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El libro de Jonás es uno de los más breves de la Biblia, pero, por su mensaje, debería ser considerado como uno de los más grandes. Para entender mejor el mensaje de la lectura de hoy debemos hacer un breve recuento de esta historia. Dios le pide a Jonás que vaya a Nínive, cuyos habitantes…
El evangelio de Mateo nos presenta a una mujer que es capaz de cambiar la actitud de Jesús. Podemos llamar a esta mujer la voz profética. Pensemos por un momento lo que significa la voz profética, para que podamos entender lo que hace esta mujer en este texto. Los profetas en el Antiguo Testamento eran…
En este día la Iglesia recuerda a la madre de Jesús con el título de Santa María Virgen. La honramos como a todos los santos por su virtuosa y santa vida. María entre los santos ocupa un lugar especial, tal vez por eso el Libro de Oración Común dedica tres fiestas a honrar su memoria durante el…
Las lecturas asignadas para este domingo comparten en común el tema del perdón. Nos sugieren que existe un deseo universal, un hambre de perdón en cada alma humana, tanto de recibirlo, como de ofrecerlo. Si algo nos llega con una claridad cegadora en la Biblia hebrea es que Dios es un Dios de perdón, porque…
How long have you been a member of this church? Or are you a first-timer? Look around. How long do you think those sitting near you have been members of this church? Somewhere in the crowd is someone who has been here the longest. And somewhere is someone who has been a member for the…
[NOTE TO READER: Ehyeh asher Ehyeh is pronounced “EH-hyah ah-SHARE EH-hyah”] “God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you.” These words from today’s reading from Matthew are Peter’s impulsive response to the devastating news that Jesus – his friend, healer and teacher, beloved and more than beloved, his divine Lord and savior – would suffer….
Five Amish schoolgirls killed, 11 wounded, by a shooter in Pennsylvania, the headlines cried in 2006. The Amish community not only comforted the shooter’s wife and children, they forgave him. The Amish were reviled by many in the press because they forgave even as they mourned the death of their own innocent children. In 1948,…
Church conflict is nothing new. Sometimes people think there should be no conflict in church, as though by virtue of being Christians we can and should cover over all disagreements with niceness. Jesus in his teaching in our gospel lesson today seems to proceed on the baseline assumption that conflict in Christian community is normal…
Ask a group of people to keep a secret, and you’re looking for trouble. More than likely, somebody will let it out. Especially if the secret is astonishing. Simon Peter is the first disciple to recognize that Jesus is the Messiah. He’s the first to discover that this man he knows so well is the…
Sometimes today’s gospel lesson is interpreted along the lines of the title of a book by John Ortberg, “If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get out of the Boat.” The interpretation goes like this: Peter had the right idea when he got out of the boat, quite literally stepping out in…
Imagine you are watching television and a commercial comes on. The camera pans out over a tranquil beach scene where a family is enjoying the sun and the water. One parent is helping a smiling child build a sandcastle, while the other child runs in the surf, throwing a stick for a bounding, energetic golden…
In today’s passages we encounter the prickly theme of “choseness.” Does God have favorites? Is there really a chosen nation, a chosen people? If God is the Creator of us all, how can this be? Not easy questions to confront or to answer. Not when we now know what terrible acts have been perpetrated by…
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