Sermons to the Papal Household - Advent
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THE GATE OF CHARITY - Third Sermon, Advent 2022
- Friday December 16th, 2022
Lift up your heads, O gates; be lifted, you ancient portals, that the king of glory may enter. In our intent to open the gates to Christ who comes, we have reached the innermost door of the “interior castle”, that of the theological virtue of charity. But what does it mean to open the door[...]
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THE GATE OF HOPE - Second Sermon, Advent 2022
- Friday December 9th, 2022
Lift up your heads, O gates; be lifted, you ancient portals, that the king of glory may enter (Ps 24: 7). We have taken this verse of the psalm as the guideline of the Advent meditations, meaning by the doors to be opened those of the theological virtues: faith, hope and charity. The temple of[...]
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THE GATE OF FAITH - First Sermon, Advent 2022
- Friday December 2nd, 2022
Holy Father, Most Reverend Fathers, brothers et sisters of the Roman Curia, I have asked myself several times what is the meaning and usefulness of these sermons in Advent and Lent which interrupt or delay commitments of a different and more important kind. What encourages me and takes away my scruple of wasting your time[...]
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“BORN OF A WOMAN” - Third Meditation for Advent 2021
- Friday December 17th, 2021
“When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman.” In this final meditation, I would like to focus on the meaning and the importance of this last phrase “born of a woman”, especially because of its relevance to the solemnity of Christmas which we are preparing to celebrate. In[...]
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“GOD SENT INTO OUR HEARTS THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON” - Second Meditation for Advent 2021
- Friday December 10th, 2021
In 1882, the archaeologist William M. Ramsay discovered an ancient Greek inscription at Hieropolis in Phrygia. The artifact was donated by Sultan Abdul Hamid to Pope Leo XIII in 1892, on the occasion of his jubilee. From the Lateran Museum, it later passed to the Pius-Christian Museum. The epitaph – described by historians as “the[...]
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