SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE DO NOT BE AN UNBELIEVER, BUT A BELIEVER. John 20:24-29 The reading from the Gospel according to John (20:24-28) introduces us to Thomas, one of the disciples, who was absent when Jesus appeared to the other disciples. The doubt in Thomas upon hearing that Jesus had risen offers us a valuable …
TO JOIN HIM IN HIS PATH, JUST AS I AM. Matthew 8:28-34 Today’s Gospel invites us to recognize in our lives and in our world the evil that dwells in us and its effects on our personal lives and relationships with others, with the world, with God. But it also fills us with hope, because …
SAVE US, LORD, WE ARE GOING TO DROWN. Matthew 8:23-27 It seems that the Lord sleeps when we need Him most. We seek to do the good we can every day, to bear witness to our faith, to carry out some activity of apostolate or service to those in need. But many times we find …
“THE LORD IS COMPASSIONATE AND MERCIFUL” Ps. 103 Gen. 18:16-33 Mt. 8:18-22 Again we find Abraham in a trusting dialogue with the Lord, his friend, interceding for a city that the Lord is going to destroy. Abraham is daring in his request, but the Lord hears him, willing to do what Abraham asks of him. …
SOLEMNITY OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL 2 Tim. 4:6-8, 17-18 Mt. 16:13-19. The Word of this day brings us great richness: first, the strength of personal prayer and of a believing community, as was the case with Peter and his community. Then we contemplate Paul’s authenticity of his farewell: he fought with all his strength …
FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY. “MY HEART REJOICES IN THE LORD MY SAVIOUR.” 1 Sam. 2:1-4.8 Lk 2:41-51 After contemplating the tenderness of Jesus’ love, today we enter a little into the heart of his Mother. For her, her joy springs from the total trust she has placed in God, in whose hands …
FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. “I WILL LOOK FOR MY SHEEP, FOLLOWING THEIR TRAIL.” Ez. 34:11-16 It is moving to contemplate the love of the Lord, represented in the figure of a shepherd. The shepherd’s work is like that of a mother: attentive to her sheep, as if they were her daughters. This …
BUILD ON THE ROCK. Mt 7:21-29 Today’s Word leads us to look at the extent to which we seek to give real and living answers to God’s will in the events of our daily lives, which is manifested in his Word, in the dehumanizing situations that we contemplate daily. That is where I have to …
ABRAHAM BELIEVED IN THE LORD. GEN .15.6 Today’s Word invites us to look to Abraham. Abram, (the Lord has not yet changed His name) has begun to know the Lord, yet he has already put his trust in Him. He already knows that He is their Lord and, therefore, with simplicity, he communicates to him …
CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST. Lk. 1:57-66.80 Scripture says that the Lord sought out David, son of Jesse, and said of him: “a man to my liking who will fulfill all my desires” (Acts: 13:22). John the Baptist, whose birth we celebrate, was the man chosen by God to announce to …
