Meditation
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom"
By Admin Webmaster 11/1/2023 9:23:47 AMToday, the Gospel calls forth Christianity’s most significant deed: the death and resurrection of Jesus. Today, we also make the Good Thief's plea: “Jesus, remember me” (Lk 23, 42). “At the Lord's Table we do not commemorate martyrs in the same way that we do others who rest in peace so as to pray for them, but rather that they may pray for us that we may follow in their footsteps” —St. Augustine said in one of his Sermons.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Rejoice and be glad"
By Admin Webmaster 10/31/2023 8:09:12 AMToday, we celebrate the reality of the Mystery of Salvation. A reality that we evince in the “Creed” and which is very comforting: “I believe in the communion of saints.” All saints, who have already passed from death into eternal life, from the Virgin Mary on, form a unity; they represent the Church of the Blessed, whom Jesus congratulates: “Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God” (Mt 5, 8).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “What is the kingdom of God like?”
By Admin Webmaster 10/30/2023 8:07:51 AMToday, the liturgical texts, through these two parables, place before our eyes one of the characteristics of the Kingdom of God: it is something that flourishes slowly —as a mustard seed— but, eventually, grows to offer shelter to the birds in its trees. Church Father Tertullian said it like this: “We come from yesterday and we fill everything.” With this parable, Our Lord encourages us in patience, fortitude and hope.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "... indignant that Jesus had cured on the Sabbath..."
By Admin Webmaster 10/29/2023 6:32:36 AMToday, we can see how Jesus carries out an action that loudly proclaims his interpretation of messianic fulfillment. And how, in front of it, the ruler of the synagogue becomes outraged and scolds people for coming to be healed on a Saturday: “There are six days when work should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the Sabbath day” (Lk 13, 14).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart…”
By Admin Webmaster 10/28/2023 7:18:38 AMToday, the Church reminds us of our “attitude before life”: “The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments" (Mt 22, 40). St. Matthew and St. Mark put these words upon Jesus Christ's lips, while St. Luke ascribes them to a Pharisee. Regardless, they always appear in the context of a dialogue. Jesus Christ had probably been asked similar questions several times.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Jesus went up to the mountain to pray”
By Admin Webmaster 10/27/2023 8:03:37 AMToday, we may contemplate a full day in the life of Jesus. A life with two clear complimentary forces: prayer and action. If, as Christians, we are to imitate Jesus' life, we cannot miss either of these two dimensions. All Christians have certain moments for praying and certain others for action, even those who are consecrated to a contemplative life.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Why do you not know how to interpret the present time?..."
By Admin Webmaster 10/26/2023 7:59:08 AMWe are not living in a world of wickedness, though there may be plenty of it. But God has not forsaken His world. As St. John of the Cross reminds us, we live in a world in which the very God trod on and made beautiful. Saint Teresa of Calcutta saw the signs of the times, and the times have understood Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Let her invigorate us. Let us keep on looking upwards without losing sight of our earth.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I have come to set the earth on fire"
By Admin Webmaster 10/25/2023 8:02:23 AMToday, the Gospel presents Jesus to us as a person of great ambitions: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!” (Lk 12, 49). Jesus would like to see the fire of charity and virtue already burning.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come”
By Admin Webmaster 10/24/2023 7:51:50 AMToday, upon reading this fragment of the Gospel, we realize that each person is an administrator: when we are born, we all receive an inheritance of genes and capabilities to fulfill ourselves in our lives. We discover that these capabilities, and our very life, are just gifts from God, inasmuch we have not done anything to deserve them.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding"
By Admin Webmaster 10/23/2023 8:19:08 AMToday, we must pay our individual attention to Jesus' words: “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks” (Lk 12, 36).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions”
By Admin Webmaster 10/22/2023 6:42:09 AMToday, if we do not close our eyes and our ears, the Gospel’s clarity and directness will strike through us: “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions” (Lk 12, 15). Where does man's life come from?
