May 8 is World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. It’s a time to recognize the staff and volunteers who traverse their communities, their countries, and the globe to alleviate human suffering. 1 in 25 people in the world is helped by the Red Cross or Red Crescent each year. […]
Palm Sunday, Year C – 2025
The gospel text beginning this celebration – Palm Sunday – presents many aspects that draw our attention and can inspire our reflection (Luke 19:28-40).The scene is filled with people: Jesus and his apostles, the Pharisees, the owners of a colt, and the crowd accompanying Jesus. He is on the way […]
2nd Sunday of Lent, Year C – 2025
Some Bible scholars claim that today’s gospel scene, that of the Transfiguration of Jesus, was used by him with a special purpose (Luke 9:28-36). They say that, some time before, Jesus had spoken to his apostles about his coming Passion.He did not want them to get discouraged about what was […]
International Women’s Day – 8 March 2025
Equal rights. Equal opportunities. Equal power. On International Women’s Day (8 March), that is the bold call for action for all women and girls worldwide. As we mark the 30th year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the world is deeply unequal. International Women’s Day is a chance […]
Epiphany of the Lord, Year C – 2025
Day after day, we read the Scripture to know and to understand – to know better, to understand more deeply who God is. The Bible texts offer us images and symbols, they relate events, they describe situations. Very often, they present us a message by way of contrast, of opposites. […]
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation – 1st September 2024
« Hope and Act with Creation” is the theme of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, to be held on 1 September 2024. The theme is drawn from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans (8:19-25), where the Apostle explains what it means for us to live according […]
The Alphabet of Lent – Letter M
M for Message Messages, we receive plenty of them! Those which used to come to us through the mail still reach us. But the many platforms of the social media are now a more importance source. Permanent connection, continuous information, repeated messages in loop – each second downloads them! Each message […]
28th Sunday of Year A – 2023
We sometimes hear people exclaim: “This is too good to be true!” They may speak these words about some unexpected outcome, or some surprising opportunity. They can hardly believe that such good fortune is offered to them. The text of today’s 1st reading could perhaps provoke the same reaction […]
On the way to Emmaus…
Emmaus, we have heard the name of this village – heard also the story of what happened to the two disciples going there. They were on their way, and then suddently… But let us listen to Anil Das Kumar and Dominic Savio Rassalayyan telling us what happened on that night… […]
3rd Sunday of Easter, Year A – 2023
Reading the gospel, sometimes a sentence, even a single word, can keep us… there – at the thought, or the scene, or… more still, at the situation described. We may not be fully aware of the reason, but we are drawn to remain… just there. We feel the need […]