Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 10, 25-37) a doctor of the law asks Jesus a question “Master, what must
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- Fourth Sunday of Easter/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Jn 10:1-10) Jesus defines himself as a “door”, and going through this “door” means for each of us to place life, to encounter “salvation”, to - Third Sunday of Easter/A
Massimo Palombella Today’s Gospel (Lk 24:13-35) recounts the famous encounter of Jesus with the disciples of Emmaus. It is interesting to note how the disciples themselves recognise that “their hearts - Second Sunday of Easter/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s gospel (Jn 20:19-31), the famous story of the Apostle Thomas is recounted, where in the end Jesus declares blessed “those who have not seen and have - Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord
Massimo Palombella ὃ γὰρ οὐ προσέληπται, οὐδὲ ἰάται· ὃ δὲ ἥνωται τῷ Θεῷ, τοῦτο καὶ σώζεται Quod enim non est assumptum, non est sanatum; quod autem unitum est Deo, hoc - Holy Saturday as we await the Resurrection
Massimo Palombella Holy Saturday is the third day of the Easter Triduum: it is a day of mourning and silence, on which the Church contemplates the mystery of Jesus’ burial - Good Friday in the Passion of the Lord
Massimo Palombella In the Roman Rite, the Passion according to John is proclaimed during the liturgy. The attached music is by Tomàs Luis de Victoria and is taken from the
Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 10:1-12. 17-20) Jesus sends seventy-two disciples two by two before him to every town
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Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul
Massimo Palombella Tradition tells us that Peter was crucified upside down in the Ager Vaticanus, more precisely in Nero’s Circus
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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ/C
Massimo Palombella Today’s feast originated in 1246 in Belgium, precisely in the Diocese of Liège, in reaction to the heresy
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Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity/C
Massimo Palombella The first texts of today’s Celebration were written by Alcuin of York (732-804), and these texts, with the
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Solemnity of Pentecost
Massimo Palombella Today’s celebration, 50 days after Easter, concludes the Easter season. The Jews celebrated the feast “of weeks”, seven
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Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord/C
Massimo Palombella Today’s feast is a memorial of Jesus’ ascension into heaven 40 days after Easter. The episode is narrated
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Sixth Sunday of Easter/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (John 14: 23-29), Jesus connects love for Him and peace, the true peace that Jesus
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Fifth Sunday of Easter/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (John 13: 31-33a. 34-35) Jesus gives the Apostles the “new commandment”, that of loving one
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Fourth Sunday of Easter time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Jn 10:27-30) Jesus claims to know his sheep, and that the same sheep will never
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