Meditation
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DAILY MEDITATION: "... but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God"
By Admin Webmaster 3/30/2023 7:32:51 PMThe negative words of Caiaphas, "It is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed" (Jn 11, 50), Jesus would take positively in the redemption he worked for us. Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, dies on the cross for the love of all! He dies to fulfill the Father's plan, that is, "to gather into one the dispersed children of God" (Jn 11, 52).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “For which of these are you trying to stone me?”
By Admin Webmaster 3/30/2023 7:47:53 AMOnce more, our Lord's Cross emerges with all its strength as a true banner, as the one and only unquestionably reason: “O admirable virtue of the Holy Cross! O ineffable glory of the Father! We can see in it our Lord's Tribunal, the judgment of this World and the power of Christ Crucified.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad”
By Admin Webmaster 3/29/2023 7:55:16 AMToday, Saint John places us before Jesus' revelation in the Temple. Our Savior reveals something unknown to the Jews: that Abraham looked forward and rejoiced when he saw Jesus' day. They all knew God had made a promise to Abraham, by assuring him of great promises of salvation for his seed. However, they were unaware of how far God's light could reach.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “If God were your Father, you would love me”
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2023 7:50:59 AMToday, the Lord directs harsh words to the Jews. Not to some Jews, but precisely to those who embraced the faith: Jesus said “to those Jews who believed in him” (Jn 8, 31). This dialogue of Jesus reflects, without any doubt, the beginning of those difficulties caused by the Jewish Christians in the first hours of the Church.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM”
By Admin Webmaster 3/27/2023 8:31:02 AMOnly the friendship of He, who is fully acquainted with the Cross, may provide us with the needed connaturality to get us into the Redemptor's heart.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Go, and from now on do not sin any more"
By Admin Webmaster 3/26/2023 6:08:37 AMToday, it is said that the sense of sin is lost. There are many who do not know what is good or bad, nor why. It is like saying —in a positive way— that the sense of Love for God is lost: the sense of God's Love for us and the reciprocity this Love demands from us. He who loves does not offend.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I am the resurrection”
By Admin Webmaster 3/24/2023 8:33:50 PMWe Christians are called to live, already in this world, this new supernatural life that allows us to get credit for our destiny: Always ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks us for a reason for our hope! (cf. 1Pet 3, 15). It is logical that in these days we try to follow Jesus Master closely.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Hail, full of grace!”
By Admin Webmaster 3/24/2023 7:57:27 AMThe Annunciation also reveals the Trinity: The Father sends the Son, incarnated by the Holy Spirit. And the Church sings: “And the Word becomes flesh today and makes his dwelling among us.” His redeeming work —Christmas, Good Friday, Easter— is present in this seed. He is Immanuel, “God with us” (cf. Is 7, 15). Rejoice Humanity!
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DAILY MEDITATION: “His hour had not yet come”
By Admin Webmaster 3/23/2023 8:41:08 AMToday’s Gospel allows us to contemplate the confusion that arose over the identity and mission of Jesus Christ. As the people come face to face with Jesus, there are misunderstandings and presumptions about who He is, how He will or will not fulfill the Old Testament prophecies and what He will accomplish. Assumptions and judgments lead to frustration and anger.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true”
By Admin Webmaster 3/22/2023 7:54:20 AMJesus Christ reproaches those who listen to him three impediments they have, to accept him as the Son of God's Messiah: the lack of love of God; the lack of honest intentions —they only seek the human glory— and, their having their own interests at heart when interpreting the Scriptures.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "... whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life”
By Admin Webmaster 3/21/2023 8:16:50 AMAmong the things our Lord tell us today, there are a few referring to all those that, through History, will believe in him: to hear and to believe Jesus, is having already eternal life (cf. Jn 5, 24). Certainly, it is not yet the definitive life, but we can begin sharing the promise. It is convenient for us to keep it well in mind, while we make an effort to listen to Jesus' word:...
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time,..."
By Admin Webmaster 3/20/2023 7:54:30 AMJesus Christ's voice is the voice of God. Everything was anew with that old disabled man, spent by dejection. Much later, Saint John Chrysostom will say that in Bethzatha pool sick people cured their bodies, while in the Baptism those same sick cure their soul; over there, one only sick could eventually be cured, every now and then. Baptism however, cures always and everybody.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph”
By Admin Webmaster 3/19/2023 6:28:38 AMToday, the Church invites us to contemplate the kind figure of the Holy Patriarch. Chosen by God and by Mary, Joseph lived like all of us between sorrows and joys. We must look at any of his actions with special interest. We will always learn from him.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Go wash”
By Admin Webmaster 3/17/2023 8:26:56 PMToday, in the Fourth Sunday of Lent —also called rose or “laetare” (rejoice) Sunday— the entire liturgy invites us to experience a deep joy, a great exultation, because Easter is getting nearer.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I tell you, the latter went home justified”
By Admin Webmaster 3/17/2023 7:47:15 AMNowadays we tend to see guilt feelings as close to a psychological aberration: ‘beating oneself up over something’. Nevertheless the ‘guilt-racked’ tax-collector leaves the Temple in the better state for, “the latter went home justified, not the former” (Lk 18, 14). “This feeling of guilt”, wrote Benedict XVI when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger ("Conscience and truth"),...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “There is no other commandment greater than these.”
