GREETINGS This month of October is of great importance for two rea-sons, one of the universal kind, the 2018 Synod for the young the other one more of a local kind, the beginning of cathe-quesis at our parish. We unite ourselves with the Holy Father and the Synod Fa-thers and…
HOMILY, Sunday, 15th April 2007 Dear Brothers and Sisters, This Sunday is called «in Albis», in accordance with an old tradition. On this day, neophytes of the Easter Vigil were still wearing their white garment, the symbol of the light which the Lord gave them in Baptism. Later,…
ANGELUS, Sunday 6th april 2014 Before the sealed tomb of his friend Lazarus, Jesus “cried with a loud voice: ‘Lazarus, come out!’. And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth” (vv. 43-44). This cry is an…
ANGELUS, Sunday 30th March 2014 Our lives are sometimes similar to that of the blind man who opened himself to the light, who opened himself to God, who opened himself to his grace. Sometimes unfortunately they are similar to that of the doctors of the law: from the height…
ANGELUS, Sunday 16th March 2014 From the event of the Transfiguration I would like to take two significant elements that can be summed up in two words: ascent and descent. We all need to go apart, to ascend the mountain in a space of silence, to find ourselves and better perceive the…
MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI FOR LENT 2009 – (11TH DECEMBER 2008) Dear brothers and sisters, it is good to see how the ultimate goal of fasting is to help each one of us, as the Servant of God Pope John Paul II wrote, to make the complete gift…
ANGELUS, Sunday, 9th February 2014 Jewish Law prescribed that a little bit of salt be sprinkled over every offering presented to God, as a sign of the covenant. Light for Israel was a symbol of messianic revelation, triumph over the darkness of paganism. Christians, the new Israel, receive…
ANGELUS Sunday, 23rd January 2011 Today too, if we Christians are to be in the world a sign and instrument of close union with God and of unity among men we must found our life on these four “hinges”: a life founded on the faith of the Apostles…
HOMILY Sunday, 19th January 2014 This passage from the Gospel is beautiful. John was baptizing; and Jesus, who had been baptized prior to this — some days before — was coming towards him and came before John. And John felt the power of the Holy Spirit within him…
HOMILY Sunday, 11th January 2015 One last feature emerges powerfully from today’s Bible Readings: in Baptism we are consecrated by the Holy Spirit. This is what the word “Christian” means, it means consecrated like Jesus, in the same Spirit in which Jesus was immersed throughout his earthly existence. He is the “Christ”,…
