(Lk 24:35-48) We do not recognize a person by hands and feet (v.39). The Risen One has a life that escapes the perception of the senses, however the Resurrection doesn’t…
(Lk 24:13-35) After first persecutions (64), the bloody civil war in Rome (68-69) and the destruction of Jerusalem’s Temple (70), the empire rebels tended to decrease - together with the…
Fossilized in reminiscences, or Announced by Brethren (Jn 20:11-18) Mk tells of a young man dressed in white, Mt of an angel, Lk of two men dressed in white, Jn…
(Mt 28:8-15) The Gospels do not offer entirely reconcilable chronicle data about the unfolding of events after the discovery of the «empty tomb», but the Message of those traces (of…
In order not to weaken the personal Encounter (Jn 20:1-9) In Jn the beloved disciple at the foot of the Cross together with the Mother is the figure of each…
Today we have an impression of oblivion, of the Lord. The pit seems to be able to hide and silence Him, so much so that there is no need to…
(Jn 18:1-19,42) The core of the Gospels do not dwell on the horror and sadism of torments, because they were not written for the purpose of impressing, but to introduce…
Apr 9, 2025

in Coena Domini

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Integral Trust: emblematic Action, which generates uncontaminated persons (Jn 13:1-15) According to a felicitous expression of Origen, Eucharist is the wound in Christ's side that is always open; but Vatican…
(Mt 26:14-25) Mt Mk Lk situate the institution of the Eucharist within the Jewish Passover supper. A theological re-elaboration to affirm (in the Faith) the meaning of the authentic Liberation…
(Jn 13:21-33.36-38) «I will lay down my life for you» - just to command. The Lord wants each of us “at the table” to ask himself the question of whether…
Allied Sign. Enchanting Path (Jn 12:1-11) As he approaches his 'hour', Christ seems to lose his official features and becomes more and more intimate, within our reach. His dialogue with…
(Mt 21:1-11; Mk 11:1-10; Lk 19:28-40; Jn 12:12-16) In the Gospels the Lord doesn’t allow himself to be identified with the ‘eagle’ of Jn, although it’s He who comes from…
(Jn 11:45-56) Christ is all that the Jewish feasts had promised and proclaimed. They deciphered authoritatively, but unconsciously [vv.47-52 take pleasure in double entendre words]. In fact, the high priest…
(Jn 10:31-42) The intent of the fourth Gospel is not the particular one to convert Jews, rather to strengthen the Faith in the Person of the Consecrated of the Lord…
I Am, and our dignity (Jn 8:51-59) The Gospel passage is addressed to the disciples of the Johannine communities who still hesitated to declare themselves fully of Christ. Hunted and…
Apr 1, 2025

