Month: January 2024

We are still in the first chapter of Mark’s Gospel today, right after Jesus has called his first disciples. They have started to follow him and they arrive together in Capernaum, which his the place where Jesus had his home, at least for a while. Now the passage we have today is quite dramatic. Jesus…

The Gospel we have heard this morning is about the call of the disciples: First come Simon and Andrew. We know that Jesus will rename Simon “Peter”. It’s important to notice that Simon comes first because we believe that Mark was Peter’s companion and that his Gospel is mainly made from Peter’s memories. We also…

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (…)And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. Most of us are quite familiar with the beginning of John’s Gospel,a beautiful passage we always read solemnly of Christmas Dayand the first Sunday after Christmas.We read…

As we celebrate today the feast of the Epiphany, we are invited to hear once again the story of the Magi, the wise men from the East coming to visit Jesus at his birth in Bethlehem. This year though, I wanted for us to do things a bit differently, rather than following the lectionary that…