Third Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mk 1:14-20), Jesus, passing along the Sea of Galilee, calls Simon, Andrew, James and John.
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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!”,
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time/B
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Jn 1:35-42) Jesus is referred to by John the Baptist as “the Lamb of God”
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Feast of the Baptism of the Lord/B
Massimo Palombella In ancient times, the Churches of Byzantine tradition called this feast ‘Epiphany’ where three manifestations of Jesus were
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Solemnity of Epiphany
Massimo Palombella The term ‘epipháneia‘ was used by the Greeks to indicate the action or manifestation of a deity (through
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Solemnity of Mary Most Holy Mother of God
Massimo Palombella In the Roman Rite Calendar, the Solemnity of the Circumcision of Jesus was celebrated on this day until
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Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Joseph and Mary/B
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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Solemnity of the Lord’s Christmas
Massimo Palombella “Everything has been assumed because everything has been redeemed” (cf. Leo I, Tomus ad Flavianum) So wrote Pope
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Fourth Sunday of Advent/B
Massimo Palombella Today’s Gospel (Lk 1:26-38), as Christmas approaches, presents us with the Annunciation of the angel to Mary. Mary’s
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Third Sunday of Advent/B
Massimo Palombella The present Sunday is called “Gaudete” from the first word of the Introitus, whose text (Gaudete in Domino
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Second Sunday of Advent/B
Massimo Palombella The Gospel proclaimed today contains the beginning of Mark’s Gospel (Mk 1:1-8), where the text of the prophet
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