Meditation
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DAILY MEDITATION: “When Jesus had washed the disciples’ feet...”
By Admin Webmaster 5/3/2023 7:57:37 AMToday, as with those movies that at the beginning take us back in time, our liturgy remembers a passage that belongs to the Holy Thursday: Jesus washes the feet of his disciples. Thus, this gesture —read from the Easter perspective— recovers a perennial validity.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in the one who sent me”
By Admin Webmaster 5/2/2023 8:29:06 AMToday, Jesus cries out; He cries out just as someone who is saying words everybody should clearly listen to. His clamor synthesizes his saving mission, as He has come “to save the world” (Jn 12, 47), but not on his own but in the name of “Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak” (Jn 12, 49).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “The Father and I are one.”
By Admin Webmaster 5/1/2023 7:57:33 AMOnly through Faith man is able to recognize Jesus Christ as the Son of God. When The Holy Father John Paul II addressed the young people on occasion of the 15th World Youth Day at Tor Vergata, in the year 2000, he spoke about the “school of faith”. To the question “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I am the good shepherd"
By Admin Webmaster 4/30/2023 6:51:58 AMThrough the shepherds, Christ gives His Word, spreads out His divine Grace with the sacraments and steers His flock towards the Kingdom: He offers himself as our nourishment in the sacrament of the Eucharist, imparts God's Word and Magisterial teachings, and caringly leads his People.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I am the gate for the sheep”
By Admin Webmaster 4/28/2023 8:45:03 PMToday, in the Gospel, Jesus uses two images referring to himself: He is the shepherd. And He is the gate. Jesus is the good shepherd who knows the sheep. "He calls his own sheep by name" (Jn 10, 3). For Jesus, each one of us is not a number; He has personal contact with each one of us. The Gospel is not just a doctrine: it is the personal attachment of Jesus to us.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “You have the words of eternal life”
By Admin Webmaster 4/28/2023 7:49:49 AMHis language is too hard for some, too incomprehensible for their mentality, closed to the Lord's saving Word; St. John says, somewhat sadly, that “As a result of this, many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer walked with him” (Jn 6, 66).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you.”
By Admin Webmaster 4/27/2023 7:52:04 AMToday, Jesus makes three key avowals, such as: that we are to eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood; that if we do not take the Holy Communion we cannot have life; and that this life is the eternal life and the condition for resurrection (cf. Jn 6,53-58). There is nothing in the Gospel so clear, so emphatic and so definite as these statements of Jesus.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven”
By Admin Webmaster 4/26/2023 7:40:32 AMThe living bread is Jesus. It is not nourishment we assimilate for us but that assimilates us. It makes us feel hungry for God, thirsty for listening to his Word, which is, our heart's rejoicing and joy. The Eucharist is an anticipation of the heavenly glory: “We divide the bread, the medicine of immortality, the antidote we take in order not to die but to live forever in Jesus Christ”...
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Whoever comes to me will never hunger”
By Admin Webmaster 4/25/2023 7:49:05 AMThese words of Christ spur us to come to him daily in Mass. This is the easiest thing in the world: simply to turn up at Mass, pray and then receive his Body. Once we do this, we not only possess this new life, but we radiate it to others.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature”
By Admin Webmaster 4/24/2023 7:39:36 AMToday, there is much to say about why the word of the Gospel does not echo with strength and conviction; why we Christians keep a hesitant silence regarding what we believe in, in spite of the so-called “new evangelization”. Each one will make his or her own analysis about this and will come up with their own particular version.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Work (…) for the food that endures for eternal life"
By Admin Webmaster 4/23/2023 6:39:56 AMToday, after the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves, the people went looking for Jesus as far as Capernaum. Then as now, people are seeking the divine. Isn't the proliferation of religious sects and esotericism proof of this thirst for all things divine?
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DAILY MEDITATION: “That very day, the first day of the week”
By Admin Webmaster 4/21/2023 11:48:21 PMThe Gospel proclaimed in the midst of Sunday assemblies is always the angelic announcement of a clarity directed at minds and hearts slow to believe (cf. Lk 24, 25), and for this reason, it is gentle, not explosive, since otherwise, it would blind us instead of illuminating us.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “It is I. Do not be afraid.”
By Admin Webmaster 4/21/2023 7:50:48 AMBefore our personal frailness to successfully carry out the missions the Lord has asked us to do (a vocation, an apostolic project, a service...), we may console ourselves just knowing that the Virgin Mary —after all a creature like ourselves— also heard the same words from the angel before facing the mission which the Lord had entrusted her with.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do”
By Admin Webmaster 4/20/2023 8:02:19 AMWhen looking at these “signs of the times”, we are not expecting passivity (laziness, languor for lack of fighting...), but hope: to work a miracle, the Lord wants the Apostles courage and dedication and the generosity of the boy who is willing to give some barley loaves and the two fish.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life”
By Admin Webmaster 4/19/2023 5:30:09 AMToday, the Gospel invites us to cease being so “worldly”, to stop being men who can only speak about mundane things, to speak and behave instead as “The one who comes from above”(Jn 3, 31), who is Jesus. In this text we see —once more— that in evangelic radicalism there is no happy medium.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Light came into the world”
By Admin Webmaster 4/18/2023 7:47:18 AMOn the other hand, according to Benedict XVI, “each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8, 32)” (Encyclical Letter "Caritas in Veritate").
