Sermons to the Papal Household
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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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Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” Good Friday Sermon 2022
- Friday April 15th, 2022
In his account of the Passion, the Evangelist John gives particular importance to the dialogue of Jesus with Pilate, and it is on this that we want to reflect for a few moments before proceeding further with our liturgy. It all begins with Pilate’s question: “Are you the king of the Jews?” (Jn 18:33) Jesus[...]
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“I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE” Fifth Sermon - Lent 2022
- Friday April 8th, 2022
Our meditation today starts with a question: Why, in the account of the Last Supper, John does not speak of the institution of the Eucharist, but speaks instead of the washing of the feet? And this after he had dedicated an entire chapter of his Gospel to preparing the disciples to eat his flesh and[...]
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