“How many times have I wanted to bring them together… and they have rejected me.” The end of today’s Gospel is a heartbreaking lament of Jesus thinking of Jerusalem, the “holy” city to which the Jews joyfully marched each year. Jesus is already about to enter it, He knows that it is the end of …
“Enter through the narrow gate.” In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us a serious warning: whoever wants to enter by the path that leads to life, must enter through the narrow gate. In a society in which it seems that anything goes and where hectic life and the desire to produce and consume exhaust us, that …
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a seed.” Today the Gospel presents us with two parables that are very typical of Jesus’ way of teaching and reveal what He himself was discovering about the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom was like Jesus’ obsession, the raison d’être of the mission received from the Father. In his …
“Jesus calls each one by name.” Today the Gospel invites us to contemplate Jesus at a key moment in his public life. It is the moment of the election of the twelve, whom He called Apostles. The twelve simple men, his followers, in whose hands his mission would soon be left and on whom would …
“They interpret the signs of the times… but they do not understand the signs of the present time.” Today’s Gospel speaks to us of the signs of the times and of the folly of not knowing how to interpret them. This puzzled Jesus, who was in turn the great interpreter of God’s signs in nature …
“I have come to set fire in the world and wish it were already burning.” The first part of today’s Gospel invites us to listen in depth to some words of Jesus that reveal something very intimate. Something that springs from within him and gains greater strength when we know that Jesus pronounces them when …
“All that we are and have comes from God and is for others.” Once again in today’s Gospel, Jesus insists on the need to live attentively, ready to meet Him, who can arrive at the least expected moment. Today more than ever, unexpected deaths often surprise us. There is also another important call for vigilance; …
“Stay awake, keep the lamp burning.” The Gospel today invites us to become aware of the passivity to which the routine of life often leads us, and to take charge of our lives with more courage and generosity. The call is to be awake and vigilant because passivity leads us to fall asleep, to live …
“Beware of all covetousness… life does not depend on the goods you have.” Today’s Gospel, with a great deal of realism and timeliness, presents us with a scene in which Jesus, with his infinite wisdom, leads us to review the decisive value that money has acquired in our current society. It is as if the …
Today the liturgy brings us the feast of Saint Luke, the evangelist who throughout this month has been presenting Jesus to us on his way to Jerusalem. Luke only knew Jesus through Paul’s preaching, but his fascination with Him was such that he set out to inquire as much as possible about Jesus, his origin, …
Friday 18 Luke 10:1-9 “Pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his field.” Read More »
