“It is worth preparing the land and waiting.” Mk. 4:26-34 From the beginning of his ministry, Jesus knew that the Kingdom of God that He announced moved within another logic. In the parables He found a way to initiate the disciples and the crowd into this logic of God. The parable of the seed highlights …
“Don’t hide the light under the bed.” Mk. 4:21-25 Jesus is the light that has come to illuminate all humanity. Those who receive it must be transformed, also becoming a light for others. It is not selfishness to let ourselves be seen, if we do it to give life because the light is not ours, …
“The word that comes out of my mouth does not return to me empty.” Mk. 4:1-20 Today we are offered to pray a parable well known and easy to understand, if the peasant world is familiar to us. To go to his deeper message, Jesus explains that the seed is the word. In the ancient …
A family in which everyone is mother, sister and brother. Mk. 3:31-35 Mark has told us that Jesus’ family found it difficult to understand his actions and his way of life, and they deduced that “He was not in his right mind”, so they go looking for him. They believed that God was only for …
Sin against the Holy Spirit. Mk. 3:22-30 The conflicts between Jesus and the religion presented in Mark’s gospel soon spread in Judea, especially in Jerusalem, where the religious authorities lived. Alarmed, some lawyers go to find out what is happening with this new prophet who arouses so much attraction in the town. They are not …
Sunday, January 25 Jesus’ first words. Mt. 4:12-23 Today, Sunday, we are with Matthew, we guide our prayer hand in hand with Pagola. “The evangelist takes care of the stage in which Jesus makes his public appearance; the voice of the Baptist is extinguished and the new voice of Jesus begins. The dry landscape of …
Only a “madman” could do what Jesus did. Mk. 3:20-21 This very short gospel has a total logic, if we look at the family culture of Palestine in the time of Jesus. The first thing each member of the clan had to learn was to preserve and increase the honorability of the group. Jesus was …
The Twelve: to be with Him and to proclaim the Kingdom. Mk. 3:13-19 According to Mark, Jesus already knows what ground he is treading on; Not easy. Surely He has prayed a lot at night; now He climbs the mountain and decides to seek company to fulfill the mission that the Father has entrusted to …
“All who suffered from anything were pushing forward to touch him.” Mk. 3:7-12 After the successive conflicts that Jesus had with those responsible for religion, Mark shows us the crowd that wanted to see him and be with him, to the point of crushing him. What did Jesus do to have so much appeal? He …
The relationship between religion and life. Mk. 3:1-6 Mark’s account is significant, and the scene takes place in the synagogue on a Sabbath day. We are, therefore, in a place and a day that must be oriented towards God. Jesus’ gaze is fixed on a man with a paralysis in his arm, to whom He …
