Meditation
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word"
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2022 2:48:41 PMToday, we find a solid basis for trust in the Gospel: “I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word...” (Jn 17, 20). It is Jesus' heart, which, in the intimacy of Jesus with his disciples, opens up the inexhaustible treasures of His Love.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "They may share my joy completely"
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2022 2:44:18 PMToday, we live in a world which does not know how to be truly happy with the happiness of Jesus, a world which seeks the happiness of Jesus in all the wrong places and in the wrong ways. Seeking happiness without Jesus only leads to deeper unhappiness. Just look at the soaps on TV, there is always somebody in trouble.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “The baby within me suddenly leapt for joy”
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2022 2:40:39 PMToday, we contemplate the Virgin Mary's Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. As soon as she was told she had been chosen by God the Father to be the Mother of the Son of God, and that her cousin Elizabeth had also received the gift of motherhood, she decidedly set out for the hills to congratulate her cousin...
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Courage! I have overcome the world"
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2022 2:35:34 PMJesus' words inspire confidence: "Courage! I have overcome the world" (Jn 16, 33), that is, through his Passion, Death and Resurrection, He has attained the eternal life, life with nothing to stop it, a limitless life because it has overcome all limits and all difficulties.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven”
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2022 2:30:48 PMOn the Ascension of our Lord, we once more remember the “mission” that we have been entrusted with: “You are witnesses of these things”. God's Word is still alive today: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth”.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I came from the Father (...). Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father"
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2022 2:15:54 PMToday, vigil of our Lord's Ascension into Heaven, the Gospel leaves us with some very fond farewell words. Jesus let us share his most precious mystery; God Father is his origin and, at the same time, his destination: “I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
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DAILY MEDITATION: “Your grief will become joy”
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2022 2:12:53 PMWe begin the Decade of the Holy Spirit. Reliving the memory of the Cenacle, we see the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Mother of Good Counsel, talking with the Apostles. What a warm and abounding conversation! Recalling all the joys they shared with their Master: The Paschal days, the Ascension and Jesus' promises.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy"
By Admin Webmaster 5/18/2022 9:39:44 AMWe again contemplate the Word of God with the help of Evangelist John. In these final days of Easter we feel an especial uneasiness to make God's Word ours and be able to understand it. The very uneasiness shared by the first disciples.
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I have much more to tell you”
By Admin Webmaster 5/24/2022 8:58:47 AMToday is a special day! Imagine the typical day when you are with your family or friends, and you have many things to tell them. Maybe you haven't seen them for a long time or you've come from a great trip or, simply, you've had a day full of experiences. You want to explain everything, but you don't have enough time.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "It is better for you that I go"
By Admin Webmaster 5/23/2022 8:36:33 AMOur hope is in Jesus Christ; His conquest of death gave us the life that death can never destroy, His Life. His resurrection is the verification that the spiritual is real. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Nothing can diminish our hope. The negatives of the world cannot destroy the positive of Jesus Christ.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "And you also testify"
By Admin Webmaster 5/22/2022 6:20:53 AMToday in the Gospel, Jesus announces and promises the coming of the Holy Spirit: "When the Paraclete comes…that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me" (Jn 15, 26). "Paraclete" literally means "the one who is called near to one", and is usually translated as "Comforter".
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DAILY MEDITATION: "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him;..."
By Admin Webmaster 5/20/2022 8:40:35 PMIn these last days of Easter let us beg to open up to the Holy Spirit; we received it when we were baptized and confirmed, but now we must —as a last gift— make the Spirit to spring up from within us to take us where we would not have dared by ourselves.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "They will do all these things to you on account of my name, ..."
By Admin Webmaster 5/20/2022 7:42:40 AMToday, the Gospel opposes the world to Christ's followers. The world represents whatever sinful there may be in our existence. Consequently, one of the main characteristics of Christ's followers is fighting all evil and sin to be found in the world and inside every man.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you"
By Admin Webmaster 5/19/2022 7:51:50 AMToday, our Lord exhorts us to fraternal love: "Love one another as I have loved you" (Jn 15, 12), that is to say, as you have seen me loving and you will still see me love. Jesus speaks to you as a friend, for He has told you that his Father calls you, that He wants you to become an apostle, and that He expects you to bear fruit,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you"
By Admin Webmaster 5/18/2022 8:48:42 AMJesus has replied, “Abbà”, Pater! Now He reveals us, “As the Father loves me, so I also love you.” And what shall we do? To stay indeed by his love, to abide by his commandments, to love His Father's Will. Is not this the example He gives us? "I always keep my Father's commandments and remain in his love".
