Meditation
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys,...”
By Admin Webmaster 6/22/2023 8:35:27 AMToday the Lord tells us that "the lamp of the body is the eye" (Mt 6, 22). Saint Thomas Aquinas understands that, when speaking of the eye, Jesus refers to man's intentions. When the intention is upright, lucid, directed to God, all our actions are brilliant, resplendent; but when the intention is not upright, how great is the darkness! (cf. Mt 6, 23).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Your Father knows what you need before you ask him”
By Admin Webmaster 6/21/2023 8:12:01 AMToday the Lord wants to help us grow in a main issue of our Christian life: the prayer. He warns us not to pray like pagans trying to convince God about what they want. Many times we try to achieve what we want through insistence, being "annoying" to God, believing that we will be heard with our verbosity.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them”
By Admin Webmaster 6/20/2023 7:51:20 AMToday, Jesus invites us to act always for the glory of God, to please the Father, as this is why we have been created for. This is how the Catechism of the Church confirms it: “God created everything for man, but man in turn was created to serve and love and to offer all creation back to him.” This is the meaning of our life and our honor: to be liked by the Father, to please God.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect”
By Admin Webmaster 6/19/2023 7:39:00 AMToday, Christ invites us to love. To love without measure, which is the measure of true Love. God is Love, “for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust” (Mt 5, 45). And man, God's spark, has to keep on struggling every day to resemble him, so “that you may be children of your heavenly Father”. Where can we find Christ's face?
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DAILY MEDITATION: “But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil”
By Admin Webmaster 6/18/2023 6:25:11 AMToday, Jesus teaches us that forgiveness can overcome hate. Talion's law meant some progress, as it limited the wish to retaliate down to a fair proportion: do unto others as you would have them to, unto you; otherwise, it would be unfairness; this is what the aphorism “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” actually means.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled...”
By Admin Webmaster 6/17/2023 7:16:33 AMShould Jesus come today, I think He would repeat the same words: that there are a lot of disoriented and confused persons, trying to find meaning in their lives. —O Lord, how can we overcome this big problem? Well, Jesus requests prayer, so He chooses twelve Apostles and sends them over to proclaim His message, the Kingdom of God.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "His mother kept all these things in her heart"
By Admin Webmaster 6/16/2023 6:21:46 AMToday, we celebrate the memory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A spotless Heart, full of God, totally willing to listen to him and obey him. In Bible's language, the heart refers to a person's deepest essence, where all thoughts, words and deeds emanate from. What does emanate from the Virgin Mary's heart?
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest”
By Admin Webmaster 6/15/2023 8:07:08 AMToday when we find ourselves weary from the daily grind—because we all carry heavy burdens that can sometimes be hard to bear—let's think of these words of Jesus: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest”. Let's rest in Him, who is the only one that can ease all of our concerns, and thus find the peace and love that the world doesn't always provide.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven"
By Admin Webmaster 6/14/2023 8:15:16 AMSt. John Bosco used to say: "The good is the enemy of the best". It is there, where the Master's Word reaches us, inviting us to be righteous in a “much broader” way (cf. Mt 5, 20) that starts from a different attitude. Bigger things that, paradoxically, look lesser and smaller.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I have come not to abolish but to fulfill”
By Admin Webmaster 6/13/2023 8:11:29 AMIn today's Gospel, Jesus teaches us that the Old Testament is part of the Divine Revelation: First, God made himself known to men through the prophets. The chosen People gathered on Saturdays in the synagogue to listen to God's Word. And just as a good Jew knew the Scriptures and put them into practice, we Christians should frequently meditate —if possible,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world”
By Admin Webmaster 6/12/2023 8:33:22 AMToday, St. Matthew reminds us of those words Jesus said regarding our mission as Christians: to be the salt and the light of the world. On the one hand, the salt is a necessary seasoning to make foods taste good: without salt, most dishes are almost worthless! Throughout centuries, on the other hand, salt has been a fundamental element to keep victuals from corruption.
