Russian astronaut Serguéi Kud-Sverchkóv recorded and shared through social media a video showing the glow of planet Earth, Northern Lights and dawn as seen from the International Space Station.You can weep with so much beauty. We fly over the northeast of the Pacific Ocean. Quickly we move to the North Atlantic and from total darkness […]
Happy those who feel the permanent need to generate comfort through small gestures of closeness, tenderness and affection. Happy those who are moved by the images that show pain, misery, hunger, war and who strive not to have their insides closed by the bonds of consumption, isolation and selfishness. Happy those who have seen that […]
God is the energy that cheers us up.God is the Spirit that drives us and guides us.God is the voice from the inside that calls us to Life.God is the reality that wants to reach fullness in us, individually and collectively.God is Life, not a candy vending machine to satisfy our cravings.God is the end […]
What peace is, what it is not,therein lies the key. What peace is, what it is not.Peace is a godsendto be carefully nurtured at all times. Peace is always a godsendto be carefully crafted,peace is always a godsendthat once achievedmust go on being honed. Peace is neither still,nor sluggish,nor idle. Peace makes rugged slopes smoothand […]
Christmas! Mark and John did not want to imagine Jesus’ birth, but Matthew and Luke felt the need to evoke the tenderness of a birth. As the song says, “we can live without wealth, but not without tenderness…. We can live without glory, but not without tenderness…” Let’s begin with the shepherds in Luke: there […]
“Mary, from whom Jesus was born, also called Christ” (Mathew 1, 16)
Humanity devoid of ancestral resentments;
any politics making true speeches;
Free version. Who is begging whom in these Antiphons? You at the Bottom of everything that exists. All beings to you, at the Bottom of you
December 17: O Wisdom, you that order all things firmly and gently, come and show us the way of health!
I, too, wanted to escape from the world. You did not let me do it with your letters, your words in the streets, your helplessness. So, I propose to you, with the solemnity the words at the end of one´s life have, that we may embrace one another in a commitment: let’s go out to […]
Welcome, Advent,
herald of the Good News,
threshold of hope, matured in a long wait.
You open our eyes of the spirit
towards the eternity,
Since in what is already accomplished
you are the promise of accomplishment.
Take a smile
and give it to those who have never had one.
Take a ray of sun
and send it flying to the kingdom of darkness.
Look for a spring of water
and show it to those who only know how to roll in the mud.
Take a tear
and put it on the cheeks of those who have never cried.
