Luke 1:57-66,80 “Everyone wondered what will become of this child?” This question that Luke highlights about the birth and circumcision of John the Baptist is a question that can arise when we look at children who

Mt. 7:6,12-14 “Enter through the narrow gate… the one that leads to life.“ Jesus is ending the long sermon on the mount in which He has been inviting us to “order our lives” in the light

Mt. 7:1-5 “God will measure them by the measure by which they have measured others.“ Today we return to the final chapter of the Sermon on the Mount, that discourse that Matthew puts on the lips

Mt. 10:26-33   “Do not be afraid.” In the context of what we have been experiencing since the beginning of this year, it is very good for us to listen to the entire text of today’s

Mt. 6:24-34  “You cannot serve God and money.” In a society marked by flagrant inequality and at the same time dominated by economics, it is difficult, but at the same time urgent, to assimilate and live

Mt. 6:19-23: “If your eye is healthy, your whole body is enlightened.” Jesus told us at the end of the Beatitudes: “You are the light of the world”. Thus he urged us to live in the

Mt. 6:7-15   “Your Father already knows what you need before you ask Him.” Jesus today invites us to review the way we pray; he knows that we always tend to pray telling God what we

Mt. 6:1-6; 16-18 “Beware of doing good works to be seen.” In today’s Gospel Jesus continues to speak to us of two concrete practices of our way of living the life of faith, our life as

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

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,

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“Whoever wants to be great among you, let him be the servant of all…” Mk. 10:32-45 Jesus walks towards Jerusalem; He goes with determination and firmness to meet the sacrifice of his life. He is followed by

“We have left everything and followed you.” Mk. 10:28-31 The disciples have just witnessed Jesus’ encounter with a very rich young man, a good person, with a desire for perfection, whom Jesus looked at with special