Sermons to the Papal Household
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“O WOMAN, WHAT HAVE YOU TO DO WITH ME?” The Kenosis of the Mother of God - First Sermon, Lent 2020
- Friday March 20th, 2020
In our Lenten meditations we continue our journey in the footsteps of Mary that we initiated last Advent. This will be a way to put ourselves under the protection of the Virgin in a time of so severe test for all humanity due to the pandemic Corona virus. We must admit that the New Testament[...]
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“SHE GAVE BIRTH TO HER FIRST BORN SON” - Mary, the Mother of God - Third Advent Sermon 2019
- Friday December 20th, 2019
The steps we are taking in Mary’s wake correspond to the historical development of her life as we know it from the Gospels. The meditation on the faith of Mary took us back to the moment of the Annunciation, that of the Magnificat to the moment of the Visitation; and now, that of Mary Mother[...]
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“MY SOUL PROCLAIMS THE GREATNESS OF THE LORD" - Mary in the Visitation - Second Advent Sermon 2019
- Friday December 13th, 2019
In this meditation we go with Mary “into a hill country” and enter into the house of Elizabeth. Mary speaks to us personally with her canticle of praise, the Magnificat. Today the Catholic Church celebrates the priestly golden Jubilee of the successor of Peter and the canticle of Mary is the prayer that most spontaneously[...]
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First Advent Sermon 2019 - “BLESSED IS SHE WHO BELIEVED!” Mary in the Annunciation
- Friday December 6th, 2019
Every year the liturgy leads us to Christmas with three guides: Isaiah, John the Baptist and Mary, the prophet, the precursor, the mother. The first announced the Messiah from afar, the second showed him present in the world, the third bore him in her womb. This Advent I have thought to entrust ourselves entirely to[...]
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“HE WAS DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN” - Good Friday Sermon 2019, St. Peter’s Basilica
- Friday April 19th, 2019
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Is 53:3) These are the prophetic words of Isaiah with which we begin the Liturgy of the Word today. The account of the[...]
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