The Gospel passage and the first reading of this Sunday indicate that the theme of our reflection should be marriage and the family. A subject of utmost importance to which these few lines will do no justice. I will make a simple statement of the points of Catholic...
This Sunday’s Gospel presents a series of sentences of Jesus, loosely connected to each other, but individually understandable. The first is understood in a context of harassment and persecution already faced by Jesus. The apostle John comments to Jesus that...
Jesus and his disciples have arrived in Capernaum; they are already in the house, and there, in the quiet of the domestic conversation, Jesus asks them what they had been discussing on the road. It is not that Jesus did not know, for he had listened to them; but what...
In today’s Gospel passage, three parts are easily recognized. In the first, Jesus is alone with the twelve disciples and questions them about their identity: about what people think of him and about what his own disciples think of him. What is his deeper...
This Sunday we listen to the fifth and last passage of chapter 6 of the Gospel according to John. In past Sundays, the Church has been presenting us with segments of that chapter in which Jesus expounds and develops his teaching about the need to believe in him and to...
