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 »
Formed in vigilance: Build your own ark Mt 24:37-44 As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man Paradoxically, we begin at the end, from what we would have left for last. Vigilance is the distinctive trait of the Christian, it is the way we live in history… Read more »
Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, One week after Pentecost, we gather today on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity to celebrate 110 years of our journey—a history marked by the faithful, tireless steps of the Daughters of St. Paul. These are the footsteps of women who dared to say “yes,” even …
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I want to learn to love, as if this were “the first day of the week” or the first day of my life or even the last. I want to, because if I don’t learn this, I die. I want to learn to love because if I don’t start to love, my life will never… Read more »
