It is God who is rich in mercy, whom Jesus Christ has revealed to us as Father. “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and sin” (Ex 34, 6-7).
The resurrection is not Jesus’ life beginning over again, but a new way of being alive in which death and the powers of darkness have been conquered. The resurrection of Jesus will not leave us living in the same way. We shall find the Lord who is waiting for us.
Let us acclaim Him, not only with Palm branches, but by honoring one another in charity.
The scribes and Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus into a choice between gentleness and righteousness, between mercy and justice.
Celebration is just the natural overflow of divine love—the nature of God who finds the lost and brings the dead back to life.
Today’s Gospel presents an interplay of reality and perception, between the ordinary and the transcendent.
are the Paschal Mystery which make us Christians. Our faith stands on the conviction that the cross and resurrection of Jesus has defeated the devil and has inaugurated the ultimate defeat of evil.
The massive difference between a splinter and a plank suggests that the fault we complain of in others can be very small compared to the fault in ourselves that we refuse to see.
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Mercy, as Jesus presents it, is not optional but the hallmark of being a child of God.
In the biblical tradition, being “blessed” does not speak of a moral attitude to be adopted. Rather, in the tradition of our ancestors in the faith, the declaration of a person as “blessed” is in view of a coming action of God.