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THE MORE WE TRUST, THE MORE WE HAVE: SUNDAY GOSPEL (Matthew 25:14-30)

It seems unfair what the Gospel says.  If we are going to look into the Gospel reading come to think of it, those who receive more will benefit more, while those who receive less will continue to lose more. Quite hard to understand. Difficult to accept. When you have...

WHAT’S LACKING TO OUR COMMITMENTS?: SUNDAY REFLECTION (Mt 25:1-13)

Today the Church offers us readings that may be inviting us to ponder on the importance and beauty of wisdom for our life. The first reading is trying to convince us that wisdom is easy to find, we just need to want to find it, just need to try to look for it, and it...

CARMELITE-TERESIAN CHARISM: CONCLUSION (PART 8)

A challenge to LIVE our life of prayer, community and mission with determination: let us take courage to be witnesses of God’s action because there is no time to waste…

“I AM THE CHURCH”

As the liturgical memorial of Bl. Francisco Palau y Quer OCD is drawing to its end, one CMT sister share has experience of being the Church.

GO AGAINST THE NATURE AND LOVE: SUNDAY REFLECTION (MT 22:34-40)

Loving well does not come naturally. If it came naturally, without any effort, we wouldn't need it to be a commandment. Loving well doesn't mean feeling well about someone. Ii is not some nice general idea. The first reading from Exodus explains it clearly: love is...

I BELONG TO GOD: SUNDAY REFLECTION (MT 22:15-21)

They came to ask Jesus a wrong question. They wanted to entrap Him, to find reasons to hate Him (as if they weren't hating Him already, as if they hadn't already decided what they wanted to do with Him...). They began recognizing Jesus' mission: to teach the way of...

INTIMACY THAT HEALS THE WORLD: PALAU’S SCHOOL OF LIFE (LETTER 39)

There are relationships that are closed, hermetic, exclusive. It’s not the case of relationship with Jesus: it brings forth love that is meant to heal and restore what is broken in whole of humanity.

HOW TO BE TRULLY YOURSELF?

It is a paradox but the more we become of God the more we become ourselves. We don’t guide ourselves anymore by the pressure of the world but by what is truly ours: our relationship with God.

GOD’S INVITATION: SUNDAY REFLECTION (MT 22:1-14)

In the parable, Jesus presents how God, in many mysterious and varied ways, calls people to himself by sending patriarchs, kings, and prophets. At first, God invited the chosen people, Israel. Later, God invited non-Jews who lived in Israel. Despite his repeated...

HOW TO GET A LITTLE CRAZY?

We don’t advance in our spiritual journey because we are too much concerned of ourselves and of the world. How would it be to give control of it all to God?

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