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 »
Dear sisters and young women in formation, Before our eyes, scenes of war, death, violence, injustice, senseless suffering, and arrogant abuse of power unfold, like a film that, sadly, is never forgotten. So how can we speak of Easter today? How can we tell the world that Easter is and continues to be a force… 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 »
