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Lk.11:47-54: “I will send you prophets and apostles.” Today’s Gospel presents us with some very harsh words of Jesus addressed to the scribes and Pharisees. He reproaches them for building monuments to honor the prophets, while, in practice, they continue to act like their ancestors who persecuted and killed them. They raise graves for those […]

Lk. 11:42-46: “Woe to you, who love the first places.” Jesus forcefully denounces the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and the doctors of the Law.  He goes straight to the heart of the problem; a religion of appearances, which complies with external norms, but forgets the essential. The Pharisees scrupulously complied with small rules (tithing even

Lk. 11:37-41: “They clean the outside of the cup and the plate…” The Pharisees were very concerned with rituals and appearances. They believed that purity consisted in following external rules. Jesus shows them that true impurity is not in unclean hands, but in the heart stained by lack of love. Today we can also fall

Lk. 11:29-32: “…No sign will be given to them other than Jonah’s.” Jesus finds himself in front of a crowd that asks him for an extraordinary sign, a spectacular test in order to believe in him. Jesus responds firmly that, to that generation, “…No sign will be given to them other than Jonah’s.” Jesus is the

Lk. 17:11-19: “Get up, go; your faith has saved you.” Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem and on that journey, He meets ten lepers who from a distance beg him to heal them and He heals them. The surprising thing is that, of the ten, only one returns. Only one recognizes where grace comes

Lk. 11:27-28: “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and do it.” The good news is that this beatitude is not exclusive because we can all be happy if we listen to and live the Word of God, it is a universal call to true happiness. It consists in the interior and obedient

Lk. 11:15-26: “Then the Kingdom of God has come.” Jesus states, “If I cast out demons with the finger of God, then the Kingdom of God has come.” With his presence, God is acting, liberating, healing. Jesus reveals to us two very important things; first, that his mission is to bring about the Kingdom of

Lk. 11:5-13: “He who asks, receives; he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.” After teaching us the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus speaks to us of the power of persevering prayer. The parable tells of a man who, in the middle of the night, goes to a friend’s house to ask

Lk. 11:1-4: “Lord, teach us to pray.” Today’s Gospel begins with a very simple request from the disciples; “Lord, teach us to pray.” They perceived that the strength of Jesus’ life and mission was born from the intimate dialogue with his Father and they wanted to learn from Him. Jesus responds with a few sentences

Lk. 10:38-42: “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things; only one is necessary.” Today we are before a simple and profound scene where Jesus visits the house of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Martha is concerned with serving, preparing, attending, while Mary sits at the Lord’s feet to listen to him. Marta, tired,