Biblical Reflections

Forgiveness: it is a Word which we repeat every time when we pray, since our childhood, when we learned the Our Father, which is a beautiful prayer which Jesus taught us when we want to communicate with the Father. It is interesting that when we pray, we forget the meaning of the words we are prayi…

This Sunday we are invited to do fraternal correction as an act of charity, as an act of love for our brothers and sisters. It is very difficult to correct others because we may fear that they will take the opportunity to correct us as well. It is not that the way the Lord wants, we must learn to c…

Last Sunday, we heard than Jesus gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom. Peter had made a beautiful profession of faith: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”Jesus trusted him and gave him a special responsibility in the Church. The keys were not a symbol of domination or privileg…

Maybe we are used to reciting formulas that express our faith, but sometimes we forget they are precious in themselves. I believe in God, our Father, Son of God, our Savior, etc. In a sense, we adopt this terminology to express what we want to believe and what we hold as true deep in our hearts. Wh…

Every year, on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we hear her words: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour. She did not say: I proclaim… I rejoice…, but: my soul proclaims, my spirit rejoices. These words of praise come from the inner…

Jesus can make anything possible, but we human beings, with our own resources, we cannot always make things possible, we are limited. Jesus can command and things can be done easily, but this is not His purpose, Jesus is ready to collaborate with each one of us in order not to be seen as a magician…