| Foreword |
v |
| Introduction |
xix |
| JANUARY |
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| 1 Peace Is Oom from a New Heart |
3 |
| 2 The Challenge of Peace |
4 |
| 3 Dialogue without Bounds |
6 |
| 4 Christian Existence |
6 |
| 5 The First Christian Community |
2 |
| 6 Mark: The Gospel of the Catechumen |
8 |
| 7 Matthew: The Gospel of the Catechist |
10 |
| 8 Luke: The Gospel of Witness |
11 |
| 9 John:The Contemplative Gospel for die |
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| Mature Christian |
12 |
| 10 The Primacy of the Gospels |
12 |
| 11 The Communitarian Character of the Announcement |
14 |
| 12 The Christian Community Reveals die Mystery ol God |
16 |
| 13 The Church of Tommorow |
16 |
| 14 God’s Gift of Community |
18 |
| 15 Word of God and Community |
19 |
| 16 The Community that Lives Fellowship |
20 |
| 17 The Center of the Council’s Debate |
21 |
| 18 The Church Is Mystery |
22 |
| 19 rhe Church Is Fellowship |
23 |
| 20 Communion and Mission |
24 |
| 21 Community and Conversion |
25 |
| 22 Jesus and Our Cities (and Countries) |
26 |
| 23 We Meet Christ Together |
28 |
| 24 Jesus’ Words for Our Living |
28 |
| 25 The Humanism of the Crucifixion |
29 |
| 26 Violence |
31 |
| 27 Loneliness |
32 |
| 28 Social Corruption |
32 |
| 29 Jesus with Us and before Us |
34 |
| 30 Fostering Understanding in the Family |
35 |
| 31 Four Proposals for Families |
35 |
| FEBRUARY |
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| 1 Accepting Christ |
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| 2 Courage |
41 |
| 3 Jesus’ Obedience: Normative Proposals for Us |
42 |
| 4 What Doing the Father's Will Means for Us |
43 |
| 5 Humility |
44 |
| 6 The Social Aspects of Humility |
45 |
| 7 The Personal Aspect of Humility |
46 |
| 8 The Theological Aspect of Humility |
47 |
| 9 Vigilance and Sobriety |
48 |
| 10 Being Small and Weak |
50 |
| 11 The Poor and Christian Poverty |
51 |
| 12 Being “With” and “Like” the Poor |
52 |
| 13 Newness of Life and Poverty |
54 |
| 14 The Values of the Kingdom and Evangelical Poverty |
56 |
| 15 The Greatest Commandment |
57 |
| 16 The Radical Newness of Love |
58 |
| 17 Charity and the Life of the First Christians |
60 |
| 18 True Worship that Pleases God |
61 |
| 19 The Famous Hymn to Love |
63 |
| 20 God is Love |
64 |
| 21 Love and the Liturgy |
65 |
| 22 Charity Builds the Church |
67 |
| MARCH |
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| 1 Baptism: At the Heart of Christian Living |
77 |
| 2 Baptism and Our Baptismal I’nun isos |
78 |
| 3 Our Conversion Is Baptismal Conversion |
79 |
| 4 Lent ỈS a Journey of Conversion |
80 |
| 5 The Values and Attitudes of Conversion |
81 |
| 6 Conversion and the Gospels |
82 |
| 7 The Struggles and Our Spiritual "Anns" for the Ijenten Journey |
83 |
| 8 The "Lectio Di vino": A First Reflection |
84 |
| 9 Continuing the "Lectio Divina" |
86 |
| 10 Educating the First Disciples, Educating |
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| Today's Christian |
87 |
| 11 Luke’s Pedagogical Route (Lk 9-18) |
88 |
| 12 Peter How Jesus Works through the Disciple |
89 |
| Ỉ3 Peter’s Faith and Insensitivity |
91 |
| 14 Proclaiming Faith in Jesus, die Word of Life |
93 |
| 15 The Transfiguration |
94 |
| 16 Jesus’ Prayer for Peter and God’s Free Gift |
95 |
| 17 Peter and Jesus on the Mount of Olives |
96 |
| 18 The Sai vific Quality of Peter’s Denials |
97 |
| 19 Saint Joseph: Mature in Faith |
99 |
| 20 Jesus Looks upon Peter |
101 |
| 21 We Believe |
102 |
| 22 Let US Break Our “Alabaster Vase” |
103 |
