Gospel Reflection for Friday, February 7, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, peace and blessings to you. Timeless Advice for Eternal Life The first reading offers valuable life advice, just as relevant today as it was in the first century. Because «Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.» Brotherly love and hospitality are always needed—perhaps even more so in today’s world. […]
Gospel Reflection for Thursday, February 6, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, peace and blessings to you. After spending time with Jesus and learning from Him, the Master sends His disciples out to preach in different places. This passage offers a deep reflection on mission, calling, and faithfulness to God in serving others. A Mission of Trust and Simplicity The passage begins with […]
Gospel Reflection for Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, peace and blessings to you. Today, the Gospel of Mark presents us with a crucial moment in Jesus’ ministry, where He returns to His hometown and faces rejection from those who knew Him as a child. This passage invites us to reflect on the relationship between faith, familiarity, and the ability […]
Gospel Reflection for Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, peace and blessings to you. Two miracles—one “big” compared to the other. A healing, which is already significant, and a return to life itself. In both cases, the importance of faith is emphasized: the faith of the woman suffering from hemorrhages and the faith of the father of the little girl. […]
Gospel Reflection for Monday, February 3, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, peace and blessings to you. Everyone was amazed. And that’s understandable—what Jesus did was truly astonishing. Just like the lives of the people we encounter in today’s first reading—people who, despite being admirable, did not receive what was promised because “God had something better planned for us,” since the hour of […]
Gospel Reflection for Sunday, February 2, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, peace and blessings to you. Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. Hard to believe, but forty days have already passed since Christmas. Joseph and Mary travel to Jerusalem to fulfill the Jewish purification rites. This moment is another revelation of Jesus, the long-awaited […]
Gospel Reflection for Saturday, February 1, 2025
One of the most repeated phrases in the Bible is: “Do not be afraid.” The disciples, who were experienced sailors, found themselves threatened by violent, stormy winds. When they felt completely overwhelmed—filled with fear, helplessness, and despair—they reproached Jesus for His seeming indifference. At that moment, with a commanding gesture, Jesus rebuked the forces of […]
Gospel Reflection for Friday, January 31, 2025
The evangelist Mark helps us understand that the arrival of the Kingdom does not happen in a miraculous way that instantly eliminates all injustices and inequalities. That’s not how Jesus sees it. The coming of the Kingdom is a free, gracious act of God. Jesus uses two simple parables, easily understood in the agrarian culture […]
Gospel Reflection for Thursday, January 30, 2025
The parables of Jesus remain relevant because they are attractive, captivating, and thought-provoking. With just a few words, they invite people to “enter” the Kingdom of God and to patiently and hopefully build a different, more fraternal world—the kind of world God desires. The Kingdom, like Jesus Himself, is not meant to stay hidden or […]
Gospel Reflection for Wednesday, January 29, 2025
What is my attitude toward the Word of God? Is it receptive, impermeable, welcoming, superficial, deep, joyful, constant, or restless? What kind of soil am I for the seed the Lord wants to plant in my life? Am I open, closed, hostile, dry, or fertile? The sower sows the seed so that it may yield […]
