THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT – YEAR A THERE’S A PRICELESS WATER Download version Introduction For many years, the Jews in the Sinai experienced thirst and the lure of mirages. They dug wells and dreamed of a land where water falls from the sky in the form of rain and dew, where springs gush and flow […]
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT – YEAR A ELECTED TO SERVE Download version Introduction “The Lord has chosen you—Moses says to Israel—from among all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his very own people” (Deut 14:2). “It was on your fathers that the Lord set his heart. He loved them and after
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT – YEAR A THE TEMPTATION OF AN ILLUSORY HAPPINESS Download version Introduction In common parlance, to be tempted means to feel attracted to the forbidden. It is little wonder that the great characters of the Bible, the patriarchs and Job have been tempted. A certain embarrassment is felt in front of
ASH WEDNESDAY – YEARS A B C LENT: A TIME OF FASTING TO NOURISH US WITH THE WORD Download version Introduction “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Deut 8:3). With these words from Deuteronomy, Jesus rejects the evil one’s suggestionto expend all his
SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR A THEY KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS BUT DO NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN Download version Introduction The Jews call the first five books of the Bible the Law. A surprising way to call a collection that contains rules, precepts, and commands but is not a code of law
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR A HOW COULD ONE BECOME SALT AND LIGHT? Download version Introduction ‘Today, there is no more faith. Once there was so much.’ How do you measure faith? Referring to statistics, do you simply count the number of those who participate in Sunday Mass, receive the sacraments, marry in
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR A WHAT DOES THE HUMAN PERSON SEEK BUT JOY? Download version Introduction Do you want to be happy for a few hours? Get drunk. Do you want to be satisfied for some years? Grab the pleasures that life gives you. Qohelet himself suggests: “Go, eat your bread with
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR A HOW LONG WILL THE NIGHT LAST? Download version Introduction “Judas, taking the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night” (Jn 13:30). A few words to describe a dramatic scene: a man, now at the mercy of his crazy plans, abandons Christ—the light—and is swallowed by darkness.
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR A GOD WHO CALLS Download version Introduction There is no page of Scripture where the theme of vocation does not appear in some way. “In the beginning, God calls the creatures to existence” (Wis 11:25), calls man to life, and when Adam turns away from him, he asks:
BAPTISM OF THE LORD – YEAR A HE WANTED TO RISE FROM THE ABYSS Download version Introduction Biblical sites are often tied to a particular point of theological significance. The sea, the mountain, the desert, the Galilee of the Gentiles, Samaria, the Jordan River, the land beyond the Lake of Gennesaret are much more than
