Wednesday, 9 May 2018 : Commentary Origen
When you read that Jesus “taught in their synagogues and was praised by all” take care not to hold as happy those who heard Christ at that time and to think of yourself as being deprived of...
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Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by...
View ArticleWednesday, 9 May 2018 : Letter to the Romans 9,26-33.
‘And in the very place where it was said to them, "You are not my people", there they shall be called children of the living God.’ And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, ‘Though the number of the...
View ArticleThursday, 10 May 2018 : Commentary John Tauler
Now that our Head has ascended, it is fitting that the members (Col 2,19)... take the path which he has trodden so truly before us. For “it was needful for Christ to suffer thus, and so to enter into...
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‘Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will...
View ArticleThursday, 10 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 1,1-14.
In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the...
View ArticleFriday, 11 May 2018 : Commentary Saint John Chrysostom
Our Lord Jesus Christ is on the Cross today and we are celebrating this so that you might realize that the cross is indeed a spiritual celebration. In former times the cross represented a sentence, now...
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If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the...
View ArticleFriday, 11 May 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 4,8-14.
Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy...
View ArticleSaturday, 12 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Th
I had always wondered why it was that God has his preferences, instead of giving each soul an equal degree of grace... Jesus has been gracious enough to teach me a lesson about this mystery, simply by...
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‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for...
View ArticleSaturday, 12 May 2018 : Letter to the Philippians 4,15-23.
You Philippians indeed know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you alone. For even when I was in...
View ArticleSunday, 13 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Augustine
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another”... Love renews those who hear, or rather those who obey; but not any love, only that love which the Lord distinguished from natural love by...
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When he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him...
View ArticleSunday, 13 May 2018 : Letter to the Ephesians 1,15-23.
I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love towards all the saints, and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. I pray that the God of our...
View ArticleMonday, 14 May 2018 : Commentary Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger [Pope Benedict XVI]
To be a Christian is first of all and always to tear oneself away from the selfishness that lives only for itself, so as to enter into a great fundamental orientation of life for one another....
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Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, ‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus.’ Philip went and told Andrew;...
View ArticleMonday, 14 May 2018 : Letter to the Ephesians 4,1-13.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,...
View ArticleTuesday, 15 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
God promised that from David's line the eternal King would come forth, who sums up all things in himself, (Ps 132[131],11; Eph 1,10) and has recapitulated in himself the work he formed in the...
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Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters are...
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