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…
The Lamb of God John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said: “Behold the Lamb of God.” That’s how the gospels introduce us to unexpected images of God, a total revolution: no longer the God who demands sacrifice, but the One who sacrifices Himself. And it will be like this throughout the gospels:…
Epiphany, the feast of the faraway seekers of God The Magi’s journey is full of mistakes: Their journey resembles every Christian’s life, full of hits and misses; little by little, they start tuning their hearts to God’s frequency. They have infinite patience to start again. Our biggest challenge is not falling but to stop trying…
Fr. Ricardo Chinchilla, CJM Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Angel coming from heaven revealed the coordinates to find the savior on Christmas; he said: “This is the sign for you; you will find a child wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.” A child? A child savior? How strange; in our society, every…
Among the guardians of those who wait is Joseph, a man of dreams and calloused hands, the last patriarch of ancient Israel. He tells a story of love, and his doubts about receiving the woman he loved, a human story of expectations and crises. Before they moved in together, Mary found herself pregnant; then Joseph…