Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Massimo Palombella The Immaculate Conception of Mary is a Dogma of faith proclaimed by Pope Pius IX on 8 December
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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!”,
First Sunday of Advent/B
Massimo Palombella In the Roman Rite, the four weeks preceding the solemnity of Christmas took shape in Rome at the
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Thirty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Solemnity of Christ King of the Universe/A
Massimo Palombella Today’s feast, which concludes the Liturgical Year, was instituted by Pope Pius XI on 11 December 1925 with
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Thirty-Threeth Sunday of Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 25:14-30) Jesus, with the parable of the talents, silently challenges us to a very
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Thirty-Two Sunday of Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 25:1-13) Jesus, through the parable of the virgins, again defines the “kingdom of heaven”.
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Thirtieth-one Sunday of Ordinary Time
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 23:1-12) Jesus, speaking of the scribes and Pharisees who sat in the chair of
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Commemoration of the faithful departed
Massimo Palombella Remembering the dead today means being in contact, becoming ‘familiar’ with death, the only truly certain thing in
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Solemnity of All Saints
Massimo Palombella Celebrating today’s feast means giving ourselves time to reflect on the real quality of our lives. Indeed, ‘holiness’ represents
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Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 22:34-40) Jesus connects three great dimensions of our life: love of God, love of
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Twnty-nineth Sunday of Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 22:15-21) Jesus makes the famous statement “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s
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