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Download PDF Mt 2:1-12 After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, suddenly some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east asking, ‘Where is the infant king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him homage.’ When King Herod […]

Download PDF 1 Jn 3:11-21 This is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another, not to be like Cain, who was from the Evil One and murdered his brother. And why did he murder his brother? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s upright. Do not

Download PDF 1 Jn 3:7-10 Children, do not let anyone lead you astray. Whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright. Whoever lives sinfully belongs to the devil, since the devil has been a sinner from the beginning. This was the purpose of the appearing of the Son of God, to undo the

Download PDF 1 Jn 2:29-3:1-6 If you know that he is upright you must recognise that everyone whose life is upright is a child of his. You must see what great love the Father has lavished on us by letting us be called God’s children – which is what we are! The reason why the

Download PDF 1 Jn 2:22-28 Who is the liar, if not one who claims that Jesus is not the Christ? This is the Antichrist, who denies both the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son cannot have the Father either; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father too. Let what you heard in the

Download MP3 Download PDF 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

Download MP3 Download PDF Beloved Child, we have almost reached the end of these Christmas meditations, and also the year is about to end. Beloved Lord, it has been such a strange and even absurd year for many people… To whom can they turn if not to You, who even in such confusing times are

Download MP3 Download PDF 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

Download MP3 Download PDF 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

Download MP3 Download PDF 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,