November 13, Saturday Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time Their salvation through the Red Sea and their journey through the desert were like a new creation for the Hebrew people. God protected them and led them to freedom. This reminds us how our passing through the saving waters of baptism has recreated us as the People […]
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Reflection: Luke 18: 1-8 We have heard the promise Jesus makes in the Gospel: “Will God not do justice to his chosen ones, who cry to him day and night” (cf. Lk 18:7). This is the mystery of prayer: to keep crying out, not to lose heart, keeping our hands raised in asking God to […]
THIRTIETH-SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME INSISTENT PRAYER Introduction Their salvation through the Red Sea and their journey through the desert were like a new creation for the Hebrew people. God protected them and led them to freedom. This reminds us how our passing through the saving waters of baptism has recreated us as the […]
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Rome, Italy. After six days of meeting and work, it was doubtful that the number of participants would be maintained on Saturday. But a very high percentage, which at some point exceeded two hundred and thirty connections, remained faithful to the appointment. In many cases the classroom or school facilities gave way to dining rooms […]
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Acts of the Apostles “Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.” Peter went to Caesarea. In the house of the centurion Cornelius, he announced the Gospel to a group of foreigners and baptized them. The news reached Jerusalem, and instead […]
November 12, Friday Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time The author of Wisdom accuses non-Jews of being blind. They see the beauty of creation, but they fail to recognize the creator behind them, so much so, that they begin to adore created things. Jesus reprimands those who fail to see the signs of his […]
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Reflection: Luke 17:26-37 “Thinking about our death is not a bad fantasy” says Pope Francis. In these last two weeks of the liturgical year, the readings in the mass, makes us reflect on the end: at the end of the world, and at the end of each one of us, because we all will die. […]
THIRTIETH-SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME READY FOR THE LORD Introduction The author of Wisdom accuses non-Jews of being blind. They see the beauty of creation, but they fail to recognize the creator behind them, so much so, that they begin to adore created things. Jesus reprimands those who fail to see the […]
November 11, Thursday Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time The author of the book of Wisdom gives high praise to wisdom. She is personified, she is like a spirit that moves. She is like the breath of God that orders all things well. To the Pharisees and perhaps to the disciples too, anxiously looking […]
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Reflection: Luke 17: 20-25 Jesus says, “The reign of God is already in your midst”. It is in the very person of Jesus, – the Messiah – King. The reign of God is revealed in his teaching, in his many healings of the sick, in his freeing of people from the power of evil spirits […]