House on the Rock or practitioners of vain things (Lk 6:43-49) «In order to give Himself to us, God often chooses unthinkable paths, perhaps those of our limits, our tears,…
(Lk 6:39-42) «How much our human family needs to learn to live together in harmony and peace, without all of us having to be the same!» (Pope Francis FT n.100).…
Get ahead and Forgive forward (Lk 6:27-38) The adventure of extreme Faith is for a wounding Beauty and an abnormal, prominent Happiness. But only those who know to wait will…
Faith and religion. Turnover in the Church (Lk 6:20-26) Jesus judges the configuration of the world in which his Church, in the Spirit, finds herself living: rich and destitute [in…
(Mt 1:1-16.18-23) Since the 7th century, the event of the first Dawn preceding the Coming of the Sun of Justice has been identified by Pope Sergius in the birth of…
Different concerns, and Humanizing Action (Lk 6:6-11) Providing good and uplifting the real person - as he or she is, in his or her uniqueness - is the only absolute…
In the midst of the reconciled: the change of course and destiny in the Kingdom (Mt 18:15-20) «The word that the Evangelist uses for "agree" is synphōnēsōsin: there is reference…
Incarnation, or emptiness of humanity (Lk 6:1-5) On the conversion’s journey, conflicts of conscience are not parentheses or accidents of the path, but crucial knots. The genuineness of believing then…
Aug 27, 2026

Fasting: Opening

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New Wineskins and vocational Freedom (Lk 5:33-39) Fasting is a regenerative principle that has a unique healing power, both detoxifying and essential. It activates the energies of humanity and at…
‘Fishing’ to life. Weekday Attraction and attention (Lk 5:1-11) The episode of the Call of the disciples in Lk indicates the attraction of the Jesus Word - which acts in…
Power of the Word (Lk 4:38-44) «To the other cities, too, I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, for I was sent for this» (Lk 4:43).…
Jesus in the synagogue: Deliverance from quietism (Lk 4:31-37) In third Gospel, first ‘signs’ of the Lord are the quiet escape from death threats [agitated by his people!] and the…
In the Synagogue and from the precipice (Lc 4:16-30) In ancient Israel, the patriarchal family, clan and community were the basis of social coexistence. They ensured the transmission of the…
(Mt 16:21-27) Common mentality evaluated the life’ success - and the truth of a religion - on the basis of glory, domination, enrichment, and security in general. This is why…
(Mk 6:17-29) The question «Jesus, Who is he?» grows throughout the Gospel according to Mk, up to the answer of the centurion under the Cross (15:39). The assessment of the…
Wise souls, or mad ones (Mt 25:1-13) The theme is not that of moral vigilance, but punctual: sooner or later all the baptized in Christ fall asleep (v.5). And the…
Aug 19, 2026

