Solemnity of All Saints
Massimo Palombella In the West in the 4th century, in the Würburg Lectionary, we have traces of the first Sunday
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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
Thirtieth XXX Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 18:9-14), through the parable of the Pharisee and publican, Jesus focuses on an important
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Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 18:1-8) Jesus returns once again to the theme of faith, focusing on the aspect
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Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time/CSunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 17:11-19), as last Sunday, Jesus returns to the theme of faith, that is, the
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Twenty-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 17:5-10) Jesus, responding to the apostles about increasing their faith, focuses on what our
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Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 16:19-31) Jesus tells the Pharisees the parable of the rich man and the poor
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Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 16:1-13) Jesus tells the curious story of the dishonest steward who was praised by
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Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross
Massimo Palombella The Catholic Church, many Protestant Churches and the Orthodox Church celebrate the liturgical feast of the Exaltation of
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Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 14:25-33) Jesus defines a profound criterion for the true quality of our life. The
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Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 14, 1. 7-14), through the parable of the wedding guests, Jesus leads us, once
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