospel which introduces us once again…
God loves the world and will love it to the end. The Heart of the Son of God pierced on the Cross and opened is a profound and definitive witness to God’s love. Saint Bonaventure writes: “It was a divine decree that permitted one of the soldiers to open his sacred wide with a lance… The blood and water which poured out at that moment was the price of our salvation” (John Paul II)
Il mondo è amato da Dio e sarà amato fino alla fine. Il Cuore del Figlio di Dio trafitto sulla croce e aperto, testimonia in modo profondo e definitivo l’amore di Dio. Scriverà San Bonaventura: “Per divina disposizione è stato permesso che un soldato trafiggesse e aprisse quel sacro costato. Ne uscì sangue ed acqua, prezzo della nostra salvezza” (Giovanni Paolo II)
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)

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