Today’s Gospel presents a series of features that should be highlighted. It is an encounter between Jesus and a teacher of the law, but it is not a polemical encounter or one motivated by bad intentions on the part of the Pharisee, but a friendly encounter, in...
The brief passage we hear this Sunday as the first reading is an excerpt from a lengthy testimony that the prophet Isaiah offers about the Servant of the Lord. This entire passage is proclaimed as the first reading in the Good Friday liturgy, which gives us an...
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...
