WORSHIP OF MONEY There’s something alarming in our society that we never denounce enough. We live in a civilization that has, as its focus of thinking and criterion of acting, the secret conviction that what’s most important and decisive isn’t what one is, but what one has. It’s been

TO FREE THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL This story of the «Transfiguration of Jesus» was right from the start very popular among his followers. It’s not just one more story. The scene, recreated with diverse aspects of symbolic character, is huge. The evangelists present Jesus with a glowing

IN BETWEEN CONFLICTS AND TEMPTATIONS Before beginning to narrate Jesus’ prophetic activity, Mark tells us that the Spirit drove him into the desert. He stayed there 40 days, letting himself be tempted by Satan; he lived among the wild beasts, and angels served him. These short lines a

FRIEND OF THE EXCLUDED Jesus was sensitive to the suffering of those he met on his journey, those marginalized by society, those forgotten by religious people or rejected by those groups who considered themselves morally or religiously superior. It’s something that comes from within.

THE DOOR TO OUR HOUSE In the synagogue of Capernaum, Jesus has freed a man possessed by an evil spirit that morning. Now it’s said that he leaves the «synagogue» and heads to the «house» of Simon and Andrew. The reference is important since in Mark’s Gospel what happens in that house

HEALER According to Mark, Jesus’ first public action was the healing of a man possessed by an evil spirit in the synagogue of Capernaum. It’s a gripping scene, narrated so that right from the start its readers discover the healing and freeing power of Jesus. It’s the Sabbath and the p

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE We don’t know with any certainty how the Baptist’s disciples reacted when Herod Antipas imprisoned him in the fortress of Maqueronte. We do know Jesus’ reaction. He didn’t stay in the desert. Nor did he seek refuge among his family in Nazareth. He began to tr

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? The first words that Jesus speaks in John’s Gospel leave us shaken, because they go straight to the heart and touch the very roots of our life. To two of the Baptist’s disciples who are starting to follow Jesus, he says: «What are you looking for?». From withi

THE SPIRIT OF JESUS Jesus appears in Galilee when the Jewish people were going through a profound religious crisis. They’d gone for a long time feeling that God is far away from them. The heavens were «closed». A kind of invisible wall seemed to get in the way of God’s communication w

ORIENTED TOWARD GOD There are no techniques or methods that automatically guide you to God. But there are attitudes and gestures that can dispose and prepare us to encounter God. Even more. The most beautiful words and the most brilliant stories about God are useful if each one of us