MANY reasons can come to mind to answer that question. One is that Christ himself said so. When asked by Peter how many times one
Category: Reflections
Developing the true spirit of Christian fraternity
CHRIST describes for us what true fraternity among ourselves should be. It’s in that gospel episode were Christ told his disciples what they should do
We need to suffer and die
WE have to be clear about this aspect of our Christian life. Yes, we need to suffer and die, just like Christ, who is the
How to know ourselves properly
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
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