JESUS, WHAT A REVOLUTION! EVEN LOVE YOUR ENEMIES?
“Love your enemies” is one of the Gospel’s hardest requests. Let’s read it without erasing wounds or responsibility.
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A question that comes up in chats, friendships and families. The Gospel meets real life.
FIVE LOAVES, TWO FISH. AND YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD SO LITTLE
Someone else’s cake is perfect: tall, beautifully decorated, carried in a box worthy of a bakery. You put your container on the table and immediately explain why yours is so simple. Nobody asked for an apology. You supplied it yourself.
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HE WORKS ONE HOUR. YOU WORK ALL DAY. THE SAME PAY?
The first reaction comes almost automatically: hold on. I have been here since this morning. I worked the long shift, stood in the heat, kept going while the others were still outside. Now somebody who worked barely an hour receives as much as I do?
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PASOLINI AND THE JESUS WHO STILL ASKS US QUESTIONS
An unknown young man as Christ, the Sassi of Matera and his own mother as Mary. Inside the Gospel of a filmmaker who did not believe, but took Jesus very seriously.
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TWO SMALL COINS. AND AN AWKWARD QUESTION ABOUT THE MONEY OF FAITH.
The collection basket passes along the pew. You search your bag for a coin and find a receipt, your keys and a hair tie. Then you look at what you can give and it seems terribly little. Has that happened to you? Before turning the moment into a test of goodness, let us meet a woman in the Gospel.
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BENT OVER FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS. JESUS CALLS HER NEAR.
You arrive, say hello and sit down. Somebody asks whether you brought the document, can move a chair or have finished the work. Nothing unusual. Yet on the way home you realise nobody asked how you were. Perhaps you did not ask the person beside you either.
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EVERYONE IS LOOKING FOR YOU. AND YOU CANNOT FIND YOURSELF
Your coffee is still too hot, but you have already answered three messages. One concerns work, another dinner, another begins with a tiny request that will not remain tiny. You sit down and remember someone to call. Another name appears on your phone. Nothing dramatic has happened. Yet before the day has started, you already feel behind in other people’s lives.
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JESUS, THE BILLS ARE ON THE TABLE.
You opened the banking app just to check. Now you have fetched the calculator too. Rent, electricity, food, an appointment you cannot postpone: every figure finds its place except the amount that should remain. Then you remember Jesus' words about not worrying over tomorrow. And you want to ask: yes, but have you seen these bills?
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THE RISEN JESUS ASKS FOR FOOD. A DETAIL THAT BRINGS HIM CLOSER.
You have set the table without doing anything special. Two plates, water, something that has cooled because you began telling each other about your day. Sometimes a person sitting opposite is enough to change the sound of an evening. Life passes through this too: somebody is here, takes some bread, listens.
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THE BABY IS CRYING AT MASS. HOW DO WE LOOK AT THEM?
First she tries the dummy. Then a hand on his back, rocking the pushchair, a whisper meant to calm them both. The baby keeps crying. She looks up to see where she might move and meets someone's gaze. She cannot tell whether it is annoyed. Already, she feels she is in the way.
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Jesus in their hearts, the world ahead: the young people the Pope encourages to go out
Around a thousand people in the Paul VI Hall and a story that began in India. Leo XIV’s invitation to Jesus Youth reaches us too: take the beauty of your own life seriously.
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IS THERE ROOM AT YOUR TABLE FOR SOMEONE WHO CANNOT INVITE YOU BACK?
You are counting chairs. You have decided what to cook, checked everyone’s food preferences and told the group when to arrive. The list is nearly ready. It feels lovely to imagine an evening together and the people around your table.
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WHEN YOU CANNOT GET UP, SOMEONE CAN HELP CARRY YOU.
You read the message. Your friend has cancelled again: she cannot face it. You want to help but fear intruding. So you leave a heart and think: she will contact me when she feels better.
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JESUS ASKS FOR A DRINK. SHE BEGINS ASKING QUESTIONS.
A well, a water request and a conversation that widens. The Samaritan woman speaks, interrogates Jesus and returns to the village with something to tell.
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BARTIMAEUS RAISES HIS VOICE. JESUS STOPS.
Someone's telling him to shut up. He keeps calling. In Mark's Gospel, Jesus interrupts the journey and leaves room for Bartimeo's voice.
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JESUS WAS AT CANA TOO. AND THE CELEBRATION CONTINUED!
The table stretches, the guests arrive, someone looks for more glasses. In the Gospel Jesus he also enters a wedding feast: what does that first sign tell us?
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TO EVERYONE ELSE, YOU’RE “THAT WOMAN”. JESUS CALLS YOU BY NAME.
The one that was wrong. The one that will never change. Zacchaeus' account interrupts the definitions too easy and also takes seriously what needs to be repaired.
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JESUS, DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THE ONE WHO DOES EVERYTHING?
Lunch, messages, things to remember for everyone. When do you sit down? We enter Marta's house and Mary, without putting the two sisters in competition.
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BRING YOUR HEART TO MASS. EVEN WHEN LIFE FEELS MESSY!
Bring your whole week to Jesus: its joys, tiredness and fresh starts. The Gospel helps us come before him honestly.
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A CENTURY OF WORLD MISSION SUNDAY. AND YOU ARE PART OF IT!
18 October 2026 marked the hundredth World Mission Sunday. Pope Leo XIV’s theme and three practical ways to take part.
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WERE THERE REALLY THREE MAGI? THE GOSPEL DOESN’T SAY!
Three gifts, a house and a different route home. Matthew’s account holds a few surprises for our Nativity scenes.
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CANDLEMAS: LIGHTS FOR A VERY SPECIAL MEETING!
On 2 February we enter the Temple with a child, an older man called Simeon and a prophetess called Anna. Candlemas begins with their words.
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CHRISTMAS: THERE IS MORE THAN ONE STORY IN THE NATIVITY SCENE!
Shepherds and Magi meet in our cribs. In the Gospels, they come from two different stories waiting to be discovered.
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EASTER: FOLLOW THE THREAD FROM SUPPER TO LIGHT!
Thursday, Friday, silence and the Vigil. A simple guide to what happens in the celebrations.
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