The 'win-or-lose' alternative is false: you have to get out of it (Mt 5:38-42) «Other cheek»: climate of inventiveness. Not opposing the wicked allows one to experience the Beatitudes, the…
Jun 7, 2025

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Jn 16:12-15 (5-20) [Jn 15:26-16:20]. Satisfying Solutions vs Spirit of Truth (Jn 15:26-16:4a) Faith in the Master is already eternal life, or rather Life of the Eternal (in action here…
(Mt 28:16-20) Matthew does not describe the Ascension, but conveys the same message as Acts 1:1-11 (using different images): the passing of the baton. Unlike Luke and John, Matthew places…
Jn 3:16-18(7-21) Lifting up the Cross goes far beyond resilience. Going up and going down, going beyond or retreating (Gospel of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: Jn 3:13-17) Nothing…
Holy Trinity Pr 8:22-31; Rom 5:1-5; Jn 16:12-15 (year C) The children's identity card is faith in a God who creates, makes Covenant, is close, redeems, allows flourishing in any…
Clear and distinct (Mt 5:33-37) «Yes, when it is yes; No, when it is no». There is no need to reinforce trust. Every oath – even a sacred one –…
(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…
Not flawed Happiness (Mt 5:17-19) In the early communities, some believers felt that the rules of the First Testament should no longer be considered, since we are saved by faith…
Fullness of small and beautiful works, not petty and childish (Mt 5:13-16) "Beautiful works" [which express fullness] are good works, enriched by the splendour of selflessness, listening, hospitality, prayer and…
Mary in the Church, begetting sons (Jn 19:25-34) The short Gospel passage in vv.25-27 is perhaps the artistic apex of the Passion narrative. In the fourth Gospel the Mother appears…
Jn 7:37-39 (37-53) The golden Pitcher and the River of Life (Jn 7:37-39) During the Feast of Tabernacles - on the occasion of the fruit harvest - the priests performed…
Solemnity of Pentecost, living Tradition In the Sacred Hymns, Manzoni compares the spiritual fall of humanity to the plummeting of a great stone down a "splintered" slope; a boulder that…
(Jn 14:15-16, 23-26) Those who fall in love unleash a new energy: never again will they be orphans (Jn 14:15-21) Jesus replaces the commandments of legalistic religion with His own…
Unable to sin (Acts 2:1-11) Pentecost is the feast of the Gift, quite simply. The language of Acts of the Apostles is quite striking and colourful: it infuses the event…
Comparisons no, Exceptionality yes (Jn 21:20-25) Once again in the Fourth Gospel, the Petrine step and character (uncertain) are confronted with that of the disciple loved by the Lord. In…
Mystery of Love and Eros Jn 21:15-19 (1-19) The same sign of the superabundant peach in Lk 5:1-11 does not concern the story of the Church after Easter, but is…
Priestly, diverse resilience (Jn 17:20-26) Jn seeks to clarify our universal aspiration, and to penetrate the way the Lord makes himself present in the disciples after Easter, so that the…
Real life in Jesus - the condemned for living against the tide (Jn 17:11-19) «Holy Father keep them in your Name which you have given me, that they may be…
(Jn 17:1-11a) In the Fourth Gospel, too, the Last Supper is followed by Jesus' prayer, but unlike the Synoptics, Jn places it in the same place as the Last Supper.…
The echo of misunderstandings (Jn 16:29-33) In John, the Lord's statements always have a resonance of misunderstanding among the hearers. After the announcement of Jesus' 'ascent' to the Father, here…
Ascension of the Lord: We are not orphans (Acts 1:1-11) At the end of his Gospel, Lk places the Ascension of Jesus on the same day as Easter, in Bethany…
Ascension of the Lord (Lk 24:46-53) Lk interprets the Resurrection as the fulfilment of the First Covenant (vv.44-45): the whole history of Israel [like the stages of a journey] receives…
(Lk 1:39-45) 'Incarnation': if our gaze does not fixate on a few ideas but lightly begins to rest on the human condition, then a reign of peace begins. The hesitant…
Affliction and joy in labour pains (Jn 16:20-23a) A widespread belief at the time of Jesus was that the last time would be preceded by an excess of tribulation and…
«A very short time»: we are not in the waiting room (Jn 16:16-20) The human communion of the first disciples with the Master was suggestive, not exhaustive. It must now…
