The communion of every Christian with Christ is so real, so deep, so material and so mutually interdependent that we constitute not a collective or an association, but an organism, a living body. [...]
In my Congregation we have a tradition that we cannot make progress in our spiritual life if we do not dedicate an hour daily to personal prayer. And we uphold it, regardless of whether or not [...]
A family lost a son to suicide. In his early twenties he had become dangerously depressed. There was even an initial failed suicide attempt. Wanting to help him, his family took him home, tried [...]
When the Desert Fathers first formulated a list of “mortal” sins, they included the sin of sadness. Even Pope Gregory the Great replaced it with “laziness”, as if to say [...]
There are those who claim that Spaniards tend to be very extremist and passionate: either black or white; either body or soul; either centralists or separatists; either meapilas or anticlericals; [...]
When I was young, it was often explained to me that in the apostolate the old principle was that “no one gives what he does not have“. Now – many years later – I am not so [...]
We live in a culture of image and ostentation. Many people are convinced that the more they present themselves as well-groomed and composed, the more they dazzle, the more seductive and envied [...]
We begin this reflection with an anecdote told by the famous and controversial filmmaker Woody Allen: “Two friends are having a lively discussion. -According to you, is there an afterlife? [...]
Our faith assures us that one day the clay wall of our mortal body will fall and behind it we will behold the glory of God. Then we will be happy forever. Behind every corner of our history, on [...]
We are in the middle of Holy Week. During the days leading up to the Easter Triduum, the Gospels of the Eucharist allude to Judas Iscariot in the impressive preludes to his betrayal of the [...]