Each year, at the beginning of Lent, on Ash Wednesday, we hear this passage from Matthew’s Gospel, an extract of the famous “Sermon on the Mount” where Jesus reminds the crowd of the basics of Jewish piety: Giving alms, praying and fasting. If you remember from last Sunday, we said that Jesus was the “new…

Today is transfiguration Sunday and it’s also the last Sunday of the season of the “Epiphany”, the manifestation of Christ. We conclude our season with this great manifestation that splits the Gospel in the two (This same story is told right in the middle of the three Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke). The transfiguration…

This is our last Sunday with the First Letter to the Corinthians and the passage we have is a very important one as it presents Paul’s understanding of the Resurrection – by the way, it is also the official doctrine of the church on Resurrection, which we don’t know that well. Actually, it is strange…

We continue today in Chapter 15 of the First Letter to the Corinthians. You may remember from last week that Paul is trying to remind the church of the “good news”, the core belief of their faith: That Jesus was raised from the dead. Today, he wants to draw the important consequence of this core…

We’re now in Chapter 15 of the First Letter to the Corinthians, and it’s almost ironically (at least that’s the way we can read it) that Paul addresses the church to say that he needs to “remind” them of the “good news”. It’s ironic because as a church, you would think that we know what…

Today, we’re back in the First Epistle to the Corinthians with a very well-known passage, Chapter 13, a text dedicated to love. Most of us probably have an emotional connection with this passage, whether good or bad – maybe we love this passage because it’s so beautiful, or maybe we don’t like it because we’re…

Before we go any further with the First Letter to the Corinthians, I would like us to first have a look at the Gospel today, as it invites us to reflect a little bit more on the themes we have talked about in the two past weeks. Luke presents us a Jesus “filled with the…

As we celebrated the Lord’s Baptism last week, we spent some time thinking about what baptism is for all of us and what it means for our lives as Christians. We noticed in Luke’s Gospel, as well as in the Book of Acts, that baptism is about “water and fire” – according to the terms…

As we remember today Jesus’s Baptism, the lectionary offers us as a New Testament reading a short extract taken from the Book of Acts, Chapter 8, and it’s about the baptism of the Samaritans. A few verses before our passage (v.5), we are told that Philip had started “proclaiming the Messiah” in Samaria, he has…