"En el espiritu y la verdad"

"¿Me amas más que estos?", preguntó Jesús a Pedro. Y esa es la pregunta que Jesús dirige a la vida consagrada (¡no solo a ella!) y es a lo que ella se dedica: a amar a Jesús. Con más o menos acierto, con más o menos errores, con más o menos intensidad, con más o menos gracia, pero ese es el centro y esencia de la vida consagrada: amar a Jesús y, porque se le ama, seguirle. En lo cotidiano y en lo sencillo de cada día o en las lejanas tierras donde están los pobres; en el silencio del monasterio contemplativo o en la catequesis y predicación de nuestras iglesias; en los...

Oh, Lord, I breathed as I sat on the platform at a meeting. "Look at that chic speaker three chairs down. Why did I wear beige? They won't be able to see me against the curtains!" I've always struggled with comparisons. I had a sister I adored and I wanted to be just like her. I had a friend with cute freckles on her nose and I wanted freckles too. I played tournament tennis and I wanted to perfect my backhand and make it look just like my Wimbledon idol. It didn't help when I became a Christian either. In fact it grew worse. I looked around at the new friends I had made and found an...

From telemarketers to traffic jams to twenty-item shoppers in the ten-item line, our lives are full of interruptions. They're often aggravating, sometimes infuriating, and can make us want to tell people what we really think about them. But they also tell us something quite important about ourselves. The prophet Jonah's life was interrupted by a clear call of God that made him mad enough and scared enough to run in the completely opposite direction. Yet it wasn't really an interruption. It was an opportunity for Jonah to be involved in something the likes of which the Old Testament world had...

Estudio y análisis de la catequesis de adultos en el momento actual y de los elementos y factores que la caracterizan.