Nativity of the Lord
Massimo Palombella “God, by assuming humanity, completed it when he united in his person two realities that are distant from
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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
Fourth Sunday of Advent/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 1:18-24) an angel appears to Joseph in a dream and says to him: “do
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Third Sunday of Advent/A
Massimo Palombella The present Sunday is called “Gaudete” from the first word of the Introitus, whose text (Gaudete in Domino
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Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Massimo Palombella The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Dogma of faith proclaimed by Pope Pius IX
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Second Sunday of Advent/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 3:1-12) John the Baptist, to the Pharisees and Sadducees who were coming to his
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First Sunday of Advent and the New Liturgical Year
Massimo Palombella The time of Advent, which progressively started taking shape since the 4th century, has a twofold characteristic: it
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Solemnity of Christ King of the Universe/C
Massimo Palombella Pope Pius XI instituted today’s Solemnity on 11th December 1925 with the Encyclical “Quas Primas“. Beyond any historical
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Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella Today’s Gospel (Lk 21:5-19) ends with an interesting phrase from Jesus: “By your perseverance you will save your
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Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Massimo Palombella Emperor Constantine built a basilica on the Caelian Hill in Rome, on the site of the ancient Lateran
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Commemoration of the deceased faithful
Massimo Palombella Saint Augustine (354-430) in Chapter IV of “De cura gerenda pro mortuis” speaks of prayers that the Church
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