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The last will be first, the first will be last: Wednesday 20th in Ordinary Time (22.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterGod is not arbitrary and He wants to treat us as intelligent sons: it is, therefore, logic He makes “deals” with us. In fact, some other times, the Lord's teachings clearly state that who has received more will also be demanded more (let us remember the Parable of the Talents). In short, God is just, but charity does not conflict with justice; it rather goes beyond (cf. 1Cor 13:5)... -
Everything is ready; come then, to the wedding feast: Thursday 20th in Ordinary Time (23.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterBut the different characters appearing in the parable may also be images of the different states of our soul. Thanks to the grace of baptism we are God's friends and inheritors along with Christ: we have a place reserved for us in this banquet. If, however, we forget our condition of sons, God proceeds to treat us as acquaintances while maintaining his invitation... -
Death of Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-Hsi
By Admin WebmasterCardinal Paul Shan Kuo-Hsi SJ, the Bishop emeritus of Kaohsiung in Taiwan has died at the age of 89. -
Come and see: Saint Bartholomew, apostle (24.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterUnder the amorous gaze of God, though. Just like all of us, all the time. But to realize the infinite love of God for each one of us, to be fully conscious He is at my door knocking I need an external voice, a friend, a “Philip” who may tell me: "Come and see". Somebody to take me to St. Josemaria Escriva's way, which he describes like this: May you seek Christ, may you find Christ, may you love Christ. -
Whoever makes himself great shall be humbled...: Saturday 20th in Ordinary Time (25.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterJohn Paul II appeals to us to remember what we owe to God: "Man must honour his Creator by offering him, in praise and thanksgiving, whatever he has received from Him. Man cannot lose this sense of duty, which only him may recognize, amongst all other earthly realities". -
Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life: Sunday 21st (B) in Ordinary Time (26.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterAs Peter already knew, we also know that Jesus speaks to us with a supernatural language, a language we must correctly tune it up to be able to fully understand its message; otherwise, we can only hear incoherent and unpleasant sounds; we must be very careful with the right syntony. As it happened to Peter, in our life as Christians we also have moments where we must refurbish and reiterate that we are in Jesus and we want to remain in Him... -
The holy editorial alliance between the Vatican and Apple
By Admin WebmasterThe Holy See and the consumer electronics company have joined forces to make the Pope’s catechesis available in digital format and accessible via tablets and smart phones (Vatican Insider). -
Words of eternal life: Gospel by pictures of Sunday XXI in Ordinary Time (26-Aug-2012)
By Admin WebmasterJesus then said to the Twelve, "Do you also want to leave?" Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God." -
Woe to you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!: Monday 21th in Ordinary Time (27.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterWe could easily say that, today, the Lord is bad-tempered, He is fairly annoyed with those guides who make their fellow men lose their way and their taste of life and end up by removing their very life: "Woe to you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel by sea and land to win a single convert, yet once he is converted, you turn him twice as fit for hell as yourselves!" (Mt 23:15). -
Purify the inside first, then the outside too will be purified: Tuesday 21st in Ordinary Time (28.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterDo we impose upon others what we cannot do, ourselves? Do we speak from the complacency of our own ideas or from our humility of heart? As Dom Helder Camara said: "I would like to be a puddle of water to become the mirror of heaven". Do people consider their pastors, men of God who can tell the accessory from the fundamental? Feebleness deserves understanding, but hypocresy provokes contempt... -
Pope: We understand because we have believed
By Admin WebmasterOn Sunday, Pope Benedict prayed the Angelus with the faithful gathered at the Pope’s summer residence at Castel Gandalfo. Before the recitation of the Marian prayer, the Holy Father reflected on the day’s readings. The Gospel of the day relates the story of the reaction of Christ’s disciples to the Bread of Life discourse. -
For John had told him, 'It is not right for you to live with your brother's wife': August 29th: Beheading of John the Baptist, martyr (29.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterWe remember the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, the Messiah's Precursor. All his life moves around Jesus, to the extent that without Him, the very existence and aim of the Messiah's Precursor would have had no significance whatsoever... -
So be alert: Thursday 21th in OrdinaryTime (30.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterBut, maybe, we should first clarify which coming is He talking about. Is He referring to our death?; is He talking about the end of the world? Both are certainly comings of the Lord He has expressly left out uncertain to provoke a constant attention on us. But, going by an estimate of probabilities, perhaps none of our generation will bear witness of a universal cataclysm that means the end of human life in this planet... -
Truly, I do not know you: Friday 21th in Ordinary Time (31.8.2012)
