“Be awake to look forward to what is to come.” Lk. 21:34-36 At the gates of the Advent season, Jesus exhorts us, as families and communities, to provide spaces for prayer, with strong moments of encounter with Him. Let us engage in meetings that help us to strengthen ourselves and to live with great hope …
“Know that the Kingdom of God is at hand.” Lk. 21:29-33 The Gospel leads us along paths of life and meaning, where in contemplating them we recognize shoots of hope. Only a contemplative look in the silence of nature can appreciate the sprout of life and thus it will become valid and current: “heaven and …
“The destruction of Jerusalem is near.” Lk. 21:20-28 The apocalyptic discourses recorded in the Gospels reflect the fear and uncertainty of those first Christian communities, fragile and vulnerable. They lived in the middle of the vast Roman Empire, between conflicts and persecutions, with an uncertain future. Today’s story refers us to situations that are very …
“For my sake they will persecute you.” Lk. 21:12-19 In following the call of Jesus to build his Kingdom, He warns today in his Gospel that following him is not easy because there will be persecution and detention, imprisonment and even death, but it will be here from these extreme situations that we will have …
“This temple will be destroyed.” Lk. 21:5-11 In a society like ours, of great socio-cultural changes which create crises in all dimensions, it is urgent to focus our faith on Jesus, the light and strength necessary to read and face the darkness of today. Jesus warns us not to look at them with recklessness and …
“The good woman gave little, but she gave humbly.” Lk. 21:1-4 Jesus speaks to us today about the widowed woman, not only to recognize her and dignify her role as woman, but to give her a place in society. Then what He wants is to show in the opposite direction, a society that moves from …
“Lord, remember me in your Kingdom.” Lk. 23:35-43 This Sunday’s Gospel turns our gaze to the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus, it is the encounter with human humiliation, because he was mocked and mistreated. There on the Cross, there is the encounter of the compassionate and merciful Son of God with our frailties: “When you …
“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” Lk. 20:27-40 The Sadducees, who denied the resurrection, approach Jesus to ridicule faith. They present him with an absolutely unreal case, the result of fantasy. They speak of seven brothers who have been married successively to the same woman. Jesus criticizes their vision …
“My house is a house of prayer.” Lk. 19:45-48 Jesus enters the temple of Jerusalem, questions the merchants and takes them out of there because they have desecrated the place. He tells them: “My house is a house of prayer and you have turned it into a den of robbers”. For Jesus, the temple is …
“You did not recognize God’s visitation.” Lk. 19:41-44 Jesus, with his gaze fixed on Jerusalem, sees desolation and destruction. He experiences mercy that moves from the deepest inner life, his “pathos”, passion, for the cry of pain of his people. He feels deep sadness, cries, and says: “I wish you, too, would recognize what leads …
