Cardenal raniero cantalamessa
- Raniero cantalamessa homilies
- Cardinal raniero cantalamessa smile
- Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M.
- •
Raniero Cantalamessa
Italian Catholic cardinal and priest
Raniero CantalamessaOFM Cap (born 22 July 1934) is an Italian Catholiccardinal and priest in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and a theologian. He served as the Preacher to the Papal Household from 1980 until 2024, under Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.
Cantalamessa is a proponent of the Catholic charismatic renewal. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of cardinal on 28 November 2020.
Biography
Early life and education
Raniero Cantalamessa was born in Colli del Tronto, Italy, on 22 July 1934.[1] He was ordained as a priest in the Franciscan Capuchin order in 1958.[2] He holds doctoral degrees in theology and classical literature. He formerly served as a professor of ancient Christian history and the director of the Department of Religious Sciences at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, resigning in 1979. Cantalamessa also served as a member of the International Theological Commission from 1975 until 1981.[3]
Preacher to the Pa •
Cantalamessa: believed truth must become lived reality
By Tiziana Campisi
In the face of the danger of living as if the Church were only "scandals, controversies, clashes of personalities, gossip or at most some goodwill in the social field – in short, a thing of men like everything else in the course of history", Father Raniero Cantalamessa, cardinal and preacher of the Pontifical Household, in his Advent reflections proposes to "look at the Church from within, in the strongest sense of the word, in the light of the mystery of which she is the bearer", so that we do not lose sight of the mystery that inhabits her. The theme of the Advent meditations hosted in the Paul VI Hall on the three Fridays preceding Christmas is "When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son", taken from verses 4-7 of chapter 4 of St Paul's Letter to the Galatians, which summarises the entire Christian mystery. The Cardinal picked up from his preaching of Lent, which had "sought to highlight the danger of living 'etsi Christus non daretur', 'as if Christ did no
•
“HE WAS DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN” - Good Friday Sermon 2019, St. Peter’s Basilica
Friday April 19th, 2019
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Is 53:3)
These are the prophetic words of Isaiah with which we begin the Liturgy of the Word today. The account of the passion that follows has given a name and a face to this mysterious man of sorrows who was despised and rejected by all men: the name and the face of Jesus of Nazareth. Today we want to contemplate the Crucified One specifically in his capacity as the prototype and representative of all the rejected, the disinherited, and the “discarded” of the earth, those from whom we turn aside our faces so as not to see them.
Jesus did not begin to be that man just at his passion. Throughout his life he was part of this group. He is born in a stable “because there was no place for them in the inn” (Lk 2:7). In presenting him in the temple, his parents offer “two turtledoves or two young pigeons,”
Cantalamessa: believed truth must become lived reality
By Tiziana Campisi
In the face of the danger of living as if the Church were only "scandals, controversies, clashes of personalities, gossip or at most some goodwill in the social field – in short, a thing of men like everything else in the course of history", Father Raniero Cantalamessa, cardinal and preacher of the Pontifical Household, in his Advent reflections proposes to "look at the Church from within, in the strongest sense of the word, in the light of the mystery of which she is the bearer", so that we do not lose sight of the mystery that inhabits her. The theme of the Advent meditations hosted in the Paul VI Hall on the three Fridays preceding Christmas is "When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son", taken from verses 4-7 of chapter 4 of St Paul's Letter to the Galatians, which summarises the entire Christian mystery. The Cardinal picked up from his preaching of Lent, which had "sought to highlight the danger of living 'etsi Christus non daretur', 'as if Christ did no
- •
“HE WAS DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN” - Good Friday Sermon 2019, St. Peter’s Basilica
Friday April 19th, 2019
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Is 53:3)
These are the prophetic words of Isaiah with which we begin the Liturgy of the Word today. The account of the passion that follows has given a name and a face to this mysterious man of sorrows who was despised and rejected by all men: the name and the face of Jesus of Nazareth. Today we want to contemplate the Crucified One specifically in his capacity as the prototype and representative of all the rejected, the disinherited, and the “discarded” of the earth, those from whom we turn aside our faces so as not to see them.
Jesus did not begin to be that man just at his passion. Throughout his life he was part of this group. He is born in a stable “because there was no place for them in the inn” (Lk 2:7). In presenting him in the temple, his parents offer “two turtledoves or two young pigeons,”
Copyright ©bandfull.pages.dev 2025