By Admin WebmasterIt is a well-known saying but we might as well refresh our memory: "Live every day of your life as if it is your first, as if it is your only available day, as if it is your last day". A realistic call for a necessary and reasonable conversion that we have to carry out... -
Someone, before going abroad, summoned his servants to entrust his property to them: Saturday 21th in Ordinary Time (01.9.2012)
By Admin WebmasterThe master came back... and asked for a reckoning. He rewarded the courage and foresight of the two first servants that were able to duplicate his entrusted deposits. But the treatment to the “cautious” servant was very different... -
You even put aside the commandment of God to hold fast to human tradition: Sunday 22nd (B) in Ordinary Time (02.9.2012)
By Admin WebmasterThis is why plain people, with their typical common sense, paid little attention to the doctors of the Law or to the Pharisees, who were putting more emphasis on their human speculations than on God's Word... -
They were astonished at the way He taught them...: Tuesday 22th in Ordinary Time (4.9.2012)
By Admin WebmasterIt was precisely such authority in his speech that gave strength to his language. He used living and specific images, without any syllogisms or definitions; words and images He pulled out from the very nature or, more often than not, from the Holy Scriptures... -
Self-Proclaimed 'Messiah' Rev. Sun Myung Moon dies at 92
By Admin WebmasterFounding his religion in Seoul, Korea in 1954, after the Korean War ended, Moon claimed that Jesus Christ personally appeared to him and instructed him to complete his unfinished work. Moon, through his own personal interpretation of the Bible which orthodox Christians rejected, forged an eclectic religious system built upon a "Divine Principle" through which he sought to unify all religions. -
Pope's final salute to Card. Martini: He was a man of God
By Admin WebmasterAccording to Italian press an estimated 200 thousand people made their way to Milan’s cathedral this weekend to pay their respects to a man who had marked the history of the Ambrosian diocese over the past century. A great Jesuit scholar, teacher and pastor, he led the Archdiocese of Milan for more than two decades, from 1980 until his retirement in 2002. -
Hindu temple cancels animal sacrifice
By Admin WebmasterA Hindu temple has agreed to cancel, for this year, its ritual slaughter of animals after a series of protests by Buddhist monks and activists. Hindu devotees were to sacrifice around 300 goats and nearly 1000 chickens at the popular Sri Badrakali Amman Kovil temple in Munneswar, north of Colombo, on Saturday (1 Sept 2012). -
Pope Benedict XVI: Let the truth shine through us anew
By Admin WebmasterPope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass Sunday morning (2 Sept. 2012) at Castel Gandolfo with members of the “Ratzinger Schülerkreis” – a study group of former students of the Pontiff who have been meeting together for the past thirty years. -
Laying his hands on each one, He healed them. Demons were driven out: Wednesday 22nd in Ordinary Time (5.9.2012)
By Admin WebmasterTo take the small commitment of defeating our selfishness in some small thing every day for the benefit of others (this is what we call loving). To take the small-great commitment to live every day coherently with our Christian life. -
Krishna Janmashtami celebration
By Admin WebmasterShravan vad 8 celebrates the birth of Lord Shri Krishna, one of the most venerated incarnations in the Hindu Dharma. Five thousand years ago, he incarnated, at the end of the third cosmic phase, 'Dwapar Yuga' and the beginning of the present, 'Kali Yuga'. -
Asia: Evangelising on the digital continent
By Admin WebmasterVatican Radio (4 Sept 2012) -- The Asian church must evangelise on the digital continent and they can learn how to do this by looking at the advances made in the field by Vatican Radio. This is according to Dr. Chainarong Monthienvichienchai, Chancellor of St. John’s University, Bangkok, Thailand and a long-time consultant for Pontifical Council for Social Communications. -
Put out into deep water: Thursday 22th in Ordinary Time (6.9.2012)
By Admin WebmasterWe Christians believe that Christ is ever present; this resurrected Christ, therefore, requests us, not only to Peter, John or James, but to George, Joe, Paula, and all of us who accept him as our Lord, that we accept him —from Luke's text— in the boat of our life for He wants to rest by our side; He requests us to let him make use of us,... -
Blessed Mother Teresa: stories never told before...
By Admin WebmasterWednesday 5th of September marks fifteen years since the death of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. To mark this occasion Veronica Scarisbrick brings you an interview with someone who personally knew her. He's Monsignor Leo Maasburg who recently wrote a book: 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Personal Portrait: 50 inspiring stories never told before" and is published by Ignatius Press. -
You can't make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them: Friday 22th in Ordinary Time (7.9.2012)
By Admin WebmasterThe only difference is that, thanks God, we shall always have the bridegroom beside us. And this is what the Pharisees did not know and, maybe, this is why in the Gospel they always appear as such bad-tempered persons. Therefore, and as far as we are concerned, let us avoid being bad-tempered, while admiring the Lord's soft irony, which can be gathered from today's Gospel. -
Chine: 294 baptêmes en huit mois dans la Paroisse de Jiang Yin du Diocèse de Nan Jing
By Admin WebmasterAu cours des huit premiers mois de 2012, la Paroisse de Jiang Yin du Diocèse de Nan Jing en province de Jiang Su, a accueilli 294 nouveaux membres après un long chemin de préparation et de catéchèse.