Mar 25, 2026

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 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…
Feb 27, 2026

No one dejected

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(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…
(Mt 21:33-43.45-46) Christ introduces everyone to an adventurous, uncomfortable journey, not without pitfalls that throw the situation upside down and destabilize - but it’s the Way for each of us…
External solution? (Lk 16:19-31) Today's Gospel raises a question of apparent obviousness: is it not perhaps in the natural order of things that in human society there are first and…
(Mt 20:17-28) The Roman Empire subjugated the Mediterranean basin with the strength of the Legions. Through a large base of slaves and tributes, it concentrated titles and wealth in the…
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)
The school of faith is not a triumphal march but a journey marked daily by suffering and love, trials and faithfulness. Peter, who promised absolute fidelity, knew the bitterness and humiliation of denial:  the arrogant man learns the costly lesson of humility (Pope Benedict)
La scuola della fede non è una marcia trionfale, ma un cammino cosparso di sofferenze e di amore, di prove e di fedeltà da rinnovare ogni giorno. Pietro che aveva promesso fedeltà assoluta, conosce l’amarezza e l’umiliazione del rinnegamento: lo spavaldo apprende a sue spese l’umiltà (Papa Benedetto)
If, in his prophecy about the shepherd, Ezekiel was aiming to restore unity among the dispersed tribes of Israel (cf. Ez 34: 22-24), here it is a question not only of the unification of a dispersed Israel but of the unification of all the children of God, of humanity - of the Church of Jews and of pagans [Pope Benedict]
Se Ezechiele nella sua profezia sul pastore aveva di mira il ripristino dell'unità tra le tribù disperse d'Israele (cfr Ez 34, 22-24), si tratta ora non solo più dell'unificazione dell'Israele disperso, ma dell'unificazione di tutti i figli di Dio, dell'umanità - della Chiesa di giudei e di pagani [Papa Benedetto]
St Teresa of Avila wrote: «the last thing we should do is to withdraw from our greatest good and blessing, which is the most sacred humanity of Our Lord Jesus Christ» (cf. The Interior Castle, 6, ch. 7). Therefore, only by believing in Christ, by remaining united to him, may the disciples, among whom we too are, continue their permanent action in history [Pope Benedict]
Santa Teresa d’Avila scrive che «non dobbiamo allontanarci da ciò che costituisce tutto il nostro bene e il nostro rimedio, cioè dalla santissima umanità di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo» (Castello interiore, 7, 6). Quindi solo credendo in Cristo, rimanendo uniti a Lui, i discepoli, tra i quali siamo anche noi, possono continuare la sua azione permanente nella storia [Papa Benedetto]
Just as he did during his earthly existence, so today the risen Jesus walks along the streets of our life and sees us immersed in our activities, with all our desires and our needs. In the midst of our everyday circumstances he continues to speak to us; he calls us to live our life with him, for only he is capable of satisfying our thirst for hope (Pope Benedict)

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