(Mt 5:20-26) «I tell you in fact that unless your righteousness will abound more [that] of the scribes and pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven» In the…
Feb 18, 2026

Continuous Prayer

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Incessant struggle with ourselves and God (Mt 7:7-12) Sometimes we put the Father in the dock, because he seems to let things go as our freedom directs them. But his…
The manifestations of God's power on earth: nothing external (Lk 11:29-32) Human correspondence does not grow with the multiplication of dizzying signals. God doesn’t force the unconvinced, nor outclass with…
Sons’ Prayer: performance or Listening? Mt 6:7-15 (v.13) «When you pray, do not babble like the pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their wordiness» (Mt 6:7;…
(Mt 25:31-46) The famous Judgment passage presents the ‘coming’ Risen (v.31) as «Son of man», that is, authentic and complete development of divine plan for humanity: his kind of "verdict"…
Faith, Temptations: our success (Mt 4:1-11 Mc 1:12-15 Lc 4:1-13) Only the man of God is tempted. In the Bible, temptation is not a kind of danger or seduction for…
The Conversion, forbidden things and the Doctor of opposites (Lk 5:27-32) At the time when Luke wrote his Gospel (immediately after the mid-80s), the community of pagans converted to Christ…
Feb 12, 2026

Fasting: Opening

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(Mt 9:14-15) Fasting is a regenerative principle that has a unique healing power, both detoxifying and essential. It activates the energies of humanity and at the same time of diversity.…
(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…
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…
(Mt 5:17-37) Abolish or bring to Completion [vv.17-19] Religious criticized converts to the Faith for being transgressors and against the wealth of Tradition. Thus while some emphasized salvation by Faith…
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…
Unclogs ears, so that we do not remain deaf and stutterers (Mk 7:31-37) The background of the Gospel passage is the theme of initiation into the Faith, which invests the…
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»…
(Mt 5:13-16) «Beautiful Works» [which express fullness] are good works, enriched by the splendour of disinterest, listening, hospitality, prayer and humble dialogue, cordial fraternity. The plural term (v.16) indicates our…
(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…
Faith and Healing, or exclusion (Mk 5:21-43) In Rome, at Mk’s time, the situation of confusion generated by the civil war seemed likely to become lethal for the survival of…
(Mal 3:1-4 Heb 2:14-18 Lk 2:22-40) The Lk’s Gospel passage narrates the surprising response of the Father to the prophecy of the last of the minor prophets (Mal 3,1-4). An…
Turnover in the Church, antidote to unilaterality (Mt 5:1-12) We feel ephemeral and often disappointed, yet we want to be happy, not just here and there: we are uncertain, yet…
(Mk 4:35-41) The whole Gospel of Mk is an articulated answer to the question: ‘who is Jesus?’ (v.41). His direction of travel seems to the wrong direction, and brazenly breaks…
From below, not from a summit (Mk 4: 26-34) Here we are introduced to a different mentality, to a new Family, to another Kingdom, not very "elevated"; indeed, completely reversed.…
(Mk 4: 21-25) Mk's is a narrative and popular catechesis, which reflects the problems of a very primitive community of Faith - compared to those of the other Gospels. His…
Anyone who welcomes the Lord into his life and loves him with all his heart is capable of a new beginning. He succeeds in doing God’s will: to bring about a new form of existence enlivened by love and destined for eternity (Pope Benedict)
Chi accoglie il Signore nella propria vita e lo ama con tutto il cuore è capace di un nuovo inizio. Riesce a compiere la volontà di Dio: realizzare una nuova forma di esistenza animata dall’amore e destinata all’eternità (Papa Benedetto)
You ought not, however, to be satisfied merely with knocking and seeking: to understand the things of God, what is absolutely necessary is oratio. For this reason, the Saviour told us not only: ‘Seek and you will find’, and ‘Knock and it shall be opened to you’, but also added, ‘Ask and you shall receive’ [Verbum Domini n.86; cit. Origen, Letter to Gregory]
Non ti devi però accontentare di bussare e di cercare: per comprendere le cose di Dio ti è assolutamente necessaria l’oratio. Proprio per esortarci ad essa il Salvatore ci ha detto non soltanto: “Cercate e troverete”, e “Bussate e vi sarà aperto”, ma ha aggiunto: “Chiedete e riceverete” [Verbum Domini n.86; cit. Origene, Lettera a Gregorio]
In the crucified Jesus, a kind of transformation and concentration of the signs occurs: he himself is the “sign of God” (John Paul II)
In Gesù crocifisso avviene come una trasformazione e concentrazione dei segni: è Lui stesso il "segno di Dio" (Giovanni Paolo II)
Only through Christ can we converse with God the Father as children, otherwise it is not possible, but in communion with the Son we can also say, as he did, “Abba”. In communion with Christ we can know God as our true Father. For this reason Christian prayer consists in looking constantly at Christ and in an ever new way, speaking to him, being with him in silence, listening to him, acting and suffering with him (Pope Benedict)
Solo in Cristo possiamo dialogare con Dio Padre come figli, altrimenti non è possibile, ma in comunione col Figlio possiamo anche dire noi come ha detto Lui: «Abbà». In comunione con Cristo possiamo conoscere Dio come Padre vero. Per questo la preghiera cristiana consiste nel guardare costantemente e in maniera sempre nuova a Cristo, parlare con Lui, stare in silenzio con Lui, ascoltarlo, agire e soffrire con Lui (Papa Benedetto)
In today’s Gospel passage, Jesus identifies himself not only with the king-shepherd, but also with the lost sheep, we can speak of a “double identity”: the king-shepherd, Jesus identifies also with the sheep: that is, with the least and most needy of his brothers and sisters […] And let us return home only with this phrase: “I was present there. Thank you!”. Or: “You forgot about me” (Pope Francis)
Nella pagina evangelica di oggi, Gesù si identifica non solo col re-pastore, ma anche con le pecore perdute. Potremmo parlare come di una “doppia identità”: il re-pastore, Gesù, si identifica anche con le pecore, cioè con i fratelli più piccoli e bisognosi […] E torniamo a casa soltanto con questa frase: “Io ero presente lì. Grazie!” oppure: “Ti sei scordato di me” (Papa Francesco)
Thus, in the figure of Matthew, the Gospels present to us a true and proper paradox: those who seem to be the farthest from holiness can even become a model of the acceptance of God's mercy and offer a glimpse of its marvellous effects in their own lives (Pope Benedict))
Nella figura di Matteo, dunque, i Vangeli ci propongono un vero e proprio paradosso: chi è apparentemente più lontano dalla santità può diventare persino un modello (Papa Benedetto)

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