Truly Free

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(Jn 8:31-42) In the opinion of many Jews, the Inheritance received was much more precious and reassuring than any other teaching albeit dignified, that anyone could impart. But the faithful…
From above and from below (Jn 8:21-30) At the end of the first century, the Jews raised questions concerning the prayerful reading that the disciples of Christ made of the…
Spark of beauty and humanism, or no future (Jn 8:12-20) In all religions the term Light is used as a metaphor for the forces of good. On the lips of…
(Jn 8:1-11) Every day at sunrise, from the Mount of Olives, by contemplating the Temple, the people recited the Shema’ Israel, and so did Jesus. Like many, he spent his…
(Jn 7:40-53) In the Gospel passage, the religious authorities judge everyone with contempt. Anyone who has always imagined himself as master will not be willing to make himself a disciple…
And the present matters, not the genealogy (Jn 7:1-2.10.25-30) Christ reveals himself in a progressive and unconventional way. He asks us to reinterpret and reveal divine Presence in an equally…
(Jn 5:31-47) «But I have a greater testimony than John» (Jn 5:36). «Jesus loved others in the Father, starting from the Father – and thus he loved them in their…
(Jn 5:17-30) The center of Jewish hope was the return to ancient times, which however moved into an indeterminate future ["last day"]. According to the Master, life as saved persons…
(Jn 5:1-3.5-16) In the ‘devotion’ of competitive trophies, only the quickest heals, not the neediest. Jesus prefers to transgress the law than to align himself with the merciless world that…
«If you do not see signs and wonders, you do not believe» (Jn 4:43-54) Jesus takes the rhythm of the catechumen's interior journey (v.47) to introduce us in his Vision,…
(Lk 15:1-3.11-32) Love is a Feast, not an exchange of favors. So we aren’t marked for life, because the Father knows that our paradoxical escapes are dictated by a need…
(Lk 18:9-14) Mechanism of retribution denies the essential experience of the life of Faith: ‘allowing oneself to be a saved person, living from Mystery’ - instead of the closed circle…
No forced surrender (Mk 12:28b-34) That of the ‘Great commandment’ was the most familiar catechism rule, even to infants. Jesus is questioned only to retort: and why do you not…
Lk 11:14-23 (14-26) Prejudice affects the union, and no one can kidnap Jesus, holding him hostage. He’s the strong man that no perched citadel can stem. Those who fear losing…
(Mt 5:17-19) In the face of the Law’s precepts, distant attitudes appear. There are those who demonstrate attachment to the material sense of what has been established. Others, omission or…
The Fathers made a very significant commentary on this singular task. This is what they say: for a fish, created for water, it is fatal to be taken out of the sea, to be removed from its vital element to serve as human food. But in the mission of a fisher of men, the reverse is true. We are living in alienation, in the salt waters of suffering and death; in a sea of darkness without light. The net of the Gospel pulls us out of the waters of death and brings us into the splendour of God’s light, into true life (Pope Benedict)
I Padri […] dicono così: per il pesce, creato per l’acqua, è mortale essere tirato fuori dal mare. Esso viene sottratto al suo elemento vitale per servire di nutrimento all’uomo. Ma nella missione del pescatore di uomini avviene il contrario. Noi uomini viviamo alienati, nelle acque salate della sofferenza e della morte; in un mare di oscurità senza luce. La rete del Vangelo ci tira fuori dalle acque della morte e ci porta nello splendore della luce di Dio, nella vera vita (Papa Benedetto)
We may ask ourselves: who is a witness? A witness is a person who has seen, who recalls and tells. See, recall and tell: these are three verbs which describe the identity and mission (Pope Francis, Regina Coeli April 19, 2015)
Possiamo domandarci: ma chi è il testimone? Il testimone è uno che ha visto, che ricorda e racconta. Vedere, ricordare e raccontare sono i tre verbi che ne descrivono l’identità e la missione (Papa Francesco, Regina Coeli 19 aprile 2015)
There is the path of those who, like those two on the outbound journey, allow themselves to be paralysed by life’s disappointments and proceed sadly; and there is the path of those who do not put themselves and their problems first, but rather Jesus who visits us, and the brothers who await his visit (Pope Francis)
C’è la via di chi, come quei due all’andata, si lascia paralizzare dalle delusioni della vita e va avanti triste; e c’è la via di chi non mette al primo posto se stesso e i suoi problemi, ma Gesù che ci visita, e i fratelli che attendono la sua visita (Papa Francesco)
So that Christians may properly carry out this mandate entrusted to them, it is indispensable that they have a personal encounter with Christ, crucified and risen, and let the power of his love transform them. When this happens, sadness changes to joy and fear gives way to missionary enthusiasm (John Paul II)
Perché i cristiani possano compiere appieno questo mandato loro affidato, è indispensabile che incontrino personalmente il Crocifisso risorto, e si lascino trasformare dalla potenza del suo amore. Quando questo avviene, la tristezza si muta in gioia, il timore cede il passo all’ardore missionario (Giovanni Paolo II)
This is the message that Christians are called to spread to the very ends of the earth. The Christian faith, as we know, is not born from the acceptance of a doctrine but from an encounter with a Person (Pope Benedict))
È questo il messaggio che i cristiani sono chiamati a diffondere sino agli estremi confini del mondo. La fede cristiana come sappiamo nasce non dall'accoglienza di una dottrina, ma dall'incontro con una Persona (Papa Benedetto)
From ancient times the liturgy of Easter day has begun with the words: Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum – I arose, and am still with you; you have set your hand upon me. The liturgy sees these as the first words spoken by the Son to the Father after his resurrection, after his return from the night of death into the world of the living. The hand of the Father upheld him even on that night, and thus he could rise again (Pope Benedict)

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