In front of big “why” of the life, two ways offer themselves to us: continue to look in a melancholic way at graves of yesterday and today, or to let Jesus approach our graves. Yes, because each of us already has a small grave, a little bit dead zone in its heart: a wound, an ... Read more...
At the heart of this celebration, which seems so festive, are the words we heard in the hymn of the Letter to the Philippians: “He humbled himself” (2:8). Jesus’ humiliation. These words show us God’s way and, consequently, that which must be the way of Christians: it is humility. A way which constantly amazes and ... Read more...
Mother, help our faith! Open our ears to hear God’s word and to recognize his voice and call. Awaken in us a desire to follow in his footsteps, to go forth from our own land and to receive his promise. Help us to be touched by his love, that we may touch him in faith. ... Read more...
All this began from the real and notable experience of thirst. The theme of thirst runs throughout John’s Gospel: from the meeting with the Samaritan woman to the great prophecy during the feast of Tabernacles, even to the Cross, when Jesus, before he dies, said to fulfil the Scriptures: “I thirst”. Christ’s thirst is an ... Read more...
The word of God is alive and powerful, capable of converting hearts and leading them back to God. When we close our heart to the gift of God’s word, we end up closing our heart to the gift of our brothers and sisters. Dear friends, Lent is the favourable season for renewing our encounter with ... Read more...
It is necessary every days to remove some filled of the daily reading and to confide her to the stomach of the memory: a passage which we digest better, and which, reminded to the mouth, will be the object of a frequent rumination: a thought more in touch with our way of life, capable of ... Read more...
It is necessary to let penetrate us by the Word of God, because the Lord comes to look in our existence exactly for what we hid, what we discarded, that we believe to be our weakness, that we would like not to be, the pages of our writing which we would like to tear away ... Read more...
