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AudioAugust 19, 2019

“Let everyone be quick to listen” (Jas 1:19)

01 audio.mp3 It is not always easy to find people who are able to listen; when we meet one, we can easily experience the joy of sp…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“... you were called for freedom” (Gal 5:13)

02 audio.mp3 God, had he wished, could have created us, so to speak, on our knees before him, forcing us to love him, but he would…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“I am who I am” (Ex 3:14)

03 audio.mp3 Years ago I gave two girls who were preparing for their first Communion a rather unusual catechism lesson: I took a n…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“God is love” (1 Jn 4:16)

04 audio.mp3 As St. John explains so well, “God is love” (1 Jn 4:16); this means that Love, the beautiful kind, with a capital L,…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“Your will be done, as in heaven so on earth” (Mt 6:10b)

05 audio.mp3 If God is Love, it is clear that he is beautiful: Beautiful Love. How can we live in communion with him and share in…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God” (Mt 5:8)

06 audio.mp3 One cannot build a house on top of another; the previous one must first be demolished. Likewise it is not possible to…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“ … together … with Mary” (Acts 1:14)

07 audio.mp3 If we try to walk with our own steps on the way of Love, we will often find ourselves advancing barely, with great ef…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“ … the Father in heaven [will] give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him” (Lk 11:13)

08 audio.mp3 It is not easy to understand the Holy Spirit, because he is a Person who is all love, indeed he is Love in person, an…AudioAugust 19, 2019

Mater amabilis

10 audio.mp3 It is easy to love when others treat us well; this is not the case in many moments of our life. The others with whom…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mt 22:39)

11 audio.mp3 To love our neighbor as God wants, we must be reconciled with everyone, even with ourselves. Often, in fact, we do no…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me” (Mt 25:40)

12 audio.mp3 When we meet a person we have never seen before, we should welcome them as if we had always known them, because we kn…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you” (Jn 15:12)

13 audio.mp3 Jesus, before dying, leaves us the commandment that he calls his own: that of mutual love: “This is my commandment: l…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (Jn 13:35)

14 audio.mp3 Charity is the distinguishing mark of Christians; Jesus himself said that all would recognize his disciples by the lo…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (Jn 15:13)

15 audio.mp3 Jesus died on the cross out of love for us; the measure of his love was ‘without measure’; it is not for nothing that…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt 18:20)

16 audio.mp3 When two or more people who have decided to take the Gospel seriously meet and love one another as Jesus wants, somet…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“ … be united in the same mind and in the same purpose” (1 Cor 1:10)

17 audio.mp3 When people are united, they desire to arrive at common choices, small and great, that take into account everyone’s p…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“Clothe yourselves … with sentiments of mercy” (Col 3:12)

18 audio.mp3 When two or more people who love one another have tasted, at least once, the joy of communion, they become more sensi…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“... to the extent that you share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice” (1 Pet 4:13)

19 audio.mp3 Not infrequently, when we happen to go through difficult moments, we freeze and risk no longer understanding anything…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“for power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9)

20 audio.mp3 When others behave badly, when Christians are not consistent with their faith, we can become indignant; but at times…AudioAugust 19, 2019

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you?” (1 Cor 6:19)

21 audio.mp3 God did not create us as pure spirits, but with a body; Jesus, by becoming incarnate, experienced our same needs; thi…