Biblical Reflections

Today´s liturgy gives us an strong statement which Jesus assures the disciples “I will not leave you orphans.” Though Jesus knows that He needs to depart physically from this world, Jesus will ask God the Father to send the Holy Spirit to be with them always. This is a good news to all of us, Jesus…

In the Gospel today Jesus tells us that no one can come to the Father except through him. That is a very strong statement. It means that the only way to access God, the Father, is to pass through Jesus. If we want to see God, we must look at Jesus, because he is the true face of God, the Father: “W…

Mission is a community (the flock) that listens the voice of the Shepherd (Jesus) and recognize it as the true call, because He is calling each person by his name. Mission is a community that discerns (sees clearly the robber and the thief and doesn’t follow them), sure that only the Shepherd open…

Have you ever experienced the distance from Jesus? or have you ever felt yourself far from Jesus? Brethren, the liturgy of this Third Sunday of Easter, in line with the Resurrection of the Lord and the Divine Mercy Sunday, offers for our meditation the apparitions of our Saviour Jesus the Risen Lo…

According to the Gospel of St. John, on the evening of Easter Sunday Jesus appeared to the apostles for the first time. After the greeting – “Peace be with you” – he entrusted them with the mission he had received from the Father: “As the Father has sent me, so I send You”. This sentence is the key…

Easter is a day of joy.Not a small, superficial joy,but a deep joy that comes from life.“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.”Because Jesus is alive. In the Gospel, everything begins in darkness.Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb early in the morning.It is still dark.This da…