Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 12:13-21) Jesus once again clearly indicates where we must found our lives and, consequently,
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- 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 - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Matthew 13:1–23), Jesus tells the parable of the sower. The seed falls along the path, on rocky ground, among thorns, and finally on good soil. - Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In this Sunday’s Gospel (Matthew 11:25–30), Jesus utters one of the most profoundly human sayings in the whole of the New Testament: “Come to me, all you who - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Mt 10:37–42), Jesus places at the very centre the question of our relationship with Him. Three times He repeats an expression that may strike us - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time/A
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Matthew 10:26–33), Jesus tells us not to be afraid. Three times He repeats these words. Not because fear is a flaw to be corrected, but
Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Massimo Palombella In today’s Gospel (Lk 11:1-13) Jesus’ disciples ask him to teach them to pray. The question of Jesus’
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Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time/C
Massimo Palombella Today’s Gospel (Lk 10:38-42) recounts the famous encounter between Jesus, Martha and her sister Mary. It is interesting
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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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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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