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Tonight Jesus stands on the brink of his Passion, Esta noche, Jesús se encuentra en el umbral de su Pasión, and knowing this, sabiéndolo having loved his own in the world to the end, habiendo amado a los suyos que estaban en el mundo hasta el extremo, he leaves them with a great testament of…

We have just heard St. Matthew’s account of our Lord’s passion, from his entry into Jerusalem to his death and burial. It is an account that, however familiar it might be to us, yet moves us again and again to compassion for this innocent man, cruelly tortured and put to death by the very ones…

 One may well sympathize with the suffering that Mary and Martha, to say nothing of Lazarus, are left to endure during this episode. You can imagine how things must have gone, how Lazarus must have fallen ill, how, in spite of the care of his sisters, his condition must have dangerously worsened, and of how…

Our Lord’s conversation with the Samaritan woman starts off casually enough, even if there is a bit of underlying tension arising from the strangeness of the encounter: a man and a woman, one a Jew the other a Samaritan, speaking at a well at midday. Still, Jesus initiates the conversation rather straightforwardly: Give me a…

 La conversación de nuestro Señor con la mujer samaritana comienza de manera bastante informal, aunque hay una cierta tensión debido a lo extraño del encuentro: un hombre y una mujer, uno judío y la otra samaritana, hablando junto a un pozo al mediodía. Aun así, Jesús inicia la conversación de forma bastante directa: Dame de…

What is the proper way to approach the law? This is the question that lurks in the background of today’s gospel, as Jesus challenges his hearers to not only obey the commandments, but to go to the heart of the commandments – to not only not kill, but to not even give in to anger,…

¿Cuál es la forma adecuada de abordar la ley? Esta es la pregunta que subyace en el evangelio de hoy, cuando Jesús desafía a sus oyentes a no solo obedecer los mandamientos, sino a ir al corazón de los mandamientos: no solo no matar, sino ni siquiera ceder a la ira; no solo no cometer…

This call that Jesus makes to us to be the salt of the earth, a city on a hill, a lamp on a lampstand – this gets to the heart of our evangelizing mission as Christians. It is, you could say, integral to who we are that we radiate the light of Christ to the…

Esta llamada que Jesús nos hace a ser la sal de la tierra, una ciudad en un monte, una vela en un candelero, llega al corazón de nuestra misión evangelizadora como cristianos. Se podría decir que es parte integral de lo que somos irradiar la luz de Cristo al mundo, un hecho que celebramos litúrgicamente…

This weekend we begin reading from the Sermon on the Mount, that great discourse of Jesus that we find in Matthew’s gospel, which we will be hearing from for these next three weeks until the start of Lent. And it’s important, I think, that we not lose sight of the unity of this discourse, which…