| 23 The Adult Christian and Faith |
104 |
| 24 Three Fundamental Characteristics of the Mature Christian |
106 |
| 25 Contemplating the Cross and the Experience of the Burning Bush |
108 |
| 26 Towards an Understanding of the Message of the Cross |
109 |
| 27 The Cross Opens the Way to Life |
111 |
| 28 How Can We Celebrate Pain and Suffering? |
112 |
| 29 The Language of the Cross |
113 |
| 30 A Love that Dies |
115 |
| 31 The Cross: School of Humanism |
116 |
| APRIL |
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| 1 The Church anil the Paschal Mystery |
119 |
| 2 Christ s Passion Continues |
120 |
| 3 By His Wounds We Were Healed |
121 |
| 4 Death Is Conquered |
122 |
| 5 Who Are You Looking For? |
123 |
| 6 Christ’s Victory Is in Us |
125 |
| 7 Jesus. Present throughout History |
126 |
| 8 The Signs of the Risen Lord |
127 |
| 9 The Banquet and Words of Premise |
129 |
| 10 Easter Reveals the Face of God |
130 |
| 11 Easter Attitudes |
132 |
| 12 Two Essential Moments of Easter |
133 |
| 13 Easter Joy |
134 |
| 14 Like the Disciples of Emmaus |
135 |
| 15 Christ Is Our Life |
136 |
| 16 Opening Doors to Christ |
137 |
| 17 Christ-Love in My Life |
139 |
| 18 Christ: Freedom and Truth |
140 |
| 19 Tire Sign of Jesus: Serving .Others |
142 |
| 20 Jesus: The Good Shepherd |
143 |
| 21 Our Fears and Jesus’Consolation |
145 |
| 22 Jesus’ Power and Authority |
147 |
| 23 The Lord Is Always with Us |
149 |
| 24 The Sal vific Event of the Ascension |
150 |
| 25 We are Jesus' People |
152 |
| 26 Cross and Glorification |
152 |
| 27 Jesus: Interpreter of Scripture |
153 |
| 28 Clarity and Darkness in Christ's Passover |
155 |
| 29 “Chiaroscuro” in the Mystery of the Church |
156 |
| 30 Mary Introduces Us to Jesus' Humanity and Goodness |
157 |
| MAY |
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| 1 Ours Is a God Who Labors |
161 |
| 2 Human Labor as Part of the Reality of Sin |
162 |
| 3 The Plan of Redemption in Hitman Labor |
163 |
| 4 Maty: Most Excellent Fruit of the Redemption |
164 |
| 5 In Mary. the Work of Christ Is Perfected |
166 |
| 6 o Mary, Forever Immensely Loved |
168 |
| 7 A Woman at the Center of God’s Plan |
169 |
| 8 Mary: The First Believer |
170 |
| 9 Tlie Handmaid of the Lord |
171 |
| 10 The Prophecy of the Magnificat (I) |
174 |
| 11 Hie Prophecy of the Magnificat (II) |
175 |
| 12 The Small Seed for the Big Earth |
176 |
| 13 The Disproportion of the Sign |
177 |
| 14 The Mystery of Joy and Closeness |
178 |
| 15 She Knows How to Rejoice |
180 |
| 16 Mother and Child |
181 |
| 17 Mary's Gift of Synthesis |
182 |
| 18 Mary Helps Us Discover What Is Lacking |
184 |
| 19 Mary Is Intrepid |
185 |
| 20 Mary at die Fool of the Cross |
186 |
| 21 The Woman Clothed with the Sun 187 |
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| 22 The Holy Spirit, Soul of the Church |
189 |
| 23 The Holy Spirit, Extraordinary Daily Breath of die Church |
190 |
| 24 The Holy Spirit Leads Us to the Truth |
192 |
| 25 Many Names for the Same Reality: The Holy Spirit |
193 |
| 26 The Holy Spirit Converts Us to Christ |
194 |
| 27 The Life of Christ in Us through the Holy Spirit's Action |
196 |
| 28 Signs Revealing Life in the Spirit |
197 |
| 29 Guided by the Spirit in the Reality of the Resurrection |
199 |
| 30 Prayer in the Spirit |
200 |
| 31 Mary, Queen of Welcome |
201 |
| JUNE |
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| 1 The Eucharist: Sign and Reality of Divine Attraction |
205 |
| 2 God with Us |
206 |
| 3 Sunday Mass: A Living Action and Experience |
207 |
| 4 Celebration and Life |
209 |
