TRUST – YES, TRIVIALITY – NO Modern society is pushing us more forcefully each day toward a life-style that is marked by a pragmatism of the immediate. It is barely interested in the great questions o

WITHOUT FIRE IT ISN’T POSSIBLE In a clearly prophetic style, Jesus sums up his whole life with some unusual words: «I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!». Wh

LIVING IN THE MINORITY In his Gospel, Luke has redacted a few words, full of feeling and love, words directed by Jesus to his followers. All too often these words pass us by unnoticed. Nevertheless wh

AGAINST FOOLISHNESS We keep learning more about the social and economic situation that Jesus knew in Galilee in 30 CE. While wealth was growing in Sepphoris and Tiberias, hunger and misery were increa

JESUS’ THREE SUMMONS «I say to you: ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you». It’s easy for Jesus to say these words as he’s moving through th

NOTHING IS MORE NEEDED The episode is somewhat surprising. The disciples who accompany Jesus have disappeared from the scene. Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary, is absent. In the house of the sm