“Do not neglect your own.” (Isaiah 58:7) But does religious fasting still exist? A fast to try to convince God that we are good, or that we are rightly repairing our faults? “The fast that God wants is to loosen the unrighteous chains, to loosen the straps of the yoke, to free the oppressed, to …
“Choose life.” (Deut. 30:19) We have begun Lent, and today we hear from the book of Deuteronomy that we are on the way, that the path proposes various paths to us. “Choose life,” advises us the wisdom of a people who lost 40 years in search of the promised land. When he writes this text, …
Ash Wednesday. “Repent and turn to me with all your heart.” (Jl. 2:12) If you haven’t read it yet, let’s take the pope’s latest encyclical, Dilexit (He loved us!) and carefully study the first chapter on the Heart. It is a profound biblical anthropological reflection on the human condition, just what we need to turn …
“And in the age to come, eternal life.” (Mk. 10:31) Today the Gospel invites us to think about the journey, about following…about pursuing, about a reward. Yes, about a reward! It is a Gospel in which Jesus does the math and speaks of a hundredfold. It is also concrete: the disciples will not lack persecutions, …
Jesus said to him: “Follow me.” (Mk, 10:21) Many times, we have encountered that gaze of love that invites us to follow…to pursue. A love that begins with a way of looking, of being looked at. A gaze that at the same time that gives you everything, and asks you for everything: sell what you …
Where, Death, is your victory? (1 Cor. 15:55) In these times of secular thought, when absorbed by the “here” and “now” prescribed to us by all the followers of the “mindfulness”, we do not even want to know about death, even if it appears to us in every corner of the house. Paul excites the …
Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Saint Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church “The Radicality of the Gospel” Mk. 9:41-50 In Mark’s gospel, Jesus continues to instruct the disciples about the value of actions and their consequences. He tells them: if anyone has a gesture of charity, no matter how small, he will …
Seventh Week in Ordinary Time “What were they arguing about along the way?” Mk. 9:30-37 Jesus seeks to be alone with his disciples to instruct them about his passion, death and resurrection, a subject that they could not assimilate or understand, possibly they would ask: how could God who is his Father allow it? That …
Seventh Week in Ordinary Time “I believe, Lord, help my unbelief.” Mk. 9:14-29 Today Mark brings us the story of the healing of a demoniac, it is about a child possessed by a spirit that hurts him, and his desperate father asks Jesus to heal his son, since his disciples have not been able to …
St. Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church “Whoever wants to save his life will lose it.” Mk. 8:34-9:1 Jesus’ call to everyone who wants to follow him, including us today, has some demands: deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him. If we all understand that God is love and that life …
