Liturgical seasons

Month of November
The last month of the liturgical year invites us to reflect on our final destiny. “What would be my legacy if God were to call me today? What legacy would I leave as a testimony of my life?”

Maria Bambina, «hope and dawn of salvation for the whole world» whom God chose as the Mother of his Son. She walks with us towards the Synod. We seek, together with her, to listen to the voice of God who inspires courage and bestows the grace needed to respond to his call: «Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God» (Lk 1:30).

In the splendour of heavenly glory shines the One who, by reason of her humility, was made great in the sight of the Most High to the point that all generations call her blessed (cf. Lk 1:48).

The Church celebrates three birthday solemnities– The Nativity of Jesus, the Nativity of Mary and that of John the Baptist. This gives a glimpse of the greatness of the saint whose birthday we celebrate.

Last week we celebrated the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, a gift crowning all the gifts of the love of Jesus for man and in which Jesus remains with us forever. Today the Church invites us to give direct consideration to the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the source and cause of all His Gifts.

Our worship of Jesus in His Body and Blood calls us to offer to God our Father a pledge of undivided love and an offering of ourselves to the service of others.

It is wonderful to see that the proclamation of the Good News and its joyful reception have their first fulfilment in the encounter between two women

God can no more be defined by what God does than we can. God is a Being, not a Doing, just as we are human beings, not human doings.

Come Holy Spirit – Guide, renew and make us fruitfulGuida, rinnova e fruttifica: The word of God, especially in today’s readings, tells us that the Spirit is at work in individuals and communities filled with himself; the Spirit makes them capable of recipere Deum [receiving God], capax Dei [with the capacity for God], as the holy Church Fathers say. And what does the Holy Spirit do with this new capability which he gives us? He guides us into all the truth (cf. Jn 16:13), he renews the face of the earth (Ps 103:30), and he gives us his fruits (cf. Gal 5:22-23). He guides, he renews and he makes fruitful.

“The only real sin is to remain insensible to the resurrection” said Isaac the Syrian, a father of the ancient Church.