Commentary on the Gospel – December 13, 2025
There are people who run from place to place looking for the extraordinary and the miraculous. They travel from one apparition site to another. It is as if they felt the need to find a window into heaven, into the other world, that would confirm their faith. Because what we already have seems not to […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 12, 2025
There are people who are experts at looking the other way and acting as if nothing concerns them. As a friend of mine used to say whenever he did exactly that: “That’s not my department.” And off he went, completely at ease, minding his own business—what mattered to him. The Kingdom is exactly the opposite. […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 11, 2025
Sometimes in life we spend far too much time looking at the past. We remember other times and it always seems to us that they were better. There was more of…—and we can fill in here many things we believe are missing today. But in reality, that is not true. What happens is that memory […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 10, 2025
When I was a child, I was taught the commandments of God’s law, the commandments of the Church, and many other moral rules—rules in which, it seems inevitably, we were threatened with mortal sin and eternal condemnation if we failed to keep them. And there were many, many, opportunities to commit a mortal sin. One […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 9, 2025
Mercy triumphs over judgment (James 2:13), and it could not be otherwise with a God who is Love, who is Father-Abba, who is Mercy, who is Forgiveness. It is important to keep in mind that in all these expressions the verb to be carries its full weight. These are not ornaments added to God’s name; […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 8, 2025
Sometimes I feel a bit uneasy when I think about the contrast between the images of the Virgin Mary we are used to—crowns, mantles, jewels—and what the real life of that simple village woman, Mary of Nazareth, must have been like. And when I say “village,” I mean a real village: an archaeologist once told […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 6, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, Today’s Gospel passage is a small missionary discourse, with a rich introduction and some practical instructions. The beginning of the narrative connects directly with the text from Isaiah that we have just read—what we might call God’s self-presentation as the Good Shepherd. He is the God who walks with you and […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 5, 2025
Queridos hermanos: Era una de las esperanzas más repetidas en Israel (Is 29,19): en los días mesiánicos verían los ciegos. Jesús participaba de esa misma esperanza, y cuando unos discípulos del bautista le pregunten si han llegado ya los tiempos deseados, si es él realmente el mesías, remite inmediatamente a la curación de ceguera (Mt […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 7, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, peace and all good to you. On this second Sunday of Advent, two great figures appear before us: Isaiah and John the Baptist. They notice that our world is quite old and worn, and they speak to us about gardening and public works. On the one hand, in the middle of […]
Commentary on the Gospel – December 4, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, Human life can be lived with consistency, or it can be lived lightly and irresponsibly. The lyrics of the song by Los Panchos remind us: “You only live once, you must learn to love and to live… before it slips away and leaves us crying over illusions.” This could guide our […]