The text of today’s gospel presents us with people who have come to John the Baptist with the desire to be baptized by him (Luke 3:10-18). We are told that they are asking themselves questions. “The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts…” What they were […]
22nd Sunday of Year B – 2024
In our moments of lucidity and honesty, we are usually ready to admit that… there is often quite a gap between what we say and what we do! Our way of acting does not always match our way of speaking… This is true of many people and shows itself in […]
16th Sunday of Year B – 2024
It goes without saying, as believers, we try to please God. We strive to follow Jesus’ teaching and to fulfil God’s will in our daily life. From day to day, we make special efforts to behave as we think he wants us to do. At times, we wonder if we […]
33rd Sunday of Year C – 2022
Some people would say that the text of today’s gospel is quite shocking (Luke 21:5-19). For them, two words may summarize the scenes we are given to witness: abomination and desolation. It is a rather accurate perception of the ‘mood’ of this text. The detailed description of events to take […]
7th Sunday of Year C – 2022
Reading the texts of the Bible can stir up our imagination, or our memory… or both! The 1st reading of this 7th Sunday brought to my mind, as an echo, a saying that people sometimes use. People whose interpretation of truth and honesty is rather… stretching to the point of […]
1st Sunday of Advent, Year C – 2021
There is no doubt about it: this 1st Sunday of Advent invites us to look to the future. A promise is essentially doing this and it is a promise that we are given in the 1st reading (Jr.33:14-16). The text of the prophet Jeremiah gives us God’s words in a […]
25th Sunday of the Year, C
None of us would like to be seen as … a slave – the only thought of it is shocking! We cherish and defend our liberty and we do not want it diminished in any way. And yet… in some rare moments of lucidity and honesty, perhaps… perhaps we would […]