Meditation
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DAILY MEDITATION: “For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds”
By Admin Webmaster 3/1/2023 7:44:02 AMWe, sometimes, fail to see God's concern for us, for we find our prayers seemingly unanswered or may even feel God does not love us. In such moments, it will do us good to remember this advice from Saint Jerome: “It is certain God gives to he who asks, that he who seeks finds, and that he who knocks will be opened...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation”
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2023 8:08:39 AMA week ago, on Ash Wednesday, we covered ourselves in ashes and heard individually the words of Jesus' first homily, “Repent and believe in the Gospel” (cf. Mk 1, 15). The question for us is: Have we responded yet with deep conversion like the Ninevites and embraced that Gospel?
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DAILY MEDITATION: “In praying, do not babble; your Father knows what you need”
By Admin Webmaster 2/27/2023 7:42:17 AMDuring Lent, the Church is asking us to go deeper in our prayers. Saint John Chrysostom says: “The prayer, our conversation with God, is our best treasure, because it means… being united to him.” Oh Lord! I need to learn how to pray and how to draw specific benefits for my own life.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”
By Admin Webmaster 2/26/2023 8:24:29 AMThe IV Lateran Council defines the Final Judgement as a truth of faith: “He will come at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, to render to every person according to his works, both to the reprobate and to the elect… so as to receive according to their deserts, whether these be good or bad;...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil”
By Admin Webmaster 2/24/2023 8:48:05 PMToday, we celebrate the first Sunday of Lent, and this “strong” liturgical time is a spiritual path leading us to participate in the great mystery of the death and resurrection of Christ. Saint John Paul II said “Each year, the Lenten Season is set before us as a good opportunity for the intensification of prayer and penance,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”
By Admin Webmaster 2/24/2023 8:07:35 AMToday we see how Lent is moving forward and the strength of the conversion our Lord summons us to. The figure of the apostle and evangelist Matthew is very representative of those of us who think that, because of our background, or because of our personal sins or complicated life, we are unworthy of our Lord.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast”
By Admin Webmaster 2/23/2023 7:37:01 AMSaint John Paul II used to write us a message for Lent every year. One of these messages under the motto “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20, 35); helped us to discover the very same charitable dimension of our fasting, which, from the bottom of our heart, allows us to prepare for Easter Time, in an effort to identify ourselves, more and more,..
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DAILY MEDITATION: “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself...”
By Admin Webmaster 2/21/2023 8:36:37 PMOur Lord's words, closing today's Gospel, tremendously shook Saint Ignatius and sparked off his conversion: “What would happen if I would do just as Saint Francis and Saint Dominic did?” If only, in this Lent, the same words would help us to reach our conversion, too...!
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them"
By Admin Webmaster 2/21/2023 8:00:19 AMBenedict XVI claimed that helping the needy is a duty of justice, even before an act of charity: “Charity goes beyond justice (…); but it never lacks justice, which prompts us to give the other what is “his”, what is due to him by reason of his being or his acting”. We should never forget that we are not the absolute owners of the goods we possess, but only their administrators.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "The Son of Man will be delivered into human hands"
By Admin Webmaster 2/20/2023 7:46:49 AMWith delicate patience, Jesus adds: let him be last of all and servant of all. We have to look for the simple and small, because the Lord identified Himself with them. We have to receive Jesus in our life; thus, we shall be opening the doors to the very same God. It is like programming our life to keep on going.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I do believe, help my unbelief!”
By Admin Webmaster 2/19/2023 6:15:03 AMPrayer is the “intimate” dialogue with God. Saint John Paul II affirmed that “Prayer always brings with it a type of interior hiddenness with Christ in God. Only in this hiddenness do we see the workings of the Holy Spirit.”
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DAILY MEDITATION: "You shall be righteous and perfect in the way your heavenly Father is righteous and perfect"
By Admin Webmaster 2/17/2023 8:18:16 PMPope Benedict XIV tells us, "it is only through service to others that opens my eyes as to what God does for me and to how much He loves me". Jesus gives us a law whereby justice is infinite, whereby evil is not defeated by causing more hurt, but by expelling it entirely from our lives, thereby reducing its hold on us.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “He charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone”
By Admin Webmaster 2/17/2023 8:20:14 AMOur Christian lives have also an aim uncovered by our Lord Jesus Christ: to enjoy God's unfailing love forever and ever. But this target will not be lacking in moments of sacrifice and crucial pains. However, we have to remember the live message of today's Gospel: in this apparent blind alley which, so often, seems to be our life, because of our fidelity to God,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me”
By Admin Webmaster 2/16/2023 7:51:41 AMSaint Augustine also has his famous lesson: “Animam salvasti, animam tuam praedestinasti”, which could be translated as: “He who dedicates himself with true zeal to the salvation of souls has thus good reasons to hope for eternal life.” The invitation is quite clear.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Who do people say I am?”
