WHY DO WE STAY? Throughout recent years we’ve seen many analyses and studies about the crisis of the Christian Church in modern society. This reading is needed in order to better capture some data, but it ends up insufficient for discerning what our reaction needs to be. The story nar

WHAT’S IMPORTANT IS BEING HUNGRY John the Evangelist use very strong language to insist in the need to nourish our communion with Jesus Christ. Only then will we experience his very life within ourselves. According to John, we need to eat Jesus: «Whoever eats me will draw life from me

DRAWN TO JESUS John the Evangelist repeats over and over again some expressions and images that have great power to remind us all that we need to come close to Jesus in order to discover there a fountain of new life. This is a vital principle that can’t be compared to anything that we

THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY The people need Jesus and look for him. There’s something in him that attracts them, but they still don’t know exactly why they seek him or for what. According to the Gospel writer, many do it because the day before he had given them bread to satisfy their hu

OUR BIG SIN The story of the multiplication of the loaves enjoyed great popularity among Jesus’ followers. All the Gospel writers record it. Surely it moved them to think that this man of God concerned himself with feeding a crowd that was left without what they needed to eat. Accordi

LIKE SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD The disciples were sent by Jesus to announce his Good News, and they return all excited. There’s no time to tell their Master all that they have done and taught. Seemingly, Jesus wants to listen to them calmly, so he invites them to go off «to some lonely

TOWARD A COLLECTIVE EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE Jesus doesn’t send his disciples out in just any old way. In order to collaborate on his project of God’s Reign and prolong his mission, they need to maintain a certain style of life. If not, they could do many things, but they wouldn’t in

DON’T DESPISE THE PROPHET The story never fails to surprise us. Jesus was rejected precisely in his own town, among those who believed they knew him better than anyone else. He arrives at Nazareth, accompanied by his disciples, and no one comes out to meet him, as often happens in oth

SECRET WOUNDS We don’t know her name. She is an insignificant woman, lost in the midst of the crowd that follows Jesus. She doesn’t dare speak with him as Jairus the synagogue leader did to get Jesus to go with him to his house. She could never be that lucky. No one knows that she is

WHY ARE WE SO FRIGHTENED? «Why are you so frightened? Have you still no faith?» For Mark the Gospel-writer, these two questions that Jesus directs to his disciples aren’t just an anecdote from the past. They are questions that Jesus’ followers need to hear in the midst of our crises.