Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 9:30-37) Jesus teaches the disciples about his passion, death and resurrection (‘The Son of
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- Solemnity of Christ King of the Universe/B
Massimo Palombella Pope Pius XI on 11 December 1925 with the Encyclical ‘Quas Primas’ instituted today’s Solemnity. The kingship of Jesus is imbued with the weakness of a God insulted, - Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 13, 24-32) Jesus, speaking to his disciples about the “last events” (“the sun will be darkened, the moon will no longer give its light, - Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 12, 38-44) Jesus speaks to his disciples about the widow who threw two coins into the Temple treasury, saying that “she threw more than - Thirty First Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 12, 28-34) Jesus, responding to one of the scribes, and citing the Old Testament, focuses on a fundamental question of our life. In fact, - Solemnity of All Saints
Massimo Palombella Today’s solemnity, focusing on holiness, invites us to reflect on the quality of our lives. In fact, we are all called to “life in abundance”, to the fullness - Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 10, 46-52) in Jericho Jesus encounters Bartimaeus, blind, sitting by the roadside begging. Bartimaeus, after crying out “Son of David, have mercy on me!”,
Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 8:27-35), Jesus questions his disciples about his identity. Starting with a generic question (‘People,
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Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 7:31-37) Jesus heals a deaf-mute by taking him away from the crowd, touching his
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Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 7:1-8.14-15.21-23) the Pharisees and some scribes approach Jesus to ask him the reason why
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Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
In today’s Gospel (John 6:60-69), many of the people who followed Jesus perceive his Word as ‘hard’ and decide to
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Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Jn 6:51-58) Jesus calls himself “Living Bread, come down from heaven” and states that “Whoever
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Solemnity of Mary Assumed into Heaven
Massimo Palombella The origins of the feast of the Assumption are to be found in the East, in the middle
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Nineteeth Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Jn 6:41-51) Jesus calls himself “living bread come down from heaven” and says that eating
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Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Jn 6:24-35) Jesus calls Himself the ‘bread of life’ and affirms that those who enter
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Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Jn 6:1-15) Jesus feeds the large crowd that came to him. It is interesting to
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