20 mars 2022 Third Sunday of Lent, Year C Today’s Gospel passage (Lk 13:1-9) consists of two parts. Both revolve around the theme of conversion and, at first glance, both seem to be in opposition to each other. In the first part (Lk 13:1-5), people go to Jesus to tell him about a painful event:…
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (Jn 2:1-11) John the Evangelist is very attentive to re-examine the experience of Jesus starting from the Book of Genesis. Like Genesis, John begins his account with the expression “in the beginning’; and as Genesis, he picks up this principle in the narrative of a week, clearly marked…
October 31, 2021 Last Sunday we saw Jesus leaving Jericho, where He meets and heals Bartimaeus, who then proceeds to follow Him along the way (Mk 10:46-52). The context of today’s passage is entirely different: the going up to Jerusalem by Jesus is completed. Jesus has made His solemn entry to the holy city and…
September 26, 2021 XXVI Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Last Sunday, we looked closely at one of the temptations that resides in the heart of the disciples: the temptation of power, of wanting to be considered great, to be first (Mk 9:34). In today’s Gospel passage we find another: it’s the temptation not only…
XX Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B As we continue the reading of Chapter 6 of the Gospel according to John, we get to the heart of this revelation which Jesus makes about Himself, as food that nourishes a life which goes beyond the earthly, biological. And as we continue listening, the words of Jesus…
July 4, 2021 Today’s gospel is full of question marks. We are dealing with five questions, condensed only in two verses. They are questions from a place which is familiar to Jesus, his home town, his “homeland”, presumably Nazareth. Jesus enters in the synagogue. He starts to teach. This arouses first astonishment (Mk 6, 8),…
13th Sunday of ordinary time, year B Today’s particularly interesting gospel passage is taken from Mark 5. As a matter of fact, in the Gospels, we found narratives of Jesus’ healings from various diseases. In today’s narrative, we read about two miracles, not one beside the other but intermingled, as if they were woven together,…
XII Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B This Sunday’s passage (Mk 4: 35-41) opens a new section of the Gospel. After having spoken in parables and instructed the crowd, Jesus wants to go further “go to the other shore” (v. 35) to the region of the Decapolis, an area inhabited mainly by pagans. This passage…
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B The episode told in the passage of today’s Gospel (Mk 3: 20-35) is set in a house, a place very dear to the Evangelist Mark. And it is organized in three parts, intertwined with each other: in the first and third the protagonists are the relatives of Jesus,…
Corpus Christi, Year B In today’s Solemnity we read the same Gospel that the Church proclaims on the evening of Holy Thursday, in remembrance of the Last Supper, which takes us back again to the days of the Passion: Jesus offers His Body and His Blood, His life; He offers it in an extreme gesture…