Jul 19, 2025

Teach us to Pray

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(Luke 11:1-13) Cross within Prayer: no longer looking outward Sons’ Prayer: performance or listening? In the communities of Matthew and Luke, the "prayer" of the children - the "Our Father"…
Jn 15:1-8 (.9-11) The allegory of the vine and the branches describes the Presence of the Lord in the midst of His own. He is the source of intimate life…
Two realities of the faithful: Listeners or distracted wanderers (Lk 10:38-42) Bethany is only a few kilometres from the holy city of Jerusalem: an ideal community of only brothers and…
Scientists and Lowlies: abstract world and incarnation (Mt 11:25-27) "The world gives credit to the "wise" and the "learned", while God prefers the "little ones". The general teaching that follows…
Camel: absurd position and transit (Mt 19:23-30) It is not easy to enter into the logic of the Gift and place oneself in authentic following of the Lord, in pursuit…
Jun 29, 2025

Healing in Faith

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Calamitous Faith (Mt 9:18-26) In the communities of Mt the converted Jews were accused by the proponents of the old religion of being perjurers of the customs of the fathers…
Jun 25, 2025

Day of the Lord

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Thomas: without hysteria (Jn 20:19-31) The Manifestation, the Spirit, the remission (Jn 20:19-23) The Johannine Pentecost does not suffer any temporal delay (v.22), yet the Lucan account also emphasises the…
Already rebellious: Particular Vocation (Lk 2:41-51) The family is the nucleus of society and the privileged place of educational risk, not the only one. It is a precious stage of…
(Jn 13:1-15) Complete Trust: the emblematic Action that creates pure people Let us introduce the meaning of the Lord's washing of the feet, an emblematic gesture that the Synoptic Gospels…
Sons’ Prayer: Performance or Listening? (Mt 6:7-15) In the communities of Mt and Lk the "prayer" of the sons - the "Our Father" - does not originate as prayer, but…
Jun 7, 2025

From Mine

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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…
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 –…
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…
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…
Christians are a priestly people for the world. Christians should make the living God visible to the world, they should bear witness to him and lead people towards him (Pope Benedict)
I cristiani sono popolo sacerdotale per il mondo. I cristiani dovrebbero rendere visibile al mondo il Dio vivente, testimoniarLo e condurre a Lui (Papa Benedetto)
The discovery of the Kingdom of God can happen suddenly like the farmer who, ploughing, finds an unexpected treasure; or after a long search, like the pearl merchant who eventually finds the most precious pearl, so long dreamt of (Pope Francis)
La scoperta del Regno di Dio può avvenire improvvisamente come per il contadino che arando, trova il tesoro insperato; oppure dopo lunga ricerca, come per il mercante di perle, che finalmente trova la perla preziosissima da tempo sognata (Papa Francesco)
Christ is not resigned to the tombs that we have built for ourselves (Pope Francis)
Cristo non si rassegna ai sepolcri che ci siamo costruiti (Papa Francesco)
We must not fear the humility of taking little steps, but trust in the leaven that penetrates the dough and slowly causes it to rise (cf. Mt 13:33) [Pope Benedict]
Occorre non temere l’umiltà dei piccoli passi e confidare nel lievito che penetra nella pasta e lentamente la fa crescere (cfr Mt 13,33) [Papa Benedetto]
The disciples, already know how to pray by reciting the formulas of the Jewish tradition, but they too wish to experience the same “quality” of Jesus’ prayer (Pope Francis)
I discepoli, sanno già pregare, recitando le formule della tradizione ebraica, ma desiderano poter vivere anche loro la stessa “qualità” della preghiera di Gesù (Papa Francesco)
Saint John Chrysostom affirms that all of the apostles were imperfect, whether it was the two who wished to lift themselves above the other ten, or whether it was the ten who were jealous of them (“Commentary on Matthew”, 65, 4: PG 58, 619-622) [Pope Benedict]
San Giovanni Crisostomo afferma che tutti gli apostoli erano ancora imperfetti, sia i due che vogliono innalzarsi sopra i dieci, sia gli altri che hanno invidia di loro (cfr Commento a Matteo, 65, 4: PG 58, 622) [Papa Benedetto]
St John Chrysostom explained: “And this he [Jesus] says to draw them unto him, and to provoke them and to signify that if they would covert he would heal them” (cf. Homily on the Gospel of Matthew, 45, 1-2). Basically, God's true “Parable” is Jesus himself, his Person who, in the sign of humanity, hides and at the same time reveals his divinity. In this manner God does not force us to believe in him but attracts us to him with the truth and goodness of his incarnate Son [Pope Benedict]
Spiega San Giovanni Crisostomo: “Gesù ha pronunciato queste parole con l’intento di attirare a sé i suoi ascoltatori e di sollecitarli assicurando che, se si rivolgeranno a Lui, Egli li guarirà” (Comm. al Vang. di Matt., 45,1-2). In fondo, la vera “Parabola” di Dio è Gesù stesso, la sua Persona che, nel segno dell’umanità, nasconde e al tempo stesso rivela la divinità. In questo modo Dio non ci costringe a credere in Lui, ma ci attira a Sé con la verità e la bontà del suo Figlio incarnato [Papa Benedetto]
This belonging to each other and to him is not some ideal, imaginary, symbolic relationship, but – I would almost want to say – a biological, life-transmitting state of belonging to Jesus Christ (Pope Benedict)
Questo appartenere l’uno all’altro e a Lui non è una qualsiasi relazione ideale, immaginaria, simbolica, ma – vorrei quasi dire – un appartenere a Gesù Cristo in senso biologico, pienamente vitale (Papa Benedetto)

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