Author: José Antonio Pagola

What do we followers of Jesus feel when we dare to believe the truth that God has raised Jesus? What goes on…

Jesus has seriously foreseen the possibility of a violent death. Perhaps he wasn’t counting on the intervention of the Roman authorities or…

We find few phrases in the Gospel that are as challenging as these words that express a conviction that is very Jesus:…

It’s not just another phrase. Words that could be eliminated from the Gospel without changing anything important. It’s the affirmation that gathers…

When Jesus goes into the Temple of Jerusalem, he doesn’t find people seeking God, but a religious business. His violent act in…

To be a Christian, what’s most decisive isn’t what a person believes, but what relationship one has with Jesus. Beliefs generally don’t…

The call to conversion almost always evokes in us the remembrance of the demanding effort that’s part of all work of renovation…

Happiness is only possible where we feel welcome and accepted. Where welcome is lacking, life is lacking; our being gets paralyzed; creativity…

Sickness is one of the hardest experiences of human beings. The sick person doesn’t only endure that she feels her life threatened…

Some are imprisoned definitively in an institution. Others wander around on our streets. The great majority live with their family. They’re among…

Very important works have been written defining what is the «essence of Christianity». However, in order to get to know the center…

This thing I’m living: is it faith? How does one become more believing? What steps are there? These are questions I hear…

More than a few practicing Christians understand their faith as only an «obligation». There is a pattern of beliefs that one «ought»…

We all go about making errors and mistakes throughout our life. We calculate things badly. We don’t measure the consequences of our…

Christmas forces us to revise the ideas and images that we usually have of God, but that keep us from coming close…

Luke the Evangelist was afraid that his readers would read his writing just any old way. What he wanted to announce wasn’t…

It’s curious how the fourth Gospel presents the figure of the Baptist. He’s a «man», without any more qualifications or precisions. There’s…

All too many people today don’t bother believing in God. It’s not that they reject God. It’s that they don’t know what…

It’s not always discouragement that destroys hope in us and the desire to keep walking each day full of life. On the…

For 20 centuries we Christians have been talking about love. We constantly repeat that love is the last criterion of every attitude…

The parable of the talents is an open-ended story that lends itself to be read in various ways. In fact, commentators and…

Matthew wrote his Gospel at a critical moment for Jesus’ followers. The coming of Christ has been delayed. The faith of many…

It’s not hard to describe the profile of a happy person in the society that Jesus knew. It would have dealt with…

It wasn’t easy for Jesus’ contemporaries to have a clear vision of what constituted the nucleus of their religion. The simple people…

Modern exegesis leaves no room for doubt. What’s first for Jesus is life, nor religion. It suffices to analyze the trajectory of…

Jesus knew very well the hard and monotonous life of the farm workers. He knew how they waited for the arrival of…

The parable of the «killer tenants» is so harsh that we Christians find it difficult to think that this prophetic warning, directed…

The parable is one of the clearest and simplest ones. A father goes to his two sons to ask them to go…

Without doubt it is one of Jesus’ most surprising and provocative parables. We usually call it «the parable of the workers in…

The great schools of psychotherapy have barely studied the healing power of forgiveness. Until very recently, psychologists haven’t conceded it a role…