She saw that the stone had had been taken away from the tomb. “What is essential is invisible to the eye,” writes Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince. Easter is just like that: a revelation of the invisible, the irruption of the divine into the ordinary fabric of our time, a presence that manifests… Read more »
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had died were raised to life. While the cries of “Hosanna” echoing those we reserve for glorious human achievements, our humanity comes into play: the workday, family struggles, unspoken sorrow. Everything is taken up and transfigured by the presence of the One who “will… Read more »
Having said this, he cried out in a loud voice: “Lazarus, come out!”. At the heart of this passage resounds the unheard-of and definitive revelation: “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live.” Words that are not merely consolation, but the eschatological foundation of our existence:… Read more »
Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. We need eyes that do not merely see, but that know how to look deeply, to discern with wisdom, to contemplate with love what is happening. To truly see means allowing reality to question us in its mystery, letting ourselves be transformed by the truth that it sometimes… Read more »
We have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world. Jesus sits beside Jacob’s well in Samaria and meets a woman. Alone, unnamed, she should never have crossed the path of the Messiah, at least according to the rules of the time. Yet Jesus “had to pass through… Read more »
His face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. On this Sunday we are suddenly carried, almost with astonishment, onto Mount Tabor, the symbolic place of the meeting between heaven and earth, where light is no longer reflected but radiated, and where we are allowed to glimpse that our humanity still… Read more »
Go away, Satan! For it is written: “The Lord your God you shall worship; him alone shall you serve The Lenten journey begins in the desert: A defining place of faith that runs through all of Scripture as a common thread. Jesus, the beloved Son, could not avoid this anthropological and theological experience: in silence,… Read more »
Mt 3:13-17 The New Time of Jesus Beyond John the Baptist Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him The Baptist is a liminal figure between the Old and New Testaments, a prophet of movement and transition, of the evolution of a story that could not be said to… Read more »
Mt 2:1-12 Pilgrims Left Off the List And behold, the star preceded them Beyond the long tradition of the three kings, the Greek text of the Gospel according to Matthew states only that the “magi came from the East.” Matthew sets some pagans on the road, people who rely on magic, something God rejects; he… Read more »
Today We Learn to be Guardians of Humanity Luke 2:16-21 Mary, for her part, kept all these things, pondering them in her heart. Today we learn to be guardians of humanity: of those near and far, of refugee and citizen, of the baby in a cradle and the elderly in a wheelchair, of the one… Read more »
