With all my heart. I stress, here, the adjective "all". Totalitarianism, in politics, is an ugly thing. In religion, on the contrary, a totalitarianism on our side towards God is…
1. We resume today, after a rather long pause, the meditations which we have been holding for some time and which we have called reflections on the theology of the…
1. Jesus' incisive statement: 'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's' (Matthew 22:21), answers a problem that was much discussed in…
Psalm 117 [118], Lauds on Sunday of the Second Week 1. When a Christian, in unison with the voice of prayer in Israel, sings Psalm 117{118}, that we just heard,…
1. "Blessed be God the Father and his only-begotten Son and the Holy Spirit: for great is his love for us" (Entrance Antiphon). The entire liturgy is focused on the…
"The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone" (Ps 118:22). With these words of the Psalm, the Easter liturgy expresses a central truth of faith. The Church believes…
May 21, 2026

To young people

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I have spoken of bearing fruit, and here too the Gospel comes to my aid, when it presents – in a reading we encountered recently in the sacred liturgy –…
May 20, 2026

Faith in Christ

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1. Looking at the primary objective of the Jubilee, which is the "strengthening of faith and of the witness of Christians" (Tertio millennio adveniente, n. 42), after outlining in previous…
May 19, 2026

Fortress

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1. "Veni, Sancte Spiritus!" This, dear brothers and sisters, is the invocation that today, the Solemnity of Pentecost, rises insistently and confidently from the whole Church: Come, Holy Spirit, come…
1. In the Gospels, when Jesus called his first Apostles to make them “fishers of men” (Mt 4:19; Mk 1:17; cf. Lk 5:10), they “left everything and followed him” (Lk…
At the Cross, Mary shares in the drama of Redemption (John 19:17–28, 25). Mary united herself to Jesus’ offering 1. Regina caeli laetare, alleluia! So the Church sings in this…
The Spirit and the "seeds of truth" in human thought 1. Repeating a statement in the book of Wisdom (1:7), the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council teaches us that “the Spirit…
May 15, 2026

PENTECOST VIGIL

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1. "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I also send you... Receive the Holy Spirit"! (Jn 20, 21-22). On this eve of Pentecost, the Church in…
May 14, 2026

More of them

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1. The promise made by Jesus to Simon Peter, to make him the cornerstone of his Church, is reflected in the mandate that Christ entrusts to him after the resurrection:…
1. "For their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth" (Jn 17:19). Dear brothers and sisters, today, in the liturgy of this Sunday after the…
It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to…
13. The great challenge of our time for believers and for all people of good will is that of maintaining truthful and free communication which will help consolidate integral progress…
1. In many countries, including Italy, the Solemnity of Christ's Ascension has been moved back to Sunday. With this feast we remember that after his Resurrection, Jesus presented himself alive…
2725 Prayer is a gift of grace and a decisive response on our part. It always presupposes an effort. The great prayers of the Old Covenant before Christ, as well…
1. We have already heard several times from St Paul that "joy is the fruit of the Holy Spirit" (Gal 5:22), as are love and peace, which we have discussed…
To the disciples Jesus addresses the invitation to rejoice, to overcome the temptation of sadness for the departure of the Master, because this departure is a condition laid down in…
1. We have often quoted the words of Jesus, who in his farewell discourse addressed to the apostles in the Upper Room promises the coming of the Holy Spirit as…
1. "But now I go to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me: Where are you going? Indeed, because I have told you these things, sadness…
1. We have often quoted the words of Jesus, who in his farewell discourse addressed to the apostles in the Upper Room promises the coming of the Holy Spirit as…
In the previous reflection on the Holy Spirit we began with John's text of Jesus' farewell discourse. In a certain way this is the principal gospel source of pneumatology. Jesus…
37. The Church of the first millennium was born of the blood of the martyrs: "Sanguis martyrum - semen christianorum". The historical events linked to the figure of Constantine the…
Men, eternally elected by the Father in the Beloved Son, find in Christ the Way to their end as adopted children. To Him they unite themselves by becoming His Body.…
Apr 29, 2026

Inspired Love

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2. The loving God is a God who is not remote, but intervenes in history. When he reveals his name to Moses, he does so to assure him of his…
Apr 28, 2026

Organic bond

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The parable of the vine and the branches highlights, in a special way, that bond, in a certain sense 'organic', that exists between Christ and the Church: between Christ and…
5. From the very dawn of civilization, developing human communities sought to establish agreements and pacts which would avoid the arbitrary use of force and enable them to seek a…
In the middle of the dense forest of rules and regulations — to the legalisms of past and present — Jesus makes an opening through which one can catch a glimpse of two faces: the face of the Father and the face of the brother. He does not give us two formulas or two precepts: there are no precepts nor formulas. He gives us two faces [Pope Francis]
In mezzo alla fitta selva di precetti e prescrizioni – ai legalismi di ieri e di oggi – Gesù opera uno squarcio che permette di scorgere due volti: il volto del Padre e quello del fratello. Non ci consegna due formule o due precetti: non sono precetti e formule; ci consegna due volti [Papa Francesco]
Whoever is inscribed in God's name participates in God's life, and lives. Therefore to believe is to be inscribed in the name of God. Thus we are alive. Whoever has a share in God's name is not dead but rather belongs to the living God. In this sense we should be able to understand the dynamism of faith, which entails enrolling our names in the name of God and in this way entering into life [Pope Benedict]
Chi è scritto nel nome di Dio partecipa alla vita di Dio, vive. E così credere è essere iscritti nel nome di Dio. E così siamo vivi. Chi appartiene al nome di Dio non è un morto, appartiene al Dio vivente. In questo senso dovremmo capire il dinamismo della fede, che è un iscrivere il nostro nome nel nome di Dio e così un entrare nella vita [Papa Benedetto]
As sometimes happens in the Gospel, faced with the trap set for him by his enemies, Jesus, with his response, rises above the contingent controversy and goes far beyond the particular and mutually divergent positions (John Paul II)
Come talora accade nel Vangelo, di fronte al tranello mossogli dai suoi nemici, Gesù, con la sua risposta, s’innalza al di sopra della polemica contingente e va ben oltre le posizioni particolari e tra loro divergenti (Giovanni Paolo II)
This Name clearly expresses that the God of the Bible is not some kind of monad closed in on itself and satisfied with his own self-sufficiency but he is life that wants to communicate itself, openness, relationship [Pope Benedict]
Questo nome esprime dunque chiaramente che il Dio della Bibbia non è una sorta di monade chiusa in se stessa e soddisfatta della propria autosufficienza, ma è vita che vuole comunicarsi, è apertura, relazione [Papa Benedetto]
There, however, in the place that should have been taken up by the encounter between God and man, he found livestock merchants and money-changers who occupied this place of prayer with their commerce […] In the temple's purification, however, it was a matter of more than fighting abuses. A new time in history was foretold (Pope Benedict)
Ma là dove doveva esservi lo spazio dell’incontro tra Dio e l’uomo, Egli trova commercianti di bestiame e cambiavalute che occupano con i loro affari il luogo di preghiera […] Nella purificazione del tempio, però, si tratta di più che della lotta agli abusi. È preconizzata una nuova ora della storia (Papa Benedetto)
«Ask Jesus for the grace to follow him closely», so as not to leave him alone, thus overcoming the temptations of looking at ourselves to «share the cake» of personal interests [Pope Francis]
«Chiedere a Gesù la grazia di seguirlo da vicino», per non lasciarlo solo, superando così le tentazioni di guardare noi stessi per «spartirsi la torta» degli interessi personali [Papa Francesco]

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