Solitary God or God of Communion? Introduction What is the identity card of Christians? What feature distinguishes them from the followers of other religions? Not the love of neighbor: the others too—we know—do good. Not prayer the Muslims also pray. Not the faith in God: the pagans have too. It is not enough to believe […]
The Spirit: Hope of a New World Introduction The natural phenomena that impress most the imagination of man—fire, lightning, hurricane, earthquake, thunder (Ex 19:16-19)—are used in the Bible to describe the manifestations of God. The sacred authors also used images to present the outpouring of the Lord’s Spirit. They said that the Spirit is a […]
He is Always Beside Every Person Introduction With the coming of Jesus in the glory of the Father has anything on earth changed? Outwardly nothing. The lives of the people continued to be what it was before: to sow, reap, trade, build homes, travel, cry and party, as usual. Even the apostles had not received […]
The Spirit Always Draws New Things from the Gospel Introduction Faced with the “rampant religious ignorance” someone proposes to take up the Catechism of Christian Doctrine, published by Pius X in 1913, with its 433 questions and answers, summaries of all the issues of theology and morality. This booklet has certainly marked an era, but […]
WHOEVER IS IN CHRIST IS A NEW CREATURE The Church’s days are numbered—some say—because it is old, it does not know how to renew itself, it repeats old formulas instead of answering new questions, it stubbornly proposes obsolete rites and incomprehensible dogmas while today’s man is looking for a new balance, a new sense of […]
Reflection: John 10:22-30 “If you really are the Messiah, tell us so in plain words!” Here the Jews were facing difficulty accepting Jesus because he did not correspond to the Messiah or the Christ of their understanding and imagination. They were aware of the extraordinary powers that Jesus had, and that ordinary people flocked to […]
Tuesday of 4th Week in Easter A New Missionary Approach The Christians of Antioch, the first to be called “Christians” as disciples of Christ, were of two kinds: those Greek-speaking of Jewish origin, who had fled to Antioch from the persecuted Church in Jerusalem. They communicated their faith to their fellow Jews, but […]
Tuesday of 4th Week in Easter A New Missionary Approach Introduction The Christians of Antioch, the first to be called “Christians” as disciples of Christ, were of two kinds: those Greek-speaking of […]