STAGNANT Pope Francis keeps repeating that fears, doubts, lack of boldness… all can radically keep us from pushing the renovation that the Church needs today. In his Exhortation The Joy of the Gospel he even says that if we stay paralyzed by fear, we can once more end up simply being

THE INTIMACY OF GOD If there came the impossible day that the Church would say that God isn’t Trinity, would that change anything in many believers’ existence? Probably not. That’s why one may be surprised by the confession of Father Varillon: «I think that, if God weren’t Trinity, I

TO LIVE GOD FROM THE INSIDE Some years ago, the great German theologian, Karl Rahner, dared to affirm that the main and most urgent problem in the church today is her «spiritual mediocrity». These were his words: the true problem of the Church is «to keep trudging on with a resignatio

OPEN THE HORIZON If we only occupy ourselves with the immediate goals of greater wellbeing, or if we find ourselves attracted by small dreams and hopes, we run the risk of impoverishing the horizon of our existence, losing our yearning for eternity. Is this progress? Or is it a mistak

THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH Jesus is saying goodbye to his disciples. He sees them sad and upset. Soon they won’t have him with them. Who can fill that void? Until now he has been the one who took care of them, defended them from the Scribes and Pharisees, sustained their weak and faltering f

THE WAY By the end of the Last Supper, the disciples begin to figure out that Jesus won’t be with them much longer. The sudden departure of Judas, the announcement that Peter will deny him soon, Jesus’ words talking about his coming fate – have left them all upset and shaken. What wil

A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS In our Christian communities we need to live a new experience witih Jesus, reviving our relationship with him. We need to put him decisively in the center of our life. We need to move from a Jesus confessed in a routine way, to a Jesus welcomed in a vital

WELCOME THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL Two of Jesus’ disciples are leaving Jerusalem. They walk along sadly and brokenhearted. The hope that they had placed in Jesus has been extinguished in their hearts when they saw him die on the cross. But they keep thinking about him anyway. They can’t

JESUS WILL SAVE THE CHURCH Terrified by Jesus’ execution, the disciples take refuge in a familiar house. Once again they are together, but Jesus isn’t with them. In the community there’s a hole that no one can fill. They lack Jesus. Whom will they follow now? What will they be able to

RETURN TO GALILEE The Gospels have gathered the story of some admirable women who at the dawn after the Sabbath, have drawn near the tomb where Jesus had been buried. They can’t forget him. They keep loving him more than anyone else. In the meantime, the men have fled and are still hi