SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR A Matthew 5:38-48 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version A good Sunday to all. In relationships with others, we expect reciprocity. So, instinctively, when we do something good for another person, we wait for a response,
ASCENSION OF THE LORD – YEAR B Mark 16:15-20 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version A good Easter to all. The Gospel passage proposed to us on this feast of the Ascension of Jesus is the final section of the Gospel according to
EASTER VIGIL – YEAR B Mark 16:1-7 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version Happy Easter, brothers and sisters. The great human question, once people arrived at self-consciousness, has been: Why does our life end? Other living beings do not know that their life
SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION – YEAR B Mark 14:1–15:47 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version A good Sunday to all. Today, there is almost unanimous agreement among biblical scholars that the passion narratives of the four evangelists are based on an older, original
THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B Mark 13:24-32 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version A good Sunday to all. If we read the Gospel according to Mark, we get stuck when we reach chapter 13; we find obscure, mysterious, difficult language, different
THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B Mark 12:28-34 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version One of the scribes approached Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” A good Sunday to all. For the past three days, Jesus
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B Mark 12:38-44 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version A good Sunday to all. The Gospel passage we are going to listen to in a moment must be placed in the context of the events of the
PALM SUNDAY – YEAR B Mark 11:1-11 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, ‘Go into
THIRTIETH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B Mark 10:46-52 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version A good Sunday to all. We often use the verb ‘to see’ and the term ‘blindness’ metaphorically and symbolically. We say, ‘There is no one more blind
TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B Mark 10:35-45 THE TEXT BELOW IS THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO COMMENTARY BY FR. FERNANDO ARMELLINI Video Text Download version A good Sunday to all. In today’s Gospel passage, we will hear the account of an embarrassing, not very informative episode featuring two eminent disciples, the sons
