Week after week, Sunday after Sunday, we are given Scripture readings to ponder over. Written in a language which is not the one of our daily conversations, it may happen that we do not grasp the full meaning of the texts. It may also be that the truth they express […]
6th Sunday of Easter, Year C – 2019
A mansion, a cottage, or even a log cabin – all of them can protect us from extreme cold or suffocating heat. The structure may be of metal, cement, or wood, any type of habitation will provide us with some kind of shelter. We can think of an apartment, […]
2nd Sunday of Year B
Whenever I come across the text of the 1st reading of this Sunday(2nd Sunday of Year B – 1 Sam.3:3-10,19), I am tempted to envy the young Samuel. He was very fortunate in being told how to speak to God, what to tell him, in other words: How to pray! […]
12th Sunday of the Year, A
« To speak or not to speak: that is the question”, some would say… This is what we are confronted with in the last lines of this Sunday’s gospel (Mt.10:26-33, 12th Sunday of the Year, Year A) as we hear Jesus tell us: “If anyone declares himself for me in the […]
6th Sunday of Easter, Year A
During the years he spent with his apostles, Jesus had spoken very often of THE Father, HIS Father. I imagine that they had, somehow, got an idea of who he was… God, the God of their ancestors, and Jesus was his special messenger. But the HOLY SPIRIT…?… I ask myself […]
Pentecost, C
“He is under the influence…” This expression has come to be used for someone “driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.” But is can be heard as well when speaking of a child acting “under the influence” of siblings or peers. Again a person seen as being weak in […]
6th Sunday of Easter, C
We are all familiar with the Ads section of the newspaper, the special area of ‘Job description’. Many people looking for employment will consult this regularly. Today gospel (6th Sunday of Easter C, Jn.14:23-29) gives us, somehow, a job description of… the Holy Spirit! This expression may seem irreverent when […]
2nd Sunday of the Year, C
The Wedding Feast at Cana It seems that we know the text of this gospel scene so well (Jn.2:1-11), we could repeat it with all its details. And that is precisely the danger: perhaps we know it too well! If someone were to ask me to summarize this text in […]