By Admin Webmaster 2/16/2023 7:53:30 AMWe, Christians, must discover our identity and prove our own faith through being good examples with our life. This duty is an urgent task to transmit a clear and understandable message to our brothers and sisters, who will find in Jesus that Word of Life bestowing meaning to what they may think, say or do.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “His sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly”
By Admin Webmaster 2/13/2023 7:50:26 PMArriving to Bethsaida Jesus is asked to touch a blind man who is brought to him. It is significant that Jesus takes him outside the village; is that not an indication that to listen to the word of God, to discover the faith and see the reality of Christ, we have to get out of ourselves, out of the noisy spaces and times that asphyxiate and blind us, to receive the authentic enlightenment?
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees”
By Admin Webmaster 2/13/2023 7:52:58 AMThe Kingdom of God expands in our World just as the yeast grows in the dough, without our knowing why. The authentic faith must be like that, a faith that grows in our love for God. Let nothing and nobody, therefore, befuddle us of the encounter with our Lord and His redeemable message.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Amen, I say to you, no sign will be given”
By Admin Webmaster 2/11/2023 10:46:40 PMToday, it looks like the Gospel does not say too much about Jesus or about us. “Why does this generation seek a sign?” (Mk 8, 12). Commenting on this episode of Jesus' life, Pope John Paul II says: “Jesus invites us to discern between the words and the deeds testimony of (or a “sign of”) the arrival of God's Kingdom.”
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Do not think that I have come to remove the Law and the Prophets"
By Admin Webmaster 2/10/2023 9:26:34 PMThe example of Jesus invites us to that perfection of Christian life in which we practice with actions what we preach with words.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “They have nothing to eat”
By Admin Webmaster 2/10/2023 7:54:01 AMAs St. Gregory of Nyssa says: “He who splits his bread with the poor becomes a part of He who, for us, wanted to be poor. The Lord was poor; do not be afraid of poverty.”
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DAILY MEDITATION: “He has done all things well”
By Admin Webmaster 2/9/2023 8:03:48 AMWhy don't you also try to leave everything ready now: your prayers; treating your family and other people; your work; the apostolate; your diligence to develop yourself both spiritually and professionally... Be demanding with yourself, and be also demanding, softly, but demanding, with those depending upon you.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet.”
By Admin Webmaster 2/8/2023 7:56:12 AMOur Lord wants us to use insistently the petition prayer or prayer of faith. There are, indeed, other kinds of prayers —worship, salvation, prayer of thanks—, but Jesus insists very much on our often using the petition prayer.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Nothing that enters one from out¬side can make that person unclean"
By Admin Webmaster 2/7/2023 7:42:22 AMThe Lord wants all our activities to be carried out well: He expects us to show in them intensity, method, science, know-how, eagerness for perfection, not looking for anything else but reinstating God's plan for Creation. For God made everything for man's benefit: “Purity of intention. —You will always have it if, in everything you do, you only look forward to pleasing God” (Saint Josemaria).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders?”
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2023 8:21:22 AMToday, we are given to see how some late traditions of the Masters of the Law had actually manipulated the true meaning of the Fourth Commandment of God's Law. Those scribes taught that sons offering money and goods to the Temple were doing well. But, according to these teachings, parents could no longer ask or dispose of these goods.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “And as many as touched it were healed”
By Admin Webmaster 2/5/2023 8:22:51 AMThis passage can help us reflect on how we receive Our Lord in Holy Communion. Do we do so with faith that this contact with Christ can work miracles our lives? More than merely touching the “fringe of his cloak”, we receive Christ’s very Body into our bodies.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "You are the light of the world"
By Admin Webmaster 2/3/2023 9:45:59 PMWe are all called to be salt and light. For over 30 years of his hidden life in Nazareth, Jesus himself was also “salt”. It is being said that, once, while he was playing, someone asked St. Aloysius Gonzaga what would he do if he knew that within a few minutes he would die. "I would keep on playing", he answered.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “... People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat”
By Admin Webmaster 2/3/2023 7:44:58 AMJesus tells them: “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” (Mk 6, 31). In God's plans there is a place of rest! But there is more, as our whole existence, with all that entails, must rest in God. An anxious saint Augustine claims: “You made us for you and our heart is restless while not resting with You.” God's rest is creative; not “anesthetic”: bumping into God's love focus on our heart and our thoughts.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread”
By Admin Webmaster 2/2/2023 8:04:54 AMExperience teaches us, once more, that each virtue has to be always joined to all the others, and all together have to grow organically like the fingers of the hand. And, by the same token, when one incurs in some vice, soon others will follow.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace”
By Admin Webmaster 2/1/2023 8:09:44 AMNow, he realizes with surprise that no preparation has been made, no flags, garlands, damasks or shields can be seen anywhere, just Joseph and Mary, crossing the esplanade, and bringing the Child Jesus in their arms. “Lift up your heads, O gates; be lifted, you ancient portals, that the king of glory may enter.” (Ps 24:), claims the psalmist.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him?..."
By Admin Webmaster 1/31/2023 10:36:05 AMThe text of the Gospel ends with the words: “So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there… He was amazed at their lack of faith” (Mk 6,5-6). Today also our Lord demands more faith in Him to carry out things that overpower our human possibilities. Miracles show God's power and our need for daily dependence on God.