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Mt. 5:43-48 “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.“ Today’s Gospel, in which Jesus continues to speak to us of the newness that He comes to bring in relation to love for our brothers and sisters, raises new demands that can only be understood from that attitude of non-violence in which Jesus […]

Mt. 5:38-42 “To him who slaps you on the cheek, to him also present the other.” Today’s Gospel puts us in front of what is considered to be the touchstone of Christianity, and we could say, perhaps, that it is also the essential contribution that we as Christians must make to the humanization of this

Mt. 9:36-10:8 “The harvest is plentiful, and the laborers are few.” This is the first thing Jesus says when He contemplates the multitudes who were weary and abandoned like sheep without a shepherd. Jesus is moved, and invites us to ask the Father to send workers; But He is not only moved, but He also

Luke 2:41-52 “Did you not know that I should be in my Father’s business?” These words of Jesus, in the temple, at the age of 12, are the first words of him that the Gospels transmit to us, and they are at the same time disconcerting and very revealing. The attitude and tone with which

Mt. 11:25-30    “Come to me, you who are weary, I will give you rest”. How much we need to rest in this society that has been called “the society of exhaustion”! We have insisted on performing and giving our best, not always to have more; for many it is simply to have a way

Mt. 10:7-13   “Go and proclaim that the Kingdom of God is coming.” Jesus has already chosen his 12 apostles to “be with him and to be sent”. The time for the mission arrives and Jesus sends them out with the words we have highlighted: proclaim that the Kingdom of God is coming. It is

Mt. 5:17-19   “I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.” In the Jewish world of Jesus’ time, the law with its innumerable norms and interpretations had become untouchable and was the basis of true justice; Jesus, without ignoring the fundamental value of the law and the prophets, comes to show us

Mt. 5:13-16  “You are the salt of the earth.” It may be that we like to think that we are the light of the world and we leave aside that other sentence of Jesus that exhorts us today to be salt of the earth. In a society oversaturated with offers to make the most of

Mt. 5:1-12  “Blessed are you… you who welcome the coming of the Kingdom with a clean heart.”This is how the introduction to that long discourse can be summarized, Jesus, in the Gospel of Matthew, in which He seems to lay the foundations of what will be the Kingdom of God that He comes to inaugurate.

Jn. 6:51-58  “Whoever eats of this bread will live forever.” Today we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, the memorial of the Body and Blood of Christ given for the life of the world. Jesus’ discourse of this surrender is scandalous to the Jews and to anyone who takes his words at face value. How