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Today, the fourth Sunday of Easter, is traditionally known as “Good Shepherd Sunday”. We pray for Priests and vocations to Priesthood. What is the “raison d’être”of a Priest? Who are we Priests? Are we ‘special’? Every vocation is born of love of predilection. As for every person, God has called us, Priests, to be His […]

We know from the Gospels that at table with the Risen Christ we find a variety of food: grilled fish, bread and much more. Caravaggio, in his well-known Supper at Emmaus, has included wine, meat and even a basket full of fruits. Yet, the “flesh and bones” mentioned by the Risen Lord do not refer […]

Have you ever heard of “tomb psychology”? Thinking that everything is going badly in my life and things can’t get worse… Losing heart… feeling sick in spirit… cynical, negative and despondent… Growing disheartened and tempted to judge everything in the light of our failures… Dissatisfied and confused… not knowing really why… A succession of complaints… […]

Around the empty open tomb of Christ appear, from the very beginning, two distinct groups of peoples, two “movements”: the women and the soldiers, a “movement” of TRUTH and a “movement” of LIES. The women run away from the tomb announcing the Good News, the victory of Christ over death; the soldiers run away from […]

Today is Palm Sunday, next Sunday is Easter Sunday! During our Lenten journey, like any other journey, we can catch some ‘diseases’ and stumble over some ‘malfunctioning’ modes. Over the past weeks we tried to draw up a catalogue, a list of probable ‘Lenten diseases’. An ‘Abstract Lent’ where Spirit and flesh never seem to […]

Next Sunday is Palm Sunday! As the time of Lent is getting shorter and shorter, we face yet another risk, in fact a big temptation: to measure, to judge, to assess our ‘performance’. After the risk of an ‘Abstract Lent’ with no impact in our concrete day-to-day life; the risk of a ‘Formal Lent’ made […]

After the risk of an ‘Abstract Lent’ ineffective in our real concrete lives, the risk of a ‘Formal Lent’ duly kept outwardly in terms of fasting, prayer and almsgiving but missing out the deep truth about our inwardly transformation, the risk of an ‘Orphan Lent’ somehow lost and disconnected from Easter and from Pentecost, there […]

After the risk of an ‘Abstract Lent’ and the deception of a ‘FormalLent’, there is third, even more dangerous risk, an ‘Orphan Lent’.What do I mean?Lent does not exist by itself, it does not have meaning on its own.Lent has a ‘father’, and the father of Lent is the Passover.Lent has a ‘mother’, and the […]

After ‘Abstract Lent’ there is a second risk, a ‘Formal Lent’.  Most of us see Lent as a time when we ‘must’, we ‘ought’, we ‘have to’. Fine, but what do we ‘need to’? Is there more to Lent than religious obligations and dietary restrictions? Is there a deeper truth beyond the ‘form’ of Lent? […]

The Lenten journey has begun: out of the slavery of the land of Egypt, through the desert, to the freedom of the Promise Land. Sorry, can you repeat? What do you mean by ‘slavery’ and ‘freedom’? Pharaoh, Egypt, desert?  What are they? We all run a huge risk: Lent in abstract. In his Lenten Message […]