Tuesday, 22 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for...
View ArticleTuesday, 22 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 2,29-39.
‘Fellow Israelites, I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn with an...
View ArticleWednesday, 23 May 2018 : Commentary Odes of Solomon
The Lord has multiplied his knowledge and he was zealous that those things should be known which through his grace have been given to us. And his praise he gave us on account of his name; our spirits...
View ArticleWednesday, 23 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said,...
View ArticleWednesday, 23 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 2,40-47.
He testified with many other arguments and exhorted them, saying, ‘Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.’ So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand...
View ArticleThursday, 24 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Ambrose
Let us advance boldly towards our Redeemer Jesus; let us boldly join the assembly of the saints, the gathering of the righteous. For we shall go towards those who are our brothers and sisters, towards...
View ArticleThursday, 24 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
‘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 ArticleThursday, 24 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 3,1-10.
One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon. And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of...
View ArticleFriday, 25 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Mt 5,8). True, since the Father cannot be grasped, “no man can see God and live” (Ex 33,20) in his majesty and inexpressible glory. But in his...
View ArticleFriday, 25 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the...
View ArticleFriday, 25 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 3,11-21.
While he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s Portico, utterly astonished. When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, ‘You Israelites, why do...
View ArticleSaturday, 26 May 2018 : Commentary Saint John-Paul II
Prayer for peace is not an afterthought to the work of peace. It is of the very essence of building the peace of order, justice, and freedom. To pray for peace is to open the human heart to the inroads...
View ArticleSaturday, 26 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, "I am going away,...
View ArticleSaturday, 26 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 3,22-26.4,1-4.
Moses said, "The Lord your God will raise up for you from your own people a prophet like me. You must listen to whatever he tells you. And it will be that everyone who does not listen to that prophet...
View ArticleSunday, 27 May 2018 : Commentary Blessed John Henry Newman
Christ's going to the Father is at once a source of sorrow, because it involves his absence; and of joy, because it involves his presence. And out of the doctrine of his Resurrection and Ascension,...
View ArticleSunday, 27 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew...
The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in...
View ArticleSunday, 27 May 2018 : Letter to the Romans 11,25-36.
So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come...
View ArticleMonday, 28 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Augustine
In the passage of this Gospel where our Lord says that he is the vine and we are the branches, he is speaking as he who is Head of the Church and of us as his members (Eph 5,30) and as “mediator...
View ArticleMonday, 28 May 2018 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been...
View ArticleMonday, 28 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 4,5-12.
The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. When they had made the...
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