On this first day of the week, already illuminated by the Resurrection of Jesus, the Gospel invites us to join those who continue to seek Jesus in the darkness, those who accompanied him at the crossside

With the Resurrection of Jesus, God infused in the world a longing for life that impels us to the hereafter… a hope that ends only with death when we too enter the fullness of life. Let

In today’s liturgy we contemplate a terrible, overwhelming historical event, the bearer of a mystery that overwhelms us: the fact of Jesus’ death on the Cross and the mystery of life and salvation that arise from

The Liturgy of Holy Thursday is the most demanding of the Easter cycle. Jesus leaves us a mandate that takes on its full meaning in the context of the Last Supper where Jesus proclaimed it. The

Let us continue to try to penetrate the feelings of Jesus in those final days of his life. Today’s scene is deeply moving and revealing; Jesus reveals to his disciples the betrayal He is about to

Today’s text contrasts with the environment in which the Gospel of these days has been placing us: the imminent arrival of the hour of Jesus. Today we find him in Bethany, the place of his rest,

It is striking to contemplate how Jesus, tired of his diatribes with the Jews, trying to make them understand that God was their Father and that He had come into the world to announce that they,

For the Jews, feeling like children of Abraham was a kind of title of honor that gave them recognition and credibility; their faith in Abraham was the way of saying that they were sons of Isaac

Truth and freedom are two words that seduce us; we easily think that we understand them, but how difficult it is to combine them and even more so to make them guide our lives. Truth and

Jesus continues to try to make known to the Jews his true identity: He reveals himself in his constant reference to God his Father; but his listeners, guided only by the criteria of the world to

Today’s text invites us to meet Jesus at a time when he himself solemnly declares: “I am the light of the world; he who follows me does not walk in darkness”. How much we need to

This is not the first time that Jesus speaks of his “hour”; He was well aware that his life in this world had a measured time and a mission, and that the Father would show him

In this long diatribe of Jesus with the Jews, Jesus clearly shows how his life has no other reason for being than to fulfill the mission for which He has been sent, and that mission is

Jesus, in the encounter with the Jews who reproach him for breaking the law by healing a paralytic, openly declares: “My Father continues to work and I also work”: a profoundly revealing statement of Jesus’ relationship

One more case of the contrast between Jesus, who loves life and puts it above all else, and the Jews, clinging to a law that gets lost in details and overlooks the good of the person.

“He realized that this was the hour.” (Jn. 4:54) It will be good to be in the attitude of the Galileans and the centurion: to welcome Jesus, to believe in his Word. Easter is approaching and

“Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God.” (Hosea 14:2) The Liturgy continues to offer us moving texts that invite us to conversion. This return to God is deeply rooted in the spirit of the prophets.

“The kingdom of God has come to you.” (Lk. 11:20) What happened in Israel in Jeremiah’s day, that Jeremiah would say to him, “They did not listen or pay attention? On the contrary, they walked according

“And now, Israel, listen.” (Deut. 4:1) Israel is a people who have become accustomed to not having images of God. His Word is sufficient for them. God is a God who speaks, who guides them on

“All those who are apparently hidden or ‘second in line’ have an unparalleled role in the history of salvation…” “Faith does not distance us from the world, but inserts us more deeply into it,” says Pope

“One is your teacher, and you are all brothers and sisters.” (Mt. 23:1-12) The invitation that Jesus makes to us today is radical. The ‘synodal’ community that He proposes to us demands the renunciation of appearances,

“We have sinned.” (Dan. 9:5) Today the liturgy brings us back to the penitential attitudes that run through this Lenten season. It expects from the Church a change, a renewal, a walk in the ways of

“Go first to be reconciled to your brother.” (Mt. 5:24) It would be worth noting that in “The Sermon on the Mount,” a profile of the Christian in the Gospel of Matthew, the first commandment is

 “If your son asks for bread, will you give him a stone?” (Mt. 7:7-10) Today the texts invite us to visit, in the Old Testament, the Book of Esther: the prayer of a woman who touches

“Mercy, my God, by your goodness…” (Ps. 50) On this beautiful Lenten journey, the Psalmist puts on our lips the words of David, repentant. The Babylonians, too, repented at Jonah’s preaching. It is us that Jesus

“When you pray, do not use too many words.” (Mt. 6:7) And yet, we do not want to leave the silent and permanent communion “with the one who we know loves us” (St. Teresa). Teresa tells

“Come, you who are blessed by my Father…” (Mt. 25:31-46) Where do your goods come from? If you think: it comes from my luck, you are an atheist, says St. Basil, if by God, they have

“Do not neglect your own.” (Isaiah 58:7) But does religious fasting still exist? A fast to try to convince God that we are good, or that we are rightly repairing our faults? “The fast that God

“Choose life.” (Deut. 30:19) We have begun Lent, and today we hear from the book of Deuteronomy that we are on the way, that the path proposes various paths to us. “Choose life,” advises us the

Ash Wednesday. “Repent and turn to me with all your heart.” (Jl. 2:12) If you haven’t read it yet, let’s take the pope’s latest encyclical, Dilexit (He loved us!) and carefully study the first chapter on