Friday, 23 March 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was...
View ArticleFriday, 23 March 2018 : Second Letter to the Corinthians 1,1-7.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is in Corinth, including all the saints throughout Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our...
View ArticleSaturday, 24 March 2018 : Commentary Saint Augustine
This is the historical event, now let us look for the symbol. Whoever you are, if you want to be faithful, pour precious perfume on the Lord’s feet along with Mary. This perfume is uprightness… Pour...
View ArticleSaturday, 24 March 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. They were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in...
View ArticleSaturday, 24 March 2018 : First Letter to the Thessalonians 2,17-20.3,1-5.
As for us, brothers and sisters, when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you in person, not in heart we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face. For we wanted...
View ArticleSunday, 25 March 2018 : Commentary Saint Andrew of Crete
Come, come, let us go up together to the Mount of Olives. Together let us meet Christ, who is returning today from Bethany and going of his own accord to that holy and blessed passion to complete the...
View ArticleSunday, 25 March 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the one...
View ArticleSunday, 25 March 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 1,1-13.
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I...
View ArticleMonday, 26 March 2018 : Commentary Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
The prophets had been sent, along with Moses, to heal Israel, but they ministered in tears, failing to overcome evil, as one of them said: «Woe is me! For the faithful have vanished from the earth» (Mi...
View ArticleMonday, 26 March 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Jesus left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there. In the morning, when he returned to the city, he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the side of the road, he went to it...
View ArticleMonday, 26 March 2018 : Letter to the Hebrews 6,1-9.
Let us go on towards perfection, leaving behind the basic teaching about Christ, and not laying again the foundation: repentance from dead works and faith towards God, instruction about baptisms,...
View ArticleTuesday, 27 March 2018 : Commentary Saint Teresa of Avila
It seems very easy to say that we will surrender our will to someone, until we try it and realize that it is the hardest thing we can do if we carry it out as we should... The Lord knows what each of...
View ArticleTuesday, 27 March 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, ‘Lord, will only a few be saved?’ He said to them, ‘Strive to enter through the...
View ArticleTuesday, 27 March 2018 : First Letter to the Thessalonians 2,13-17.
We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at...
View ArticleWednesday, 28 March 2018 : Commentary Saint Leo the Great
“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself” (Jn 12,32). O wondrous power of the Cross! O ineffable glory of the Passion, in which is contained the Lord's tribunal, the...
View ArticleWednesday, 28 March 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, ‘What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and...
View ArticleWednesday, 28 March 2018 : Letter to the Hebrews 2,5-12.
God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. But someone has testified somewhere, ‘What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for...
View ArticleThursday, 29 March 2018 : Commentary Saint Gregory Nazianzen
We are soon going to share in the Passover, and although we still do so only in a symbolic way, the symbolism already has more clarity than it possessed in former times because, under the law, the...
View ArticleThursday, 29 March 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
The festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was near. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death, for they were afraid of the people. Then Satan...
View ArticleThursday, 29 March 2018 : First Letter to the Corinthians 11,23-32.
I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body...
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