Feb 19, 2025

Scandals and lack of ‘salt’

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"And whoever scandalises one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown…
Feb 17, 2025

Service and littleness

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Today's Gospel recounts Jesus' second proclamation of his death and resurrection, combined with the ability to know how to welcome the advancing Kingdom through the little ones. He advises that…
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…
Feb 13, 2025

Deny yourself, brother Fly

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Jesus told the crowd and his disciples: «If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me [...]» (Mk 8:34). Francis, after…
Feb 11, 2025

From blindness to seeing clearly

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Mk narrates the healing of the blind man of Bethsaida. Jesus heals him outside the village, and asks him not to enter it. Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi, healed…
Feb 9, 2025

What Sign?

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In the verses from Mark's Gospel, Jesus is disgusted by the hypocritical Pharisees, who start arguing with Him asking for a sign from heaven to test Him, after the miracle…
In the second distribution of the loaves and fishes, Mk highlights Jesus' compassion for the exhausted and hungry crowd, who follow him, to whom he gives food. The Poor Man…
Feb 5, 2025

Humble and indomitable Faith

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In the passage from Mark, the sincere and indomitable faith of a Syro-Phoenician woman is narrated, who asks and obtains from Jesus - precisely by Faith - the deliverance of…
Feb 3, 2025

Woodland creatures

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Mk highlights the comparison between Jesus and the scribes and Pharisees, whom He reproaches for the hypocrisy of appearances - worshipping their tradition instead of God Himself - and neglecting…
Francis had understood that the words of the Crucifix of San Damiano did not refer to the rebuilding of the small temple, but to the renewal of the Church in…
Jan 30, 2025

Martyrdom donated

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The evangelist Mark illustrates the circumstances of the Baptist's martyrdom. Herod wanted to have John killed for fear of revolts, and because he reproached him for his offences. But he…
Jan 28, 2025

Another vision, in mockery

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Chapter 6 of Mark's Gospel highlights the rejection of Jesus by the inhabitants of Nazareth. The Lord is amazed at the unbelief found in his homeland and the contempt reserved…
Jan 27, 2025

Legion and humility

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The passage from Mark presents a Jesus grappling with demons who fear to be cast out. The unclean spirits gang up on the authentic servants of God. Francis knew something…
Jan 24, 2025

«Who is this Person?»

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In this passage from the Gospel of Mark, the episode of the storm calmed by the Lord of history and glory is narrated. Jesus commands the winds and says to…
Jan 22, 2025

Lamp under the bushel?

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Granted that Francis considered the preachers of the Word to be the "lamp of the world" and that the Spirit of God made him so, marvellous is what we read…
With an astonishing twist of hand, Jesus explains who his mother and brothers are: those who embody the will of God. After their conversion, Francis and Clare always sought God's…
Francis had been mocked and treated like a madman in his native Assisi, looked down upon like an unclean cloth by the local 'good people', sunk in feudal solace and…
Mk depicts Jesus ascending the mountain and in solitude-prayer calling the Twelve to follow him. Francis' vocation to follow Christ was a call and attraction of other sequels. His assiduous…
Jan 14, 2025

Observance and Person

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Today's Gospel highlights the hardness of heart of the Pharisees who were ready to accuse Jesus for healing a paralysed hand. For them, observance comes before the person. And that…
Jan 12, 2025

The new of wineskins and wine

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Mk emphasises the meaninglessness of fasting while the Bridegroom Jesus is still with his own and it is feast time! When the Bridegroom is taken away then they will fast.…
Jan 10, 2025

Vocation Conversion

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Today the liturgy proposes, through the Gospel of Mark, the metamorphosis of Levi, who became Matthew to follow Jesus in the adventure of his vocation. The concern of Jesus, who…
In the Gospel passage from Mk, Jesus shows compassion towards a leper on the margins of society, into which he intends to reintegrate him. The Poor Man's encounter with the…
Jan 6, 2025

Evil cornered

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Jesus heals in the synagogue a man possessed by an unclean spirit, forced to recognise who Jesus, "the Holy One of God", is. The greatest defeat of evil is to…
«And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form, like a dove, upon him» (Lk 3:22) In the Sources concerning the birth and baptism of Francis we read: "The servant and…
Francis had been mocked and treated like a madman in his native Assisi, looked down upon as an unclean cloth by the 'good people' of the place, sunk in feudal…
Jan 2, 2025

To acknowledge Christ

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At the mere thought of the Lord's Supper, out of rhetoric Like Clare, the Poor Man of Assisi always had a special solicitude and veneration for the Eucharist. The mere…
Dec 31, 2024

Star-Poverty. Gold Incense Myrrh

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The Epiphany of the Lord offers evangelical expressions of extraordinary beauty. On the lips of the Magi we find a phrase that belongs to us, as worshippers of the Child…
Dec 29, 2024

Mild Lamb picture

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Today's Gospel offers us a special picture. John, fixing his gaze on Jesus passing by, exclaims: "Behold the Lamb of God!" (v.36). The theme of the Lamb is recurring in…
Dec 27, 2024

Voice of the Logos!

