You have the devil as your father,and you want to fulfill your Father’s desires.He was a murderer from the beginningand did not persevere in the truth,for there is no truth in him.When he speaks falsely, he speaks of his own,for he is a liar and the father of lies.Jn 8:44 One of the most immedi...
Et inimici domini domestici ejus. And the master’s family will be his enemies.Mt 10:36Too often, we look at this world with the attitude and hopes of those who consider it a place of permanence rather than a passage to the heavenly goal, while we know that our pilgrimage on this earth has etern...
Dominus firmamentum meum, et refugium meum, et liberator meus.The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.Ps 17: 3The Rogations take many of us back to ancient times, when the twenty-fifth day of April was dedicated to the Blessing of the Fields. And it was in the countryside, once not too fa...
“Ask not what your country can do for you:ask what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy, January 20, 1961John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the United States of America at a time of great change that involved the whole world. A few years before the event that b...
The word Apocalipse, in Greek, means unveiling, revelation. This revelation, in Sacred Scripture, concerns first and foremost the objective reality of Good and Evil, that is, the collective awareness of the ongoing war between God and Satan, between the children of Light and the children of darkness...
Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum. I have Risen, and I am still with you.Psalm 138Hæc dies, quam fecit dominus. This is the Day the Lord Has Made. These are the words that the Divine Liturgy will repeat throughout the Octave of Easter, to celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, triumph...
A sexta autem hora tenebræ factæ sunt super universam terram usque ad horam nonam.From noon until three in the afternoon it was dark over the whole earth.Mt 27:45Tenebræ factæ sunt. In the hour of Our Lord’s agony, the whole of nature, the cosmos itself, is clothed in the black clouds of mourning. D...
Et ego dispono vobis sicut disposuit mihi Pater meus regnum.I am preparing for you a kingdom, as the Father has prepared it for me.Lk 22: 29The solemn Liturgy of Holy Thursday introduces us into the heart of the Easter Mysteries and constitutes a sort of parenthesis between the long Lenten itinerary...
Exsulta satis, filia Sion, jubila filia Jerusalem. Ecce Rex tuus venit tibi.Za 9, 12The solemn celebrations of Holy Week begin with the triumphal entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem, hailed as King of Israel. The Holy Church, the people of the New and Eternal Covenant, makes her own the tribute of...
Dear Friends,I am grateful for the invitation of Professor Massimo Citro della Riva to offer my greetings to the participants in the Health Holocaust Remembrance Day. You know well that I have never been shy in offering my interventions since the beginning of the psycho-pandemic farce, and that my c...
Your Excellencies, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends,This is the second occasion on which I have had the honor of speaking at the International Congress of Russophiles. I thank all of you and the organizers of this event for inviting me to give this reflection, which follows by a few...
Immutemur habitu, in cinere et cilicio: jejunemus, et ploremus ante Dominum: quia multum misericors est dimittere peccata nostra Deus noster. Joel 2:13Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris. We heard these words spoken a few moments ago, during the rite of the i...
