Meditation
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field"
By Admin Webmaster 7/31/2023 8:42:36 AMToday, through the parable of the weeds and the wheat, the Church urges us to ponder over the coexistence of good and evil. Good and evil within our heart; good and evil we may spot on others, good and evil we can see in the world, all around us.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "He spoke to them only in parables"
By Admin Webmaster 7/30/2023 6:41:30 AMToday, the Gospel shows us Jesus preaching to his disciples. He does so in the form of parables, as is His custom, using simple everyday images to explain the great hidden mysteries of His Kingdom. In this way he could be understood by everyone from the most highly educated to the simplest of individuals.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “A treasure buried in a field; a merchant searching for fine pearls”
By Admin Webmaster 7/28/2023 9:47:50 PMThe treasure that Jesus proposes is buried deep within our soul, at the very core of our being. It is the Kingdom of God. It consists in lovingly encountering, in a mysterious way, the Source of life, beauty, truth, and goodness, and remaining united to this same Source until, having fulfilled the time of our pilgrimage, and free from all useless trinkets,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: "You are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing"
By Admin Webmaster 7/28/2023 7:35:23 AMToday, we must also listen to our Lord —even if we are busy by so many things— reminding us that “there is need of only one thing” (Lk 10, 42): love and saintliness. They should be our aim, the horizon we must never lose sight of amidst our daily chores.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Hear the parable of the sower”
By Admin Webmaster 7/27/2023 8:00:24 AMGod is a farmer who knows how to wait. Time belongs to the Father, for He is the only one to know about the day or the hour (cf. Mk 13, 32) of the harvest and threshing. And God waits. And we must also wait while synchronizing the watch of our hopes with God's design of salvation.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear"
By Admin Webmaster 7/26/2023 8:35:58 AMToday, we remember the “encomium” Jesus Christ addressed to those around him in those days: “Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear” (Mt 13, 16). And we wonder: can Jesus' words be also intended for us, or only for those who saw and heard him directly?
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DAILY MEDITATION: “A sower went out to sow”
By Admin Webmaster 7/25/2023 7:44:16 AM“Those who hear the Word with faith”, says the Council. You are used to hearing it, perhaps to reading it and, maybe, to pondering over it. Depending on the depth of your faith through hearing, such will be the fruits the crop will bear. Though, these fruits, somehow, are guaranteed by the vital power of the Word-seed,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?”
By Admin Webmaster 7/24/2023 8:31:44 AMWe listen to the Lord and follow Him, like the first disciples, but not always do we fully understand his message; we then sometimes follow our personal interests and ambitions within the Church. We forget that when we accept the Lord we have to give ourselves wholly and with full trust in Him; that we cannot think in obtaining the glory without having accepted the cross.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”
By Admin Webmaster 7/23/2023 8:21:56 AMToday, Jesus is tested by “some teachers of the law and Pharisees” (Mt 12, 38), who feel threatened by him, not because of reasons of faith, but of power. Fearing they will lose their influence, they seek to discredit Jesus by provoking Him. At times, we may do this too, when we are led by our selfishness and individual interests;...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “An enemy has done this”
By Admin Webmaster 7/22/2023 5:26:32 AMToday, Christ. Always, Christ. From Him we come; from Him come all the good seeds sown in our life. The “Kempis” says that God visits us with consolation and desolation, with sweet and bitter taste, with flower and thorn, with cold and heat, with beauty and suffering, with joy and sadness, with courage and fear...
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”"
By Admin Webmaster 7/20/2023 10:33:11 PMIn Mary Magdalene's itinerary, we discover some important aspects of our faith. In the first place, we admire her courage. Though being a gift from God, faith requires courage from the believer. Generally, we tend towards what we can see, what can be seized with our hand.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice"
By Admin Webmaster 7/20/2023 8:39:20 AMToday, the Lord is watching what we have sown during our lives, to pick the fruits of sanctity. Will He find charity, love of God and fellow man? Jesus corrects the rabbis' meticulous casuistry making the Sabbath rest law totally unbearable: Will He have to remind us that He is only interested in our heart, in our capacity to love?
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened…, and you will find rest”
By Admin Webmaster 7/19/2023 7:56:53 AMToday, facing a world which decided to turn its back on God, in front of a world hostile to Christianity and to Christians, to listen to Jesus (who is the One who is talking to us in the liturgy or in the private reading of the Word) brings consolation, joy and hope in the middle of our daily struggles: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened…, and you will find rest” (Mt 11,28-29).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “You have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike”
By Admin Webmaster 7/18/2023 8:27:26 AMAn Arab proverb says: “If in a pitch black night a black ant climbs over a black wall, God sees it.” There are neither secrets nor mysteries for God. There are mysteries for us, but not for God, before whom, past, present and future are open and dug into, to the last comma.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!"
