Tears for absolution Many times we have listened to the episode of today’s Roman Rite Gospel that tells of an event at first glance peculiar: into the house of a good man enters a not such a good woman who washes Christ’s feet with a very expensive ointment. Christ accepts this act of humble and pure love that pu…
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Divine Love and Human Love
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on May 24th, 2013
From the Cross to the Trinity The entire Most Holy Trinity is involved in Love and by Love with the Cross of Christ. Many antique pictures represent the Father’s arms holding the Crucifix. For example in Masaccio’s painting (in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence) the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove i…
Tags: Where the Spirit Blooms
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on May 17th, 2013
The Church is the place where “the Spirit blooms” (St Hippolytus of Rome, Traditio apostolica, 35) and the Chosen People, non-restricted by borders, come from all the peoples: “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks” (1 Cor 12:13) Fire and wind
The old and the new Pentecos…
He Is Close to Each of Us, Forever
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on May 8th, 2013
Jesus has ascended and he is not departed and now, thanks to the fact that He is with the Father, he is close to each one of us, forever (Benedict XVI, May 7, 2005). Ecce Homo
The feast of the Ascension of Christ makes us celebrate the joyful and…
A Command From the Cross
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on April 26th, 2013
The gift of a new command: the law of Charity “Love one another”. This command given to us by Christ is the “Magna Carta” of the People who, born from his pierced chest, are transformed by Love. Christ’s charity pushes us not only to acts of love, but also to a life of Charity in Him.
Unfortunately in ordinary …
The Shepherd of Friends
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on April 19th, 2013
In today’s culture the figure of the shepherd is almost unknown and to call somebody “a sheep” is an offence. On the contrary, in the Bible, sheep farming is well known and has a positive and deep meaning. God is presented as the shepherd of his people. “The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack.”(Ps 23:1)…
Authority as Service of Charity
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on April 12th, 2013
Christ is the light of charity for the world Apparitions: a Presence which remains
At Easter, the first of all Sundays, we have celebrated the victory of the Word of Life that is Light. This light has conquered darkness. It is the beginning of a l…
Mercy Is the Flower of Love
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on April 5th, 2013
Mercy is God’s charity What I’d like to underline regarding this Sunday’s Gospel is the fact that, in order to help Saint Thomas’ faith, Jesus appears to the disciples a second time and asks him to put his finger into His pierced chest from which bl…
Life Has Exchanged the Tomb for the Sky
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on March 29th, 2013
The first of all Sundays The first day of the week is Sunday, the day in which we celebrate Christ’s resurrection. He resurrects in the night, long before the sunshine illuminates this day of celebration.
The first of all Sundays is a day born fro…
The Passion Triumphs Not as an Emotion But as a Fact
Posted by Monsignor Francesco Follo on March 22nd, 2013
It is not enough to cry, one must also fight In listening to the bloody Passion of Christ, a warrior pronounced what is one of the strongest sentences that have ever come out of a Christian mouth. While they were reading the Passion, King Clovis was crying. Suddenly this warrior king could not take it any longer…
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