Oct 23, 2025

Healings

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Francis had his gaze fixed on Jesus, the author and perfecter of the law. His true joy was to live as Christ lived. Therefore, he had no problem helping and…
Jesus invites us to strive to enter through the narrow door, knowing that works speak for themselves and that the last will be first. These themes are assiduously present in…
Oct 19, 2025

Liberation or slavery

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Jesus poses a question to those present, following the healing of a bent woman: «Now this woman, being a daughter of Abraham [...] should she not have been loosed from…
Jesus calls for conversion: «unless you are converted, you will all perish in the same way» (Lk 13:5) is a recurring expression. Francis, humble of heart and simple, in this…
Oct 15, 2025

Fire, burning Spirit

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Jesus in his Gospel speaks of a Fire that he came to bring to the earth, a watershed of following and not following. Francis, the Fire that the Lord intended,…
Oct 13, 2025

Readiness and response

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The readiness, the vigilance that Jesus speaks of in the Gospel is very much present in the lives of Francis and Clare. The Sources speak of this fundamental attitude in…
Oct 11, 2025

Persistent Prayer

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Chapter eighteen of Luke recounts the parable of the judge and the importunate widow, emphasising the value of personal prayer that is engaging, confident and constant. Those who know a…
In chapter twelve of Luke's Gospel, Jesus warns against hypocrisy, whose father is the one whom St Teresa of Avila called 'a liar, a hypocrite, a dark one'. We must…
Enunciating the various woes addressed to the Pharisees and teachers of the Law, Jesus emphasises how they left aside justice and the love of God. Francis was particularly sensitive to…
Oct 5, 2025

Sign par excellence, convincing

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In today's passage to the crowds thronging in search of signs Jesus replies that only one sign will be given to them: that of the prophet Jonah. Francis of Assisi…
In these few verses of today's Gospel is contained the true blessedness, enunciated by Jesus, of those who know how to listen and embody the Word of God in the…
Chapter eleven of Luke continues by highlighting how confident and persevering prayer not only obtains what is asked for, but even more: the great gift of the Holy Spirit. In…
Francis of Assisi, the Knower and the Least of God, always had clear in his conscience the importance and necessity of the contemplative life, tempered by work that keeps idleness…
Sep 27, 2025

Faith and humility

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On this twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Liturgy focuses on the passage from Luke in which the apostles ask Jesus: «Increase our Faith!» (Lk 17:5). Looking through the Sources,…
Sep 25, 2025

Why to the birds

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In today's Gospel, Jesus rebukes the cities that, despite having received wonderful benefits, had not converted. It echoes: «Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!» (Lk 10:13). The present…
Sep 23, 2025

Free to follow Him

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In these verses from chapter nine, the Gospel of Luke highlights the conditions necessary to follow Jesus and His bare, poor and wandering life. «Foxes have dens and birds of…
Sep 21, 2025

Francis' devotion to the Angels

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The passage from the Gospel of John introduces us to the feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, archangels entrusted with special missions among men. Jesus refers to them in…
The Gospel of Luke speaks today of the second announcement of the Passion of Jesus. He sought to prepare the disciples for the consummation of his Paschal Mystery, but they…
Sep 16, 2025

Who is He?

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The few verses of chapter nine of Luke, taken up in today's liturgy, shed light on Herod's dilemma concerning Jesus: «John, I have had him beheaded; now who is he…
Sep 15, 2025

Listening and Incarnation

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Jesus calls to reflect on who his mother and brothers are: «these who hear the Word of God and do it» (Lk 8:21). Francis, who considered himself simple and idiotic,…
Caught red-handed, before being dismissed, the dishonest administrator knows how to make friends with the same dishonest wealth. Jesus, addressing his disciples, emphasises that the children of this world are…
Chapter eight of Luke, at the beginning, speaks of the proclamation of the Good News of the Kingdom by Jesus and the Twelve, and of the following of women who,…
In this passage from the Gospel of Luke, Jesus compares the generation of his time to those children who cry out to one another about their inability to accept the…
Sep 7, 2025

Stay and meditate

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The liturgy of this day focuses, both in the Gospel of John and in that of Luke, on the figure of the Virgin Mary, included in the mystery of salvific…
Jesus emphasises the main criterion for recognising the fruitfulness of the tree: noting what fruit it produces. He also refers to the heart of every creature that says, says... but…
In today's Gospel Jesus calls those who listen to love those who behave as enemies. «Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you» (Lk 6:27). Francis loved those…
Sep 1, 2025

