Month: June 2023

I am afraid I am going to repeat myself because I have often mentioned that the Book of Genesis was written during the Exile, when the Jews were living in captivity in Babylon, after they had lost their land, their city and their temple. We have already talked about how putting their stories into writing…

This Sunday again we have heard a difficult passage of the Gospel…What I think we need to have in mind though is that it is a difficult Gospel because it is a Gospel for difficult times. The passage picks up where we left off last week, let’s remember that what Jesus is doing is that…

The passage of Matthew’s we have just heard is generally seen as a sort of “turning point” in the Gospel. Until then, Jesus has done all the teaching and all the preaching and all the healing, but now he sends the disciples on a mission to do all these things. You may actually notice a…

Well, it looks like today in our readings we meet a lot of different people with very different stories! – To start with we have Abram, an old man with seemingly no much life left in him, and God promises him that he will become the Father of all of God’s people. – In the…

As we celebrate today the feast of the Holy Trinity, the lectionary invites us to listen again to the story of creation, when God “fathered” the whole earth. You may remember that, during Lent, we already spent some time on the book of Genesis, and we talked about how this book was born during a…