Tuesday, 29 May 2018 : Commentary Dorotheus of Gaza
The more we are united to our neighbor, the more we are united to God. So that you can understand the meaning of this saying I'm going to give you an image taken from the Fathers: imagine a circle...
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As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have...
View ArticleTuesday, 29 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 4,13-22.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized them as companions of Jesus. When they saw the man who had been...
View ArticleWednesday, 30 May 2018 : Commentary Tertullian
Among his disciples Christ chose twelve chief ones whom he destined to be the teachers of the nations. Accordingly, after one of these had been struck off, he commanded the eleven others, on his...
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I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my...
View ArticleWednesday, 30 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 4,23-31.
After they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard it, they raised their voices together to God and said,...
View ArticleThursday, 31 May 2018 : Commentary Saint Polycarp
I rejoice with you greatly in our Lord Jesus Christ that you welcomed the copies of true love [Ignatius of Antioch and his companions]...who were encumbered with saintly chains, which are the diadems...
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‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you...
View ArticleThursday, 31 May 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 5,1-11.
But a man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property; with his wife’s knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and laid it at the...
View ArticleFriday, 1 June 2018 : Commentary Blessed Paul VI
It is in the "consolation of the Holy Spirit" that the Church increases. The Holy Spirit is the soul of the Church. It is He who explains to the faithful the deep meaning of the teaching of Jesus and...
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else...
View ArticleFriday, 1 June 2018 : Acts of the Apostles 5,12-21a.
Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high...
View ArticleSaturday, 2 June 2018 : Commentary Saint Ambrose
It is not without purpose Saint Luke has set three parables before us one after the other: the sheep that was lost and was found, the drachma that was mislaid and was found, and the prodigal son who...
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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 ArticleSaturday, 2 June 2018 : First Letter to the Thessalonians 2,1-8.
You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you was not in vain, but though we had already suffered and been shamefully maltreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God...
View ArticleSunday, 3 June 2018 : Commentary Saint John of the Cross
The chief reason in the Old Law that the inquiries made of God were licit, and the prophets and priests appropriately desired visions and revelations from him, was that at that time faith was not yet...
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They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.’ Judas (not Iscariot) said to him,...
View ArticleSunday, 3 June 2018 : First Letter to the Corinthians 2,1-10.
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified....
View ArticleMonday, 4 June 2018 : Commentary Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
It seems to me that the attitude of the Virgin during the months that elapsed between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model for interior souls, those whom God has chosen to live within, in the...
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But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?" But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it...
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