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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
While contemplating the Passion we become closer to Our Lord. Let us be with the Lord in the moment of the rejection. God was rejected. He embraced and picked up all kinds rejections. Some of them have happened to us. Some of them we have showed to others. There are some of us who are […]
Continue ReadingAcceptance of the Cross
Today we see the Lord proclaiming his crucifixion the last time before the Last Supper begins. He explains plainly that He came for this very hour. From today we focus specifically on the role of the cross. At this stage acceptance of the cross is not only an invitation to follow Jesus Christ, but it […]
Continue ReadingThe Church – Our Mother.
Come together all you who love our Mother, the Church. Come together all you who worry about Her. Come through Christ, with Christ and in Christ. Our Mother, the Church, has been left behind with furrows of sins from her children. Our Mother, the Church, is full of sorrow because of the lost shepherds. Our Mother, the Church is being hurt and humiliated as few […]
Continue ReadingEngaging with God as He is.
As Lent is unfolding let us reflect on the most basic and principal truth: that God made us for Himself. Let us remind ourselves again that the real God is the God to whom we owe everything; and we must worship God in the way God tells us to do. If we worship Him our […]
Continue ReadingOur life is stretched between the mountains of Transfiguration and Calvary
On the Mount of the Transfiguration the glory of God’s Kingdom was shining out of the Lord. Peter, James and John witnessed that very moment. They also saw Moses and Elijah coming from heaven as the servants of the Lord. Moses came to give testimony that the whole Law finds its fulfilment in Jesus. Elijah, […]
Continue ReadingRepent and believe in the Gospel
We have just entered Lent by the words “Repent, and believe in the Gospel” pronounced at each one of us individually. It happened at the very moment when ash was put on our forehead. In this way we have been invited to tear our hearts and to surrender them to Christ; we are invited to […]
Continue ReadingGod touches hearts even in the middle of their decay
After all the traumas of spiritual, moral, psychological and physical leprosy, the triumph of the evil one might have been announced. This has never happened, and the world still exists. After the evil one has shown his ugliness, the ocean of consolation is again at hand. This is the evidence of the triumph of the […]
Continue ReadingOn healing value of the hunger for God
We believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. However, when we look at the most visible side, at everything that is marked by human conditions, we do not have enough living saints so we do not have a healthy Church. If God is placed only as the background of the praise, liturgy, morality, charity, […]
Continue ReadingOn the difficult relationship between God and man and on the virtue of hating demons
There is a fresco in the Santa Maria del Carmine church in Florence by the Italian Early Renaissance artist Masaccio. It shows the difficult relationship between God and man. Shades of beige, dirty yellow dominate the painting. Red and grey-blue create the background. On the foreground there are naked people: Adam covers his face with […]
Continue ReadingLife as A Vocation
Once we reflect on our lives in the context of Christ’s calling “follow me”, we are already changed as we allow Christ’s eyes to rest on us and to touch our hearts deeply. Once we enter into the paradigm of life as a vocation, we know that the main question for us is not how […]
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