In Prayer the power of choices

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Jesus spends the night in prayer, choosing, then, the Twelve - and healing the sick who flocked to Him. Francis of Assisi, after his conversion, was no longer a man…
Aug 31, 2025

Renunciation and discipleship

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The Liturgy focuses on the passage from Luke in which Jesus sets out the conditions for following Him in His call to mission for the Gospel. «Anyone of you who…
Aug 27, 2025

Without exaggeration

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The text of Luke presents Jesus responding to the scribes and Pharisees about fasting. Now the Bridegroom is with them and they will not fast, when he is taken from…
In today's passage, Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law and, at sunset, many sick and possessed people, continuing his journey to announce the Good News of the Kingdom. The Poverello of Assisi,…
The saints: they are our precursors, they are our brothers, they are our friends, they are our examples, they are our lawyers. Let us honour them, let us invoke them and try to imitate them a little (Pope Paul VI)
I santi: sono i precursori nostri, sono i fratelli, sono gli amici, sono gli esempi, sono gli avvocati nostri. Onoriamoli, invochiamoli e cerchiamo di imitarli un po’ (Papa Paolo VI)
Man rightly fears falling victim to an oppression that will deprive him of his interior freedom, of the possibility of expressing the truth of which he is convinced, of the faith that he professes, of the ability to obey the voice of conscience that tells him the right path to follow [Dives in Misericordia, n.11]
L'uomo ha giustamente paura di restar vittima di una oppressione che lo privi della libertà interiore, della possibilità di esternare la verità di cui è convinto, della fede che professa, della facoltà di obbedire alla voce della coscienza che gli indica la retta via da seguire [Dives in Misericordia, n.11]
We find ourselves, so to speak, roped to Jesus Christ together with him on the ascent towards God's heights (Pope Benedict)
Ci troviamo, per così dire, in una cordata con Gesù Cristo – insieme con Lui nella salita verso le altezze di Dio (Papa Benedetto)
Church is a «sign». That is, those who looks at it with a clear eye, those who observes it, those who studies it realise that it represents a fact, a singular phenomenon; they see that it has a «meaning» (Pope Paul VI)
La Chiesa è un «segno». Cioè chi la guarda con occhio limpido, chi la osserva, chi la studia si accorge ch’essa rappresenta un fatto, un fenomeno singolare; vede ch’essa ha un «significato» (Papa Paolo VI)
Let us look at them together, not only because they are always placed next to each other in the lists of the Twelve (cf. Mt 10: 3, 4; Mk 3: 18; Lk 6: 15; Acts 1: 13), but also because there is very little information about them, apart from the fact that the New Testament Canon preserves one Letter attributed to Jude Thaddaeus [Pope Benedict]
Li consideriamo insieme, non solo perché nelle liste dei Dodici sono sempre riportati l'uno accanto all'altro (cfr Mt 10,4; Mc 3,18; Lc 6,15; At 1,13), ma anche perché le notizie che li riguardano non sono molte, a parte il fatto che il Canone neotestamentario conserva una lettera attribuita a Giuda Taddeo [Papa Benedetto]
Bernard of Clairvaux coined the marvellous expression: Impassibilis est Deus, sed non incompassibilis - God cannot suffer, but he can suffer with (Spe Salvi, n.39)
Bernardo di Chiaravalle ha coniato la meravigliosa espressione: Impassibilis est Deus, sed non incompassibilis – Dio non può patire, ma può compatire (Spe Salvi, n.39)
Pride compromises every good deed, empties prayer, creates distance from God and from others. If God prefers humility it is not to dishearten us: rather, humility is the necessary condition to be raised (Pope Francis)
La superbia compromette ogni azione buona, svuota la preghiera, allontana da Dio e dagli altri. Se Dio predilige l’umiltà non è per avvilirci: l’umiltà è piuttosto condizione necessaria per essere rialzati (Papa Francesco)
A “year” of grace: the period of Christ’s ministry, the time of the Church before his glorious return, an interval of our life (Pope Francis)
Un “anno” di grazia: il tempo del ministero di Cristo, il tempo della Chiesa prima del suo ritorno glorioso, il tempo della nostra vita (Papa Francesco)
The Church, having before her eyes the picture of the generation to which we belong, shares the uneasiness of so many of the people of our time (Dives in Misericordia n.12)

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