Reading the gospel is not an exercise that always provides… comfort. It certainly does at times, but at other times it can be rather upsetting. It happens that Jesus questions us, and even confronts us, in a way that can be disturbing. This is what we see in today’s gospel […]
17th Sunday of Year B – 2021
The methodology of… God can be quite surprising and sometimes rather upsetting – we have all experienced it! He has told us about this long ago through his prophet, Isaiah, when he said openly: “My ways are not your ways” (Is.55:8). But it seems that we do not get used […]
2è dimanche du Carême, année B – 2021
Il vous arrive peut-être, comme à moi, d’envier les apôtres de Jésus. Ils avaient de la chance, il faut le dire. Ils vivaient avec le Maître jour après jour et ils pouvaient écouter son enseignement sur toutes sortes de sujets. Et, bien sûr, ils le voyaient opérer des miracles, des […]
4th Sunday of Lent, Year A – 2020
The question of the apostles to Jesus in today’s gospel (Jn.9:1-41) reflects something of our own thinking at times: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” But long ago, God has told us: “My thoughts are not your thoughts.” (Is.55:8) And he questions us: “Am I not […]
3rd Sunday of Lent, Year B
‘This is foolish, this is nonsense, this is stupid’ – and there are other such attributes that are used to qualify something which we find unacceptable. These expressions came to me when I read the text of the 2nd reading of this Sunday (3rd Sunday of Lent, Year B – […]
2nd Sunday of Lent, Year B
In our conversation, some words have a special meaning, they can have an impact of their own. Usually, such words do not leave a person indifferent. When someone says: “Trust me!” the expression catches our attention and calls for a decision: to trust, or not, the person before us… These […]
21st Sunday of the Year, C
I heard someone say : ‘God does not know how to count’. In any case, his way of counting is not ours. The Psalmist had understood this when he wrote: “A thousand years in your sight are like a day” (Ps.90:4) . And through the prophet Isaiah, God had told us […]