Friends:
The gospel on Sunday presents the beginning of Jesus’ preaching. It is very significant that the detail starts in Galilee, far from Jerusalem, that is, far from the institutional. It remains the roadmap: to set aside the security of the established and seek new paths to make the Kingdom present.
To contribute our grain of sand in this necessary creative renewal in freedom, we have translated this valuable book that we will present in Barcelona, in charge of one of the authors, José Arregi. It will be next February 20th. More information on the Bulletin Board. “Reform or abolish the papacy. A challenge for the future of the Catholic Church”, now available in bookstores and in the online store.
Gospel and comments on the Gospel
Matthew 4, 12-23. Come to me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Miguel Ángel Munárriz: The style of Jesus. Who has dared to change Jesus’ style?
José Luis Sicre: Beginning of Jesus’ activity. Jesus does not begin to act until John the Baptist is imprisoned. As if that event awakened in him the awareness that he must continue the work of John.
Enrique Martínez Lozano: **From the shadows of death to the light**. The path from shadows to light is nothing other than the path of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, which allows us to become familiar with all our truth and make peace with it.
Fray Marcos: **I must always be changing my mind**. The Kingdom is a maintained tension.
Fidel Aizpurúa: Immediately. Following Jesus demands a certain courage, a plunging in, a free adherence without calculations.
José Antonio Pagola: Lost in the religious crisis. We are living through times of religious crisis. It seems that faith is being left as drowned in the conscience of many people, repressed by modern culture and by the lifestyle of today’s man.
Carmen Notario: Sunday of the Word of God. What’s the point of reading so much if we don’t have time to pray with it? The Word is alive and powerful. When I hear it, do I let it speak to my heart and shake me out of my lethargy?
Selected articles for the week
**Benedetta Capelli: Parolin urges a return to multilateralism: “A disregard for peace and justice is spreading.”** The international order is no longer what it was 80 years ago with the creation of the UN, the United Nations System, and the new forms of understanding and cooperation between States, formulated in accordance with international law and within its framework.
Gabriel Mª Otalora: Young people and religion. The fundamentalist model emphasizes the institutional model of the Church, so that the Kingdom of God is identified with the ecclesial institution, rather than with the attitude that marks the Message of the Gospel.
RD/Efe: Father Ángel asks Saint Anthony to bless the animals that “fight against the loneliness” of their owners. Sometimes people don’t feel like living, they even take their own lives. This has a remedy, and that is companionship, love, and looking out for one another.
Jesús Bastante: The Pope, against the “substitutes for happiness” who seek “fleeting illusions of success and fame”. Leo XIV contrasts the figure of John the Baptist with “ephemeral, disappointing and oppressive lifestyles and relationships” during the Angelus prayer.
Alejandro Fernández: A Suspicious Silence. Who cares about talking now about the persecuted Christians with so many bombastic headlines? However, someone must say it aloud.
**Fundación “la Caixa” with early childhood: “where equal opportunities begin”**. The Caixaproinfancia program will invest more than 4000 million euros by 2030 to boost social transformation.
**Giovanni Zavatta: European bishops urge the EU to guarantee justice and equality in the turbulent labor market.** “Only an inclusive and socially just human transition” can “unite Europe and guarantee lasting support for the ecological transformation necessary for the common good.”
**José Manuel Vidal: A brave archbishop facing the digital Inquisition: Monsignor Prieto bets on Torres Queiruga**. With its brutal attack on Queiruga, what Infovaticana is trying to do is put the Archbishop of Compostela, Francisco José Prieto, in the crosshairs.
**News of scope**. Nigerian police confirm the kidnapping of 177 Christians: “no Catholics among the hostages.”
For more participatory and current Eucharists
Isaiah 8, 23b – 9, 3. At one time, the Lord humbled the territory of Zebulon and the territory of Naphtali.
1 Corinthians 1, 10-13 y 17. Brothers, I implore you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: be united and not divided.
Florentino Ulibarri: Disciple in practice. If you call me, if you speak to me, if you want me with you…
Vicky Irigaray: 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time. To welcome the Kingdom of God, a radical shift in the orientation of our own lives is necessary, which is concretized in our commitment to “following.”
Anaphor: Conversion. We will not tire of praising your name, because we always find in You understanding for our faults and strength and encouragement to correct ourselves and move forward.
Benedictine Nuns of Montserrat. Sunday 3rd of Ordinary Time.
Multimedia material
Letting go is fearing less, and loving more. By Louise Hay. “Letting go” doesn’t mean stopping caring, it means I can’t do it for another person. “Letting go” isn’t isolating myself, it’s realizing that I can’t control another. “Letting go” isn’t allowing, but recognizing the learning of natural consequences. “Letting go” is admitting powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands. “Letting go” isn’t trying to change or blame another, it’s getting the most out of myself.
Hymn of the Lamb. By Father Fernando Morales. Lamb of God, you who take away the sin of the world, grant us peace.
Salomé Arricibita: Convert…me. “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is near…” I hope that “repent” penetrates me deeply, each of us… so that we can clearly see that the Kingdom of God “is already,” here, now… before our eyes, in us…
Without haste. This song is a statement of intent: choosing to live without haste is not giving up, it’s having clarity. It’s not about going slower out of tiredness, but about not being driven by constant demands. This song speaks of presence, of not being late for what truly matters. It speaks of something universal: inhabiting time with meaning.
Equipo Quiero Ver: 70 years at the service of the Word. Since 1955, Editorial Verbo Divino has spread the Word of God with biblical rigor and pastoral commitment. Seventy years accompanying peoples and communities in faith.
Equipo Quiero Ver: The joy of serving. God remains silent in our journey, but is calling to us. How can I serve others again? Today we are invited to build a new way of being and living with others. Perhaps now is the time to listen, regain enthusiasm, feel touched, discern, awaken, encourage, respond, let go… discover that the proposal continues and that I can still be, a disciple.
Rise when everything burns. By Naurea Soma. When everything breaks, something within us is born. When fear burns… the soul awakens. This song is a call to rise, to remember, to become fire again.
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A hug,
Inma Calvo
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