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 »
Because you have prepared a “body for me” and it is not what we expected, thus, we need to learn to listen to the Body of Christ. I would like to shout out with freedom and joy to those who are still slaves to a thousand fears: the Divine took on flesh. And a body… Read more »
Abandon violence, do not mistreat life, never extort anything, for any reason, don’t take anything from anyone. Learn not to force life, let it come, let it flow, then smile gratefully and be amazed. Nothing is needed, nothing more than this, only life as it unfolds. I don’t want to do anything Lord, I will… Read more »
I thought I would find you in perfection, but instead I found you in the unborn parts of me. Where I don’t love like a man, where I don’t decide like a man, where I’m not free like a man. You wait for me, you take me by the hand, you dive with me into… Read more »
I am the Expected one, You are waiting for me, You are waiting for me to finally decide to be born. This will happen you know, only at the end. The breath of death will be the true first definitive cry of the newborn, but in the meantime, You continue to wait for me. Advent… Read more »
To approach this Gospel passage silently is a basic precaution. One misplaced word is enough to undermine the perfection of the Annunciation, which is the perfect balance of Blood and Wind, Flesh and Spirit. The astonished blood of a young girl who feels loved by the gaze of the Wind she had known all her… Read more »
A VOICE crying out in the desert No, Nothing but a voice, trying to find the right ways to broaden the expectations of people’s hearts. A humble witness to the Messiah’s arrival. Someone who prepares the conditions for it. The baptism administered by John is a fitting rite to put words like death, light and… Read more »