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DAILY MEDITATION: “You must be born from above”
By Admin Webmaster 4/17/2023 8:18:48 AMA transformation where Jesus Christ is the catalyst. He, who previously had to suffer the Crucifixion and then resurrect, is who will send us God's Spirit. He who has come from above. He who has shown his power and his goodness, through his many miracles. He who always makes his Father's will. He who has suffered to the last drop of blood for us.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "No one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above"
By Admin Webmaster 4/16/2023 6:25:13 AMWater and Spirit are the two symbols used by Jesus. Both express the action of the Holy Spirit that purifies and grants life, cleans and encourages, calms the thirst and breathes, soften and speaks. Water and Spirit make a single thing.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them”
By Admin Webmaster 4/14/2023 9:28:20 PMToday, on the Second Sunday of Easter, we complete the octave of this liturgical season, one of the two octaves —together with Christmas— that remain in the liturgy renewed by the Vatican Council II. For eight days, we contemplate the same mystery and try to deepen our understanding of it in the light of the Holy Spirit.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature”
By Admin Webmaster 4/14/2023 7:38:54 AMToday, relying on the risen Jesus, we must rediscover the Gospel as the "Good News". The Gospel is not a law that tyrannizes us. Occasionally, we may have fallen into the temptation of thinking that non-Christians are more tranquil than us and do what they want, whereas we have to abide by a list of commandments. This is a merely superficial view of things.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples after being raised from the dead”
By Admin Webmaster 4/13/2023 7:59:08 AMToday, for the third time, Jesus reveals himself to his disciples after his rising. Peter has gone back to his old fisherman job and the others have decided to join him. It stands to reason that, if he was a fisherman before following Jesus, afterwards, he gets back to his old job; and there still are those who are surprised to see that it is not necessary to leave one's honest work to follow Christ.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Peace be with you.”
By Admin Webmaster 4/12/2023 8:10:55 AMToday, the risen Christ meets again his disciples with his desire of peace: “Peace be with you.” This is how He makes disappear the fears and forebodings the Apostles had accumulated during their days of Passion and loneliness.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way...”
By Admin Webmaster 4/11/2023 8:19:02 AMToday we are reassured by the Gospel that Jesus is alive and continues to be the center around which the disciples' community is built. The gathering of the community, the dialog with brothers and sisters who share the same faith, the reading of the Word of God, the love shared and expressed through fraternity and service, is precisely the ecclesial context in which the disciples can encounter the Resurrected.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Mary went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’”
By Admin Webmaster 4/10/2023 6:06:24 AMToday, in the figure of Mary Magdalene we may contemplate two levels of acceptance of our Savior: the first one, imperfect; complete, the second one. According to the first one, Mary appears as the most sincere of Jesus' disciples. She follows him, unmatched Master;...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went away quickly from the tomb..."
By Admin Webmaster 4/9/2023 12:47:19 PMToday, the joy of resurrection has made brave messengers out of those women that went to Christ's tomb. The angel's announcement of the Master's resurrection filled their hearts with “great joy.” And, immediately after, they “ran out”, to tell the news to the Apostles.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed”
By Admin Webmaster 4/8/2023 6:39:18 AMThe great sign the Gospel gives us today is that Jesus' tomb is empty. We have to look no more among the dead for He who is alive has risen. And his disciples also realize his tomb is empty. They will see him risen later on; experiencing him alive in a wonderful meeting in faith.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "---"
By Admin Webmaster 4/7/2023 5:55:13 AMToday, we do not consider any particular Gospel, inasmuch it is a day with no liturgy. But, with Mary, the only one who stayed firm in faith and hope after the tragic death of her Son, we shall prepare ourselves, in silence and in prayer, to celebrate the feast of our liberation in Christ, that is, the fulfillment of the Gospel.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.”
By Admin Webmaster 4/6/2023 6:15:56 AMToday we celebrate the first day of the Paschal Triduum. It is therefore the day of the Victorious Cross, where Jesus Christ left us the best of Him: the Virgin Mary as mother, the forgiveness —for his executioners too— and the total trust in God Father.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet”
By Admin Webmaster 4/5/2023 8:22:15 AMToday, we remember the first Holy Thursday of history, when Jesus Christ gathers his disciples to celebrate the Passover. He inaugurates the new Passover of the new Covenant when his sacrifice is offered for our salvation.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Surely it is not I?”
By Admin Webmaster 4/4/2023 7:47:43 AMThe word “deliver” (“paradidōmi” in Greek) is repeated six times and serves as a link between these three moments: (i) when Judas delivers Jesus; (ii) Passover, which is a figure of the sacrifice of the cross, where Jesus gives His life; and (iii) the Last Supper, in which the delivery of Jesus is manifested, which will be fulfilled on the Cross.