“Lord, teach me your ways.” Psalm 24 Psalm 24 invites us to acknowledge God’s supremacy and open our hearts to receive His blessing. It reminds us that only those who approach God with sincerity and purity of heart can enjoy His presence and experience His guidance and protection in their lives. It also happens to …
“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Mark 12:17 Saint Mark tells us today that Jesus is already in Jerusalem to carry out his mission as the suffering Messiah. After having triumphantly entered Jerusalem and cleansed the Temple, the Lord has a series of controversies with …
“… Praying with faith.” Saint Jude 17:20b-25 We are starting a new month, an opportunity to continue nourishing our faith from the Word. Word that is Life! Both the first reading and the Gospel urge us to strengthen our faith and our prayer…keeping in mind that our only path is to God, standing firm in …
We come to the end of May and we decide, like Our Lady and with her, to glorify God with the joy, the hospitality, the service with which she travels through the mountains of Hebron to visit her cousin, who is also the bearer of the hope of Israel. Two women whose songs, whose joy …
(Mk. 10:52). We end this chapter on following Jesus, with the gift of sight, which the blind man by the roadside, Bartimaeus, retrieves his sight by crying out to Jesus. Jesus stops, even though everyone wanted the blind man to keep quiet. It is time to ask for the gift of sight, like so many …
Thursday, May 30: “At once he regained his sight and followed him on the road” Read More »
This whole chapter of Mark is a catechesis on following Jesus. It is demanding, it is hard, because the disciple must deny himself, take up the cross, choose the last place, be a servant of all, give his life. Jesus goes ahead. The disciples are frightened. Every time we become aware of the suffering of …
Did Peter have a business mentality? Quite simply, he has listened to Jesus’ dialogue with the rich young man. Peter feels that he and his companions have left everything. Jesus’ answer is tremendously generous: “a hundredfold, and in the world to come eternal life.” The true experience of the Kingdom is that of having found …
Tuesday, May 28: “You see that we have left everything and followed you” (Mk. 10:28). Read More »
We continue to walk with Jesus, listening to his proposal. This young man, “who had so many possessions”, had allowed himself to be inspired by Jesus, the Wise Master. This wisdom of God proposes detachment to him because being attached to something or someone is a hindrance to happiness. The very fear of losing what …
Monday, May 27: “Good Teacher, What shall I do to inherit Eternal Life?” (Mk. 10:17). Read More »
Some ask him questions in order to set traps for him: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? Jesus replies that this is not God’s plan, even though Moses allowed them to do so, “because of the hardness of their heart.” Jesus is proposing something new, to return to the first plan …
When Jesus says at his Last Supper: “This is my body”, and offers us a share of broken bread, He leaves us the strongest symbol of himself, not only because of the gift of the cross, but because of his union with all those who would be, in time, his Church. We are the body …
Thursday, May 23: “Take it, this is my body” (Mk. 14:22). Read More »