Vigilance is now

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(Mt 24:42-51) Key to the reading of the Gospel could be the famous expression of St. Augustine: «Timeo Dominum transeuntem». Incarnation is a direct thread with reality and divine condition…
(Mt 23:27-32) John Chrysostom writes in his Commentary on the Gospel of Mt: «If the conscience of each one could be opened, how many worms, how much rottenness and what…
(Mt 23:23-26) When leaders of an equivocal religiosity want to be accredited, they insist on abstract ideas or details, and pretend not to see the abnormal. In ancient times, the…
From the ancient dream to the embodied relationship (Jn 1:45-51) People are convinced by meeting, seeing and experiencing, not by imposing. However, the Eternal plan baffles us. Witness and sharing…
(Mt 16:13-20) Over half of his public life, Jesus has not yet given formulas, but He raises a demanding question - which claims to ask us much more than the…
Being present to oneself: do not replace love with flakes and bows (Mt 23:1-12) New Relationship between God and man could not be contained within the detailed rules of the…
The Great Commandment: only profound Quality obliges (Mt 22:34-40) That of the ‘Great commandment’ was the most familiar catechism rule, even to infants. Jesus is questioned to retort: and why…
Everyone is called, but with which trousseau? Without artifices (Mt 22:1-14) The «wedding dress» (vv.11-12) is not here a figure of the our outside image, but of the essential -…
(Unique Coin and smart working: Love) (Mt 20:1-16) In the atrium of the Temple in Jerusalem, the climbing vine of the portal was a symbol of the gifts that people…
The friendship of those who count and their facilitations, or the inverted world (Mt 19:23-30) It is not easy to enter the logic of the Gift and place oneself in…
From customs with limits to the Spirituality of possessions-Relation (Mt 19:16-22) At the time of Jesus, people lived a moment of social collapse and disintegration of the communitarian dimension of…
Crumbs and 'nose', integral parts (Mt 15:21-28) Religious law prevented dealing with foreign people and other ethnicities, borders, or culture. At the beginning, Jesus [that is: He in the first…
The itinerary of the creature (and of the Church) that realizes in itself the victory of Life over death Mary is an icon of how to find the right path,…
Legalistic conception and hardness of heart (Mt 19:3-12) The controversy with the fanatics of the law highlights the need for a new messianic community, which goes beyond the exclusively legalistic…
These divisions are seen in the relationships between individuals and groups, and also at the level of larger groups: nations against nations and blocs of opposing countries in a headlong quest for domination [Reconciliatio et Paenitentia n.2]
Queste divisioni si manifestano nei rapporti fra le persone e fra i gruppi, ma anche a livello delle più vaste collettività: nazioni contro nazioni, e blocchi di paesi contrapposti, in un'affannosa ricerca di egemonia [Reconciliatio et Paenitentia n.2]
Mary "Girl" [...] point of convergence and arrival of a complex of divine promises, mysteriously echoed in the very heart of history (Pope John Paul II)
Maria “Bambina” […] punto di convergenza e di arrivo di un complesso di promesse divine, echeggiate misteriosamente nel cuore stesso della storia (Papa Giovanni Paolo II)
Luke’s passage puts before the eyes a double slavery: that of man «with his hand paralyzed, slave of his illness», and that of the «Pharisees, scribes, slaves of their rigid, legalistic attitudes» (Pope Francis)
Il racconto di Luca mette davanti agli occhi una duplice schiavitù: quella dell’uomo «con la mano paralizzata, schiavo della sua malattia», e quella «dei farisei, degli scribi, schiavi dei loro atteggiamenti rigidi, legalistici» (Papa Francesco)
Origen says “we should practise this symphony” (Commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew, 14,1), in other words this harmony within the Christian community [Pope Benedict]
Dice Origene che “dobbiamo esercitarci in questa sinfonia” (Commento al Vangelo di Matteo 14, 1), cioè in questa concordia all’interno della comunità cristiana [Papa Benedetto]
Thus in communion with Christ, in a faith that creates charity, the entire Law is fulfilled. We become just by entering into communion with Christ who is Love (Pope Benedict)
Così nella comunione con Cristo, nella fede che crea la carità, tutta la Legge è realizzata. Diventiamo giusti entrando in comunione con Cristo che è l'amore (Papa Benedetto)
«Francis was reproaching his brethren too harsh towards themselves, and who came to exhaustion by means of vigils, fasts, prayers and corporal penances» [FS 1470]
«Francesco muoveva rimproveri ai suoi fratelli troppo duri verso se stessi, e che arrivavano allo sfinimento a forza di veglie, digiuni, orazioni e penitenze corporali» [FF 1470]
From a human point of view, he thinks that there should be distance between the sinner and the Holy One. In truth, his very condition as a sinner requires that the Lord not distance Himself from him, in the same way that a doctor cannot distance himself from those who are sick (Pope Francis)
Da un punto di vista umano, pensa che ci debba essere distanza tra il peccatore e il Santo. In verità, proprio la sua condizione di peccatore richiede che il Signore non si allontani da lui, allo stesso modo in cui un medico non può allontanarsi da chi è malato (Papa Francesco)
The life of the Church in the Third Millennium will certainly not be lacking in new and surprising manifestations of "the feminine genius" (Pope John Paul II)
The basis of Christian construction is listening to and the fulfilment of the word of Christ (Pope John Paul II)
Alla base della costruzione cristiana c’è l’ascolto e il compimento della parola di Cristo (Papa Giovanni Paolo II)

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