(Jn 16:12-15) «He will receive from Mine and proclaim to you [...] he will receive from Mine and proclaim to you» (vv.14-15). The teaching imparted by Jesus with his life…
(Jn 16:5-11) In ancient times there were no lawyers, and one had to defend oneself by finding witnesses. The accused could be e.g. guilty but worthy of pardon, or innocent…
(Jn 15:26-16:4a) Faith in the Master is already eternal life, or rather Life of the Eternal (in action here and now). He himself is Bread of authentic and indestructible existence,…
(Jn 14:21-31) Dwelling and reciprocity, interpretation and root Generators from below (Jn 14:21-26) The Father's love unites us to Christ through a call that manifests itself wave after wave. And…
(Jn 15:18-21) He who is a master of love, who liked to speak of love, speaks of hate. But he liked to call things by the proper name they have…
For Christians, non-violence is not merely tactical behaviour but a person's way of being (Pope Benedict)
La nonviolenza per i cristiani non è un mero comportamento tattico, bensì un modo di essere (Papa Benedetto)
But the mystery of the Trinity also speaks to us of ourselves, of our relationship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Pope Francis)
Ma il mistero della Trinità ci parla anche di noi, del nostro rapporto con il Padre, il Figlio e lo Spirito Santo (Papa Francesco)
Jesus contrasts the ancient prohibition of perjury with that of not swearing at all (Matthew 5: 33-38), and the reason that emerges quite clearly is still founded in love: one must not be incredulous or distrustful of one's neighbour when he is habitually frank and loyal, and rather one must on the one hand and on the other follow this fundamental law of speech and action: "Let your language be yes if it is yes; no if it is no. The more is from the evil one" (Mt 5:37) [John Paul II]
Gesù contrappone all’antico divieto di spergiurare, quello di non giurare affatto (Mt 5, 33-38), e la ragione che emerge abbastanza chiaramente è ancora fondata nell’amore: non si deve essere increduli o diffidenti col prossimo, quando è abitualmente schietto e leale, e piuttosto occorre da una parte e dall’altra seguire questa legge fondamentale del parlare e dell’agire: “Il vostro linguaggio sia sì, se è sì; no, se è no. Il di più viene dal maligno” (Mt 5, 37) [Giovanni Paolo II]
And one thing is the woman before Jesus, another thing is the woman after Jesus. Jesus dignifies the woman and puts her on the same level as the man because he takes that first word of the Creator, both are “God’s image and likeness”, both; not first the man and then a little lower the woman, no, both. And the man without the woman next to him - both as mother, as sister, as bride, as work partner, as friend - that man alone is not the image of God (Pope Francis)
E una cosa è la donna prima di Gesù, un’altra cosa è la donna dopo Gesù. Gesù dignifica la donna e la mette allo stesso livello dell’uomo perché prende quella prima parola del Creatore, tutti e due sono “immagine e somiglianza di Dio”, tutti e due; non prima l’uomo e poi un pochino più in basso la donna, no, tutti e due. E l’uomo senza la donna accanto – sia come mamma, come sorella, come sposa, come compagna di lavoro, come amica – quell’uomo solo non è immagine di Dio (Papa Francesco)
Only one creature has already scaled the mountain peak: the Virgin Mary. Through her union with Jesus, her righteousness was perfect: for this reason we invoke her as Speculum iustitiae. Let us entrust ourselves to her so that she may guide our steps in fidelity to Christ’s Law (Pope Benedict)
Una sola creatura è già arrivata alla cima della montagna: la Vergine Maria. Grazie all’unione con Gesù, la sua giustizia è stata perfetta: per questo la invochiamo Speculum iustitiae. Affidiamoci a lei, perché guidi anche i nostri passi nella fedeltà alla Legge di Cristo (Papa Benedetto)
Jesus showed us with a new clarity the unifying centre of the divine laws revealed on Sinai […]  Indeed, in his life and in his Paschal Mystery Jesus brought the entire law to completion.  Uniting himself with us through the gift of the Holy Spirit, he carries with us and in us the “yoke” of the law, which thereby becomes a “light burden” (Pope Benedict)
Gesù ci ha mostrato con una nuova chiarezza il centro unificante delle leggi divine rivelate sul Sinai […] Anzi, Gesù nella sua vita e nel suo mistero pasquale ha portato a compimento tutta la legge (Papa Benedetto)

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