Homily, Sunday, 24th april 2005 The pastor must be inspired by Christ’s holy zeal: for him it is not a matter of indifference that so many people are living in the desert. And there are so many kinds of desert. There is the desert of poverty, the desert of…
GENERAL AUDIENCE, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 Dear friends, today too the Risen One enters our homes and our hearts … Only he, the Living One, can give meaning to existence and enable those who are weary and sad, downhearted and drained of hope, to continue on their journey.…
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 27th March 2011 This third Sunday of Lent is characterized by the Jesus’ famous conversation with the Samaritan woman, recounted by the Evangelist John. The woman went every day to draw water from an ancient well that dated back to the Patriarch Jacob and on that…
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…
MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI ON THE OCCASION OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH WORLD YOUTH DAY (MARCH 28, 2010) The grain in today’s world advocates a freedom detached from values, rules and objective norms, and encourages people to refuse to place limits on their immediate desires. But…
MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCIS FOR THE TWENTY-NINTH WORLD YOUTH DAY 2014 The revolutionary power of the Beatitudes It is always a joyful experience for us to read and reflect on the Beatitudes! Jesus proclaimed them in his first great sermon, preached on the shore of the sea of Galilee.…
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…
ANGELUS—Sunday, 21st december 2014 Mary teaches us to seize the right moment when Jesus comes into our life and asks for a ready and generous answer. And Jesus is coming. Indeed, the mystery of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem took place historically more than 2,000 years ago…
