Antiquo robore

NB: With this homily, your homilist takes a break. God bless! As we have already done on other important festivals of the liturgica...

The Second Vatican Council says about Sunday, “The Lord’s day is the original feast day … Other celebrations, unless they be truly of g...

Mark is the shortest of the gospels. Among the four gospels, Mark is perhaps the one that reports fewer words of Jesus: there are no lo...

Jesus’ ministry was very successful: if you remember, when he began to preach in the synagogue of Capernaum, the people were astonished...

Siccome sono stato sollecitato da piú parti a esprimermi sulla notizia, riportata ieri dalla Nuova Bussola Quotidiana , di un incontro ...

We resume on this Sunday—the ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time—the reading of the gospel of Mark we had suspended on February before the be...

We continue calling this solemnity Corpus Christi , as it was in the ancient liturgy. But at that time, besides today’s celebration, th...

St. Patrick used the shamrock as a metaphor for the Holy Trinity The Fathers of the Church used to distinguish between theology and e...

Seven weeks, that is to say, fifty days have passed since Easter. On this day, the Jews celebrated the “feast of the harvest” or “feast...

L’articolo che segue è apparso, in francese, sull’ultimo numero della rivista Catholica (n. 139, Primavera 2018, pp. 39-48), diretta da Be...

This Sunday falls between the Ascension and Pentecost. By now Jesus has left his disciples and has come back to the Father; before asce...

Il 19 aprile scorso Sandro Magister ha pubblicato sul blog Settimo Cielo una recensione del libro Paolo VI. Una storia minima , curato...

In the whole New Testament it is said that Christ is now seated at the right hand of the Father. However, only some books of the New Te...

Today’s gospel is the continuation of that of last Sunday. It is the second part of chapter 15 of John. Jesus has compared himself to a...

Che la polemica contro lo gnosticismo e il pelagianesimo fosse uno dei cavalli di battaglia di Papa Francesco, lo sapevamo da tempo. ...

Sono un po’ di anni che si parla di un “ripensamento” del papato. Giovanni Paolo II, nel 1995, auspicava che si potesse trovare «una fo...

Last week, we were saying that Jesus often used images in his preaching. In the synoptic gospels, he usually resorts to parables, which...

L’altro giorno stavo preparando un post su Sua Maestà (la Regina Elisabetta), i parrucconi di Sua Maestà (i giudici inglesi), i boia ...

The Bible is not a philosophy handbook nor a theological treatise and neither is a catechism. As a rule, we do not find in it precise a...

La vicenda di Alfie Evans, che sta giustamente attirando la nostra attenzione in questi giorni, mi ha fatto fare alcune brevi riflessio...