CHRISTMAS NOSTALGIA Christmas is a feast full of nostalgia. We sing about peace, but don’t know how to bring it about. We wish each other happiness, but it seems so hard to be happy. We buy one anothe

SKETCHING MARY Mary’s visit to Elizabeth allows the Gospel-writer Luke to put the Baptist and Jesus in contact even before they were born. The scene carries special force. Both women are going to be m

SHARE WITH THE ONE WHO HAS NONE The word of the Baptist from the desert touched the hearts of the people. His call to conversion and to begin a life that is more faithful to God awoke in them a concre

IN THE SETTING OF THE DESERT Luke is interested in noting precisely the names of the people in political and religious power at that time. They are the ones who plan and direct everything. However, th

STAY AWAKE The apocalyptic discourses gathered by the Gospel writers reflect the fears and the uncertainty of the early Christian communities: fragile and vulnerable, living in the midst of the vast R

EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE IN FRONT OF THE WITNESS TO THE TRUTH Within the context of the decision to execute Jesus, John’s Gospel offers a surprising private dialogue between Pilate, the Empire’s most