“My eyes have seen your salvation.” (Lk. 2:22-40) Patience and trust…These are the lessons in today’s Gospel. We know very little about Simeon and Anna except that they had been waiting for the Messiah for decades. God had communicated to them that they would see the fulfillment of the promise, and they trusted, prayed, and …
“Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.” (Mt. 5:1-12) Jesus’ sermon in today’s gospel is probably his most well-known and likely his least heeded words. Those who live the virtues humility, mourning, gentleness, peace, mercy Jesus refers to as blessed. These are the virtues to which we are called. In …
“Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” Mk. 4:35-41 The story of the storm is narrated by the three Synoptics, each in a different context. Mark has shown, by means of parables, what the Kingdom of God is and requires; a project where power and wealth do not prevail, as do the smallness of the …
“It is worth preparing the land and waiting.” Mk. 4:26-34 From the beginning of his ministry, Jesus knew that the Kingdom of God that He announced moved within another logic. In the parables He found a way to initiate the disciples and the crowd into this logic of God. The parable of the seed highlights …
“Don’t hide the light under the bed.” Mk. 4:21-25 Jesus is the light that has come to illuminate all humanity. Those who receive it must be transformed, also becoming a light for others. It is not selfishness to let ourselves be seen, if we do it to give life because the light is not ours, …
“The word that comes out of my mouth does not return to me empty.” Mk. 4:1-20 Today we are offered to pray a parable well known and easy to understand, if the peasant world is familiar to us. To go to his deeper message, Jesus explains that the seed is the word. In the ancient …
A family in which everyone is mother, sister and brother. Mk. 3:31-35 Mark has told us that Jesus’ family found it difficult to understand his actions and his way of life, and they deduced that “He was not in his right mind”, so they go looking for him. They believed that God was only for …
Sin against the Holy Spirit. Mk. 3:22-30 The conflicts between Jesus and the religion presented in Mark’s gospel soon spread in Judea, especially in Jerusalem, where the religious authorities lived. Alarmed, some lawyers go to find out what is happening with this new prophet who arouses so much attraction in the town. They are not …
Sunday, January 25 Jesus’ first words. Mt. 4:12-23 Today, Sunday, we are with Matthew, we guide our prayer hand in hand with Pagola. “The evangelist takes care of the stage in which Jesus makes his public appearance; the voice of the Baptist is extinguished and the new voice of Jesus begins. The dry landscape of …
Only a “madman” could do what Jesus did. Mk. 3:20-21 This very short gospel has a total logic, if we look at the family culture of Palestine in the time of Jesus. The first thing each member of the clan had to learn was to preserve and increase the honorability of the group. Jesus was …
