Author: José Antonio Pagola
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Listening to jesus in today’s society
Even until a few years ago it was religion that offered most people the criteria to interpret life and the principles to…
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We don’t know how to taste faith
Perhaps, one of the greatest tragedies of contemporary Christianity is the lack of “religious experience.” There are many who call themselves Christians…
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Listening to jesus in today’s society
Even until a few years ago it was religion that offered most people the criteria to interpret life and the principles to…
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Faithful to jesus in temptations
Right from the start, the Christians of the first generation were interested in the «temptations» of Jesus. They didn’t want to forget…
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Right from the start, the christians of the first generation were interested in the «temptations» of jesus
The story is startling: in the “desert” you can hear God’s voice, but you can also feel the attraction of the dark…
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Faithful to jesus in temptations
Right from the start, the Christians of the first generation were interested in the «temptations» of Jesus. They didn’t want to forget…
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The social importance of forgiveness
It’s not easy to listen to Jesus’ call to forgiveness or to grasp the implications it can have when we accept that…
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Social importance of forgiveness
It’s not easy to hear the call of Jesus to forgiveness, nor to grasp all the implications it may have. To accept…
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Giving flavor to life
One of the most urgent tasks for the Church today and always is assuring that faith arrives to people as «good news».…
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Give life flavor
One of the most urgent tasks of the Church today and always is to ensure that faith reaches people as “good news.”…
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Listen closely to the beatitudes
When Jesus goes up the mountain and sits down to announce the Beatitudes, there’s a crowd around him, but only «the disciples…
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Listen closely to the blessings
When Jesus goes up the mountain and sits down to announce the blessings, there is a crowd in that setting, but only…
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Lost in the religious crisis
We live in times of religious crisis. It seems that faith goes about ending up suffocated in the consciences of all too…
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Lost in the religious crisis
We are living through times of religious crisis. It seems that faith is fading like a drowning person in the consciousness of…
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Love life
People don’t want to hear talk about spirituality, since they don’t know what the word means; they’re ignorant that it means more…
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Love life
People don’t want to hear about spirituality because they don’t know what that word encompasses; they are unaware that it means more…
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God’s good spirit
Jesus isn’t a man empty or dispersed within. He doesn’t act arbitrarily in the villages of Galilee or moved by just any…
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The good spirit of god
Jesus is not an empty man nor internally scattered. He does not act through those villages of Galilee arbitrarily nor moved by…
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Living without welcoming the light
We all go about committing errors and mistakes throughout our life. We calculated things badly. We didn’t measure the consequences of our…
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To live without embracing the light
We all make mistakes and missteps throughout life. We miscalculate things. We don’t measure the consequences of our actions well. We let…
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Follow jesus from the family
Is it possible to come together and make a decision to follow Jesus in my family? It’s not easy. It’s a decision…
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Welcome god in a child
Christmas is much more than that superficial and manipulated atmosphere that we breathe those days in our streets. A feast day much…
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You will give him the name jesus
Among the Hebrews, they didn’t give just any name to the newly born, arbitrarily, since the «name», as in almost all ancient…
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Don’t take offense at jesus
In these times of religious crisis and inner confusion, it’s important to remember that Jesus Christ isn’t a particular property of the…
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Recovering paths
It’s very easy to get stuck in life ‘without paths’ to God. You don’t have to be an atheist. It’s not necessary…
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Are we still awake?
The day will come when the impassioned history of humanity will end, as inevitably ends the life of every one of us.…
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Make fun of or call upon?
Luke tragically describes Jesus’ agony in the midst of insults and jeering from those around him. No one seems to understand his…
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It’s done for
It’s Jesus’ last visit to Jerusalem. Some of those who accompany him are amazed when they contemplate «the beauty of the temple».…