In the end, everyone gets it wrong. Absolutely everyone. Because that’s just how life is. Common sense doesn’t win, logic doesn’t win, for we are not neatly ordered, well-mannered existences. This passage is a parable that reveals what life truly is: squandered inheritances, demands, concessions, unexpected love, bursts of affection, terrible emptiness, awkward silences, invitations… Read more »
I do not want my blood, like that of the Galileans, to flow alongside that of the sacrifices. I do not want to die with the overwhelming guilt of one who feels crushed by events. Like those eighteen who saw the tower of Siloam collapse upon them and, perhaps, in their final thought, asked, Why… Read more »
To name life is to bring it into being, to bring it into the light. That day, too, Jesus calls, by name, “Come into the light,” he says, calling his three friends. To come into the light by walking the crest of a mountain. To climb and be astonished by the density of silence. To… Read more »
And then he led me into temptation! (Luke 4:1-13) If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread. Not a bad idea. When you are walking from the desert to the Jordan something starts looking good. It is God who invented it, it is called manna, and it is a divine sign…. Read more »
Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, I begin this letter, dedicated to Maestra Thecla on the 61st anniversary of her death, with the words addressed by Pope Francis to the participants of the Jubilee of Communication on January 25th of this year: … Also tell stories of hope, stories that nurture life. May your…
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MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 59th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY Share with gentleness the hope that is in your hearts (cf. 1 Pet 3:15-16) ►►► PDF
The people were waiting. Poor people, it is truly child’s play to delude them into thinking that something or someone is capable of filling the void that every person carries inside. For by waiting, you become satisfied, you convince yourself that even the Baptist could be enough, just to stop this torture that wears us… Read more »
The Magi realized that two lives needed, or perhaps a hundred or a thousand, and that they will never be enough. Because if we look for a king when we have the entire Universe at our disposal, it is only out of fear of being disillusioned, of being nothing more than a transitory form of… Read more »
Christmas is walking in the night but wrapped in light, a light that does not come from the sanctity of perfection but from the profound humanity of the shepherds. They are outside the realm of power, they live outside the lights of Jerusalem, they are nocturnal beings, often haunted by mistakes or due to feelings… Read more »
Christmas of the Lord 2024 / Holy Year 2025 Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, Considering the events unfolding around the world, I must admit I hesitated to write about Christmas this year—a Christmas marred by rockets, drones, and bombs sowing death and destruction, even in the land of Jesus Himself As witnesses, we… Read more »
