Pray

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

Monday, September 30, 2024 “Have you understood all this?”  (Matthew 13:47-52) (II Timothy 3:14-17) Today’s readings encourage us to listen, to prepare our hearts with humility to accept the Word and let it guide us. Saint Jerome, in his prologue to the book of the prophet Isaiah, wrote: “If, as the Apostle Paul says, Christ

Thursday, September 26, 2024 “And he tried to see him.” (Luke 9:7-9) Herod is confused and disturbed by wondering who is that character whom people see as a prophet, like John the Baptist… and he wanted to see him. We cannot imagine what his intentions would be to approach Jesus, but we do know that