We enter the week of all weeks, which narrates the man who loved beyond limits, the giver of meaningful new lives, blessed the poor and the joyful, and made people witness a glimpse of what the heavens feel like. I look at Calvary and see a naked man, crucified and dying. Yet, a man with…
Welcome to the 5th Sunday of Lent. We’re getting close to the end! We have Palm Sunday next weekend and Holy Week festivities begin. Today, Lazarus is restored to life after FOUR days in a tomb. Let’s look at how Jesus, as the SOURCE of new life, uses this moment to teach Martha and Mary,…
Our Sunday scripture’s protagonist is the last man in town, a beggar blind from birth who has never seen the sun or his mother’s face. So poor he has nothing, possessing only himself; he only hears the crowds of people rushing with prayers into the temple and deciphers in his heart when he might witness…
On a hot day in Samaria by the well of Jacob, an unexpected meet-up, Jesus and a foreign woman eye to eye. Not inside a synagogue, not a pulpit, but the low wall of a well, for a heart-to-heart conversation. Jesus goes straight to the essentials: “Go and call the one you love.” He knows…
Jesus made his way up a high mountain. The mountains are like index fingers pointing to the mystery and depths of the cosmos, and they tell us that life is an ascent to more light. After reaching the summit, suddenly Jesus’ face shines like the sun. That human face of sunshine is also our face: everyone…
Lent is beautiful. It does not impose itself as the penitential season. Still, it proposes itself as the season of new beginnings: just like spring that gives us the example of rebirth, of life, that points straight toward the light of Easter. (What would you have to resurrect between now and Easter?) If you think…
This Sunday, we read: You have heard that it was said: “an eye for an eye,” (which was already tremendous progress) —but Jesus continues: “if one slaps you on the right cheek, you also turn the other cheek.” Turn the other cheek, which means unarmed and not instilling fear. Jesus does not propose the morbid…
Jesus’ aim was not a “new morality” but a liberation. But how is this possible? When Mary said, “Yes, your will be done,” she gave birth to God. So we, like her, can bring God into the world: give birth to love. You have heard what was said. But I say to you: Jesus does…
In this Sunday’s teaching, we witnessed the first lesson of the Lord Jesus in the gospel of Matthew; He chose the outdoors, on the hill, with the lake as the background, and as the first topic, he chose happiness. It could be because it is the thing we most lack, that we all seek in…
Matthew emphasizes today the two buzzwords of Jesus’ message: “kingdom” and “conversion.” “The Kingdom”: something that belongs to God, but which he does not delight in possessing, but in giving to us. His Kingdom shines when life flourishes in all its forms. The Kingdom of God is the world as God wants it, finally free…