Lent

Third Sunday of Lent 2024

  MAKE  love ESPLODERE (JOHN 2:13-25) With the determination of a child learning to walk, Jesus attempts in today’s Gospel to set a new course, reversing the old one. It means refusing to turn God’s sacred dwelling into a marketplace and, instead, allowing the Divine One to emerge and fertilize even the marketplace. This reversal… Read more »

Second Sunday of Lent 2024

  OH FOR A LITTLE   light! (Mark 9:2-10) We seem to hear Peter demanding in his heart: Why so much radiance, Lord? Why dazzle us with all this light when it will come to an end? How can we bear the burden of darkness after experiencing the caressing light of your transfiguring beauty? After… Read more »

Palm Sunday 2023

The crowds spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them along the route.We must return to loving our roads: those roads that enable us to take steps towards Life; those roads that offer possibilities for relationships; those roads that savor and anticipate the promise of a…

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Fifth Sunday of Lent 2023

When Jesus hears that Lazarus is sick, he remains right where he is for another two days.  He does not race to the side of his friend. He is the Lord of time, so it is he who decides when to move. When he reaches the tomb of Lazarus, Martha says sorrowfully: Lord, if you…

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Fourth Sunday of Lent 2023

He’s such an annoying man. There he sits by the side of the road: a blind beggar who is nevertheless terribly alive, so alive that he pierces our gaze, so alive that he forces us to respond, so alive that it makes us hurt. Why is he like that? Jesus, however, sees the mendicant in …

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Third Sunday of Lent 2023

In the warm midday silence, a solitary woman slips toward the town well, a site depicted in the Bible as a place for meeting and socializing with others. But at this point in the life of the Samaritan woman, the local well is simply a place to fill her water pitcher at a time when …

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