NEW YEAR’S QUESTIONS Today we begin a «new year». What will it be like? What do I expect of it? What do I really want? What is it I need? To what will I dedicate my most precious and important time? What for me will be truly new and good in this year that’s starting today? Will I go a

WHAT FAMILY? Today is Christian Family Day. A feast day recently established so that we Christians would celebrate and deepen what could be a family project understood and lived out in the spirit of Jesus. It’s not enough to abstractly defend the value of the family. Nor is it suffici

CHRISTMAS NOSTALGIA Christmas is a feast full of nostalgia. We sing about peace, but don’t know how to bring it about. We wish each other happiness, but it seems so hard to be happy. We buy one another gifts, but what we need is kindness and feeling. We sing to the Baby Jesus, but in

SKETCHING MARY Mary’s visit to Elizabeth allows the Gospel-writer Luke to put the Baptist and Jesus in contact even before they were born. The scene carries special force. Both women are going to be mothers. Both have been called to collaborate in God’s plan. No men are around. Zachar

SHARE WITH THE ONE WHO HAS NONE The word of the Baptist from the desert touched the hearts of the people. His call to conversion and to begin a life that is more faithful to God awoke in them a concrete question: What must we do? This is the question that always arises in us when we l

IN THE SETTING OF THE DESERT Luke is interested in noting precisely the names of the people in political and religious power at that time. They are the ones who plan and direct everything. However, the decisive event of Jesus Christ gets prepared for and happens outside of their circl

STAY AWAKE The apocalyptic discourses gathered by the Gospel writers reflect the fears and the uncertainty of the early Christian communities: fragile and vulnerable, living in the midst of the vast Roman Empire, in conflicts and persecutions, with an uncertain future, without knowing

EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE IN FRONT OF THE WITNESS TO THE TRUTH Within the context of the decision to execute Jesus, John’s Gospel offers a surprising private dialogue between Pilate, the Empire’s most powerful earthly representative, and Jesus, a bound criminal who is presented as a w

CHRISTIAN CONVICTIONS Little by little the disciples who had known Jesus were dying off. Those who were left believed in him without having seen him. They celebrated his invisible presence in their Eucharists, but when would they see his face, full of life? When would be fulfilled the

CONTRAST The contrast between the two scenes is complete. In the first one, Jesus puts the people on their guard concerning the temple Scribes. Their religion is false: they use it to seek their own glory and to exploit the weak. There’s no need to admire them or follow their example.