Download MP3 Download PDF Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and said, ‘What are you prepared to give me if I hand Him over to you?’ They paid him thirty silver pieces. (Mt 26:14-15) The betrayal of God in exchange for unjust money… How often this story is repeated! How often people sell themselves […]
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Download MP3 Download PDF “In all truth I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.” (Jn 13:21b) Betrayal! Here the most terrible depths of the human heart are revealed. Betraying a friend, betraying the Master and Lord, betraying love… Apparently, no one but the beloved disciple dared to ask Him who it
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Download MP3 Download PDF “Mary brought in a pound of very costly ointment, pure nard, and with it anointed the feet of Jesus, wiping them with her hair.” (Jn 12:3) What a tender gesture on Mary’s part this Gospel passage tells us! It is a tenderness that corresponds to the being of a woman, and
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Download MP3 Download PDF “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heavens!” (Mt 21:9) The people are gathered, and for a short time that which corresponds to the reality of the coming of the Son of God is happening: He
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Download PDF Ez 37:21-28 The Lord Yahweh says this: I shall take the Israelites from the nations where they have gone. I shall gather them to- gether from everywhere and bring them home to their own soil. I shall make them into one nation in the country, on the mountains of Israel, and one king
Download PDF Jer 20:10-13 I heard so many disparaging me, ‘Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’ All those who were on good terms with me watched for my downfall, ‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error. Then we shall get the better of him and take our revenge!’ But Yahweh is
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Download PDF Although we are in the “Passion Time”, I would like to dedicate today’s meditation to the “Message from the Father”, as we do on the 7th of every month. When we meditate on the Passion, we usually think of Our Lord Jesus Christ and visualise His suffering all the way to the Cross.
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Download PDF Note: Since today’s Old Testament reading is also very long, we will content ourselves here with a brief summary and highly recommend reading it in its entirety in the 3rd chapter of the Book of Daniel. Three young Jewish men were commanded by the king to commit idolatry. Those who refused were to
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Download PDF Num 21:4-9 They left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert? For there is neither food nor water here;
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Download PDF Because of the length of today´s reading, I’ll give a brief summary: it tells the story of Susanna, a respectable woman. Two of the elders of Israel tried to seduce her. But she eluded them. Thereupon they brought false charges against her that she had taken up with a young man and threatened
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