The Right to the Truth The right to the truth is often invoked in the context of gross violations of human rights and grave breaches of humanitarian law. The relatives of victims of summary executions, enforced disappearance, missing persons, abducted children, torture, require to know what happened to them. The […]
3rd Sunday of Advent, Year C – 2024-2025
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 […]
34th Sunday, Feast of Christ the King, Year B – 2024
We are flooded with information of all kinds about many topics. We are given much detail about happenings in our surroundings and about events from around the world. But we are sometimes wondering whether the description we are given corresponds to reality or if… If it is not somehow ‘changed’ […]
6th Sunday of Year B – 2024
The Bible offers all kinds of texts to our meditation. These texts, from different authors and times, are presented in different literary styles. Some are deep spiritual reflections, others give us more practical guidelines. Today’s 2nd reading belongs to this last group of texts. In his letter to the Corinthians, […]
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 […]
Feast of the Holy Trinity, Year A – 2020
There is an activity that some of us enjoy doing from time to time. It is that of clearing out things – we look at them, sort them out, discard some, and push others into another place. We may get busy with that in the […]
27th Sunday of Year A
The gospel narratives give us many parables of Jesus. All of them are inspiring, some are challenging, others rather disturbing. I think that the one in this Sunday’s gospel (27th Sunday, Year A – Mt.21:33-43) must have appeared very shocking to Jesus’ listeners. And it was! For us, 21 centuries […]
Ascension of the Lord, Year A
In the Bible, there are many texts which are truly beautiful. They are inspiring, encouraging, consoling. They give light, they provide strength, they bring healing. They can lead to the truth, instill wisdom, and enrich our daily life in so many ways. When I ask different people what their favourite […]
5th Sunday of Easter, Year A
There are some who say: “It is a pity we do not know enough the message of Jesus…” I sometimes think to myself: “It is a pity we know too much the words of Jesus…” This may sound surprising but I believe there is some truth in the second statement. […]
4th Sunday of Lent, Year A
Strange things happen among us, people. Something good can be done for someone and the person who benefits from the good deed is penalized for it! It should not surprise us – this is what happened already in the time of Jesus. We see it in today’s gospel on […]