Friends:
We continue with the great symbols of the Gospel of John. On this occasion, life is proposed to us. It would not be necessary for liturgy to invite us from time to time to reflect on life and death. This is taken care of by the constant trickle of loved ones who are leaving us. It is a law of life, and we can resign ourselves to that easy thought. This week’s Gospel tells the resurrection of Lazarus, and its teachings can bring brilliance to our journey through this earth. Following Jesus makes the difference. It is not the same to live as to Live, believing or not believing. “Whoever hears my message and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life.”
With the 20th Anniversary of the Fe Adulta portal, we have already premiered the first novelty with a different method for sending the weekly letter. This time the newsletter reached more readers. With the change made a few months ago, we had barely improved, and some told us that they were not receiving the email.
We remind you that the new book by Fray Marcos:What do they have to save me from? Who has to save me? is available in regular bookstores and in the online store.
Gospel and Gospel commentaries
John 11, 1-45. There was a certain sick man, Lazarus, who was from Bethany, the village of Mary and his sister Martha.
Miguel Ángel Munárriz Casajús: Meaning, happiness, humanity. Have we been thrown into the world without references… or does our life have meaning?
José Luis Sicre: Faith in life after life. Jesus is future resurrection and present life for those who believe in him. Those who have died will live. Those who are alive will not die forever.
Enrique Martínez Lozano: The character dies; what we are lives. That which transcends the world of forms remains. The only thing that does not die is that which never was born.
Fray Marcos: If you still ask if Lazarus physically resurrected, it is because you are dead. Everything is symbolic.
José Antonio Pagola: Our dead live. The definitive goodbye to a very dear loved one inevitably sinks us into pain and helplessness.
Fidel Aizpurúa Donazar: Jesus wept. A cold, dogmatic faith, of ideas, is impoverishing and ends up falling into religious routine.
Marifé Ramos González: Reflections from the darkness. What do we believe regarding death and Life?
Selected articles for the week
P. Antonio Ramos Ayala: The blood of the innocent continues to cry out from the Middle East. A Christian cannot support or justify a war when it ends up destroying innocent lives and leveling entire towns.
Silvia Martínez Cano: The new Cassandras. Recognition and prophecy of women in the Catholic Church. In the Catholic Church, it is not the same to be a woman as it is to be a man, as is evident from the report of the Petrocchi commission of Dec 4, 2025, on female diaconate.
Jesús Lozano Pino: But what is this? The Dangerous Idyl between Power and “Amen”. They use religion to connect with the most sensitive fibers of their electoral base, transforming a geopolitical conflict over resources and control into a biblical struggle between good and evil.
Gabriel Mª Otalora: Listening to the silence of Saint Joseph. José reminds us of the primacy of inner life, of contemplation as an inseparable companion to action in order to achieve true fecundity.
José Lorenzo: “They do not see the face of God”: The Pope warns against “the blindness of legalistic observance of a formal discipline”. León XIV invited us to “see with the eyes of God” and rejected the idea that “some pretend to involve God” in current conflicts and wars.
Gerardo Villar: Religion or Gospel? Are we going to convert to the Gospel and the message of Jesus brought to us by León XIV?
Carmiña Navia Velasco: The resurrection of Lazarus. The relationships woven with Jesus in the house of Bethany are inspiring relationships that point to paths of welcome and love.
Rafael Narbona: In the death of Habermas, the last enlightened philosopher. The death of Jürgen Habermas leaves an irreplaceable void. His intellectual ambition was to vindicate the civilizing role of rational thought.
News of importance. The Church, Government, and Ombudsman finalize details of the agreement that will open a new path for reparation to victims of abuse.
For more participatory and current Eucharists
Ezekiel 37, 12-14. I myself will open your tombs and bring you out of your tombs, my people, and I will bring you to the land of Israel.
Romans 8, 8-11. Brothers: those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Florentino Ul¡barri: Lazarus, come out! Let us stop wrapping ourselves in shrouds and falsehoods. And let the truth shine.
Vicky Irigaray: 5th Sunday of Lent. Jesus is stronger than death and his life ends by giving life.
Anaphora: Illness and death. We must fight against evil, while nevertheless accepting our limitations.
Benedictine Nuns of Montserrat. 5th Sunday of Lent.
Multimedia material
All my changes are easy to make. By Louise Hay. To change your life externally, you must make internal changes.
Incarnate Word. By Ain Karem. Love that has no borders.
Salomé Arricibita: Lazarus. Shout my name, Lord, wake me up, raise me up, untie me, embrace me… for there is no life in me without You.
Saint Joseph Athenas. Presentation Lenin Vladimir Cárdenas. Pray for us, Saint Joseph, you who were faithful in silence and trusted in God without doubt, obedient until the end. Precious song in tribute to the figure of Saint Joseph.
Equipo Quiero Ver: The light of friendship. This Sunday we finish Lent, the time to rethink many things, the time to start over, to return to God, to life. And in this Gospel Jesus makes us witnesses of his love, but he also teaches us, once again, that not everything ends with death, but that everything is born anew; with God, everything changes.
Life Returns in You. A prayer made into a song, a whisper of hope for when everything seems stopped and it is hard to move forward. It speaks of a God who does not distance Himself from pain, who stops beside the wound, listens to the silence, and transforms the impossible into new life. In the midst of doubt, questions, and inner fatigue, His voice names us again and opens paths where we no longer expected them. A theme for personal prayer, to accompany times of difficulty, searching, or interior rebirth. May this music remind you that, even in the night, life can sprout again.
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A hug,
Inma Calvo
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