El Viernes Santo es un día de profunda reflexión para todos los cristianos y cristianas del mundo. Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, en su naturaleza humana, padeció el doloroso paso de la muerte. La Iglesia invita a los fieles a meditar en el dolor humano de Cristo. Los cristianos de tradición católica en la comunidad hispana/latina, desde…

Dejen todas sus preocupaciones a Dios, porque Él se interesa por ustedes. La mayor causa de alegría para el cristiano es constatar cómo el amor infinito de Dios por la humanidad lo llevó a encarnarse como uno de nosotros, vivir nuestra experiencia terrena y entregar su propia existencia humana por nuestra salvación. Ésta es la…

As the twenty-second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church stepped to the pulpit at the Seattle Center Arena on the evening of September 17, 1967, most of the 18,000 laity, clergy, and bishops gathered there had little idea what to expect from their new leader, who was about to deliver his first address to a…

It’s a brief story, and Jesus delivers the punch line: “Martha, Martha,” he tells his hostess. “You are worried and distracted about many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, and it shall not be taken from her.” Everything, therefore, hangs on the one thing that Jesus mentions,…

[RCL] Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8 Despite the run-of-the-mill way that John narrates this dinner party with Jesus, there is a kind of shocking absurdity to it all. Taken together with the preceding chapter, the scene unfolds like this: Word reaches Jesus that his beloved friend Lazarus is gravely ill. He sets…

Ha pasado una semana desde que celebramos la Semana Santa, una semana en la que experimentamos el caos y la emoción, una semana en la que nos postramos cerca de la tumba vacía y en la mañana del domingo con alegría cantamos nuestro primer “Aleluya. Cristo ha resucitado. El Señor verdaderamente ha resucitado. Aleluya”. No…

Several weeks ago on a gray afternoon in June, tourists in Tewkesbury Abbey in England experienced something rather unusual. A pure, clear, child’s voice floated in the dim light. It reached into every corner, every chapel and chantry. No matter where you were, you could hear it. It seemed to come out of nowhere and…

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Thus begins the last of Jesus’ interrogations by the religious authorities in Matthew’s Holy Week narrative. Jesus’ response was both typical and not. He begins his response in a rather predictable way: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all…

Jesus is not making a whole lot of sense in our gospel today, at least at first blush. He tells the Parable of the Dishonest Manager, and people have beat their heads against this text for generations trying to figure out what in the world he was talking about. Clergy, lay people, seminary professors and…

[RCL]: Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8:6-11; John 11:1-45 No one asks Lazarus if he wants to be resurrected. That’s the fascinating part about our gospel story today. No one asks if he wants to return to a broken and hurting body, tangled relationships, and the responsibilities of his finances and his job and his…