That encounter between Mary Magdalene and the Risen One is very telling and moving. She recognizes him when she is called by her name; she cannot doubt that it is He, her teacher, whom she sought full of tears and pain. She wants to embrace Him, to stay with Him, but that is not what …
On this Monday after Easter, the Gospel presents us with the passage of the women who, on going to the tomb of Jesus, find it empty and see an angel who announces to them that Jesus is risen. And while they are running to tell the disciples, they meet Jesus himself who tells them: “Go …
On this first day of the week, already illuminated by the Resurrection of Jesus, the Gospel invites us to join those who continue to seek Jesus in the darkness, those who accompanied him at the crossside and perhaps went to the tomb where they had laid him. Mary Magdalene, moved by that deep love that …
April 20 In Jesus, God has conquered evil and death. Jn.20:1-9 Read More »
With the Resurrection of Jesus, God infused in the world a longing for life that impels us to the hereafter… a hope that ends only with death when we too enter the fullness of life. Let us not then look for Jesus in what does not give life, He lives in His Gospel Word even …
In today’s liturgy we contemplate a terrible, overwhelming historical event, the bearer of a mystery that overwhelms us: the fact of Jesus’ death on the Cross and the mystery of life and salvation that arise from that incomprehensible fact. Jesus dies a victim of sin, on him was unleashed all the violence, injustice, betrayal, corruption, …
April 18. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Jn. 18:1-19:42 Read More »
The Liturgy of Holy Thursday is the most demanding of the Easter cycle. Jesus leaves us a mandate that takes on its full meaning in the context of the Last Supper where Jesus proclaimed it. The Gospel tells us that Jesus, on that crucial day of his life, “having loved his own, loved them to …
Let us continue to try to penetrate the feelings of Jesus in those final days of his life. Today’s scene is deeply moving and revealing; Jesus reveals to his disciples the betrayal He is about to suffer. The Evangelist invites us to contemplate the process of this betrayal, from the gesture with which Jesus points …
April 15. “Truly I say to you, one of you will betray me.” Jn. 13:21-38 Read More »
Today’s text contrasts with the environment in which the Gospel of these days has been placing us: the imminent arrival of the hour of Jesus. Today we find him in Bethany, the place of his rest, with his friends, who celebrate his presence and perhaps also the miracle He performed by raising Lazarus. Let us …
April 14. There, in Bethany, they organized a dinner in his honor. Jn. 12:1-11 Read More »
It is striking to contemplate how Jesus, tired of his diatribes with the Jews, trying to make them understand that God was their Father and that He had come into the world to announce that they, too, were called to share in that same filiation, withdrew to a place dear to him. He went to …
April 11. He went to the east side of the Jordan… and He stayed there. Jn. 10:31-42 Read More »
