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 »
For the Jews, feeling like children of Abraham was a kind of title of honor that gave them recognition and credibility; their faith in Abraham was the way of saying that they were sons of Isaac and Jacob, only God could be above Abraham; that is why when Jesus says that it existed before Abraham, …
April 10. “Before Abraham was, I AM.” Jn. 8:51-59 Read More »
Truth and freedom are two words that seduce us; we easily think that we understand them, but how difficult it is to combine them and even more so to make them guide our lives. Truth and freedom, in the context in which Jesus pronounces these words, is the result of having believed in him and …
Jesus continues to try to make known to the Jews his true identity: He reveals himself in his constant reference to God his Father; but his listeners, guided only by the criteria of the world to which they belong, are incapable of understanding that revelation that surpasses everything that the world can accept. Jesus concludes …
Today’s text invites us to meet Jesus at a time when he himself solemnly declares: “I am the light of the world; he who follows me does not walk in darkness”. How much we need to encounter that light and welcome it, at this time when the panorama of the world is darkening more and …
April 7. “I am the light of the world.” Jn. 8:12-20 Read More »
This is not the first time that Jesus speaks of his “hour”; He was well aware that his life in this world had a measured time and a mission, and that the Father would show him the time when He should finally go to Jerusalem, to be judged and condemned. The conviction and serenity with …
April 4. My time that has not yet come. Jn. 7:1-10, 25-30 Read More »
In this long diatribe of Jesus with the Jews, Jesus clearly shows how his life has no other reason for being than to fulfill the mission for which He has been sent, and that mission is none other than to give life to those who want to receive it. And although the Father has given …
April 3. The works are those that bear witness to Jesus. Jn. 5:31-47 Read More »
Jesus, in the encounter with the Jews who reproach him for breaking the law by healing a paralytic, openly declares: “My Father continues to work and I also work”: a profoundly revealing statement of Jesus’ relationship with God; that God who is Father, a God the Father who has sent him to save and rescue …
One more case of the contrast between Jesus, who loves life and puts it above all else, and the Jews, clinging to a law that gets lost in details and overlooks the good of the person. Jesus meets that powerless man, who has been there for more than 38 years waiting for someone to immerse …
April 1. The paralytic at the pool of Bethany. Jn. 5:1-13 Read More »
“He realized that this was the hour.” (Jn. 4:54) It will be good to be in the attitude of the Galileans and the centurion: to welcome Jesus, to believe in his Word. Easter is approaching and we will then be able to experience the new heavens and the new earth that Isaiah announces (65:17). We …
