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MEDITATING AND LIVING

The Gospel is a hymn of joy, a happy news. If the sources spring from deep and pure subsoils, the water that emanates from there is purity and freshness. The Gospel is a hymn to joy because its message emerges

When the powerful of the earth had completed the job of total annihilation of a man and the project of his life, which was Jesus of Nazareth, they bribed one of His disciples arrested him at midnight and took him from

The synoptics transmit to us all the characteristics of an agony. Jesus declares that he feels "sorrow of death" (Mt 26:37). An agonizing person, first is he who doesn’t want to die: feels terrified by death. The evangelists (Mk 14:33; Mt 26,37) bring the word dread, which means the same thing

and invites us to live: “A year dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute necessity of prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church and in the world.”

PSALM 50 (51) (penitential psalm) For many people, even today, Psalm 51 is minor key music, woven from sad melodies and gloomy echoes.

A full year passed, during which I taught courses on Franciscan spirituality to brothers and sisters, almost without pauses. Given the structure of the Weeks there was no opportunity to carry out

It was getting dark. The abutments of the desert cast their long shadows upon the Jordan Valley. While the crowd dispersed, the Poor One of Nazareth stood immobile for a long while

“We Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the first Nativity scene that was installed in 1223 in the Italian town of Greccio by San Francisco” God Will Come Tonight

Let's take a look at Mary's behavior before God's silence.Nazareth is about 150 kilometers from Bethlehem on the modern highway. It is possible that, at that time, the distance was somewhat greater.

When the encounter with God is profound, it is eminently transformative. God assumes and consumes the egocentric “I” and forces man to enter the wide spaces of love.

The firts guide. I am, I have been the first Guide, veteran of all battles. Before anyone else I have been the first inhabitant of all the auroras. For years, which now seem like eternities

It was a night of rare beauty and brilliance. The summer air in Alvernia was fresh and warm at the same time. The world slept in eternal peace. Everything was quiet and serene.