News from the Church in Malta
Dear brothers and sisters,
Today we will look at another of Jesus’ encounters, narrated by the Gospels. This time, however, the person encountered does not have a name. The evangelist Mark presents him simply as “a man” (10:17). He is a man who has observed the commandments ever since his youth but who, despite this, has not yet found the meaning of his life… Read more »
Vatican News
Dear brothers and sisters,
Today we will continue to contemplate Jesus’ encounters with some figures from the Gospel. This time, I would like to focus on Zacchaeus: an episode that is particularly close to my heart, because it has a special place in my spiritual journey.
The Gospel of Luke presents Zacchaeus to us and one who seems irredeemably lost… Read more »
File photo of one of Pope Francis’ General Audience (Vatican Media)
Dear brothers and sisters,
After contemplating the encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus, who went in search of Jesus, today we will reflect on those moments in which it seems that He is in fact waiting right there, at that crossroads in our life. They are encounters that surprise us, and at the beginning we are perhaps even a little diffident; we try to be prudent and to understand what is happening… Read more »
Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our hope II. The life of Jesus. The encounter 1. Nicodemus. “You must be born from above” (Jn 3:7b)
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
With this catechesis we will begin to contemplate some of the encounters narrated in the Gospels, to understand the way Jesus gives hope. Indeed, they are encounters that enlighten life and bring hope… Read more »
File Photo: The Paul VI Hall during one of the Pope’s previous General Audiences (Vatican Media)
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
In this last catechesis dedicated to the childhood of Jesus, we will start from the episode in which, at twelve years of age, He stays in the Temple without telling His parents, who are anxiously looking for Him and find Him after three days… Read more »
Armenian icon of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
Today we will contemplate the beauty of “Jesus Christ, our hope” (1 Tim 1:1), in the mystery of His presentation at the Temple.
In the narratives of Jesus’ infancy, the evangelist Luke shows us Mary and Joseph’s obedience to the Law of the Lord and to all its prescriptions… Read more »
Image of the statue of St. John Paul II at the Gemelli hospital (ANSA)
Dear brothers and sisters,
In the Gospels of the childhood of Jesus there is an episode which is exclusive to Matthew’s narrative: the visit of the Magi. Attracted by the appearance of a star, which in many cultures is the harbinger of the birth of an exceptional person, some wise men set out on a journey from the east, without knowing exactly where they will go… Read more »
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
In our Jubilee journey of catechesis on Jesus, who is our hope, today we will reflect on the event of his birth in Bethlehem.
The Son of God enters history as our travelling companion, and begins to travel while still in His mother’s womb. The evangelist Luke tells us that as soon as He was conceived, He went from Nazareth to the house of Zechariah and Elizabeth; and then, at the end of the pregnancy, from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the census… Read more »
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
Today we will contemplate the beauty of Jesus Christ our hope in the mystery of the Visitation. The Virgin Mary visits Saint Elizabeth; but it is above all Jesus, in His mother’s womb, who visits His people (cf. Lk 1:68), as Zechariah says in his hymn of praise… Read more »
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
Today we will continue to contemplate Jesus our hope in the mystery of His origins, as narrated by the infancy Gospels.
Whereas Luke lets us do so from the perspective of the mother, the Virgin Mary, instead Matthew takes the perspective of Joseph, the man who assumes the legal paternity of Jesus, grafting him onto the trunk of Jesse and linking him to the promise made to David… Read more »
