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…
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Year B In meditating on the Gospel of this feast of the Most Holy Trinity, we dwell briefly on two very short particles, two simple prepositions. The first is the preposition “in”, and we find it in verse 19: “baptizing them in the name of the Father …”. Whereas,…
Pentecost Easter time does not end with the feast of the Ascension, and the mission of Jesus, the Son sent by the Father, is not complete when the Risen Lord returns to glory. Salvation would not be complete if the entire body, associated with its head, did not participate in this return home, in this…
Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year B We are now at the end of the Easter season, and today’s Liturgy gives us a passage of chapter 17 of John’s Gospel to read. The chapter forms parts of the farewell discourses, but chapter 17 is different from the preceding ones: Jesus stops speaking with His disciples and…
Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B Today, the reading of chapter 15 of the Gospel according to John continues. Jesus describes the relationship that exists between Him and the disciples as one of love: the term love, in these few verses, recurs nine times. Besides the term love we find another one, equally important, that…
Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B Last Sunday we saw how the figure of the shepherd, in so far as Jesus identifies himself (Jn 10), has its roots in the Old Testament: Jesus fulfills the expectation of a good shepherd, who does not flee in the face of danger but stays and offers His life.…