By Admin Webmaster 7/17/2023 8:12:28 AMNobody enjoys a good scolding. It must however be especially painful to be upbraided by Christ, who loves us with his most merciful heart. There is simply no excuse, no immunity when one is reprimanded by Truth itself. Let us receive humbly and responsibly God's call to conversion each day.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me”
By Admin Webmaster 7/16/2023 6:29:37 AMToday, Jesus offers us an explosive mixture of recommendations; it is like one of those fashionable banquets where the dishes are just tiny little tasty ‘snacks’. These are profound and hard to take in advice, addressed to his disciples in their mid-missionary preparation and formation process (cf Mt 11, 1).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "The sower went out to sow"
By Admin Webmaster 7/15/2023 6:13:34 AMThe message is quite clear: God is generous while sowing, but the very success of his sowing is also contingent —at the same time— on our free response. That the fruit depends upon the soil where the seeds fall is something that our daily experiences already tell us.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “No disciple is above his teacher”
By Admin Webmaster 7/14/2023 8:26:11 AMToday's Gospel opens our eyes to the unavoidable fact the student may, at times, be misunderstood, face obstacles or even be persecuted for declaring himself a follower of Christ. Jesus' life was a continuous service in defense of truth.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “You will be hated by all because of my name”
By Admin Webmaster 7/13/2023 8:03:02 AMToday, the Gospel emphasizes the troubles and contradictions we Christians have to suffer because of Christ and his Gospel, and how we must stand firm and persevere to the end. Jesus promised us: “I am with you always, until the end of the age” (Mt 28, 20); but He did not promise his disciples an easy journey; on the contrary, He told them: “You will be hated by all because of my name” (Mt 10, 22).
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DAILY MEDITATION: “As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand”
By Admin Webmaster 7/12/2023 8:25:38 AMJesus tells us to always be bearers of peace. When the priests brings the Communion to a sick person he says, 'Lord’s Peace to this house! ". And the peace of Christ remains there, if there are people worthy of it. To receive the gifts of God's kingdom one needs a good inner will. On the other hand, we also see many people making excuses for not receiving the Gospel.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”
By Admin Webmaster 7/11/2023 7:57:18 AMToday, the Gospel shows us Jesus sending his Apostles on a mission: “Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them…” (Mt 10, 5). The twelve make up the “Apostolic College”, that is “missionary”.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest”
By Admin Webmaster 7/10/2023 7:57:48 AMSt. Josemaria Escriva wrote: “If we were consistent with our faith when we looked around us and contemplated the world and its history, we would be unable to avoid feeling in our own hearts the same sentiments that filled the heart of our Lord”, which would take us to a very generous apostolic task.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Your faith has saved you”
By Admin Webmaster 7/9/2023 6:49:57 AMToday, the liturgy of the Word invites us to admire two splendid manifestations of faith. So splendid were they that they deserved to move Jesus Christ's heart, provoking his immediate reaction. Our Lord does not allow himself to be won over in generosity!
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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 7/7/2023 10:01:42 PMToday, Jesus shows us two realities that define Him: no one knows the Father except Him, and He is “meek and humble of heart” (Mt 11, 29). We can also discover two necessary attitudes to understand and live what Jesus offers us: simplicity and the desire to approach Him.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them"
By Admin Webmaster 7/7/2023 7:54:58 AMWe are living in times of expectation. This is why it is convenient to renew ourselves every day with the new spirit of Jesus, to give up our old routines, to abstain from what may prevent us from advancing towards a full identification of Christ, towards sanctity. “Fair is our crying —our fasting— if we have a burning desire to see him” (St. Augustine).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Follow me"
By Admin Webmaster 7/6/2023 6:13:10 AMThese words of the Gospel are topical. Jesus keeps on inviting us to follow him, each one of us according to his condition and profession. And, more often than not, to follow Jesus means to leave behind some messy passions, or some poor family relationships, or just a waste of time,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.”
By Admin Webmaster 7/4/2023 9:05:52 PMToday's Gospel is another instance of the Savior’s mercy, in two respects: the illness of the body and the sickness of the soul. And, the soul being more important, is where Jesus starts. He knows the sick man has repented of his faults, He sees his faith and that of those bringing him, and says: “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven” (Mt 9, 2).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "They begged him to leave their district"
By Admin Webmaster 7/4/2023 7:26:38 AMToday, we are given to contemplate a sad contrast. “Contrast” because we admire the power and divine majesty of Jesus Christ, to whom the demons submit voluntarily (a certain sign of the arrival of the Kingdom of heaven). But, at the same time, we deplore the narrowness and stinginess which the human heart is capable of, when refusing the bearer of Good News...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Then he stood up and ordered the wind and sea; and it became completely calm”
By Admin Webmaster 7/3/2023 7:54:23 AMJesus' Word brought the calm over the waters; but this calm was not meant to affect only the turbulent winds and waters of the lake: Jesus' Word, above all, was addressed to appease his disciples' fearful hearts. “Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?” (Mt 8, 26).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "My Lord and my God!"
By Admin Webmaster 7/2/2023 6:46:32 AM“My Lord and my God!” (Jn 20, 28). How beautiful these words are! Thomas calls him “Lord” and “God”. He makes an act of faith in the divinity of Jesus. When seeing him resurrected, Thomas not only sees Jesus the man, with the Apostles and eating with them, but his Lord and his God.