| 5 The Eucharist at the Ct |
210 |
| 6 Is the Eucharist at the Center? |
211 |
| 7 The Eucharist and Hardness of Heart |
212 |
| 8 What Use Is Easter to Me? |
214 |
| 9 The Eucharist and Church Conflicts |
216 |
| 10 You Have Done Well... in Maintaining Our Traditions |
217 |
| 11 "1 Cannot Praise You for This" |
218 |
| 12 Conversion Approaches in the Eucharistic Journey |
220 |
| 13 Lord, I Am Not Worthy! |
221 |
| 14 Letting Oneself be "Pierced” by the Eucharist |
223 |
| 15 Walking with the Church |
224 |
| 16 Listen, Adore, Serve |
225 |
| 17 A Eucharistic Existence |
226 |
| 18 The Eucharist Forms tire Church through Its Celebration |
228 |
| 19 The Eucharist Forms the Church through the Consecration |
229 |
| 20 The Eucharist Makes the Church through Holy Communion |
230 |
| 21 The Eucharist Makes the Church through Imitation and Mission |
231 |
| 22 The Eucharist as Witness |
232 |
| 23 "It Is the Lord! ” |
234 |
| 24 "Jesus Took Bread and Gave It to Them" |
236 |
| 25 "Simon, Son of John, Do You Love Me?" |
237 |
| 26 Peter’s Slowness to Understand |
239 |
| 27 Jesus Questions Peter |
240 |
| 28 Saul’s Background |
241 |
| 29 The Last Exodus of Peter |
244 |
| 30 Patil, the Apostle |
246 |
| JULY |
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| 1 Praying with the Emmaus Disciples |
249 |
| 2 Mission: 1 (Jn 13:17) |
250 |
| 3 I Mission: 2 (Ml 28:18) |
252 |
| 4 Mission: 3 (1 and 2 Cor, Ac) |
253 |
| 5 The Life of the Disciple(Jn13-17) |
255 |
| 6 The Disciple's Missionary Stance (Mt 10:M2) |
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| 7 "Testing" Disciples in Mission |
257 |
| 8 The Way to Pass the "Test" |
259 |
| 9 Characteristics of Mission |
260 |
| 10 Jesus Encounters All: Zacchacus |
261 |
| 11 Saint Benedict |
263 |
| 12 Jesus Encounters the Samaritan Woman |
264 |
| 13 Jesus Encounters Paul |
265 |
| 14 Being Witnesses |
267 |
| 15 Why Not Believe in Jesus? |
268 |
| 16 The Servant of God; Cardinal lldcfonso Schuster |
270 |
| 17 Cardinal I Ide fonso Schuster |
272 |
| 18 1 Have Called You Friends: Pope Paul VI |
275 |
| 19 He Spoke In Today's People as One of Them: Paul VI |
277 |
| 20 A Message for Our Time: Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski |
279 |
| 21 A Man Totally United to Jesus: Marcello Candia |
281 |
| 22 Charity’ in the Form of Alms |
283 |
| 23 Charity in Caring for die Poorest of the Poor |
285 |
| 24 Sexuality and Responsibility |
287 |
| 25 The Church in Defense of Unborn Human Life |
288 |
| 26 Respect for the "Specifically Human" |
289 |
| 27 The Conspiracy of Silence Surrounding Death |
291 |
| 28 Euthanasia |
293 |
| 29 The Church, Guardian of Mini's Future Destiny |
295 |
| 30 Gospel-Oriented Vacations |
296 |
| 31 The Value of Vacation Time |
297 |
| august |
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| 1 In the Land of Jesus: Bethlehem, The Divine Initiative |
301 |
| 2 In the Land of Jesus: Bethlehem, Wailing |
302 |
| 3 In the Land of Jesus: Bethlehem, Receiving the Gilt |
304 |
| 4 In the Laud of Jesus: Bethlehem, “Loal, It Is You Who Speak to Us" |
305 |
| 5 In the I .and of Jesus: Hie Jildcan Desert, Christian Orthopraxis |
306 |
| 6 In the LiHid of Jesus: The Judean Desert, Christian Orthixloxy, |
307 |
| 7 In the Land of Jesus: The Judean Desert, |
308 |
| “Lord, Show Yourself on Our Way” |
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| 8 In the Land of Jesus: The Judean Desert. |
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| Contemplating the Lace of God |
309 |
| 9 In the Land of Jesus: rhe Judean Desert. |
