Hope does not disappoint
The theme of hope, central to the Jubilee 2025, finds in Don Guanella a witness and a teacher. Rereading his pamphlets one finds precious pearls of experience
by Don Gabriele Cantaluppi
IDon Guanella breathed the breath of hope since his childhood, from the intense green of his Valle Spluga, at the same time a sign of life that is renewed in every season and a symbol of the Resurrection, which is the foundation of the Christian faith. We would like to gather some of his words on this virtue, using his Operettas, the popular pamphlets where in various passages he deals with hope.
The passion of communicating
- Main Category: Spirituality
In memory of Don Mario Carrera
by Don Bruno Capparoni
MTuesday, March 11, 2025, the Lord called Don Mario Carrera to himself, who had been a patient for a year and a half in the Guanellian House of San Gaetano in Caidate (Varese); the following Thursday his funeral was celebrated in the parish church of Canegrate (Milan) and his body was placed in the family tomb in the local cemetery, next to his parents and his beloved sister. Thus his earthly journey ended and the fulfillment of the “blessed hope” began for him. We are left with his memory, rich in testimony.
Joseph accepts God's plan for his life
- Main Category: spirituality of Saint Joseph
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.