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The Gospel passage presents the testimony of John, the Forerunner. To those who ask him who he was, he presents himself as "the voice of one crying out in the…
Dec 25, 2024

One of us

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In his Prologue, John speaks to us of the Word made one of us, as a sign of God's gratuitous love and unwavering faithfulness towards us. In his autograph writings,…
I trust in the witness of those families that draw their energy from the sacrament of marriage; with them it becomes possible to overcome the trial that befalls them, to be able to forgive an offence, to accept a suffering child, to illumine the life of the other, even if he or she is weak or disabled, through the beauty of love. It is on the basis of families such as these that the fabric of society must be restored (Pope Benedict)
Ho fiducia nella testimonianza di quelle famiglie che traggono la loro energia dal sacramento del matrimonio; con esse diviene possibile superare la prova che si presenta, saper perdonare un'offesa, accogliere un figlio che soffre, illuminare la vita dell'altro, anche se debole e disabile, mediante la bellezza dell'amore. È a partire da tali famiglie che si deve ristabilire il tessuto della società (Papa Benedetto)
St Louis IX, King of France put into practice what is written in the Book of Sirach: "The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself; so you will find favour in the sight of the Lord" (3: 18). This is what the King wrote in his "Spiritual Testament to his son": "If the Lord grant you some prosperity, not only must you humbly thank him but take care not to become worse by boasting or in any other way, make sure, that is, that you do not come into conflict with God or offend him with his own gifts" (cf. Acta Sanctorum Augusti 5 [1868], 546) [Pope Benedict]
San Luigi IX, re di Francia […] ha messo in pratica ciò che è scritto nel Libro del Siracide: "Quanto più sei grande, tanto più fatti umile, e troverai grazia davanti al Signore" (3,18). Così egli scriveva nel suo "Testamento spirituale al figlio": "Se il Signore ti darà qualche prosperità, non solo lo dovrai umilmente ringraziare, ma bada bene a non diventare peggiore per vanagloria o in qualunque altro modo, bada cioè a non entrare in contrasto con Dio o offenderlo con i suoi doni stessi" (Acta Sanctorum Augusti 5 [1868], 546) [Papa Benedetto]
The temptation is to be “closed off”. The disciples would like to hinder a good deed simply because it is performed by someone who does not belong to their group. They think they have the “exclusive right over Jesus”, and that they are the only ones authorised to work for the Kingdom of God. But this way, they end up feeling that they are privileged and consider others as outsiders, to the extent of becoming hostile towards them (Pope Francis)
La tentazione è quella della chiusura. I discepoli vorrebbero impedire un’opera di bene solo perché chi l’ha compiuta non apparteneva al loro gruppo. Pensano di avere “l’esclusiva su Gesù” e di essere gli unici autorizzati a lavorare per il Regno di Dio. Ma così finiscono per sentirsi prediletti e considerano gli altri come estranei, fino a diventare ostili nei loro confronti (Papa Francesco)
“If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all” (Mk 9:35) […] To preside at the Lord’s Supper is, therefore, an urgent invitation to offer oneself in gift, so that the attitude of the Suffering Servant and Lord may continue and grow in the Church (Papa Giovanni Paolo II)
"Se uno vuol essere il primo, sia l'ultimo di tutti e il servo di tutti" (Mc 9, 35) […] Presiedere la Cena del Signore è, pertanto, invito pressante ad offrirsi in dono, perché permanga e cresca nella Chiesa l'atteggiamento del Servo sofferente e Signore (Papa Giovanni Paolo II)
Miracles still exist today. But to allow the Lord to carry them out there is a need for courageous prayer, capable of overcoming that "something of unbelief" that dwells in the heart of every man, even if he is a man of faith. Prayer must "put flesh on the fire", that is, involve our person and commit our whole life, to overcome unbelief (Pope Francis)

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