(Lk 9:22-25) Yesterday we underlined how the worm of vanity in the search for the esteem leads to hypocrisy and ostentation. We ask ourselves: what makes the Father intimate? Carrying…
Trumpets, bass drums and reciters, or perfect instruments (Mt 6:1-6.16-18) External wiles have no wisdom: they become a boomerang. Whoever tries to shine obscures his own light. Anyone who cares…
(Mk 10:28-31) According to the correct mentality - typical of Judaism - to receive the divine inheritance it was enough to keep the commandments (vv.17-20). But it is not with…
Inherit the Life of the Eternal (Mk 10:17-27) To realize ourselves it’s not enough to accentuate or refine, we need to take a Leap; an extra step is not enough.…
(Lk 6:39-45) «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).…
The renunciation of pride - and the ‘nose’ without citizenship (Mk 10:13-16) «Because in the synodal process, our listening must take into account the sensus fidei, but it must not…
Legalistic conception and hardness of heart (Mk 10:1-12) The controversy with the fanatics of the law highlights the need for a new messianic community, which goes beyond the exclusively legalistic…
(Mk 9:41-50) In language typical of Oriental liveliness, Jesus' exhortations to coexistence overturn the hierarchy between the powerful and the weak. In religions we find droves of outcasts who cannot…
Absent Ecclesiology (Mk 9:38-40) It’s not strange that the holy Inquisition was born in the time of an absent ecclesiology. The ‘leaven’ of the Pharisees and Herod (Mk 8:14) leads…
Feb 17, 2025

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[Institution's transience? What about compactness? What about expansion?] (Mk 9:30-37) "A little boy was playing at being a priest with a boy his age on the steps of his house.…
(Mk 9:14-29) The messianicity of Christ and Salvation itself belong to the sphere of Faith and Prayer. They are the ambits of intimate listening, acute perception, trusting spousal acceptance, and…
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…
(Mt 16:13-19) Jesus guides his intimates away from the territory of the ideology of power and from the sacred center of the official religious institution, so that they distance themselves…
Bad reputation is common among Prophets (Mk 8:34-9,1) The Cross is normal among Prophets, who certainly do not have a great response from crowds, in building their own limpid ‘city’.…
The true God, nature, and authentic man (Mk 8:27-33) Jesus guides his intimates away from the territory of the ideology of power and the sacred centre of the official religious…
(Mk 8:22-26) In this section of Mk the initiation of Faith is described; in filigree, the routing to the relationship with Christ that takes away the difficulties of ‘sight’ -…
And the much yeast, which impoverishes (Mk 8:14-21) Jesus says one thing, the apostles understand another. The «leaven of the Pharisees and that of Herod» is a theme that alludes…
Manifestations of God’s power on earth: nothing external (Mk 8:11-13) Jesus clashes with disbelief, stemming from various blinding, or that arises from inattention. Incarnation: there are no other valid Signs…
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…
Simple Mystery, New Mysticism. Vocation to offer to the world (Mk 8:1-10) The Son reflects God’s plan in compassion for the crowds in need of everything and - despite the…
And move the neighbors (Lk 10:1-9) Jesus notes that the Apostles are not free people (cf. Lk 9). Their way of being is so grounded on standard attitudes and obligatory…
Eucharistic crumbs (Mk 7:24-30) Religious law prevented dealing with foreign people and other ethnicities, borders, or culture. At the beginning, Jesus [that is: He in the first communities, His Mystical…
Purity, impudity and misrepresented holiness (Mk 7,14-23) The Lord is for a comprehensive humanization. But in ancient cultures the mythical vision of the world led people to appreciate any reality…
Traditions and ideal order (Mk 7:1-13) Religiosity can deceive the ideal order; the life of Faith promotes it, relying on a perfection and purity derived simply from the human dimension…
Bread and prodigies of the Christ-ghost (Mk 6:53-56) A saved existence requires a transformation from within; another beginning. A different foothold of good. In fact, the «fringe of the mantle»…
‘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…
