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Solemnity of All Saints – November 1, 2017

The word saint indicates the presence in certain people of a divine and beneficial force that allows one to stand out, to distance oneself from what is imperfect, weak, ephemeral. Among the people who appeared in this world, only Christ has possessed the fullness of this force of goodness and only he can be declared saint, as we sing in the Gloria: “You alone are holy.” But we, too, can rise up to him and become partakers of his holiness. 

Commentary to the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A –

Any promotion, any growth of man realizes God’s plan. “So let us love one another since he loved us first. If you say, ‘I love God’ while you hate you brother or sister, you are a liar. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your brother or sister who you see? We have received from him this commandment: let those who love God also love their brothers and sisters”

Feast of All Saints

November 1st, in the Christian calendar, is the Feast of All Saints; it's when Christians remember all who have gone before us in space and time. They were holy, kind, humble, respectful, obedient, loving, caring, brave, etc.... "All for the glory of God" was their ultimate goal.

Commentary to the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A –

The kingdom of God is the central theme of Jesus’ preaching. He begins his public life by announcing: “The kingdom of God is at hand” (Mk 1:15). Then, using many parables, he gradually reveals “the mysteries” (Mt 13). That one of the last hour workers (Mt 20:1-16) is certainly the most puzzling. Jesus told it to emphasize both the gratuitousness of the call and the commitment required of one who enters the kingdom of God.

Commentary to the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A –

¡Christ and his gospel are "the stone" hurled by God against this monstrous structure. They are “the stone" that shatters the logic of this world, the tricks, cunning and above all the foolish images men made for themselves of God. The stone is intended to shatter the plans of the wicked and smash their children. The wicked will no have offsprings, will remain without posterity, and no future because God will vanish all doers of iniquity. This is the good news. 

Commentary to 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

The parable of today's gospel depicts three characters: a father and two sons. 
No, even when he had said yes, he was not at all in accord with the program of his father. He had only spoken words, empty words. It recalls another saying of Jesus: “Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my heavenly Father” (Mt 7:21).

Commentary to the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

The dialogue between God and man is established only where there is a free encounter, free gift, unconditional reciproal love. Who loves claims nothing and expects nothing but to see the loved one smile and rejoice. "Your salvation is manifested in this: you are merciful to those who have no treasure of good works.” Jesus made this righteousness of God his own.

Commentry to the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

What does God expect from us? His very own “compassion”: He wants that we do not keep the brother a slave of his past. He claims that we do not take his breath away while he desperately tries to rise up from the chasm. God asks us to help him seventy times seven, renouncing to any recourse against him. The children of the kingdom of God are “merciful as the heavenly Father” (Lk 6:36) and they understood that “love does not delight in wrong, excuses everything, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Cor 13:5-7).

Commentary to the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A –

For Jesus: “the small ones” are at the center of his community’s attention. They are God's treasure, the precious pearl for which it is worth to scour every corner of the world; the jewel that brings overflowing joy to whoever finds it (Mt 13:44-46). The rabbis said: "The Lord rejoices in the resurrection of the righteous and the destruction of the wicked." The God of Jesus is more pleased when a sinner returns than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray (Mt 18:13). 

Commentary to the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

In our day we are also tempted to live in the dynamics of the conservation of our own humanity, our own ego, in short, our own interests. This is living from human logic. Today, more than ever, we are tempted to commit crime, to settle, to easily abandon our convictions; To sell the word - speaking to each person what he wants to hear - without being witnesses of the truth of Christ. 

Commentary to the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time - A -

It is not enough to learn what others, even apostles, say about the Teacher. One could write an encyclopedia about the Christ and still not be a card-carrying Christian. To each baptized, Jesus leans over and whispers, "But YOU...who do YOU say I am?" That question will never go away. 

Commentary to the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

The message is as timely as ever. The church is called to be sign that all discriminations related to gender, membership to a race, to a people or to an institution are ended. Paul declares: “In Christ Jesus, all of you are sons and daughters of God through faith. Here there is no longer any difference between Jew or Greek, or between slave or freed, or between man and woman; but all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Commentary to the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

Faith Matures in Moments of Crisis. "Come to me now—the Risen Lord repeats to every disciple. Do not be afraid of losing your life. If you hesitate, death will make you afraid. If you trust my word, the waters of death will not scare you, and you will cross over and catch up with me in the resurrection.”

Commentary to the Transfiguration of the Lord

Jesus leaves the plain and leads some disciples to the heights; he moves them away from human reasoning and calculations to introduce them into the inscrutable designs of the Father. He makes them go up to bring them back then, transformed, to the land where they are called to work. 

Commentary to the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time –Year A

Jesus warns us: "Do not store up treasures for yourself here on earth, where moth and rust destroy it, and where thieves can steal it. Store up treasures for yourself with God, where no moth or rust can destroy it, nor thief come and steal it. For where your treasures is, there also will your heart be” (Mt 6:19-21). 

Commentary to the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time -Year A

The world came out good from the hand of God. However, the presence of evil remains an enigma, a disturbing element that man cannot stand. He is impatient as the servants in the parable. He asks himself: "Where did the weeds come from?" Frenzy, to immediately solve the tensions he experiences, takes over him. He ends up resorting to worse remedies of evil. He becomes intolerant and ruthless with himself and with others. He punishes cruelly, launches holy wars and gets carried away by anger that "never fulfills the justice of God” (Jas 1:20).

Commentary to the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A –

Between Heaven and Earth: Te World. "Hear, o Israel” is the most beloved prayer of the Jewish pity (Dt 6:4). In the Bible, listening does not mean to receive a communication or information, but to adhere to, to receive, to keep in one’s heart and put into practice a proposal. It is equivalent to granting trust to God. Those who listen to his word with these provisions are blessed (Lk 11:28).

Commentary to the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A –

Jesus is presented as meek and humble of heart. These are the terms that we find in the Beatitudes. The passage of today's Gospel is a reason for both personal and community reflection. Which God do we believe in? Is he that one of the "wise" or that one revealed to us by Jesus? For whom is our community a sign of hope, for whom is one convinced of meriting the first place, for whom does one feel unworthy to cross the threshold of the church? 

Commentary to the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

Commentary to the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

In today’s Gospel, Jesus insists, three times: “Do not be afraid!” (vv. 26,28,31) and each time, he adds a motive to justify his recommendation. The announcer of the Gospel is afraid, first of all, because of the violence unleashed by the enemies of Christ, his mission might fail (vv. 26-27).