Friends:
We are facing a big week. Four important celebrations in four days. I copy some words from the promoter of this website, Rafael Calvo, which fit us perfectly. “We are not here for hallelujahs. So many bad news stories are coming to us, what they call ‘Easter’. And we who wanted to celebrate the good Easter…” Without minimizing the problems, the Easter experience must lead us to resurrect hope and live in the present. The selection of comments, articles, and multimedia prepared with such enthusiasm by our collaborators is at your disposal.
And also an Easter gift thanks to the generosity of Javier Esteban and our dear Friar Marcos. What the Church didn’t tell you about Historical Jesus.A very interesting interview by Javier Esteban with Friar Marcos where the origins of his life are told and themes such as historical Jesus and his contrast with dogmas, the idea of an omnipotent God, sin as error, or life after death, among others, are explored.
Holy Thursday
Friar Marcos: He who eats me will live through me.If we do not live for him, we have not eaten him.
Fidel Aizpurúa Donazar: He begins to wash their feet. There is no doubt that Holy Thursday is the appropriate day to measure our servant spirit. What is celebrated here is for those who want to serve.
Inma Eibe: Lord of the towel and the basin. On this Holy Thursday we again contemplate the scene of the washing of the feet and Jesus’ gesture of extreme humility, the intimate union between love and service. Today too, he takes the towel and kneels before us.
Florentino Ulibarri: I call you friends
Vicky Irigaray: The Supper of the Lord Jesus. Jesus invites us to live in an attitude of permanent service and to find the paths that make solidarity and fraternity possible among all.
Salomé Arricibita: Gethsemane. Jesus seeking, as always, intimacy with the Father, now more than ever because fear and anguish possess him. His friends sleep unaware of what is coming upon him. And he feels alone.
Equipo Quiero Ver: Washing the feet. It is not what you say, it is what you give… when no one sees you… Washing the feet, with love, with love, lowering the soul unconditionally. Washing the feet, with love, with love, the smallest sounds greater. Washing the feet… that is love.
Good Friday
Friar Marcos: Jesus lived for us.We will reach our fullness by living as Jesus lived.
Fidel Aizpurúa Donazar: Passion of God, passion for the world. Jesus was passionate about God, whom he sought with longing. And we also have no doubt that passion for people nested in his heart, especially the passion for fragile people.
Carme Soto Varela: Good Friday. Subversive memory and prophetic narrative of an unarmed God. Evil does not have the last word, despite the pain and the victims it produces.
Florentino Ulibarri: More human…
Vicky Irigaray: Universal prayer. Jesus who dies without understanding. In your body, too, the hearts grow cold that at the end of their lives were pierced by the spear of failure, the days that suddenly darkened with tragedy.
Salomé Arricibita: All is fulfilled. At the foot of the cross, I hear you pronounce these words “All is fulfilled.” Perhaps my plans do not match my life, perhaps I follow a path I never wanted to start but that I must walk. But You come with me, therefore, “All is fulfilled.”
Equipo Quiero Ver: Via Crucis of contemporary world. Today, there are still too many people on the path to the cross; it is the viacrucis of the contemporary world. We propose accompanying Jesus on Good Friday through 14 situations to face and for which to pray.
You are on the cross. Song for Good Friday for a space of prayer and contemplation before the mystery of the cross. Through simple and profound lyrics, it invites us to stop in the silence of the afternoon, to look at crucified Jesus, and to let ourselves be touched by a love that gives itself until the end.
Easter Vigil
Florentino Ulibarri: Easter proclamation
Vicky Irigaray: Easter Vigil. This is the holy night in which God calls us to life and becomes our hope.
Easter Sunday
Miguel Ángel Munárriz Casajús: God did not make us to die. If Christ has not risen, our faith is in vain.
José Luis Sicre: Three reactions to the resurrection of Jesus. The Gospel narrative focuses on the reactions of these three characters: Mary Magdalene, Simon Peter, and the beloved disciple.
Enrique Martínez Lozano: Every moment is complete. Many times, the afterlife has been imagined as a perpetuation of the self when it seems more sensible to think of death as the transcendence or liberation of the self.
Fray Marcos: There are no arguments for the resurrection. Only to discover that Life within us.
José Antonio Pagola: Mystery of hope. To believe in the Risen one is to resist accepting that our life is only a small parenthesis between two immense voids.
