THAT question Christ asked his disciples about who did people say he, as the Son of Man, was should also be addressed to each one
Category: Reflections
When faced with a severe test of faith
THAT gospel episode about a Canaanite woman practically pestering Christ to cure her daughter who was tormented by a demon (cfr. Mt 15,21-28) gives us
When God pulls a surprise on us
THAT gospel episode of Christ walking on the water should remind us that God can intervene in our life in some mysterious and extraordinary way.
The sense of the sublime and the supernatural
THE Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, celebrated on August 6, reminds us that like Christ, we are meant to be transfigured to a
Nothing should compete with God
RATHER, everything should support, enhance, reinforce our relation with God. This is what we are reminded of in that gospel which talks about the parables
Dealing with the good and evil in the world
WE are reminded of this peculiar character of our earthly condition in that parable Christ told his disciples about a man who sowed good seed
Lessons from the sower and the seed
THE parable of the sower and the seed (cfr. Mt 13,1-9) prods us to undertake the urgent and most necessary task of spreading the word
We should always be child-like
“I BLESS you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little
What to be Christ-like involves
OUR Christian faith teaches us that since we are God’s image and likeness, we should see to it that our life here on earth is
Be fearless to proclaim the Good News
CHRIST exhorts us to be so. “So do not be afraid of them,” he said. “Everything now covered up will be uncovered, and everything now