"Christ is alive." This is the great truth which fills our faith with meaning. Jesus, who died on the cross, has risen.

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What does the simple, admirable life of the Holy Family tell us? What can we learn from it?

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The liturgical year is beginning, and the introit of the Mass invites us to consider something closely related to the beginning of our christian life: the vocation we have all received.

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I was deeply moved by the Epistle in today's Mass, and I imagine the same will have happened to you. I realized that God was helping us, through the words of the Apostle, to contemplate the divine interlacing of the three theological virtues.

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Once more the liturgy reminds us of the final moment in Jesus' life among men, his ascension into heaven.

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If we look at the world, at the People of God, during this month of May, we will see devotion to Our Lady taking the form of many old and new customs practiced with great love.

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Like every Christian celebration, today's is one of peace. The palm branches, with their ancient symbolism, recall a scene of the book of Genesis.

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Not too long ago I saw a marble bas-relief representing the adoration of the child Jesus by the Magi. The central figures were surrounded by four angels, each one bearing a symbol: a crown, an orb surmounted by the cross, a sword and a scepter.

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"This day shall light shine upon us; for the Lord is born to us." This is the great announcement which moves Christians today.

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You and I need to be made anew, we need to wake up from the slumber of feebleness by which we are so easily lulled and to become aware once again, in a deeper and more immediate way, of our condition as children of God.

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"Mary has been taken up to heaven by God in body and soul, and the angels rejoice." Joy overtakes both angels and men. Why is it that we feel today this intimate delight, with our heart brimming over, with our soul full of peace?

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This hymn to freedom is echoed in all the mysteries of our Catholic faith. The Blessed Trinity draws the world and man out of nothing, in a free outpouring of love. The Word comes down from Heaven and takes on our flesh, an act which bears the splendid mark of freedom in submission.

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In 2023, the book Christ is Passing By by St. Josemaria Escriva is celebrating its 50th anniversary of publication.

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Just as Our Lady hurries to visit her cousin St. Elizabeth in the Gospel of St. Luke, so today we see how she does the same to visit us and stay with us.

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I want to talk to you about time, that passes so swiftly. I am not going to repeat to you the well-known phrase about one year more being one year less...

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I am the way, the truth and the life. In these clear and unmistakable words Our Lord traces out for us the true path that leads to everlasting happiness.

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Today, once again, I set myself this goal and I also remind you and all mankind: this is God's Will for us, that we be saints.

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I remember, many years ago now, I was going along a road in Castile with some friends, when we noticed something in a field far away which made a deep impression on me at the time and has since often helped me in my prayer.

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Our mother is a model of correspondence to grace. If we contemplate her life, our Lord will give us the light we need to divinize our everyday existence.

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In an interview published in 'Conversations with Saint Josemaria Escriva', St. Josemaria was asked to comment on the virtue of poverty in view of increasing social awareness in society.

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