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 »
Meanwhile, Judas does not stop handing him over, but not for money. Perhaps out of obedience, perhaps out of despair, perhaps out of love, perhaps. Judas hands himself over to ambiguity; the human heart remains obscure. And so it shall be forever. First, there are instructions and codes, mysterious is the hidden game of being… Read more »
When a woman caught in adultery is brought before Jesus, the undeniable evidence of her wrongdoing is placed before His eyes. A woman with no defense. What should one do in the face of the embodiment of error? Jesus says nothing. He writes on the ground, stretching time. The first thing one realizes when reading… Read more »
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 »
