ANGELUS Sunday, 27 th november 2011 Today, together with the Church, we are beginning the new liturgical year: a new journey of faith to experience together in Christian communities but, as always, also to be taken within world history so as to open it to God’s mystery, to…
Paraphrasing one of St Augustine’s thoughts, that through earthly riches we must procure for ourselves those true and eternal riches: indeed, if people exist who are prepared to resort to every type of dishonesty to assure themselves an always unpredictable material well-being, how much more concerned we Christians must…
This passage of St Luke constitutes one of the peaks of spirituality and literature of all time. Indeed, what would our culture, art and more generally our civilization be without this revelation of a God the Father so full of mercy? It never fails to move us and every time…
The holiday period is without a doubt a practical time for taking up the biography and writings of a particular Saint but every day of the year affords us an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with our heavenly Patrons. Their human and spiritual experience shows that holiness is not a luxury,…
WORDS FOR LIFE In Luke’s Gospel, today’s reading talks to us clearly about peace. Jesus says, «Do you think that I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.» Jesus says that peace is more than the absence of conflict. His Peace…
VOICE OF POPE BENEDICT XVI (Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis) Jesus Christ, who «through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God» (Heb:14), makes us, in the gift of the Eucharist, sharers in God’s own life. This is an absolutely free gift, the superabundant fulfilment of God’s promises. The…
(Regina Caeli, 9th April 2007) Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are still filled with the spiritual joy that the solemn celebrations of Easter truly bring to believers’ hearts. Christ is risen! The liturgy devotes to this immense mystery not only a day – it would be too little…
