“Before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father…“ One of the distinctive features of John’s Gospel is that we always meet a Jesus who is fully aware of what’s going on around him. Many times in this book, we see…

This Sunday, we’re finishing up with our Lenten exploration of some passages of the Old Testament (next week is already Palm Sunday), and today we have a lesson from the Book of the prophet Ezekiel. Prophecy is a strange word for us, but still not unfamiliar: don’t we hear ever so often about “the prophecies…

This Sunday is going to look a little different than other Sundays because we’re going to dedicate part of our liturgy to do a service of healing with laying of the hands and anointing. It is a tradition that has always existed in the church, it’s already mentioned in the New testament, in James’s Epistle,…

Last week, we talked about how Abraham was called by God to cross the wilderness trusting in God’s promise to give him a new land, a great name and countless descendants. About five centuries later, Abraham’s people finds themselves again in the wilderness, having to go back to Canaan, after they had been freed from…

Today, we continue to read from the Book of Genesis. Last week, we talked about how the book is believed to have been written during the Exile in Babylon, in the 6th century before Christ, at this time where Israel starts to reflect on what it means to be a people, to have a land,…

What we have come to call “The Old Testament”, the first part of the Bible for Christians, is believed to have begun to be put into writing during Israel’s captivity in Babylon, in the 6th century before Christ. This would make sense for several reasons: – The first reason is that it wasn’t the masses…

“The Lord is full of compassion and mercy* slow to anger and of great kindness” (Psalm 103: 8) I love it that we start our Lenten journey with this passage of the psalm that reminds us that our God is a loving, forgiving God. Psalms are these songs of Ancient Israel that the people used…

Today we celebrate the Last Sunday in the season of Epiphany, and it is also an important time of transition. Last week, during our class, we talked about the different seasons of the church, what they mean in terms of rhythms and rites, but also, and mainly, in terms of spirituality, and how these seasons…

If you remember from last week, I told you that today, as we work our way through the Sermon of the Mount, we will talk more about what the Law means for Jesus and how he invites his disciples to obey it. In the meantime though, I had a very good question that I would…

This week we continue to hear from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s Gospel. The passage we have today follows right after the Beatitudes we have talked about last week, and next week we will continue reading from what follows right after this text. Now the lectionary tries to present us with Gospel lessons…