GOD – we try to know him, of course. We read, and study, and try to understand… Understand who he is, how he looks upon us, how we can relate to him. At times, what we are told about him goes way beyond what we could have imagine. This is […]
The Alphabet of Lent – Letter Z
Z pour Zacchaeus He was small of stature but determined as no one else. He knew what he wanted and… what he did not want! He wanted to see the Man of Nazareth, and he did not want anything, or anyone, to prevent him from doing so! He used a […]
4th Sunday of Lent, Year B – 2024
When telling something important to someone, we are inclined to repeat it. We want to make sure that the message has been heard, understood and… received. The person may exclaim: “You told me already…” To which we tend to reply: “Yes, but I wanted to be certain that you have […]
3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A – 2022-2023
Reading God’s message week after week, we are sometimes struck by an idea. A short text perhaps, or even a single verse, can draw our attention and… we remain there. It seems that we cannot keep on reading… We are caught by something which has touched us in a special […]
5th Sunday of Easter, Year B
At times, we may feel that we need some encouragement in our life as Christians. We try to be faithful to God’s message. We struggle to follow God’s way from day to day. We strive for the kind of life we know he expects from us… But, somehow, we feel […]
Good Friday, Year B
“The crowds were appalled on seeing him – so disfigured did he look that he seemed no longer human – … without beauty, without majesty, No looks to attract our eyes… A man to make people screen their faces. » This is what Isaiah tells us in the 1st reading of […]
Short, surprised, saved…
Yes, he was short, too short! He climbed a tree but was told to come down. A guest invited himself to his house, yes, « the house of a sinner » to whom salvation had come that day.
31st Sunday of the Year, C
He was well-known, yes, he had a reputation, but not one to be envied. He was despised by his people for being a publican. As such, he was collecting the taxes from his fellow-Jews to the benefit of the hated power of occupation – the Romans. He was clever and […]
5th Sunday of Lent, C
The past… OUR past… We can live in the past, with nostalgia… We can cling to the past traditions and customs… We can try to bury the past in forgetfulness… We can try not to face the past because of it being too shameful or painful… The 1st and the […]