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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- 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
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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Third Sunday of Easter/C
Massimo Palombella Today’s Gospel (Jn 21:1-19) recounts Jesus’ encounter with the apostles after the resurrection with Peter’s triple manifestation of
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Second Sunday of Easter (Domenica in Albis)
Massimo Palombella Today’s day is also called “Domenica in Albis” (subtitled “deponendis”) because it is linked to the rite of
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Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord/C
Massimo Palombella “Who would not think the Lord Jesus of our human condition knowing that in his life there was
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