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A renewal of morality as a key part of the New Evangelization
The New Evangelization is addressed to those who have fallen away due to the dechristianisation of the West. This involves a loss of faith and an “obscuring of the moral sense.” Indeed we live in a culture terrorised by subjectivism, utilitarianism, relativism and nihilism. A few days ago Abp. Charles Chaput of Philadelphia reminded the […]
Continue ReadingIn the Rosary, we contemplate the face of Jesus with Mary
Saint Francis de Sales teaches us that “the greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.” Indeed the Rosary is the remedy for all our spiritual difficulties, a remedy for all our moral struggles, a remedy for our evils and predominant faults. The Rosary is also the root of all our blessings.“Say the Holy […]
Continue ReadingJustice: Equality or inequality? (on God’s touch)
Sometimes God’s touch uncovers disorder in a logical mind. Just a gesture and we are stuck. We are lost like those hard working in the vineyard. Only grateful at the beginning. At the end, God is on trial. Righteous indignation is stronger than divinity. Jesus – a glutton and a drunkard, Saint John the Baptist […]
Continue ReadingImitating Christ in the love that unites
The Almighty and Infinite God, the Lord of Hosts, has become man, the least of men. As Blessed Charles de Foucauld says: “His whole life long he did nothing but go down. He went down in becoming flesh, he went down in becoming a baby, went down in obeying, went down in becoming poor, rejected, […]
Continue ReadingImpeding God’s grace
Jesus was travelling through the region known as the “Decapolis,” between the coast of Tyre and Sidon, and Galilee, therefore in the peripheries and even in areas outside the Holy Land. Yet, people had heard of the Lord and they wanted His touch. They were ready to convert to Christ: they had open minds, contrite […]
Continue ReadingHumility before God
Our Lord describes Pharisee-ism as an attitude that removes us from God’s Law, which is our true moral DNA. It happens when our conscience becomes scrupulous in superficial things, but softened towards God. Then the surface becomes crucial for us, but authentic prayer and real faithfulness to the Commandments are seen as “rigid” and unwelcome. […]
Continue ReadingAs for me and my House, we will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15)
Many of the followers of the Lord, many of those who today would be called Catholics, after hearing His doctrine said openly, ‘This is intolerable language. How could anyone accept it?’” (J 6:60) After their statement, they impenitently waited from Christ to give a satisfactory answer. They put themselves in position to understand better what […]
Continue ReadingWalk with the Lord in the valley of darkness
Let us keep in our mind that the Lord is sovereign, that we are safe and we are ready to walk ALWAYS with the Lord even (especially) in the valley of darkness (Psalm 23:4) – always being nourished by the Holy Communion with humbleness, love of God and great faith. Otherwise we are full of […]
Continue Reading“New self”, thus a pinch of psychology and philosophy
Today in the second reading from the letter of Saint Paul to Ephesians we can read: “You must have your old self, which gets corrupted (…) so that you can put on the new self that has been created in God’s way”. In the common sense the person “full of himself” is an image of […]
Continue ReadingSmoke and sheep
The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want; I lack nothing”. We know this Psalm very well. Probably not so well that we can imagine the importance of a shepherd, because it does not seem to me that many of us have the direct experience of agriculture or breeding. But anyway, it […]
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