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[...]
Read allLift 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[...]
Read allHoly 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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