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...
The Document Instrumentum Laboris (IL), in the first part on relationships, speaks to us of charisms and ministries, one of them being the ministry of accompaniment and listening. We want and desire that our Church be a place of listening and accompaniment, where no...
The Gospel accounts narrate many miraculous actions of Jesus: he gives sight to the blind; he makes the crippled walk; he restores speech to the mute; he makes the deaf hear; he cleanses lepers; he feeds multitudes; he relieves bodily pains of all kinds; and he raises...
