This generation will be asked to account for the blood of the prophets. Today we find Jesus at one of the most critical moments of his public life; The setting is a dinner to which He had been invited along with Pharisees and doctors of the law. Jesus, listening to their legalistic discussions, devoid of …
Woe to you, Pharisees and teachers of the law! Today’s Gospel features Jesus, who pronounces several woes against the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. The expression that is repeated; “woe to you…”, is a very strong criticism on the part of Jesus towards these characters. They neglect the most important things such as …
The Father in heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him. Today’s Gospel is a brief, but dense catechesis of Jesus on prayer as his disciples asked him to do. Jesus insists that we must ask, seek, knock with the confidence that we will not be left without an answer. Could it …
“Lord, teach us to pray.” The invitation of the gospel today is to reflect on our prayer life. This could be something that may continue to be the center of our life, or that perhaps has ceased to be so. Or perhaps it has become simply something else that I must do in the day …
They are anxious and troubled by so many things. We continue to contemplate Jesus on his way to Jerusalem and today we find him in the home of his friends. The whole story is very eloquent, but we are going to stop at his dialogue with Martha, the servant woman, the one who is in …
Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” The parable of the Good Samaritan that the Gospel presents to us today is perhaps the most timely parable and the one that we most urgently need to read and meditate on in the Church. It is not in vain that Pope Francis dedicates a long chapter …
“If the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you,…” Today the Gospel invites us to listen to Jesus’ sorrow at the inability of some cities to welcome the message of the Good News. Hence. He says: “Woe to thee Capernaum, woe unto thee Bethsaida!”; two cities that …
The harvest is plentiful, and the laborers are few. The invitation today is to feel commissioned, to renew the awareness that we are in this world with a mission and that, if we want to live it fully, we need to listen to Jesus. He knows the mission and its implications in depth: “Go, behold, …
I will follow you wherever you go. Jesus continues to attract many. It was a multitude that gathered where He was or where they knew He would come. But when that attraction turns into a desire to follow him, Jesus himself takes it upon himself to make those who seek him see what it means …
The fire that will burn in the heart. It is important to pause and look at the context of this Gospel. Jesus is firm in his decision to go to Jerusalem, already on his way, He experiences the first rejection, and the disciples, showing off their power, want to make fire fall from heaven to …
