MOTHER Many could wonder that the Church makes the first day of the new year coincide with the feast of Holy Mary, Mother of God. And yet it’s important that since the 4th century, the Church, having

GOD CLOSE TO US Christmas is much more than all the superficial and manipulative things going on around us these day in our neighborhoods. A feastday much deeper and joyful than all the fads of our co

INNER EXPERIENCE Matthew the evangelist has a special interest in telling his readers that Jesus should be called «Emmanuel». He well knows that this could end up jarring us and seeming strange. Who c

HEALING WOUNDS What Jesus was doing left the Baptist confused. John was waiting for a Messiah who would wipe out sin from the world by imposing God’s rigorous justice, not a Messiah dedicated to heali

WALKING NEW PATHS Around the year 27 or 28, there appeared in the desert of the Jordan a prophet both original and independent, who made a big impact on the Jewish people: the first generations of Chr

WITH OUR EYES WIDE OPEN The first Christian communities lived through very hard times. Lost in the vast Roman Empire, in the midst of conflicts and persecutions, those Christians sought strength and e