HEALING The story is well-known. Jesus cures ten lepers, sending them to the priests who would then authorize the cured lepers to return healed to their families. The tale could have ended here. Howev

INCREASE OUR FAITH Out of nowhere, the disciples put an important request to Jesus: «Increase our faith». On another occasion, they had asked him: «Teach us to pray». As Jesus uncovers God’s project f

DON’T IGNORE THOSE WHO SUFFER The contrast between the two protagonists in the parable is tragic. The rich man dresses in purple and linen. His whole life is luxury and ostentation. He only thinks abo

MONEY The society that Jesus knew was very different from ours. Only the powerful Jerusalem families and the big land-owners of Tiberias would have been able to accumulate gold and silver coins. Farm-

A PARABLE FOR OUR TIME In no other parable has Jesus desired to let us penetrate so profoundly the mystery of God and, in that mystery, the human condition. None other is so timely for us as that of t

RESPONSIBLE REALISM The examples Jesus uses may be multiple, but his teaching is the same: the one who begins an important project rashly, without studying ahead of time if he has the means and the en