Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 5:17-37), Jesus, speaking with his disciples, affirms that he did not come to “abolish”
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- Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 15:21–28), we are told the story of the Canaanite woman who turns to Jesus for help on behalf of her sick daughter. Two aspects - Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Massimo Palombella Man was created to see God. Everything else acquires its meaning in the light of this vocation. The Solemnity of the Assumption does not celebrate, first and foremost, - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella Today’s Gospel presents us with the celebrated account of Jesus walking upon the waters. There is one detail, however, which seems to me particularly worthy of attention, though - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella This Sunday’s Gospel opens with a movement of Jesus that deserves our careful attention. Having heard of the death of John the Baptist, “he withdrew by boat to - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Matthew 13:44–52), Jesus tells three brief parables woven together by a single thread: the discovery of something that radically transforms a person’s life. The first - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Matthew 13:24–43), Jesus tells a number of parables, among them that of the good seed and the weeds. Our first instinct when confronted with weeds
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 5:13-16), Jesus defines his disciples, each one of us, as “the salt of the
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Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 5:1-12a) Jesus went up the mountain and, having sat down, teaches his disciples through
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella Today’s Gospel (Mt 4:12-23) describes the calling of Simon, Andrew, James, and John, all fishermen. It is interesting
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Second Sunday of Ordinary Tim/A
Massimo Palombella Today’s Gospel (Jn 1:29-34), narrating the encounter between Jesus and John the Baptist, focuses on the identity of
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Feast of the Baptism of the Lord/A
Massimo Palombella In ancient times the Churches of Byzantine tradition called this feast “Epiphany” where three manifestations of Jesus were
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Epiphany of the Lord
Massimo Palombella The Magi walk, travel, move, leave their habits behind and face the fatigue and uncertainty of the journey. The
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Second Sunday after Christmas
Massimo Palombella The Alleluia verse in Gregorian chant for today’s celebration is taken from Psalm 92 (Ps 92:1) with the
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Solemnity of Mary Most Holy Mother of God
Massimo Palombella Today’s feast is closely connected with the title of “Theotokos” given to Mary by the Council of Ephesus
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Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Joseph and Mary/A
Massimo Palombella Today’s feast day has been celebrated locally since the 17th century. In 1895 Pope Leo XIII fixed the
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