FESTIVIDAD DE TODOS LOS SANTOS – HOLY WINS 2016 TODOS UNIDOS PARA VIVIR LA LUZ, LA ALEGRIA Y EL AMOR… La Parroquia del Santo Cristo del Calvario de Marbella, quiso vivir la festividad de Todos los Santos con un encuentro muy especial, organizado por catequistas, padres y niños de la…
Pope Leo the Great-Feast Day November 10th. Leo was born in to an aristocratic Tuscan family in Rome in 390 AD. We first hear of him serving as a deacon under Pope Sixtus 111. He was an erudite man that commanded respect and was often called to act as a powerful…
GOSPEL, Luke 19, 1-10: Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the town when a man whose name was Zacchaeus made his appearance: he was one of the senior tax collectors and a wealthy man. He was anxious to see what kind of man Jesus was, but he was…
GOSPEL, Luke 18, 1-8 Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart. ‘There was a judge in a certain town’ he said ‘who had neither fear of God nor respect for man. In the same town there was a widow who…
GOSPEL, Luke 17, 11-19: On the way to Jerusalem Jesus travelled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered one of the villages, ten lepers came to meet him. They stood some way off and called to him, ‘Jesus! Master! Take pity on us.’ When he saw…
WORDS FOR LIFE Our Lord, Jesus Christ, had the gift of being able to teach not only the wise and experts in law but also simple people such as agricultural and dairy farmers etc. Teaching through parables he dealt with ordinary events to show us something about God and…
WORDS FOR LIFE In the parable, when the rich man realised what his dishonest steward had been doing, he praised him for his astuteness, adding, perhaps sadly, that the people of this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the people of light. The…
Lectio Divina Reflectión, Words for life, What is causing the separation of the faithful from the Church? – The loss of confidence in the Church caused by the reading of books, critical of the Church, which are not based on really appropriate criteria. – The lack of sincere and…
WORDS FOR LIFE This parable reminds us of the need to remember always our proper social position and to ensure that our blind ambition doesn’t send us on a mad race for ever higher goals. This craving for apparent progress occurs when we allow our desire for honour, power…
WORDS FOR LIFE According to the Gospel of St. Luke, the Lord is asked whether it is true that few people will be saved. Jesus replies, «Enter the Kingdom by the narrow door.» When we think of a narrow door, it could be like the main door…
