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…
The Gospels do not describe the chronicle of Christ‘s Resurrection, but the experience of the Risen One in the early church. All the evangelists hint at the fact that the…
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…
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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 Faith the meaning of the authentic Liberation Easter…
(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 does not allow himself to be identified with the ‘eagle’ of Jn, although it is He who…
(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…
From religion to Faith, from barren to Beloved one (Lk 1:26-38) The solemnity of the moment that restores the soul to the Mystery invites a passage wave upon wave: from…
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…
(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…
The Lord of Life (or the pale sign) (Jn 11:1-45) The event of death is disconcerting, and that of a friend of God in community [Bethany] perhaps accentuates the questions…
(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…
(Mt 1:16.18-21.24) «Even through Joseph’s fears, God’s will, his history and his plan were at work. Joseph, then, teaches us that faith in God includes believing that he can work…
(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,…
Sharp Personal experience, which starts to become more valid than judgements (Jn 9:1-41) Having escaped from the Temple, Jesus encounters the excluded. He takes the opportunity to make us understand…
(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…
(Mt 18:21-35) Throughout the ancient Middle East, non-disproportionate retaliation one to one [not cruel] was a sacred law. Forgiveness was a humiliating and absurd attitude, an incomprehensible principle to anyone…
Two Names of God (Lk 4:24-30) Jesus is annoying and generates suspicion in those who love external schemes, because he proclaims only Jubilee, rather than harsh confrontation and revenge. In…
(Jn 4:5-42) In the passage of the Samaritan woman, Jn contrasts the mechanisms of religiosity and the dynamics of Faith, comparing the images of an ancient Well to a fresh…
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)
Dai tempi più antichi la liturgia del giorno di Pasqua comincia con le parole: Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum – sono risorto e sono sempre con te; tu hai posto su di me la tua mano. La liturgia vi vede la prima parola del Figlio rivolta al Padre dopo la risurrezione, dopo il ritorno dalla notte della morte nel mondo dei viventi. La mano del Padre lo ha sorretto anche in questa notte, e così Egli ha potuto rialzarsi, risorgere (Papa Benedetto)
The Church keeps watch. And the world keeps watch. The hour of Christ's victory over death is the greatest hour in history (John Paul II)
Veglia la Chiesa. E veglia il mondo. L’ora della vittoria di Cristo sulla morte è l’ora più grande della storia (Giovanni Paolo II)
Before the Cross of Jesus, we apprehend in a way that we can almost touch with our hands how much we are eternally loved; before the Cross we feel that we are “children” and not “things” or “objects” [Pope Francis, via Crucis at the Colosseum 2014]
Di fronte alla Croce di Gesù, vediamo quasi fino a toccare con le mani quanto siamo amati eternamente; di fronte alla Croce ci sentiamo “figli” e non “cose” o “oggetti” [Papa Francesco, via Crucis al Colosseo 2014]
The devotional and external purifications purify man ritually but leave him as he is replaced by a new bathing (Pope Benedict)
Al posto delle purificazioni cultuali ed esterne, che purificano l’uomo ritualmente, lasciandolo tuttavia così com’è, subentra il bagno nuovo (Papa Benedetto)
If, on the one hand, the liturgy of these days makes us offer a hymn of thanksgiving to the Lord, conqueror of death, at the same time it asks us to eliminate from our lives all that prevents us from conforming ourselves to him (John Paul II)
La liturgia di questi giorni, se da un lato ci fa elevare al Signore, vincitore della morte, un inno di ringraziamento, ci chiede, al tempo stesso, di eliminare dalla nostra vita tutto ciò che ci impedisce di conformarci a lui (Giovanni Paolo II)
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)

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