Father Emiliano's Blog

3 February 2022

Fra Antenucci: a cycle of video meditations to learn how to listen – Vatican News

An itinerary in three stages of a few minutes each revolving around the rediscovery of silent prayer. This is the proposal of the Capuchin, rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Silence in Avezzano, established in 2020 in the Abruzzo town at the behest of Pope Francis. Read more

24 November 2020

MARY’S SILENT PRAYER

EDITORIAL ROMAN OBSERVER November 21, 2020 Pope Francis at last Wednesday’s audience added off-handedly, “In silence, always in silence. Mary’s prayer is silent. The Gospel tells us only one prayer of Mary at Cana, then we do not know, but always her presence is a prayer, and her presence among the disciples in the Upper […]

10 September 2020

THE CHATTER WORSE THAN COVID

Jesus to St. Faustina Kowalska: “The tongue is a powerful tool that can do much harm. Murmuring or gossiping is never God’s thing. The devil is a liar who stirs up false accusations and gossip that can kill a person’s reputation. Reject the murmuring. Let others behave as they want, you behave as I want […]

7 September 2020

THE LANGUAGE OF GOD

Silence is the language of God and is the language of love. God creates the world in silence, becomes incarnate in the silent womb of a Woman and redeems man in the silence of a cross. God’s greatest works are done, under the shadow of the Holy Spirit and in silence. The fundamental question of […]

27 February 2020

Mary, Virgin of Silence

Mary’s silence Virgo’s destiny is to be silent. It is his condition, his way, his life. His is a life of silence that worships the eternal Word. Seeing before her eyes, at her breast, in her arms, this same Word, the substantive Word of the Father, mute and reduced to silence because of the special […]