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Remain in me, as I remain in you"
By Admin Webmaster 5/18/2022 8:48:18 AMToday, once more, we may see Jesus surrounded by the Apostles in an atmosphere of especial intimacy. He is giving them what we could consider as his final recommendations: what is normally said in the last moment, in the last farewell; that which has an especial force, as if it would be the last will.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you"
By Admin Webmaster 5/16/2022 8:40:20 PMToday, Jesus speaks to us indirectly of the cross: He will give us the peace, but at the cost of his painful “departure” of this world. Today, we read those words He said before the sacrifice on the Cross but that were written after his Resurrection. With his death on the Cross, He defeats both death and fear.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "... He will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.”
By Admin Webmaster 5/16/2022 8:50:09 AM“God is with you. The Blessed Trinity dwells in your soul in grace —that is why, in spite of your wretchedness, you can and should keep up a continuous conversation with the Lord” (Saint Josemaria Escrivá).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Love one another"
By Admin Webmaster 5/13/2022 11:35:57 PMToday, Jesus invites us to love one another. In our complex world, too. Complex because good and evil are being mixed and mingled together. We often feel tempted to look at our world as our misfortune, as a piece of bad news, whereas we Christians, instead, are responsible for bringing out,...
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DAILY MEDITATION: “I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete”
By Admin Webmaster 5/13/2022 8:27:29 AMRomano Guardini wrote: “The source of joy is to be found in a person's deeper intimacy… It is there where God resides. Then, joy widens and makes us glitter. And all that is beautiful can be perceived by us in all its brilliance.”
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me"
By Admin Webmaster 5/12/2022 8:46:56 AMToday, on this Friday 4th of Easter, Jesus invites us to stay calm. Serenity and joy flow smoothly like a river of peace from his resurrected Heart towards ours, dazed and restless, so often shaken by an activity as hectic as it is futile.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "After Jesus had washed the feet of the disciples..."
By Admin Webmaster 5/11/2022 8:32:47 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 in me but in him who sent me"
By Admin Webmaster 5/10/2022 8:06:19 AMTo accept Jesus is to believe in, see and listen to the Father, not to be in darkness, to obey the command of eternal life. We certainly deserve Saint John of the Cross' rebuke: "[The Father] with this Word said everything in one go (...).
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DAILY MEDITATION: "The Father and I are one"
By Admin Webmaster 5/9/2022 8:01:03 AMSaint Thomas Aquinas comments on this passage of the Gospel by saying: "I can see thanks to the sunlight, but if I close my eyes, I cannot see; but this is not the fault of the sun, but mine".
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep (…)"
By Admin Webmaster 5/8/2022 6:55:06 AMWe keep mulling over one of the most beautiful and well known images of Jesus' preaching: the Good Shepherd, his sheep and the gate. We all keep in our memory the figurines of that good Shepherd we were able to look at, as children.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "My sheep hear my voice and I know them; they follow me"
By Admin Webmaster 5/7/2022 6:44:41 AMFaith enter us through the ears, by listening to he Word of the Lord, and the greater risk we run is our own deafness, to miss the Good Shepherd's voice, because our head is full of noise and other dissonant voices.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "You have the words of eternal life"
By Admin Webmaster 5/6/2022 9:38:07 AMWe have just read in the Gospel Jesus' allocution about the Bread of Life, which is Himself, offering us his body as nurture for our souls and for our Christian life. And, as it usually happens, we have to contemplate two different —if not opposite— reactions, from those who are listening to him.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you"
By Admin Webmaster 5/5/2022 8:52:49 AMWe Catholics are not always up to the level the Eucharist requires: at times, we try “to live” without the living conditions set up by Jesus and, yet, as John Paul II has written "Eucharist is too big a gift to admit any ambiguities and reductions".
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DAILY MEDITATION: "I am the living bread which has come from heaven"
By Admin Webmaster 5/4/2022 9:06:58 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.
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DAILY MEDITATION: "Whoever comes to me will never hunger"
By Admin Webmaster 5/3/2022 8:54:14 AMBut what thirst and hunger are these? Ultimately it is the hunger and thirst for “eternal life”. Physical hunger and thirst is only a pale reflection of a deep desire each man has for a divine life that only Christ can give us. "This is the will of the Father, that whoever sees the Son and believes in him shall live with eternal life" (Jn 6, 39).