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DAILY MEDITATION:"Fortunate are those who are poor in spirit"
By Admin Webmaster 6/11/2023 5:40:57 AMThe Beatitudes are intended for everybody. The Master is not only teaching his disciples around him, nor does He exclude any kind of persons, but He delivers a Universal message. However, He emphasizes the disposition we must have and the moral behaviour He expects from us.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I am the living bread which has come from heaven; whoever eats of this bread will live forever”
By Admin Webmaster 6/10/2023 6:09:37 AMToday the one and only message that we must listen to and live is contained in “the bread”. Chapter 6 of St. John's Gospel refers to the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves, which is followed by a Jesus’ great “bread of life” discourse, a fragment of which we hear today.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "A poor widow also came and put in two small coins"
By Admin Webmaster 6/9/2023 6:13:36 AMToday, as in Jesus' times, some pious persons —and even more so, some religious “professionals”— may be tempted by a kind of spiritual hypocrisy. This is evidenced through self-conceited attitudes, which we try to justify by our feeling better than all the rest: after all, we are the believers, the ones who practice...,
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DAILY MEDITATION: "David himself calls him [the Messiah] Lord"
By Admin Webmaster 6/8/2023 8:03:13 AMThe title of “Son of David” applied to Jesus Christ forms part of the backbone of the Gospel. In the Annunciation, the Virgin received this message: "And the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and He will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end" (Lk 1,32-33).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "There is no other commandment greater than these"
By Admin Webmaster 6/7/2023 8:06:38 AMThe Lord's answer takes to pieces the spirituality of that “master of the Law” And the attitude of the disciple of Jesus with respect to God can be summed up in two points: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart” (Mk 12, 30) and “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mk 12, 31).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "He is the God, not of the dead but of the living"
By Admin Webmaster 6/6/2023 7:52:46 AMFar from doubting of the Holy Scriptures and of God's merciful love and power, we shall adhere with all our mind and heart to this hopeful truth, while rejoicing for not being thwarted in our thirst of life, full and eternal, which the same God assures us, in its glory and happiness. Before this divine invitation we have nothing to do but to foment our anxious wish to see God,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God"
By Admin Webmaster 6/5/2023 6:09:28 AMToday, we marvel again at Christ's wit and wisdom. With his masterly response, He directly points out to the fair autonomy of the worldly realities: “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar” (Mk 12, 17).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Sent a servant to receive from the tenants his share of the fruit"
By Admin Webmaster 6/4/2023 6:02:00 AMWhat kind of tenants are we? Those who work hard or those who get annoyed when the master sends his servants to collect the rent from us? We may oppose those in charge of helping us give the fruits God expects.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "God so loved the world that He gave his only Son"
By Admin Webmaster 6/2/2023 9:21:07 PMToday, it does us good to hear John's Gospel reminding us again that "God so loved the world..." (Jn 3, 16) because in the festivity of the Blessed Trinity, God is worshipped, loved and served, because God is Love. In God we find an association with Love, and whatever He actively does He does it for Love. God loves. He loves us.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “By what authority are you doing these things?”
By Admin Webmaster 6/2/2023 7:38:07 AMFaith and prayer go together. Saint Augustine tells us “if faith is lacking, prayer is impossible. So, when we pray, let us believe and pray so faith is not lacking us. Faith produces prayer, and prayer, in turn, produces the strengthening of the faith.” If our intentions are good, and we turn to Jesus, we shall discover who is
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DAILY MEDITATION: “All that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it”
By Admin Webmaster 6/1/2023 7:56:24 AMThere are people that almost never pray and, when they do it, it is with the hope God will solve problems they do not know how to handle themselves. And they justify it with the words from Jesus we have just heard: “Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours” (Mk 11, 24).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.”
By Admin Webmaster 5/31/2023 7:16:26 AMToday, Christ comes out to meet us. We are all just like Bartimaeus: the blind beggar, by whose side Jesus passed by, and who started to call him out until the Lord stopped and called him. We may have a more advantaged name... but our human weaknesses (moral) resemble the beggar's blindness.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “The infant in my womb leaped for joy”
By Admin Webmaster 5/30/2023 8:20:14 AMThe salutation of the Mother of God prompted the infant Elizabeth carried in her womb to leap with joy. God's Mother, who also carried Jesus in her womb, is a cause for joy. Families are happy when the arrival of a new life is announced. Christ's birth is certainly “good news of great joy” (Lk 2, 10).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house (…)"
By Admin Webmaster 5/29/2023 8:37:09 AMThe Lord's promise is very generous: “you will receive a hundred times more now in this present age (…) and eternal life in the age to come” (cf Mk 10, 30). He cannot be surpassed as far as generosity. But He adds: “with persecutions.” Jesus is very realistic and He does not want to deceive anybody.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Behold, your mother"
By Admin Webmaster 5/28/2023 6:24:54 AMThe Second Vatican Council adds that Mary is "truly the mother of the members of Christ for having cooperated with her love for the faithful, who are members of that Head (Jesus), to be born into the Church." Furthermore, while remaining in the midst of the Apostles in the Upper Room, Mary —Mother of the Church— recalls the presence, gift and action of the Holy Spirit...
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Receive the Holy Spirit"
By Admin Webmaster 5/27/2023 6:13:56 PMThe Holy Spirit is the intimate and personal Master who guides the disciple towards the truth, who motivates him to do good, who consoles him in the pain, who transforms him intimately, while giving him a new strength and capacity.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “It is this disciple who testifies to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true”
By Admin Webmaster 5/26/2023 7:30:19 AMThe figure of the beloved disciple is central in this fragment and even in the totality of St. John's Gospel. It may refer to a concrete person —the disciple John— or, it can be a figure, behind which, any disciple loved by the Master can be placed. Whatever its meaning, the text helps to give an element of continuity to the Apostles' experience.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Do you love me more than these?"
By Admin Webmaster 5/25/2023 7:56:46 AMToday, Gospel tells us another story of Jesus’ appearance to His disciples. Intensely, the dialogue between Jesus and Peter illustrates God's mercy as a great love for the disciples and the world. This is not a common dialog between Jesus and His disciple, Peter. Both Jesus and Peter talk about love according to their perspectives.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word”
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2023 8:01:04 AMToday, we find a solid basis for trust in the Gospel: “I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word...” (Jn 17, 20). It is Jesus' heart, which, in the intimacy of Jesus with his disciples, opens up the inexhaustible treasures of His Love. He wants to strengthen their hearts overwhelmed by the sense of farewell that, during the Last Supper,...