Birthday celebrations bring happiness to the celebrant as well as to family and friends. But not only for family and friend, because we can see every human birth as a call for new hope in the world. The love of two people joins to God in his creative work. The new child can be a channel of God’s love and peace to the world. ...
Today Jesus gives us a very difficult mission: If we see our brothers or sisters do something wrong, we have to go and reprimand their. Why do we have to do it? ...
Dear brother and sister! On last Sunday we could see Peter, who became a rock on which Jesus was built the Church. After Peter said that Jesus is the Christ, the living Son of God, we could hear the words of Jesus to Peter: “Simon son of Jonah you are a happy man! And I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church.” But just after Jesus said to Peter completely different words – very harsh words, which we can hear today: “Get behind me Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because the way you think is not God’s way but man’s”. WHY JESUS SAID THIS WORDS TO PETER WHO IS THE ROCK ON WHICH HE WANTS BUILD THE CHURCH? ...
Who likes exams? I think that very few people do. But we all have to pass exams all the time. In school, for a driving license, at the university, sometimes in our jobs. But the most important exams are the exams about our lives. These are the most important and the most difficult. This is especially true of the exams about our humanity. Today we can see how the apostles faced and passed their exam...
Dear Brothers and Sisters, We believe that the Body of Jesus Christ is now in heaven. This doctrine is called the Ascension and is explicitly revealed in the Bible. All Christians believe, too, that the bodies of the just will be united to their souls at the end of the world and be glorified in heaven after the manner of the Risen Body of Christ. This is also revealed explicitly in the New Testament. It follows, therefore, that the bodies and souls of the departed saints are now separated, that their souls are in heaven and their bodies in the grave. But we believe too that the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary is also in heaven. We call this doctrine the Assumption. What does this mean? How can we understand this?
Today we live the memory of St. John Vianney. Who was St. John [...]