Fidel Aizpurúa Donazar: Saw the stone removed. Mary Magdalene saw the stone removed and understood that the risen Jesus was the one who lived without a tombstone and urged those who loved him toward a similar life, free from any servitude.
Mª Guadalupe Labrador: Absences that make presences known. Absences that reveal deeply desired presences, which help move from “he is not here” to “he lives among us.”
Florentino Ulibarri: Time of Resurrection
Vicky Irigaray: Easter Sunday. May our Easter joy sow in our hearts the joy and utopia of a different and urgent future.
Benedictine Nuns of Montserrat. Easter Sunday.
Salomé Arricibita: Make Me Live. Let us rise again, let us learn to live each day in the manner of Jesus.
Equipo Quiero Ver: New Life. Surely there are things in your life that you have discarded, set aside, that you no longer count on, that you consider dead… Well, we still have the opportunity to count on them, to give them new life and thereby generate new life around. To celebrate Easter and the resurrection, we must be willing to review our lives.
Selected Articles for the Week
Miguel Ángel Mesa Bouzas: Holy Week 2026. By serving, by being with the last and the least, one fully learns the mystery of life, and therefore, the Mystery of Divinity.
Gabriel Mª Otalora: Do We Celebrate the Eucharist? There is no community consciousness in Mass: God, the priest, and I, barely broken by the sign of peace before communion, a communal gesture that some try to bypass because it breaks that individualism.
José Chamorro: What We Do Not Avoid Reveals Us. In our days, the temptation is to remain in a narrative of suffering. For Jesus, Passion is not something he simply endures, but a path he traverses without renouncing at any moment what he has lived and taught.
Joseba Kamiruaga Mieza: Rest in Peace Noelia Castillo. The affirmation of the primacy of life as a gift cannot be exercised to the detriment of those who do not recognize that gift or no longer want it. If life is a gift, it must remain a gift and not become a yoke. And everything points to the fact that for Noelia Castillo it was an unbearable yoke.
Faustino Vilabrille: The Multimillion Dollar Construction of the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona and Poverty in the World. There is still much to be done in this Church to make it each day more coherent with Jesus of Nazareth, his Message for the good of Humanity and Creation.
Jairo del Agua: Why the Passion and Death? From THE CROSS to LIGHT. Without incoherent lies and hoods worshipping a “bastard god”. The death of the Lord has no expiatory, salvific, sacrificial, or forgiving meaning. That is hanging our crime on God, as if He demanded the blood of His Son to forgive us.
Digital Religion: “A Real Reason for Hope”: Open Letter from a Victim of Abuse in the Church After the Signing of the Reparation Protocol. I am a victim of sexual abuse within the Church. Today, after the signing of the Church-Government protocol, for the first time, I can say that there is a real reason for hope. Now it is time to take the next step: that this system truly works.
Jesús Lozano Pino: Genius of faith or high-capacity minds? Connecting International High Capacities Day with spiritual intensity. Are the saints people with spiritual high capacities?
Scope news. Easter message to Christians in the Middle East.
Multimedia material
Song to my inner child. By Naurea Soma. This song is a return home. To the part of you that once trusted, dreamed, played, and viewed life with innocence. To your inner child… the one who never disappeared, just waiting to be heard. If this song touches you, allow something within you to soften. Breathe. Feel. Return to yourself.
Today I choose to be grateful. Sometimes we cannot change everything that happens, but we can choose how to look at it. “Today I Choose to Be Grateful” is a therapeutic song I created about gratitude, trust, and the inner strength that arises when we decide to value what is present.
For priests in crisis. Video of Pope April 2026. In the life of the Church, priests are called to accompany, support, and serve their communities, but they too can go through difficult times that require closeness and support.
What the Church didn’t tell you about Historical Jesus. A very interesting interview by Javier Esteban with Fray Marcos where the origins of his life are told and themes such as historical Jesus and its contrast with dogmas, the idea of an omnipotent God, sin as error, or life after death, among others, are explored.
In the EFFA School we provide the link to the curriculum where all available talks and bibliography are located, for those who could not watch them or wish to review any. The link to access the latest uploaded videos may also be useful.
And, as I promised you, the letters will end with these three links: the letter of the week, the last week’s letter and letters from other weeks. When someone loses -or has not received- the email with the news, they can use an old letter to access the new one.
A hug,
Inma Calvo
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