By Admin Webmaster 3/16/2023 7:42:14 AMJesus' call to communion and to the mission requires our participation in its very same nature; it is closeness where to get ourselves in. Jesus does not vindicate him as the milestone of our prayer and of our love. He thanks the Father and constantly lives in his presence.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “If it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you”
By Admin Webmaster 3/15/2023 7:58:40 AMJesus' response shows the absurdity of the argument from those contradicting him. Besides, this answer means for us a call to unity, to the strength meant by that unity. Disunity is an evil and destructive yeast instead. One of the evil signs is, precisely, division and making us unable to understand each other.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “... I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.”
By Admin Webmaster 3/13/2023 8:32:49 PMAs Saint John Paul II reminded us, God wants to get closer to man. God wants to address him his words, to show him his face for He is seeking closeness with him. This becomes a reality with the people of Israel, people chosen by God to receive his words.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan.”
By Admin Webmaster 3/13/2023 8:49:50 AMIn actual fact, man either refuses to forgive or miserly measures out his forgiveness. Who would actually say that we have just received from God an infinitely reiterated and limitless forgiveness…? The parable says: “Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan.” (Mt 18, 27). And this, despite the fact his debt was very big.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "No prophet is accepted in his own native place”
By Admin Webmaster 3/12/2023 6:47:51 AMJesus is the Prophet par excellence, the long awaited Savior; in Him all prophecies are fulfilled. But, just as it did happen at the time of Elijah and Elisha, Jesus is not “well accepted” among their own, for those who are filled with anger “rose up, drove him out of the town” (Lk 4, 29).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Give me a drink”
By Admin Webmaster 3/10/2023 8:11:26 PMEven today Jesus continues to “thirst”, namely, to desire humanity “thirst” for our faith and love, “thirst” for our response of faith before so many Lenten invitations to conversion, to change, to reconcile to God and our brothers, to prepare ourselves, as much as we can, to receive a new life of resurrection in the nearing Easter.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I will get up and go back to my father and say to him..."
By Admin Webmaster 3/10/2023 7:59:16 AMThe protagonist is always the Father. Let's beg the desert of Lent to take us to internalize this appeal to participate in the divine compassion, as life is nothing but gradually returning to the Father.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone”
By Admin Webmaster 3/9/2023 7:47:36 AMThis new Israel is the Church, all the baptized. We have received in the person of Jesus and in his message, a most unique gift we must make bear fruit. We cannot resign ourselves to an individualist and shortsighted experience of our faith; we must transmit it and give it to anyone who may come close.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,..."
By Admin Webmaster 3/8/2023 8:09:22 AMThe contrast between the rich and the poor is very strong. The luxury of the rich and his indifference to the plight of poor Lazarus lying at his door, his pathetic situation, even when dogs used to come and lick his sores (cf. Lk 16,19-21). It all has a deep realism introducing us into the scene.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant”
By Admin Webmaster 3/7/2023 7:49:17 AMWe have a natural tendency towards a desire to dominate or subjugate things and people, to command and to order, to have things done as per our wishes, to have others accept our status, our position. But, now, Jesus is proposing to us just the opposite: “whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant” (Mt 20,26-27).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “You have but one teacher, you have but one Father, you have but one master, the Messiah”
By Admin Webmaster 3/6/2023 8:03:27 AMFor our behavior to fit with that of our Lord Jesus, a gesture of humility is fundamental, as Pope Emeritus Benedict said: “I recognize myself for what I am, a frail creature, made from earth and destined to return to earth, yet also made in the image of God and destined for him”.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful”
By Admin Webmaster 3/5/2023 6:44:17 AMWhen Jesus says: “Do not judge”, Jesus is not prohibiting the exercise of our faculty of discernment, nor are we asked to approve everything that our brother does. What He is forbidding is to attribute an evil intention to the person for acting thus. Only God knows what is in the heart of a person;...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “And he was transfigured before them”
By Admin Webmaster 3/3/2023 9:09:42 PMToday on our journey to Easter Time, the liturgy of the word shows us the transfiguration of Jesus Christ. Although there is a liturgical day in our calendar reserved for this celebration (August 6th), we are now invited to contemplate the very same scene intimately linked to the Passion, Death and Resurrection of our Lord.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you”
By Admin Webmaster 3/3/2023 7:59:44 AMLove has its foundation and reaches its highest form in God's love in Christ. We are invited to a dialogue with God. We exist for the love of God, Who created us, and for the love of God which keeps us, “for man would not exist were he not created by God's love and constantly preserved by it; and he cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother”
By Admin Webmaster 3/2/2023 7:44:39 AMAs Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wrote, “If we want to present ourselves to him, we must also take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawing of resentment work in our soul, but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them,...