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| Towards the Fullness of Life |
310 |
| 10 In the Land of Jesus: Jericho, The Presence of Jesus |
313 |
| 11 In the Land of Jesus: Jericho, Jesus’ Visit |
313 |
| 12 In the Land of Jesus: Jerusalem, With Jesus in His Agony |
314 |
| 13 In the Land of Jesus: Jerusalem, "Ours Are the Sorrows He Bore" |
315 |
| 14 In the Land of Jesus: Jerusalem, “Watch and Pray" |
316 |
| 15 In the Land of Jesus: The Kedron Valley and Mary, |
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| Mother of the Church |
317 |
| 16 In the Land of Jesus: Emmaus, The Parable of a Journey |
318 |
| 17 In the Land of Jesus: Emmaus, The Love Which Sets the World on Fire |
320 |
| 18 In the Land of Jesus: Emmaus, "Lord, Speak to Our Heart" |
321 |
| 19 Human Activity Must Show Forth the Works of God |
322 |
| 20 The Wonderful Work of the Father |
323 |
| 21 Walking in the Newness of Life |
324 |
| 22 Rise Up! You Have a Mission! |
325 |
| 23 “Shine Forth" |
326 |
| 24 Jesus, Light ofJoy |
327 |
| 25 Christian Service in a Christological Context |
329 |
| 26 The Christian Journey of Service: The Baptismal Option |
330 |
| 27 The Christian Journey of Service: The Community Option |
332 |
| 28 The Christian Journey of Service: The Option for Those Far Away |
333 |
| 29 The Christian Journey of Service: Contemplative Love |
334 |
| 30 The Work Exceeding All Others: The Offering of Self |
334 |
| 31 The Prophecy of Peace |
336 |
| SEPTEMBER |
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| 1 The Path to Peace |
339 |
| 2 Educating Consciences for the Journey Towards Peace .340 |
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| 3 “Help Carry One Another's Burdens" (Gal 6,2) |
342 |
| 4 The Life of Jesus Shows Us the Meaning of Work |
344 |
| 5 Reflections and Warnings on the Crisis in the World of Work |
346 |
| 6 The Role of Christian Workers in the Unemployment Crisis |
347 |
| 7 Work and Christian Communities' |
348 |
| 8 The Joy of Having a Mother |
350 |
| 9 God's Gratuitous Gift |
351 |
| 10 Guidelines for Christian Commitment Today: Reconciliation |
353 |
| 11 Guidelines for Christian Commitment Today: To the Marginalized |
354 |
| 12 Attention to Our Handicapped |
355 |
| 13 The Drama of the Mentally III |
357 |
| 14 Tire Cross: Mystery of Reconciliation |
359 |
| 15 Jesus' Words in His Passion and Our Reconciliation - |
361 |
| 16 “Today You Will Be with Me'' |
363 |
| 17 Education for Old Age |
363 |
| 18 Honor Your Father and Your Mother |
366 |
| 19 Towards Prophetic Volunteer Work |
368 |
| 20 The Christian Community and the Volunteer Worker |
369 |
| 21 Absence from God |
371 |
| 22 Reconciliation Is Difficult, Still God Reconciles Us |
372 |
| 23 Saving Love |
374 |
| 24 Reconciliation Should Be Proposed to All |
375 |
| 25 Reconciliation Is Gradual |
376 |
| 26 The Gtxxl News of Reconciliation |
377 |
| 27 The Clrnrch. A Reconciled Society |
379 |
| 28 Nominal and Practicing Catholics: |
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| A Journey of Reconciliation |
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| 29 The Dynamism of the Sacrament of Reconciliation |
382 |
| 30 Penitential Colloquy |
383 |
| OCTOBER |
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| 1 Jesus, The Definitive Word |
387 |
| 2 The Word Crosses Human Life |
388 |
| 3 Word and Church |
389 |
| 4 Word and Liturgy |
390 |
| 5 The Word: A Mutual Gift |
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| 6 The Word in the Family |
393 |
| 7 The Word: A Buried Treasure |
394 |
| 8 The Word: Light of Hope |
395 |
