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The other disciple (...) also went in; he saw and believed: Gospel by pictures: Easter Sunday
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, "is the day when the Lord has acted", as we shall be singing throughout Easter time. As this is the expression of Psalm 117 that fills out the celebration of our Christian faith. The Father has resurrected Jesus Christ, His beloved Son, whom He indulges in because He has loved to the point of giving. .. -
the grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies ...) it produces much fruit: Gospel by pictures of Sunday 5th (B) of Lent (Mar. 22nd)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, in the last part of Lent, the Church proposes this Gospel to help us attain Palm Sunday ready to live up to these mysteries so outstanding for our Christian life. The Via crucis, or the Way of the Cross, becomes for us Christians a “via lucis”, ... -
Gospel by pictures of Sunday 4th (B) of Lent
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, the liturgy offers us an advanced flagrance of true Pascal joy. The ornaments of the Celebrant are pink. It is "laetare" Sunday inviting us to a serene joy. "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her...", says the antiphon of the introit sung today. -
7 women who changed the world
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMll of these women left a mark on the world that would change people's thinking for decades -- in some cases centuries -- to come. They wrote books that revolutionized people's view of society; made scientific discoveries that transformed medicine as we know it... -
Gospel by pictures of Sunday 6th (B) in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, the Gospel invites us to contemplate the faith of this leper. We know that, in Jesus time, lepers were socially rejected and considered as unclean. Cleaning that leper is an anticipated vision of the salvation proposed to all of us by Jesus,... -
Gospel by pictures of Sunday 5th (B) in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, we are given to contemplate Jesus at Capernaum, in the midst of His ministry, and more precisely, in Simon Peter's family home: "On leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to the home of Simon and Andrew" (Mk 1:29). There, He met his family... -
Gospel by pictures of Sunday 4th (B) in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, Christ addresses us his resolute command, without question, with authority: «Be silent and come out of this man!» (Mk 1:25). He speaks to the evil spirits living within us that curtail the freedom God has given us and wants us to enjoy. -
Change your ways and believe the Good News: Gospel by pictures of Sunday 3rd (B) in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMday, the Church invites us to change our ways and, through Jesus, is telling us: "Change your ways and believe the Good News" (Mk 1:15). We will, therefore, have to pay attention to what Jesus Christ is saying, while correcting and improving what is needed. -
Rabbi where are you staying?: Gospel by pictures of Sunday 2nd (B) in Ordinary Time (Jan. 18th)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, we can see Jesus coming by the banks of the river Jordan: it is Christ walking by! It was about four o'clock in the afternoon, when noticing two young men following him, He asks them "What are you looking for?" (Jn 1:38). And, surprised ... -
You are my Son..: Gospel by pictures of Sunday Baptism of the Lord (B)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, the Christmas cycle is over. The Gospel says that John had "appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of the sins" (Mk 1:4). People went out to see and hear him, to confess... -
'A year of book' -An aggressive New Year's Resolution For 2015
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe last week of every year, Mark Zuckerberg makes an aggressive New Year's resolution. One year he vowed to eat only meat he killed himself. Another year he learned to speak Mandarin. -
Gospel by pictures: Sunday Holy Family (B) (Dec. 28th)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family. Our gaze instinctively goes to the middle of the manger —Jesus— to look at Mary and Joseph. The eternal Son of the Father goes from the eternal Family, which is the Holy Trinity... -
Christmas: Gospel by pictures (Dec. 25th)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, with children's simplicity, we are considering the great mystery of our Faith. Jesus' birth emphasizes the arrival of the “Fullness of Time”. As a result of the original sin of our first parents, the human lineage diverged from its Creator... -
Pope to children: Prayer is the breath of the soul
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMAt the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis welcomed the children of Rome for the traditional “Bambinelli Blessing.” On Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday of Advent, Roman boys and girls bring the baby Jesus from their Nativity ... -
