Joseph accepts God's plan for his life
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In the weekly Catecheses dedicated to "Christ our hope", Pope Francis offers a meditation on the Annunciation to Joseph in the Gospel of Matthew. After having already mentioned him in explaining the Matthean Genealogy
by Pope Francis
Cdear brothers and sisters, good morning!
Today we continue to contemplate Jesus in the mystery of his origins, recounted in the infancy Gospels. If Luke allows us to do so from the perspective of his mother, the Virgin Mary, Matthew instead places himself in the perspective of Joseph, the man who assumes the legal paternity of Jesus, grafting him onto the trunk of Jesse and connecting him to the promise made to David. Jesus, in fact, is the hope of Israel that is fulfilled: he is the descendant promised to David (cf. 2 Sam 7:12; 1 Chr 17:11), who makes his house "blessed forever" (2 Sam 7:29); he is the shoot that springs from the trunk of Jesse (cf. Is 11:1), the "just shoot" destined to reign as a true king, who knows how to exercise law and justice (cf. Jer 23:5; 33:15).
Here is the finger of God
The Church verifies miracles with prudence and recognizes them with gratitude. A hundred years after the event, the Archbishop of Liverpool confirms a miraculous healing that occurred in Lourdes in favor of a war invalid
by Don Gabriele Cantaluppi
On Sunday 8 October 2024, the Archbishop of Liverpool, Monsignor Malcolm MacMahon, officially recognised a miracle of healing that occurred in Lourdes a century ago, on 25 July 1923, in favour of John Jack Traynor, a Catholic at the time in his forties belonging to the English diocese, an epileptic, paralysed due to wounds sustained in the First World War. Although it was already commonly believed that Traynor had been miraculously healed, there had never been a declaration from the ecclesiastical authority on the matter, as the medical documentation was considered insufficient.
Don Guanella and the Jubilee of 1900
He arrived in Rome with the Lombard pilgrimage experiencing the joys and hardships of the journey. He carried in his heart and in his prayers the poor who crowded his houses and those who served them
by Don Gabriele Cantaluppi
Ithe Guanellian bulletin Divine Providence of August 1900 announced the inauguration of a monumental cross in Santa Maria di Calanca, in the Swiss canton of Grisons, for the 14th and 15th of the month.
The wall torn down
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True and stable peace is that achieved by Christ, who knocks down the bastions between the ancient people of God and the new ones called by the people. We must return to him for a solid and reconciled friendship.
Rosanna Virgili
NIn the Letter to the Ephesians we find perhaps the most beautiful manifesto of Christian peace (Ephesians 2:11-22). Paul addresses those who are "far away", that is, the uncircumcised, whom the Jews consider distant from them and excluded from the chosen people. But both Jews and pagans, when they enter the Christian community, find themselves forming a single people and even a single "body". And so the Apostle must explain to both of them how this union that seems impossible becomes possible, and how the differences between different cultures and traditions can cease to ignore or oppose each other, much less enter into conflict.