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…

Last week during our conversation after the service, we talked about the Creeds. One of the things we said that is important to notice is that our articles of faith, summarized in the Creeds, are always based on the Scriptures, they are always based on the story. And so, instead of being there to tell…

As we have started to do regularly on the 3rd Sunday of the month, we will have today another rite of healing, and I am glad that we have some readings today that help us explore what this means for us, I am thinking specifically about this passage from 1 Peter’s that we have just…

This week, we continue to hear from what we call the “Farewell Discourse” in John’s Gospel, the last words spoken by Jesus to his disciples, and we pick up exactly where we left off. If you remember, we talked last time about how Jesus, as he is about to leave this world, focuses on reassuring…

This passage we have heard today is taken from what we have come to call “The Farewell Discourse“, this long conversation in John’s Gospel that Jesus has with his disciples right before being arrested and put to death (chapters 14-17). Of course, everything that Jesus said during his life is very important, but one can’t…

On the Sundays after Easter, we get to read from several passages of the Gospel that are like “snapshots” of the Resurrection: We are told of the experience of the disciples, the eleven and others, at different times, places and how they came to have an encounter with the Risen Christ. But one of the…