Year II. Indeed, Christ is alive. He is risen. And if he is risen, we too will rise. The two go together. Without the resurrection of Christ and ours, we believe in vain. Gospel. Luke is the evangelist who describes the contribution of women in the apostolate of Jesus. Christ has liberated them from the […]
Year II. The core of the good news that Paul brings to the Corinthians is the resurrection of Jesus. Paul insists because Greeks do not easily accept this truth. For Christians, the resurrection means life more than a dogma; it means hope and a great future. Gospel. A woman with a bad reputation, which she
Year II. St Paul gives us today his famous hymn to Christian love. It is greater than any charism, for charisms are vain if not rooted in love. Look at all the great things that love produces. Love will never pass, for all the rest is vowed to disappear. Gospel. Luke compares those who reject
Year II. What makes the body beautiful – and functional at the same time – is the variety of its members. Variety does not mean factions (cf. yesterday), but a diversity of talents, charismas and functions to be coordinated for the good of the whole. But there lies its greatness and danger. Diversity is destructive or constructive,
Year II. Though Christians can eat the meat that had been used in pagan offerings, they can never take part in the sacred meals of sacrifices offered to idols, for that would be tantamount to communion with the false god. They should remember that the Christian sacrifice signifies that they are in union with Christ,
Year II. Paul says he has put his life in the service of the gospel, and by doing so, he has only done what he was supposed to do. He has given the gospel to people free of charge. It had come to him as a grace, and he gives it to others as a
Year II. In ancient Greece, much of the meat from sacrifices was sold as food for the people. By eating this meat, did Christians share in idolatry? They do not honour false gods, since these do not exist, says Paul. But as some Christians are scrupulous, it is better not to offend them and therefore
Year II. Regarding each person’s state in life, whether celibate or married, Paul gives his personal advice that conversion does not require changing this status but rather living it according to the best of one’s abilities. Gospel. Luke is the only evangelist coming from paganism – a world of slavery, fear and oppression, and of moral license.
Year II. The community of Corinth has problems not only of unity but, as an important pagan port city, it is also easygoing on morality. Paul reminds them that this is intolerable in Christians. They are now identified with Christ and should have become new. Gospel. It is strange how, as we read in the
Born into a poor Italian farm family, from a young age Francesco Forgione desired to be a friar. When he was sixteen, he entered the novitiate of the Capuchin Order, and took the name Brother Pius (Fra Pio). He was ordained to the priesthood in 1910; six years later, joined the convent of Santa Maria
