"I also admonish and exhort the brothers that in their preaching their words be studied and chaste, useful and edifying to the people, telling them about vices and virtues, punishment and glory; and they ought to be brief, because the Lord kept his words brief when he was on earth." - Saint Francis of Assisi - Chapter IX, Approved Rule

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Friday – 8th Week in Ordinary Time – A – Optional Memorial of Saint Paul VI, Pope

Today in the Universal Church, we celebrate the memorial of Pope Paul VI, who was born Giovanni Battista Montini in Concesio in 1897. He was the Pope who guided the Church through one of the most transformative periods in modern Catholic history. He was elected in 1963 after the death of Pope John XXIII. He is most remembered for courageously continuing and concluding the Second Vatican Council and then implementing its reforms, however difficult they may have been.

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Venerdì – 8a Settimana del Tempo Ordinario – A – Memoria Facoltativa di San Paolo VI, Papa

Oggi nella Chiesa universale celebriamo la memoria di Pope Paul VI, nato Giovanni Battista Montini a Concesio nel 1897. Fu il Papa che guidò la Chiesa attraverso uno dei periodi più trasformativi della storia cattolica moderna. Venne eletto nel 1963 dopo la morte di Pope John XXIII. È ricordato soprattutto per aver coraggiosamente continuato e concluso il Second Vatican Council e poi averne attuato le riforme, per quanto difficili esse potessero essere.

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Thursday – 8th Week in Ordinary Time – A

My dear friends, today's readings once again touch our hearts. The first reading from Saint Peter's first Epistle. He writes, “Beloved, like newborn infants long for pure spiritual milk, so that through it you may grow into salvation. For you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

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Giovedì – 8a Settimana del Tempo Ordinario – A

Miei cari fratelli e sorelle, le letture di oggi toccano profondamente il nostro cuore. San Pietro ci invita a desiderare “il puro latte spirituale” perché abbiamo già sperimentato quanto il Signore sia buono. Egli ci chiama a guardare la nostra vita con occhi spirituali, con gli occhi della fede, riconoscendo la presenza di Dio anche nelle difficoltà e nelle sofferenze.

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8a Settimana del Tempo Ordinario A – Martedì – Memoria di San Filippo Neri, Sacerdote

Cari fratelli e sorelle in Cristo, pace a voi. Spero abbiate vissuto una Pentecoste santa e benedetta. Dopo aver celebrato il dono dello Spirito Santo, oggi la Chiesa ci presenta una figura straordinaria che ha incarnato in modo luminoso la vita nello Spirito: San Filippo Neri, conosciuto come l’“Apostolo di Roma”. Uomo di preghiera, di gioia e di carità, attirava le persone a Cristo non con durezza, ma con amicizia, semplicità e amore autentico.

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8th Week of Ordinary Time A – Monday – Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church

Yesterday we spoke about how our life’s journey, aided by the Holy Spirit is meant to be a preparation for the next and how for this reason, through all the graces and help that God sends us, we work on the virtues and those things which will transform us into the people of blessedness which will be the modality of life in the hereafter. Because in the bliss of heaven, everything is perfect. No more pain, no more evil, no more death. The bliss of heaven—who can really describe it? No one really. Saint Paul says that it hasn’t dawned on the imagination of Man, even, what God has prepared for those who love him (1 Corinthians 2:9).

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8a Settimana del Tempo Ordinario A - Lunedì - Memoria della Beata Vergine Maria, Madre della Chiesa

Ieri abbiamo parlato di come il cammino della nostra vita, con l'aiuto dello Spirito Santo, sia una preparazione a quello successivo e di come per questo, attraverso tutte le grazie e gli aiuti che Dio ci manda, lavoriamo sulle virtù e su quelle cose che ci trasformeranno nelle persone beate che saranno la modalità di vita nell'aldilà. Perché nella beatitudine del cielo tutto è perfetto. Niente più dolore, niente più male, niente più morte. La beatitudine del cielo: chi può descriverla? Nessuno. San Paolo dice che non si è ancora capito, nemmeno con l'immaginazione dell'uomo, che cosa Dio abbia preparato per coloro che lo amano (1 Corinzi 2:9).

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Pentecost Sunday A – Mass during the Day

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, peace be with you. Well, congratulations. You have made it to the end of the Easter season, the culmination of which is this beautiful Solemnity of Pentecost, in which we recall the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles fifty days after the Passover — in other words, fifty days after Jesus was crucified. Basically, it is in the very name itself: Pentecost, fifty days. This was originally the Jewish feast which celebrated the harvest and later the giving of the Law at Sinai. But now we celebrate it as fifty days after Christ’s Passover, where God gives not stone tablets, but the Holy Spirit Himself.

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Pentecoste A – Messa del Giorno

Fratelli e sorelle carissimi in Cristo, pace a voi. Siamo giunti al compimento del tempo pasquale, che culmina nella grande solennità della Pentecoste, quando celebriamo la discesa dello Spirito Santo sugli Apostoli cinquanta giorni dopo la Pasqua del Signore. Se nell’antica festa ebraica si ricordava il raccolto e il dono della Legge sul Sinai, ora Dio dona non più tavole di pietra, ma il Suo stesso Spirito Santo.

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