Mt. 10:7-13   “Go and proclaim that the Kingdom of God is coming.” Jesus has already chosen his 12 apostles to “be with him and to be sent”. The time for the mission arrives and Jesus

Mt. 5:17-19   “I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.” In the Jewish world of Jesus’ time, the law with its innumerable norms and interpretations had become untouchable and was the basis

Mt. 5:13-16  “You are the salt of the earth.” It may be that we like to think that we are the light of the world and we leave aside that other sentence of Jesus that exhorts

Mt. 5:1-12  “Blessed are you… you who welcome the coming of the Kingdom with a clean heart.”This is how the introduction to that long discourse can be summarized, Jesus, in the Gospel of Matthew, in which

Jn. 6:51-58  “Whoever eats of this bread will live forever.” Today we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, the memorial of the Body and Blood of Christ given for the life of the world. Jesus’ discourse

Mk. 12:38-44  “He gave out of his poverty what he had to live on”   After Jesus’ tense encounters with the Chiefs of the Jews, Mark ends this Chapter 12 with a simple and very eloquent scene;

Mk. 12:35-37 “If David calls the Messiah Lord, how can he be his son?” In today’s Gospel the roles are changed in relation to what the texts of the previous days presented to us; there the

Mk. 12:28-34 “If you confess that love is the most important thing, you are not far from the Kingdom of God.” This affirmation, which can be deduced from today’s Gospel, may seem obvious to us, but

Mk. 12:18-27    “God is not a God of the dead but of the living.” With this phrase Jesus ends another of those attempts at dialogue with his enemies. Jesus knows well that the problem they

Mk.. 12:13-17 “Jesus asked them, ‘Whose image is this?’”Jesus’ enemies never cease to put him to the test; today the Gospel shows us how they raise the question of the tax they had to pay to

Mk. 12:1-12 “They realized that Jesus had spoken the parable for them.”  Jesus has just had one of those encounters with the teachers of the law who reproach him for his way of acting in favor

SOLEMNITY OF THE HOLY TRINITY Jn. 3:16-18 “God so loved the world that He gave it his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not die, but have eternal life.” Jn. 3:16-18  The Book of

“By what authority do you do this?”  Mk 11:27-33 Jesus has cleansed the Temple of sellers and buyers, causing discomfort in the religious authorities who, seeing him, come to claim him and to ask him to account

“Have faith in God” “When you pray for something, believe that it will be granted to you, and so it will be” Mt 11:11-25 After his entry into Jerusalem, Jesus goes to the temple and then

JESUS CHRIST THE ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST. “My Father, if this cup cannot pass away without my drinking it, Thy will be done.” Mt. 26:36-42 Today’s texts forcefully affirm that the man of faith, in love with

“Whoever wants to be great among you, let him be the servant of all…” Mk. 10:32-45 Jesus walks towards Jerusalem; He goes with determination and firmness to meet the sacrifice of his life. He is followed by

“We have left everything and followed you.” Mk. 10:28-31 The disciples have just witnessed Jesus’ encounter with a very rich young man, a good person, with a desire for perfection, whom Jesus looked at with special

Monday, May 25 SAINT MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH “Behold, your Mother.” Jn. 19:25-34 In Bethlehem, Mary gave birth to Jesus our Savior; next to the cross she lives another painful “birth”: because there Jesus gives

SOLEMNITY OF PENTECOST “They were all filled with the Holy Spirit.”   Acts. 2, 1-11 On this solemnity, the Church is filled with joy because Jesus has put the finishing touch to her salvific mission: the gift of his

“Follow me.” Jn. 21:20-25 In this journey with Jesus, each one has his or her call, his or her mission, his or her way of following him. “You, follow me.” The important thing is to listen

“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”  Jn. 21:15-19n On that morning by the lake, Jesus is going to entrust Peter with a great mission, but first, He wants him to feel very sure of his

“May they be one like us, so that the world may believe that You have sent me.” Jn. 17:20-26 John’s texts continue to lead us to listen to what Jesus says to the Father. He insistently

“Holy Father, keep them in your name, that they may be one as we are.” Jn. 17:11b-19 Jesus continues to pray and ask the Father for what He knows we need to remain with him; that we

“I pray for them…, for these whom you gave me, because they are yours.” Jn. 17:1-11b Jesus’ words to his friends in private, on that night of his farewell, are not only for them. These are

“Have courage, I have overcome the world” Jn. 16:29-36 The Lord knows us and knows that our faith is sometimes weak, as it was for the disciples even when they were with Jesus. It had to be

SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts. 1, 1-11 The physical and visible presence of Jesus

“If you ask the Father for anything in my name, He will give it to you.” Jn. 16:23b-28 In the texts of John that we have read these days, Jesus did not cease to speak of

FEAST OF ST. JEANNE DE LESTONNAC “… You will be sad, but that sorrow will be turned into joy.” Jn. 16:20-23a How the phrases of today’s Gospel illuminate what the life of Jeanne de Lestonnac was:

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.” Jn. 15:9-17 What a quality of love Jesus gives us!  It is the love received from the Father, the same love with which He loves us. Can

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA “When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you to the full Truth.” Jn. 16:12-15 In his farewell, Jesus spoke insistently of the Holy Spirit. He has defined Him