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Mk. 12:38-44  “He gave out of his poverty what he had to live on”   After Jesus’ tense encounters with the Chiefs of the Jews, Mark ends this Chapter 12 with a simple and very eloquent scene; Jesus, sitting quietly in front of the coffers of the temple, observes: only He is going to discover and […]

Mk. 12:35-37 “If David calls the Messiah Lord, how can he be his son?” In today’s Gospel the roles are changed in relation to what the texts of the previous days presented to us; there the Jews wanted to test Jesus. Here it is Jesus who leaves them speechless, not to humiliate them, but to

Mk. 12:28-34 “If you confess that love is the most important thing, you are not far from the Kingdom of God.” This affirmation, which can be deduced from today’s Gospel, may seem obvious to us, but if we reflect on it against the background of the reality in which we move in this individualistic society,

Mk. 12:18-27    “God is not a God of the dead but of the living.” With this phrase Jesus ends another of those attempts at dialogue with his enemies. Jesus knows well that the problem they pose to him about the wife who had several husbands is more of a trap and a way of

Mk.. 12:13-17 “Jesus asked them, ‘Whose image is this?’”Jesus’ enemies never cease to put him to the test; today the Gospel shows us how they raise the question of the tax they had to pay to the Emperor. Jesus, knowing their malice, responds to them in a way that leaves them speechless: if what is

Mk. 12:1-12 “They realized that Jesus had spoken the parable for them.”  Jesus has just had one of those encounters with the teachers of the law who reproach him for his way of acting in favor of the person even above what the law said. This time they question him about his authority to do

SOLEMNITY OF THE HOLY TRINITY Jn. 3:16-18 “God so loved the world that He gave it his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not die, but have eternal life.” Jn. 3:16-18  The Book of Exodus presents us with the Lord himself proclaiming his way of being: “Compassionate and gracious, patient, abounding in kindness

“By what authority do you do this?”  Mk 11:27-33 Jesus has cleansed the Temple of sellers and buyers, causing discomfort in the religious authorities who, seeing him, come to claim him and to ask him to account for the authority He has to do what He has done. And as always, they remain silent before the words

“Have faith in God” “When you pray for something, believe that it will be granted to you, and so it will be” Mt 11:11-25 After his entry into Jerusalem, Jesus goes to the temple and then returns to Bethany. The next day He returns to Jerusalem and on the way He looks for fruit on a

JESUS CHRIST THE ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST. “My Father, if this cup cannot pass away without my drinking it, Thy will be done.” Mt. 26:36-42 Today’s texts forcefully affirm that the man of faith, in love with his God, is permanently ready to please him. Abraham does not hesitate to sacrifice his son, because he believes