December 31st, 2023. - Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. “Look more often at the stars. When you have a weight, a burden on your soul, look at the stars. When you feel sad, when people offend you, slow down and entertain yourselves with the Heavens. Then your soul will find peace.” (Pavel Florenskij)
Dec 10th, 2023 - Second Sunday of Advent, B. “I need a heart burning with tenderness / Who will be my support forever, / Who loves everything in me, even my weakness, and Who never leaves me day or night. / I must have a God who takes on my nature.” (St. Thérèse of Lisieux)
Dec 3rd, 2023. 1st Sunday of Advent, B. ‘Oh that You would rend the heavens and come down!’
Nov 6, 2022 - XXXII Sunday in Ordinary Time. The destination is what explains our journey. We have a great nostalgia of Eternity, and this life of ours is full of contradictions and becomes unbearable if we don’t anchor our heart to the shores of another life, an Eternal and Joyful one.
Oct 23rd, 2022 - XXX Sunday in Ordinary Time, C. Prayer is the conversion of the gaze. It is stop adoring ourselves in order to adore God.
Oct 16th, 2022 - XXIX Sunday in Ordinary Time, C. ‘Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.’ (St. Teresa of Avila)
Oct 9, 2022 - XXVIII Sunday in Ordinary Time, C. “As they were going they were cleansed.” Every real healing involves a path. Ten lepers set out without yet having healed, but certain that they would have received from Jesus what they asked for.
Sep 11, 2022 - XXIV Sunday in Ordinary Time, C. “If through weakness I sometimes fall, May Your Divine Glance cleans my soul immediately, consuming all my imperfections like the fire that transforms everything into itself.” (St Thérèse of Lisieux) The actively merciful Father doesn’t simply wait at home for His lost son, but hurries to meet him and throws His arms around his neck.
July 10th, 2020 - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, C. The mark of Christ is the extravagance of involvement. There is no longer a barrier between human and divine blood. “Love with all your heart”. As we have been loved, we are sent on the roads of the world to “go and do likewise”. (St 30:10-14; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37)
June 5th, 2022 - Pentecost Sunday. “The Spirit is the invisible fragrance of the Paradise that has arisen in our midst. He can create in you what doesn’t exist and He can make disappear what appeared to be or removable. So you run your hand over the smooth skin from which the wound has vanished by a miracle.” (Hans Urs von Balthasar, “Heart of the world”)
May 29th, 2022 - VII Sunday of Easter, C. “We don’t see the very deepest things, those that really sustain life and the world, but we can see and feel their effects.” (Pope Benedict XVI) “Faith in Christ brings salvation because in him our lives become radically open to a love that precedes us, a love that transforms us from within, acting in us and through us.” (Pope Francis) (Acts 7:55-60; Rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; Jn 17:20-26)
May 26th, 2022 - Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord - “My earthly desires have been crucified, and there no longer burns in me the love of perishable things, but a living water speaks within me, saying: ‘Come to the Father’.” (St. Ignatius of Antioch) (Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Lk 24:46-53)
May 21st, 2022 - Sixth Sunday of Easter. Followed by His “Shalom”, this communication of Peace of the Risen One, there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, who turns the pain of the Cross into a reviving force of Resurrection. (Acts 15:1-2,22-29; Rev 21:10-14,22-23; Jn 14:23-29)
May 7th, 2022 - Vigil Mass - Fourth Sunday of Easter. Following Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is the primary cornerstone of our Christian life. We rely on His voice, His word, His Spirit! “Those who appoint themselves as their own masters are disciples of a fool.” (St. Bernard)
April 17th, 2022, Easter Sunday. Love alone empties tombs. Love has the power to bring Life back. A Holy Easter! Shalom!
March 6th, 2022, First Sunday of Lent, C. “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
March 2nd, 2022. Ash Wednesday. Lent is a journey back to God. Not tomorrow, though, but today! “Now is a very acceptable time, now is the day of salvation.” This NOW is the only decisive time for love. God breathes His Spirit of Life on our “dust”, He re-creates us and lead us through the desert, giving us a new principle of life. (Jl 2:12-18; 2 Cor 5:20-6:2; Mt 6:1-6,16-18)