Friends and companions:
This week we meditate on the scene of the Transfiguration. The key to the story is the voice that tells us: “Listen to it!” Our commentators bring us a multitude of ideas and reflections, as always, magnificent. María Luisa Paret approaches the text with a very timely feminist gaze, with 8th March already very close. In the articles, Juan Zapatero reflects on the phrase that opens Lent: “Repent and believe in the gospel.” With great accuracy, he focuses on the second part of the phrase, which seems so obvious but is not. Do we believe in the gospel? A tree is known by its fruits. How many of those who wear the “Christian” label do the opposite of what the gospel proposes.
There are still a few days left to be able to read the new book by Fray Marcos. But we already have the cover and the details of it. What are we to be saved from? Who is to save us?
There are some upcoming events for Madrid on the Bulletin Board.
Gospel and comments on the Gospel
Matthew 17, 1-9. Six days after this, he took Peter, James, and his brother John and went up a high mountain by himself.
Miguel Ángel Munárriz: The provisional and the definitive. Within each of us there is a provisional reality and another definitive one.
José Luis Sicre: For the renunciation of triumph. Jesus, who renounces securing his life, obtains the victory symbolized in the transfiguration.
Enrique Martínez Lozano: When We Read in a Key of Fullness. Our limited, lacking, weak, and extremely vulnerable form is neither denied nor repressed. But it is embraced and lived from the fullness that we are and that sustains us at all times.
Fray Marcos: The Divine is Our Essence. We must discover that we live disfigured.
Fidel Aizpurúa: How good it is that we are here! We are in our comfort zone, calm with our idea of a distant God, with our devotions that commit little, with our faith that does not attract attention.
José Antonio Pagola: Listening to Jesus in today’s society. Just a few years ago, it was religion that offered most people criteria for interpreting life and principles for guiding it with meaning and responsibility.
Mª Luisa Paret: What transformation are we referring to? The voice from on high overwhelms the disciples: ‘Listen to it’. Are we listening? Is the Church listening?
Selected articles for the week
Juan Zapatero: Lent: believing in the Gospel. Lent should be a time to deepen our knowledge of the Gospel as a preliminary step to then believing in it.
**Joan Planellas: Lent as a Pedagogy in Time.** Lent is, above all, a theological time, a *kairós* that structures the Christian experience of conversion, of the truth about Jesus Christ, and of Easter hope.
**Rosy Hernández: We Do Not Have a Vengeful God!** Let us leave the law of retaliation and take God’s justice… mercy.
**Miguel Ángel Mesa: Regularization, for justice, for dignity, for humanity**. Those of us who work with migrant people know about the daily dramas they suffer and the need to regularize their situation in order to live with some peace.
**Jesús Bastante: Carlos Aguiar: “Synodality has come to the Church to stay”**. Interview with the primate cardinal of Mexico, after meeting with the Pope and participating in the extraordinary consistory held in the Vatican.
**Koldo Aldai: ¿Herencia cristiana?** The true Christian does not separate, does not raise walls, extends hands and hearts. Does not divide between native and immigrant, between white or colored, does not feel that their God is greater and truer than that of the Muslim.
Vatican News: The Pope warns priests of the “pandemic” of “clerical envy.” In a broad exchange with Roman priests, the Pontiff responded to concerns about accompanying young people, the inculturation of the Gospel, the risks of clerical envy, and the spiritual value of old age and illness.
Isabel Gómez Acebo: Bad Bunny and the Spanish language. I admit that at first I didn’t like the spectacle that Bad Bunny organized for the celebration of the final of the NFL championship.
News. Surviving Paradise: The documentary that recounts the “devastating” experiences of Jehovah’s Witness victims.
For more participatory and current Eucharists
Genesis 12, 1-4. Go out from your country and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.
2 Timothy 1, 8-10. Share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God that is at your disposal.
Florentino Ulibarri: Meeting places, free tabors. The simple things of always, and the surprises, everyday tabors, very human tabors… to find yourself and find each other on the way…
Vicky Irigaray: 2nd Sunday of Lent. The transfiguration reveals the profound mystery of Jesus’ life: his mission and path; but does not free his followers from living reality with all its harshness and ambiguity.
Anfora: Leadership of Jesus. Jesus is the standard-bearer of Christianity and heritage of all humanity.
Benedictine Nuns of Montserrat. Second Sunday of Lent.
Multimedia Material
Your True Self. By Eckhart Tolle. You will not find peace by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level…
When the sun rises. By Naurea Soma. After the darkness, a new dawn always arrives. A song of hope and rebirth, a song that speaks of trusting again, of letting life touch us again, and of finding calm even in difficult moments. It’|s not about forgetting what hurt, but about allowing something new to be born within us. Each sunrise is an opportunity to be reborn, to start again, and to reconnect with our inner strength.
Salomé Arricibita: Bajar del Tabor. I used to live frequently, I used to live without meaning… I will make reality my north, your gaze my course, your embrace my refuge, and my nights will be illuminated.
Como pan pequeño. From Ain Karem. In the task entrusted to us, what joy to know ourselves in the hands of Jesus!, because He blesses all our efforts, in the smallest and most anonymous of each day.
Equipo Quiero Ver: Beyond the valley. Following Jesus is not an easy path, on the contrary, it often has a lot of unevenness. Sometimes, we know that climbing with him to the top of the mountain will be full of difficulties, or we fall into the temptation to believe that we can follow him from below, without complicating our lives too much. What comforts or fears are holding you back at this moment on the path? What small steps can you take today to overcome them?
Rejoice, worry. By Luis Guitarra. Rejoice those who let others touch their skin, those who build the truth, those who dreamed of an upside-down world.
At the EFFA School, we facilitate the link to the curriculum where you can find the entirety of the talks and bibliography available, for those who have not been able to see them or want to review them. The link to access the latest videos that have been uploaded may also be useful.
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A hug,
Inma Calvo
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