Children

Afternoon May 29, in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the Pope received in audience a group of twenty seriously ill children, accompanied by their parents, along with volunteers and leaders from the UNITALSI association, which organises pilgrimages to Lourdes and Loreto...

Today, our liturgy invites us to worship the Holy Trinity, our God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. One only God in three Persons, in whose name we have been baptized.

Today, the day of Pentecost, the fulfillment of the promise Christ made the Apostles is finally accomplished. The evening of that Easter day He breathed on them and said to them: "Receive the Holy Spirit" (Jn 20:22). The Holy Spirit's arrival on the Day ...

Today, in this solemnity, what is being offered to us, as we have never ever been able to imagine before, is a Word of Salvation. Our Lord Jesus has not only resurrected, defeating death and sin, but He has also been taken up into the glory of God!

Today, the Gospel offers us the allegory of the vine and the branches. Christ is the true vine, we are the branches and the Father is the vine grower.

Today, Jesus tells us: "I am the good shepherd"

day, the Gospel still refers us to the Resurrection of the Lord, when the two disciples of Emmaus are going to Jerusalem and, once there, while explaining how the Lord made himself known to them, the Resurrected appears in their midst.

Today, 2nd Sunday of Easter, we complete the octave of this liturgical time, one of the two octaves —along with that of Christmas— that have remained out of the renewal made by the Vatican Council II. During eight days we contemplate the same mystery and we try to ...

Today, "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. ..

Today, 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”, ...

Today, 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.

Today, 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,...

Today, 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...

Today, 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.

day, 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.

Today, 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 ...

Today, 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...

Today, 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...

Today, 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...

At 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 ...

Today, 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

Today, 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.

Today, 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.

Today'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.

Today, Jesus tells us another parable of judgment. We are approaching Advent season and, therefore, the end of the liturgical year is getting near.

Today, 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).

Today, 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 ...

Today, 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).

Today, 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).

Today, 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.