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The Compassion of Jesus: the healing of the sick, the loaves multiplied, and the Eucharist
José Ricardo Bezerra and Felipe Bezerra We arrive at the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, and this Sunday’s Gospel brings us the first multiplication of the loaves, narrated by Saint Matthew (Mt 14:13-21). It is a scene that all four Gospels preserved, a sign of how deeply it marked the memory of the Church: five loaves and two fish to satisfy about five thousand men, not counting the women and children (cf. Mt 14:21; Jn 6:1-15). At the center of it all is a word that runs through the whole page: compassion. Jesus sees the crowd and is filled with compassion, and it is from there that the miracle is born. As always, we have chosen five points for your ...

The Parables of the Treasure, the Buyer of Pearls, the Net, and the Disciple: Five Keys for Prayer
José Ricardo Bezerra and Felipe Bezerra In the Gospel of this 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A (Mt 13:44-52), Jesus concludes the discourse of the parables of the Kingdom, in chapter 13 of Saint Matthew. After the parables of the sower, of the weeds and the wheat, of the mustard seed and the leaven, He gives us four more parables to try to say, with images from our daily life, to what the Kingdom of Heaven may be compared: to a hidden treasure, to a buyer of precious pearls, to a net cast into the sea, and to the teacher of the Law who becomes a disciple. They are short parables, almost of two verses, but when we take ...

The Weeds and the Wheat: God’s Patience and the Hope of Conversion
José Ricardo F. Bezerra and Felipe Bezerra In the Gospel of this 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A (Mt 13:24-43), the Church continues to meditate on chapter 13 of Saint Matthew, the great chapter of the parables. After the parable of the sower, Jesus presents to us the parable of the weeds and the wheat (and its explanation to the disciples), accompanied by two others: the mustard seed and the yeast. Once again, the Lord takes images from our daily life to reveal supernatural realities to us: in the field of the world, and also in the field of our heart, the wheat and the weeds grow together until the harvest. It is a parable about God’s patience, about ...

The Parable of the Generous Sower: Prayer and the Cardinal Virtues in Three Types of Soil
José Ricardo Bezerra and Felipe Bezerra On this Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A), we enter chapter 13 of the Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus’ great discourse in parables. Today’s longer Gospel passage (Matthew 13:1-23) presents the Parable of the Sower together with its explanation. “A sower went out to sow” (Matthew 13:3). Who is the sower? Who are the different kinds of soil? Let us reflect on these questions by drawing a connection between the three kinds of soil that failed to bear fruit, the three cardinal virtues, and the teaching of Saint Teresa of Jesus (Teresa of Ávila) on prayer, so that we may become wiser than the Evil One, who seeks to steal the Lord’s good ...

Sing a New Song: Missionaries Bring the Halleluya Music Festival to New York City
On the pleasant afternoon of May 30, locals in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn heard a new kind of music filling the streets—soulful R&B songs, Brazilian samba lyrics comparing God to a soccer game, and an electric guitar riffing to shouts of “Praise the Lord!” The public square next to San Damiano Church, which normally hosted pigeons, instead hosted about four hundred young people who came to hear the music for free. Shalom missionaries from countries like Brazil, Italy, and Colombia set up a stage, sound system, and LED screen to create a bite-size Christian Coachella in the heart of Brooklyn. They called it Halleluya. AFTERMOVIE Halleluya NYC 2026 This area of Brooklyn is not known for religious zeal; in ...
Jesus se revela aos pequeninos e nos convida ao descanso

Jesus reveals himself to the little ones and invites us to rest
José Ricardo Bezerra e Felipe Bezerra Introduction On this 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A, we continue with the Gospel of Matthew, and the Lord makes us an invitation that lifts the heart: “Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Mt 11:29-30). The burden of the world is heavy, but the Lord’s is light. They are only six verses, yet so rich that one thing keeps drawing out the next. As always, we have chosen five points for your meditation and prayer with this Gospel, which we share on the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oswcLCBoK88 (with subtitles in your language). The Gospel “At that time Jesus said in reply, ‘I give praise to you, ...

Blessed are you, Peter; in you I build my Church
José Ricardo Bezerra and Felipe Bezerra This Sunday we celebrate the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles. Although the calendar marks the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, in Brazil we follow the liturgy of the CNBB, which transfers to this Sunday, the nearest to the 29th, the feast of the two great apostles. In some places the solemnity is celebrated on June 29 itself. The liturgy offers us two Gospels, that of the vigil (John 21:15-19) and that of the day (Matthew 16:13-19), which we chose for our meditation. It is the text in which Jesus asks the disciples who people say He is, and Peter answers in the name of all; Jesus then makes him the foundation stone ...
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