Among you stands one (...) he comes after me: Gospel by pictures: Sunday 3rd (B) of Advent (Dec.14th)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, right in the midst of Advent, we receive an invitation to joy and hope: "Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks" (1Thess 5:16-18). The Lord is near: "My daughter, know your heart is Heaven for Me", Jesus said to St. Faustina Kowalska -
John began to baptize in the desert: Gospel by pictures Sunday 2st (B) of Advent (Dec.7th)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, as the curtain of the divine drama rises, we can already hear someone shouting: «Prepare the way of the Lord, level his paths» (Mk 1,3). Today we meet John the Baptist as he sets the stage for Jesus' coming. -
Gospel by pictures Sunday 1st (B) of Advent
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, in this first Sunday of Advent, the Church begins a new liturgic year. We are, therefore, entering some very especial days of foretaste, renewal and readying. -
Whenever you did this to these little ones (...): Gospel by pictures Sunday 34th in Ordinary Time: Christ the King (A)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday's Jesus speaks to us of the definite judgment. And with this metaphoric image about sheep and goats, He makes us realize that it will be a judgment of love. «We shall be judged on love», St. John of the Cross tells us. -
Gospel by pictures Sunday 33th (A) in Ordinary Time (Nov. 16th)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, Jesus tells us another parable of judgment. We are approaching Advent season and, therefore, the end of the liturgical year is getting near. -
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom: Gospel by pictures Sunday: All Souls
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, the Gospel calls forth Christianism most significant deed: the death and resurrection of Jesus. Today, we also make the Good Thief's plea: "Jesus, remember me" (Lk 23:42). -
You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart : Gospel by pictures Sunday 30th (A) in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, the Church reminds us of our “attitude before life” («The whole Law and the Prophets are founded on these two commandments»: Mt 22:40). St. Matthew and St. Mark put these words upon Jesus ... -
Return to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's: Gospel by pictures Sunday 29th (A) in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, the Gospel presents to our consideration a “famous” assertion from Jesus Christ: "Return to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's" (Mt 22:21). -
Synod concludes first phase of debate on family life
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMBishops and lay experts attending the Synod on the Family are coming to the end of their first week’s work and moving into their different language discussion groups for the second phase of their meeting. With Pope Francis present at almost every session, a vast variety of ... -
Invite everyone you find to the wedding feast: Gospel by pictures Sunday 28th (A) in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, Jesus present us with the king (the Father), inviting his guests through his “servants” (the prophets) to the banquet of the Holy Alliance of his Son with Mankind (our salvation). -
Synod seeks to model God's marriage of justice and mercy
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMHow can the Church remain true to its core beliefs while showing mercy, compassion and forgiveness to individuals who fail, in so many ways, to live up its high ideals? That’s the question at the heart of the Synod of Bishops on the Family which is... -
Pope encourages all families to read the Bible
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMPope Francis has asked for prayers for the bishops who are about to begin work in the two-week Synod of the Family and invited all families to keep a Bible handy in their homes, and read it often. -
Finally, he sent his son, thinking: ‘They will respect my son’: Gospel by pictures: Sunday 27th (A) in Ordinary Time (Oct. 4th)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, we contemplate the mystery of the shunning of God, in general, and of Christ, in particular. Men's repeated resistance and rejection of God's love, is quite extraordinary. -
Gospel by pictures of Sunday 26th in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMToday, we are given to contemplate the father and vineyard owner asking his two sons: «Son, today go and work in my vineyard» (Mt 21:29). One says “yes”, but he does not go. The other one says “no”, but he does go. None of the two sons keeps the word given. -
Why are you envious when I am kind?: Gospel by pictures of Sunday 25st in Ordinary Time
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIn the background of today's Gospel lies the vineyard, prophetic image of the people of Israel in the Old Testament, and now, of the new people of God, born from the wounded side of the Lord in the Cross. -
Gospel by pictures of Feast of the Elevation of the Holy Cross (Sept. 14th)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThis feast commemorates two events: (1) The finding of the Cross by the Empress Helen (the mother of St. Constantine the Great) on Golgotha in 326 AD, the place where Christ was crucified...