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 »
The Word became Flesh John 1:1-18 Eight Words to Begin Our Christian Journey The whole Gospel of John is summed up in its Prologue. There are eight foundational words in this passage, seen from the perspective of a new story which still requires that it be incarnated, lived: beginning, word, life, light, flesh, glory, grace,… Read more »
Mary and Joseph fulfill the Father’s desire: to give birth to the new Man Mt 1:18-24 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken. Joseph should have divorced Mary, annulled the marriage, acted according to the Law, according to the customs of his people, if he had been “just” by legal standards…. Read more »
Jesus reveals the Father to us in His Sonship Mt 11:2-11 What did you go out into the wilderness to see? For the Jewish people, illness was considered a curse, an inability to relate to God, an unworthiness. Jesus’ choice is not to perform “little miracles,” a few healings to become famous, but to reveal… Read more »
Prophecy is the ever new horizon of Christian life Mt 3:1-12 Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand! How many cries we hear daily! We are surrounded by cries that do not answer our deepest questions. Each moment of waiting needs someone to point toward the possibility of the newness that is coming;… Read more »