(Mk 6:30-34) «Come yourselves aside, to a deserted place»: the explicit reference to the «desert» is that of Exodus - which recalls the time of first Love. Experience of great…
(Mk 6:14-29) The question «Jesus, Who is he?» grows throughout the Mk’s Gospel, up to the answer of the centurion under the Cross (Mk 15:39). The assessment of the opinions…
Sober, but in sandals (Mk 6:7-13) The passage of Nazareth - painful for Jesus himself - and the description of the disciples sending, was intended to be a support and…
Domestic side, not domestications (Mk 6:1-6) Where Faith is lacking, only small changes take place, not the staggering wonders of the alternative presence of God’s Kingdom (v.5). We do not…
Man is involved in penance in his totality of body and spirit: the man who has a body in need of food and rest and the man who thinks, plans and prays; the man who appropriates and feeds on things and the man who makes a gift of them; the man who tends to the possession and enjoyment of goods and the man who feels the need for solidarity that binds him to all other men [CEI pastoral note]
Nella penitenza è coinvolto l'uomo nella sua totalità di corpo e di spirito: l'uomo che ha un corpo bisognoso di cibo e di riposo e l'uomo che pensa, progetta e prega; l'uomo che si appropria e si nutre delle cose e l'uomo che fa dono di esse; l'uomo che tende al possesso e al godimento dei beni e l'uomo che avverte l'esigenza di solidarietà che lo lega a tutti gli altri uomini [nota pastorale CEI]
The Cross is the sign of the deepest humiliation of Christ. In the eyes of the people of that time it was the sign of an infamous death. Free men could not be punished with such a death, only slaves, Christ willingly accepts this death, death on the Cross. Yet this death becomes the beginning of the Resurrection. In the Resurrection the crucified Servant of Yahweh is lifted up: he is lifted up before the whole of creation (Pope John Paul II)
La croce è il segno della più profonda umiliazione di Cristo. Agli occhi del popolo di quel tempo costituiva il segno di una morte infamante. Solo gli schiavi potevano essere puniti con una morte simile, non gli uomini liberi. Cristo, invece, accetta volentieri questa morte, la morte sulla croce. Eppure questa morte diviene il principio della risurrezione. Nella risurrezione il servo crocifisso di Jahvè viene innalzato: egli viene innalzato su tutto il creato (Papa Giovanni Paolo II)
St John Chrysostom urged: “Embellish your house with modesty and humility with the practice of prayer. Make your dwelling place shine with the light of justice; adorn its walls with good works, like a lustre of pure gold, and replace walls and precious stones with faith and supernatural magnanimity, putting prayer above all other things, high up in the gables, to give the whole complex decorum. You will thus prepare a worthy dwelling place for the Lord, you will welcome him in a splendid palace. He will grant you to transform your soul into a temple of his presence” (Pope Benedict)
San Giovanni Crisostomo esorta: “Abbellisci la tua casa di modestia e umiltà con la pratica della preghiera. Rendi splendida la tua abitazione con la luce della giustizia; orna le sue pareti con le opere buone come di una patina di oro puro e al posto dei muri e delle pietre preziose colloca la fede e la soprannaturale magnanimità, ponendo sopra ogni cosa, in alto sul fastigio, la preghiera a decoro di tutto il complesso. Così prepari per il Signore una degna dimora, così lo accogli in splendida reggia. Egli ti concederà di trasformare la tua anima in tempio della sua presenza” (Papa Benedetto)
Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed. Only in this friendship do we experience beauty and liberation (Pope Benedict)
Solo in quest’amicizia si spalancano le porte della vita. Solo in quest’amicizia si dischiudono realmente le grandi potenzialità della condizione umana. Solo in quest’amicizia noi sperimentiamo ciò che è bello e ciò che libera (Papa Benedetto)
A faith without giving, a faith without gratuitousness is an incomplete faith. It is a weak faith, a faith that is ill. We could compare it to rich and nourishing food that nonetheless lacks flavour, or a more or less well-played game, but without a goal (Pope Francis)
Una fede senza dono, una fede senza gratuità è una fede incompleta (Papa Francesco)

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