Sermons to the Papal Household - Lent
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Third Sermon - THE HOLY SPIRIT LEADS US INTO THE MYSTERY OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST
- Friday March 24th, 2017
1. The Holy Spirit in the Paschal Mystery of Christ In the two preceding meditations we tried to show how the Holy Spirit leads us into the “fullness of truth” about the person of Christ, making him known as “Lord” and as “true God from true God.” In the remaining meditations our attention will shift[...]
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Lent 2017 -Second Sermon - CHRIST, “TRUE GOD FROM TRUE GOD”
- Friday March 17th, 2017
1. The Faith of Nicea In this meditation we continue our reflection on the role of the Holy Spirit in knowing Christ. In this regard one cannot fail to mention an unexpected confirmation of this happening in the world today. For some time there has been a movement called “the Messianic Judaism,” whose members are[...]
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Lent 2017 - First Sermon : THE HOLY SPIRIT LEADS US INTO THE MYSTERY OF THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST
- Friday March 10th, 2017
1. “He will bear witness to me” One thing impressed me while reading the initial prayer of the Mass of the First Sunday of Lent this year. We don’t pray that God the Father give us the strength to accomplish one of the classic Lenten works: fasting, praying, doing charity; we ask rather to “grow[...]
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“BE RECONCILED TO GOD” - Good Friday Sermon, 2016, in St. Peter’s Basilica
- Saturday March 26th, 2016
God . . . through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. . . . We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.[...]
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THE PATH TO UNITY AMONG CHRISTIANS - Reflections on Unitatis redintegratio
- Friday March 18th, 2016
Fifth Lenten Sermon 2016 1. The ecumenical path after Vatican II Modern hermeneutics has familiarized us with Hans-Georg Gadamer’s principle of the “history of effects” (Wirkungsgeschichte). According to this method, to understand a text we need to take into account the effects it produced in history, placing oneself within that history and dialoguing with it.[...]
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