Sermons to the Papal Household - Advent
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Second Advent Sermon 2018 - THE LIVING GOD AND THE LIVING TRINITY
- Friday December 14th, 2018
When it comes to the knowledge of living God, an experience is more valuable than many arguments, so I would like to begin this second meditation precisely with an experience. Once I received a letter from a person I was accompanying in her spiritual journey, a married woman who died some years ago. The authenticity[...]
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First Advent Sermon 2018 - GOD IS!
- Friday December 7th, 2018
Introduction In the Church we are so pressed with tasks to perform, problems to confront, and challenges to respond to that we risk losing sight of, or leaving in the background, the “porro unum necessarium,” the “one thing is needful” of the gospel (Lk 10:42), which is our personal relationship with God. Moreover, we know[...]
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Second Sermon - “CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOR EVER”
- Friday December 22nd, 2017
(Heb 13:8) The Omnipresence of Christ in Time 1. Christ and Time After having meditated last time on the place Christ occupies in the cosmos, I would like to dedicate this second reflection to the place Christ occupies in human history: after first considering his presence in space, we will now consider his presence in[...]
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First Advent Sermon 2017 - “All things were created through him and for him” Christ and Creation
- Friday December 15th, 2017
The meditations for Advent this year (there are only two because of the calendar) propose to put the divine-human person of Christ back at the center of the two great components that together constitute “reality,” that is, the cosmos and history, space and time, creation and humanity. We need to recognize that despite a lot[...]
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Fourth Advent Sermon - “BY THE HOLY SPIRIT HE WAS INCARNATE OF THE VIRGIN MARY”
- Friday December 23rd, 2016
1. Christmas, a Mystery “for Us” In continuing our reflections on the Holy Spirit, and given the imminence of Christmas, let us meditate on the article in the creed that speaks of the work of the Holy Spirit in the Incarnation. In the creed, we say, “For us men and for our salvation he came[...]
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