Harpa Dei

According to the traditional calendar, the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus is celebrated on 2 January or the following Sunday. We will therefore listen to the short Gospel reading for this occasion: Lk 2:21 At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the […]

Download MP3 If, at the beginning of the year, we set our gaze on the Mother of the Lord, as the Church urges us to do, then everything becomes enlightened, despite the dark clouds that currently hang over the world. Everything becomes enlightened, because you, O Mary, were chosen as the daughter of the human

Download MP3 Beloved Child, we have almost reached the end of these Christmas meditations, and also the year is about to end. Beloved Lord, to whom can we turn if not to You, who even in such confusing times are present, and perhaps in a special way when You see people’s need and distress? What

Download MP3 Hardly had You come into the world, O Divine Child, when Your parents had to flee with You to Egypt. The obedience of Your adoptive father, St. Joseph, in leaving immediately after having received this order in a dream, is admirable (Mt 2:13-14). Toil, hardship and adversity, suffering and death characterise this world

Download MP3 As Jews faithful to the Law of the Lord, eight days after Your birth Your parents circumcised You and gave You the name of Jesus, the Saviour (Lk 2:21). When, forty days later, they brought You to the Temple to present You to the Lord, You met Simeon, one of the faithful of

Download MP3 Beloved Child, we could exult with joy without ceasing, especially when we look at Your incomparable Mother and Saint Joseph…. What warmth surrounds the Holy Family! With its humanity, permeated by the Spirit of God, it sanctifies the core of human society: the family. How must Mary and Joseph have felt, having you

Download MP3 You wanted to choose simple people: they were shepherds (Lk 2:8-20). You, Beloved Child, love simplicity. You can enter more easily into a simple heart. And You also make us simple. It is not necessary to know everything at once. It is more important to let Your love burn in us and to

Download MP3 “Glory sing the cherubs in the fields of Bethlehem…” You are not only the joy of Israel and of all mankind; you are also the joy of the angels, our friends in heaven. How you must have rejoiced, beloved angels, when you recognised in God’s light His immense Wisdom in choosing this way

Download MP3 Now you are here, Divine Child! What moved You to come to us, to such a hostile world? The reason can only lie in Your immeasurable love for our Heavenly Father, and in Your infinite love for us men. Who can understand it? I simply believe it and I can perceive it in

“A child will be born to us; they will call him ‘Mighty God’” (cf. Is 9:5). “In him all the nations of the earth will be blessed” (cf. Gen 22:18). In reality, even without knowing it, all men await Him, because we have been created for Him. In reality, even without knowing it, all men