Author: José Antonio Pagola

Almost no one thinks that love is something that we should go about learning little by little throughout life. Most people surely…

Jesus leaves Jericho, heading to Jerusalem. He’s accompanied by his disciples and more people. Soon they hear some cries. It’s a blind…

Their name never appears in the paper. No one opens any door for them. They don’t have titles or enviable expense accounts,…

In our Churches we ask for money for the needy, but no longer is the Christian doctrine put forth that theologians and…

Today there’s less and less talk about faithfulness. It’s enough to listen to certain conversations to confirm a very different climate: «For…

Frequently we Christians don’t succeed in overcoming a mentality of privileged religion that keeps us from valuing all the good that gets…

Certainly our criteria don’t coincide with those of Jesus. To whom of us today would it occur to think that the most…

Even in this 21st Century, Jesus’ question keeps resounding: «And you, who do you say I am?». It’s not to take a poll.…

The scene is well-known. They bring a deaf man to Jesus, and because of his deafness, he can hardly talk. His life…

The religious crisis goes unwinding little by little toward indifference. Ordinarily one doesn’t talk properly about atheism, nor even agnosticism. The best…

Whoever comes to Jesus, frequently has the impression of meeting up with someone strangely current and more present to our problems of…

The visit of Mary with Elizabeth allows the Evangelist Luke to put the Baptist in contact with Jesus, even before they were…

How many times have we heard it said: «What’s truly important is to know how to live». And yet nothing ends up…

According to John the Evangelist, Jesus is talking to the people on the shores of Lake Galilee. Jesus tells them not to…

All of us Christian know it. The Sunday Eucharist can easily end up a «religious refuge» that protects us from a conflicted…

The scene is filled with tenderness. The disciples get back tired from the work they’d done. The coming and going around them…

What could have happened to separate us so much from that initial project of Jesus? Where has the job of the Master…

He didn’t have cultural power like the Scribes. He wasn’t an intellectual in studies. Nor did he possess the sacred power of…

You hardly hear talk about «God’s providence» today. It’s a language that has fallen into disuse or has been converted into a…

Few parables can provoke greater rejection in our culture of performance, productivity, efficacy than this small one in which Jesus compares God’s…

Jesus creates a special atmosphere in the supper of farewell that he shares with his own the evening before his execution. He…

How did Jesus communicate with God? What feelings were awakened in his heart? How did he experience this day by day? The…

They don’t talk much. They don’t stand out. Their presence is modest and quiet, but they are «salt of the earth». As…

The Church is twenty centuries old now. Behind her are 2,000 years of faithfulness and also not a few infidelities. The future…

Jesus is saying good-by to his disciples. He has loved them passionately. He has loved them with the same love he has…

The image is simple and of great expressive power. Jesus is the «true vine», full of life; the disciples are the «branches»…

For the first believers, Jesus isn’t just a shepherd, but the true and authentic shepherd. The only leader capable of directing and…

There are many ways of hindering the true faith. There’s the attitude of the «fanatic», who grabs hold of a collection of…

Devestated by Jesus’ execution, the disciples sought refuge in a house they knew. They’re again together, but now Jesus isn’t with them.…