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Mt. 8:1-4 “Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him.” The scene presented to us in today’s Gospel is deeply moving and revealing of who Jesus is and his mission. Let us make the composition of place as if we were part of those who walked with Jesus when the leper approached him. Let us […]

Mt. 7:21-29 “He who hears my words and puts them into practice… builds on rock“ It is not enough to pray with many words, or to say Lord, Lord! Nor is it worth prophesying or doing many things. Jesus warns us today that the important thing is to build our life on a firm foundation,

Luke 1:57-66,80 “Everyone wondered what will become of this child?” This question that Luke highlights about the birth and circumcision of John the Baptist is a question that can arise when we look at children who begin life, and begin to grow… But here the question says something else: it arises at the end of

Mt. 7:6,12-14 “Enter through the narrow gate… the one that leads to life.“ Jesus is ending the long sermon on the mount in which He has been inviting us to “order our lives” in the light of what He has shown us about the true meaning of God’s Law, that which is summed up in

Mt. 7:1-5 “God will measure them by the measure by which they have measured others.“ Today we return to the final chapter of the Sermon on the Mount, that discourse that Matthew puts on the lips of Jesus to help us understand how Jesus fulfills what He said: that He did not come to abolish

Mt. 10:26-33   “Do not be afraid.” In the context of what we have been experiencing since the beginning of this year, it is very good for us to listen to the entire text of today’s Gospel. To contemplate the serenity of Jesus in the face of the difficulties involved in the proclamation of the

Mt. 6:24-34  “You cannot serve God and money.” In a society marked by flagrant inequality and at the same time dominated by economics, it is difficult, but at the same time urgent, to assimilate and live what Jesus tells us today in the Gospel: you cannot serve God and money, and then “seek first the

Mt. 6:19-23: “If your eye is healthy, your whole body is enlightened.” Jesus told us at the end of the Beatitudes: “You are the light of the world”. Thus he urged us to live in the spirit of that sermon He has just preached by looking at the crowd that listened to him, in contrast

Mt. 6:7-15   “Your Father already knows what you need before you ask Him.” Jesus today invites us to review the way we pray; he knows that we always tend to pray telling God what we need, asking Him to grant it to us because we trust Him completely; but it is not the many

Mt. 6:1-6; 16-18 “Beware of doing good works to be seen.” In today’s Gospel Jesus continues to speak to us of two concrete practices of our way of living the life of faith, our life as brothers and sisters, children of God: almsgiving and fasting, and He alerts us to that tendency that sometimes lurks