Feast of the Ascension – B (Mark 16,15-20)

NEW BEGINNING The Gospel writers describe in different language the mission that Jesus entrusts to his followers. According to Matthew they should «make disciples» that learn to live as he has taught them. According to Luke, they need to be «witnesses» of what they have lived by his s
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6th Sunday of Easter – B (John 15,9-17)

A DIFFERENT JOY Joy isn’t easy. Moments of true happiness seem like a brief interlude in the middle of an existence from which constantly arises pain, anxiety and dissatisfaction. The mystery of true joy is something strange for many men and women. They still know how to laugh their h
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5th Sunday of Easter – B (John 15,1-8)

BELIEVE Faith isn’t an impression or emotion of the heart. Without doubt, the believer feels faith, experiences it, and enjoys it, but it would be wrong to reduce it to «sentimentalism». Faith isn’t something that depends on feelings: «I don’t feel anything anymore; I must be losing m
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4th Sunday of Easter – B (John 10,11-18)

SEEK FROM WITHIN You can’t design programs or technology that automatically lead to God. There aren’t methods to meet God that are certain. Each one needs to follow one’s own path, since each one has a way of opening self to the mystery of God. However, not everything equally favors a
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3rd Sunday of Easter – B (Luke 24,35-48)

WITNESSES Luke describes the meeting of the Risen One with his disciples as a founding experience. Jesus’ desire is clear. His work hasn’t ended with the cross. Raised by God after his execution, he contacts his own to start up a movement of «witnesses», capable of spreading his Good
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2nd Sunday of Easter – B (John 20,19-31)

AGNOSTICS? Few have helped us as much as Christian Chabanis to know the attitude of people today in the face of God. His famous interviews are an indispensible document to know what the most recognized scientists and thinkers of today think about God. Chabanis confesses that, when he
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Easter Sunday – B (John 20,1-9)

MYSTERY OF HOPE To believe in the Resurrected One is to resist accepting our life as only a small parenthesis between two immense vacuums. Being supported in the Jesus raised by God, we sense, we desire and we believe that God is leading to its true fullness the yearning of life, just
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Palm Sunday – B (Mark 14,1-72; 15,1-47)

IDENTIFIED WITH THE VICTIMS Neither the power of Rome nor the authorities of the Temple could put up with Jesus’ novelty. His way of understanding God and living God was dangerous. He didn’t defend the Empire of Tiberius, he called everyone to seek God’s Kingdom and God’s justice. Nei
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5th Sunday of Lent – B (John 12,20-33)

ABSOLUTE TRUST Our lives generally run in all too superficial paths. Few are the times when we dare to enter deeply into ourselves. We feel a form of vertigo when we lean into our inner self. Who is that strange being that I discover within me, full of fears and questions, hungry for
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4th Sunday of Lent – B (John 3,14-21)

COMING CLOSE TO THE LIGHT It could be seen as an excessively pessimistic observation, but it’s certain that people are capable of living many years without having any idea of what is happening within themselves. We can keep living day after day without wanting to see what is it that t
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