SMALL SEEDS We are drowning in bad news. Radio and television programs, news and reports spew out an avalanche of hate, wars, hunger and violence, scandals large and small. The «sellers of sensationalism» don’t seem to find anything else worth reporting on our planet. The incredible s

THE LORD’S SUPPER Sociological studies note it with overwhelming statistics: Christians in our Western churches are abandoning the Sunday Mass. This celebration, as it has ended up being configured over the centuries, is no longer capable of nourishing their faith or of binding them t

WHAT’S ESSENTIAL IN THE CREED Throughout the centuries, Christian theologians have elaborated profound studies concerning the Trinity. However many of today’s Christians don’t grasp what they have when they see these wonderful doctrines with their lives. It seems that today we need to

CALLING ON THE SPIRIT Come, Holy Spirit. Awaken our faith that is weak, small and vacillating. Teach us to live trusting in the unfathomable love of God our Father for all God’s sons and daughters, be they within or outside of your Church. If this faith is extinguished in our hearts,

TRUST AND RESPONSIBILITY At some point an appendix was added to Mark’s original Gospel. In it we find stated this final command of Jesus: «Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Gospel to all creation». The Gospel mustn’t remain in the interior of the small group of disciples. It mus

DON’T STRAY FROM LOVE John the Evangelist puts into Jesus’ mouth a long farewell discourse, in which we find intensely summed up some fundamental points that his disciples need to remember throughout the coming years in order to be faithful to his person and to his project. These hold

DON’T WANDER AWAY FROM JESUS The image is simple but powerfully expressive. Jesus is «the true vine», full of life; the disciples are «the branches» who live off of the sap that comes from Jesus; the Father is the «vine dresser» who personally takes care of the vineyard so that it giv

COME CLOSE AND GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER When conflicts and dissentions among different groups and leaders arose among the early Christians, someone felt the need to remember that in Jesus’ community he alone is the good Shepherd. He isn’t just one more shepherd, but the authentic one,

BELIEVING BY OUR OWN EXPERIENCE It’s not easy to believe in the risen Jesus. In the final analysis it’s something that can only be captured and understood from the faith that Jesus himself awakens in us. If we never experience «from within» the peace and joy that Jesus sows, it’s diff

LIVING FROM GOD’S PRESENCE The story in John’s Gospel can’t be more suggestive and challenging. Only when they see Jesus risen in their midst does the group of disciples get transformed. They recover peace, their fears disappear, they’re filled with an unheard of joy, they take notice