Cesar Fernandez-Stoll

Gospel text ( Luke 2,22-35) : When the day came for the purification according to the law of Moses, they brought the baby up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord: Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to God. And they offered a sacrifice as ordered in the law of the Lord: a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons. There lived in Jerusalem at this time a very upright and devout man named Simeon; the Holy Spirit was in him. He looked forward to the time when the Lord would comfort Israel, and he had been assured by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before seeing the Messiah of the Lord. So he was led into the Temple by the Holy Spirit at the time the parents brought the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law. Simeon took the child in his arms and blessed God, saying, «Now, O Lord, you can dismiss your servant in peace, for you have fulfilled your word and my eyes have seen your salvation, which you disp

A day of infamy, a day to remember, a day in history that… keeps repeating… Today we celebrate the feast Holy Innocent, the children martyred by fraudulent king Herod just to be sure; he could rid himself of facing the genuine King announced on the scriptures to be born in Bethlehem. To complete his massacre or rather to assure the effectiveness of his massacre, he dictated to murder every boy two years old and under… and so say the gospel of Saint Mathew today. Today we see repeated, by fraudulent leaders; crudely and persistently the same decree, which love nothing but the power in their hands and who are ready to compromise on the killing of their own people as long as they find that ‘peace’ only valid to them, while they can avoid closely looking at the reality of the tragedy they keep allowing. When does human life begin? When is person a person? When dignity begins for everyone? Everyone is the word used in the Canadian Charter of Rights, to describe any pers

  Gospel text ( Mathew 2,13-18) : After the wise men had left, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, «Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you for Herod will soon be looking for the child in order to kill him». Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and left that night for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. In this way, what the Lord had said through the prophet was fulfilled: «I called my son out of Egypt». When Herod found out that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old or under. This was done in line with what he had learned from the wise men about the time when the star appeared. In this way, what the prophet Jeremiah had said was fulfilled: «A cry is heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation: Rachel weeps for her children. She refuses to be comforted, for they are no more

I ask you God for all the sodomites and the adulterers, for all those who conspire against the integrity of the family and union in matrimony Help them oh Lord to abandon that life of confusion, that life of evil and that life perdition, and to find love and truth, humility and forgiveness, with faith, hope and charity Blessed Lord Jesus Christ In our times, gender confusion seems to be gaining more and more ground .  Many see no connection between the assault holy institutions of family and marriage, as the only possible way it can be, as the union of one man and one woman, as it is marriage the pillar from where the family arises and what works for growth and prosperity. Many too, see no connection between this confusion and the other confusion, the one that represents adultery as just a thing that happens or something that, well, happens everywhere and therefore must be right. Many lives too in the confusion that because marriage is nothing but a contract between two

  Gospel text ( John 20,2-8) : On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala ran to Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved. And she said to them, «They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we don't know where they have laid him». Peter then set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down and saw the linen cloths lying flat, but he did not enter. Then Simon Peter came following him and entered the tomb; he, too, saw the linen cloths lying flat. The napkin, which had been around his head was not lying flat like the other linen cloths but lay rolled up in its place. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and believed.