This Sunday’s Gospel passage unites two contrasting scenes. In the first, Jesus warns and severely criticizes the scribes and religious leaders of his time, because they use religion for their own benefit, to show off power, display ambition, seek honors and...
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...
For some Sundays now, the second reading has been taken from the New Testament writing known as the Letter to the Hebrews, which is actually a very well articulated sermon. This sermon explains how Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and his glorification at the...
May the God of hope fill our hearts with joy and peace. Dear Brothers of the Secular Fraternity: In a few days we will celebrate the feast of St. Magdalene of Nagasaki, patroness of the Secular Augustinian Recollect Fraternity. As every year, I am sending you...
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...