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God”
By Admin Webmaster 10/21/2023 6:52:01 AMWe would not be able to properly grasp the meaning of this sentence without bearing in mind the context in which Jesus said it: “The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech” (Mt 22, 15), but Jesus understood their malice.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Everyone who acknowledges me before others the Son of Man will acknowledge”
By Admin Webmaster 10/20/2023 4:40:12 PMToday, the Lord arouses our faith and hope in Him. Jesus foresees that we will have to appear before the Heavenly Host to be examined. And whoever has spoken out in favor of Jesus by adhering to His mission “the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God.” (Lk 12, 8).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows”
By Admin Webmaster 10/19/2023 4:00:19 PMToday, we contemplate in the Gospel our Lord Jesus Christ who turns to the crowds after confronting the Jewish religious authorities who are the Pharisees and the scribes. The Gospel tells us that the crowd was so big that they crushed one another...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find”
By Admin Webmaster 10/14/2023 7:18:32 AMToday, Jesus presents to us the king (the Father), inviting — through his "servants" (the prophets) — to the banquet of the covenant of his Son with humanity (salvation). First, He did it with Israel, “but they refused to come” (Mt 22, 3).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Blessed are you who are poor. Woe to you who are rich”
By Admin Webmaster 9/12/2023 7:49:39 AM“Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours” (Lk 6, 29). This beatitude is the basis of all the others, because who is poor will be able to get the Kingdom of God as a gift. He who is poor will realize he must be hungry and thirsty: not of material things, but of the Word of God; not of power, but of love and justice.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God”
By Admin Webmaster 9/11/2023 8:16:29 AMToday, I would like to center our thoughts on the first words of this Gospel: “Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God” (Lk 6, 12). Introductions as this one may go unnoticed in our daily reading of the Gospel, while —in fact— they are of the maximum importance.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Come up and stand before us… Stretch out your hand”
By Admin Webmaster 9/10/2023 8:44:15 AMLove cannot be imposed but forces us to act, pulls us together and restores life totally. Jesus' command: “Come up and stand before us” (Lk 6, 8) has the vivifying strength of he who loves and responds to the Word. And, the last part of His order: “Stretch out your hand” (Lk 6, 10), that concludes the miracle, definitely restores life and strength to what was powerless and dead.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Go and tell him his fault between you and him alone”
By Admin Webmaster 9/9/2023 3:48:29 PM"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother” (Mt 18, 15). How beautiful and loyal is the fraternal relationship about which Jesus teaches us! When faced with an offense against me or someone else, I must ask the Lord for His grace to forgive, to understand,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath”
By Admin Webmaster 9/8/2023 7:41:26 AMIn this passage, Christ teaches the meaning of the divine institution of the Sabbath: God had instituted it to man's benefit, so that he could rest and devote his time with peace and joy to the divine worship. However, the Pharisees' interpretation had transformed this day into a day of anguish and worrying because of the many directions and prohibitions.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel”
By Admin Webmaster 9/7/2023 8:34:09 AMToday, Jesus' genealogy, the Savior that had to come and be born of Mary, shows us how the work of God is interwoven into human history, and how God acts in the secret and silence of every single day. At the same time, we can see his reliability to accomplish his promises.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Put out into deep water”
By Admin Webmaster 9/6/2023 3:57:50 PMToday, we are still surprised at how those fishermen were capable of leaving everything behind, their job, their families, to follow Jesus (“They left everything and followed him” Lk 5, 11), precisely when He manifested Himself before them as an exceptional collaborator for the business from which they made their living.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “He laid his hands on each of them and cured them”
By Admin Webmaster 9/5/2023 8:11:30 AMToday, we are facing a great contrast: people out in search of Jesus and Him healing all kinds of “sickness” (starting with Simon's mother-in-law); at the same time, “demons also came out from many, shouting” (Lk 4, 41). That is: on one side, goodness and peace; on the other side, evil and despair.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “They were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority”
By Admin Webmaster 9/4/2023 8:37:25 AMToday, we can see how His teaching activity was Jesus' central mission of His public life. Jesus' preaching, however, was very different from others, and this surprised and amazed people. Despite the fact Jesus had not studied (cf. Jn 7, 15), He, certainly, befuddled the Jews with his teachings, “because he spoke with authority” (Lk 4, 32).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Today these prophetic words come true even as you listen"
By Admin Webmaster 9/3/2023 6:31:29 AMToday, "these prophetic words come true even as you listen" (Lk 4, 21). With these words, Jesus comments at the synagogue of Nazareth a text from the prophet Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has anointed me" (Lk 4, 18).
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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 9/2/2023 6:15:07 AMToday, we consider that to see Jesus and follow Him means to have a mature obedience that enables us to listen and respond (response-able). And this is possible only in the person who is truly liberated from the childish cravings of the ego and passions: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” (Mt 16, 24).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them”
By Admin Webmaster 9/1/2023 8:27:44 AMSt. Augustine says: “Those of us who preach the word of God to the people are not so far away from human condition and from the thinking supported by faith that we may not realize our own dangers. But we are consoled by the fact that where our risk lies because of our Christian ministry, we have the help of your prayers.”
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.”
By Admin Webmaster 8/31/2023 8:07:20 AMToday, Friday, 21st week in ordinary time, the Lord, in the Gospel, reminds us of the convenience of staying always awake and ready to meet him. Whether at midnight, or at any other moment, a cry can ring out at our door to invite us to come out and meet our Lord. Death never makes appointments. In fact, “you know neither the day nor the hour” (Mt 25, 13).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “So too, you also must be prepared”
By Admin Webmaster 8/30/2023 8:03:12 AMToday, the evangelic text speaks of the uncertainty of the moment when the Lord will come: “You do not know on which day your Lord will come” (Mt 24, 42). If we want him to find us on the alert when He comes, we cannot get absent-minded or fall asleep: we have to be always alert.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Woe to you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!"
By Admin Webmaster 8/29/2023 8:18:55 AMToday, as in previous days, and in others to follow, we contemplate Jesus, beside himself, condemning those attitudes incompatible with a dignified and decent life, not only Christian but also human: "You appear as religious to others, but you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness within" (Mt 23, 28).