| 9 The New People of God |
397 |
| 10 “Happy Are Those Who Mourn..." |
398 |
| 11 "... They Shall Be Comforted" |
400 |
| 12 Jesus and the Crowds |
401 |
| 13 The Faith Journey of Man Born Blind |
403 |
| 14 The Three Groans: The Groans of Creation |
404 |
| 15 The Three Groans: Our's and That of the Spirit in Us |
406 |
| 16 The Canticle of Fidelity |
407 |
| 17 Welcoming Silence |
409 |
| 18 Living Experience |
410 |
| 19 Prayer and the Awareness of Reality |
412 |
| 20 The Prayer of the Whole Christ |
414 |
| 21 Meeting the Lord in Recollection |
415 |
| 22 Prayer Reveals Christ to Us |
416 |
| 23 Sprayer Is the Exercise of Char ity |
417 |
| 24 The Prayer of Faith |
419 |
| 25 The Evangelical Prayer |
419 |
| 26 Apostolic Prayer |
420 |
| 27 The Prayer of Meditation and Contemplation |
422 |
| 28 The Theme of Unity in the Priestly Prayer |
423 |
| 29 “Father, That They May Be One in Us!” |
425 |
| 30 “As You Are in Me and I in You” |
426 |
| 31 "I Say to All of You ...” |
427 |
| NOVEMBER |
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| 1 The Saints and Christ |
429 |
| 2 Death and Life |
430 |
| 3 A "Culture of Holiness” |
431 |
| 4 A Crucified and Donated Life: St. Charles Borromeo |
432 |
| 5 Saints Are Happy People |
433 |
| 6 Our friends |
435 |
| 7 Jesus Has Something to Say about Death |
436 |
| 8 Communicating with Our Departed Ones |
438 |
| 9 Man, the Image of God |
440 |
| 10 A Threatened Dignity |
441 |
| 11 Sinful Humanity: The Starting Point for God’s Action |
443 |
| 12 Close to Everyone, Equal to All |
444 |
| 13 The Logic of the Incarnation |
445 |
| 14 The Person: In the Gospel and in Society Today |
447 |
| 15 Man: The Sign of the Absent God |
448 |
| 16 Illness, Liberty, Obedience |
449 |
| 17 Individual Conscience and Justice |
451 |
| 18 Jesus Encounters Every Person |
452 |
| 19 Abraham’s Journey |
454 |
| 20 Moses'Journey |
455 |
| 21 Being with Jesus |
457 |
| 22 Evangelical Virginity |
458 |
| 23 Leave and Receive |
460 |
| 24 The Various Christian Vocations |
461 |
| 25 Who Ami? |
462 |
| 26 Who Are You? |
465 |
| 27 Constructive Communication |
466 |
| 28 Communication and Culture |
468 |
| 29 Giving a Voice to Every Person |
469 |
| 30 Tire Christian Way of Communicating |
471 |
| DECEMBER |
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| 1 Our Fears and the Great Light |
473 |
| 2 The Way of Trust |
474 |
| 3 A Living Witness: John the Baptist |
476 |
| 4 Serenity and Availability |
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| 5 Ambrose, Bearer of Hope |
479 |
| 6 Struggle and Comfort for Ambrose |
481 |
| 7 The Savory Dread of the Word According to Ambrose |
482 |
| 8 Mary, A Sign of Benediction |
483 |
| 9 Signs of Salvation for All People |
485 |
| 10 Searching for Truth |
486 |
| 11 A Truth Which Is |
487 |
| 12 "I Am the Truth" |
488 |
| 13 "Lord, You Are My Truth" |
490 |
| 14 "Lord, You Arc My Light" |
490 |
| 15 "Lord, We Ask You..." |
491 |
| 16 Awaiting the Coming of Jesus |
492 |
| 17 Hope and Expectation |
493 |
| 18 Christian Hope |
495 |
| 19 Light Shines in the Darkness: The Darkness |
496 |
| 20 Light Shines in the Darkness: The Light |
497 |
| 21 Christmas Is a Word for Us |
498 |
| 22 Christmas Is a Word of God |
499 |
| 23 Joy, Liberty and Peace |
500 |
| 24 The Infant Jesus Is the Messiah |
501 |
| 25 Jesus, a Gift for Us |
502 |
| 26 God Reverses Appearances |
504 |
| 27 God Is Present |
505 |
| 28 Jesus, Gospel of Joy |
506 |
| 29 The Road of Hope |
507 |
| 30 Jesus: Negative Sign of Contradiction |
508 |
| 31 Jesus: Positive Sign of Contradiction |
510 |