El tema central de Adviento y de Navidad es uno solo: recibir a Cristo, acogerlo como enviado del Padre, abrirle las puertas como Señor victorioso de mi vida, de mi familia y del universo entero, en verdad.
Tres Conferencias de Adviento y Navidad (2 de 3)
El Cántico de la Virgen María es bastante conocido, sobre todo con su título en latín, Magnificat. Hay otro cántico que está en el mismo capítulo del mismo Evangelio de San Lucas. Se trata del Cántico de Zacarías. El ejemplo de este hombre nos muestra cuán grande es el regalo de la misericordia y nos empuja a dejar nuestra “mudez.”
Tres Conferencias de Adviento y Navidad (1 de 3)
Resulta interesante y lleno de aplicaciones prácticas hacer una comparación entre las condiciones de vida actuales y las que conocieron José, María y Jesús. Sobre todo porque nuestro concepto actual de familia tiende a ser demasiado excluyente, y casi sólo limitado a la “familia nuclear.”
Meditacion Devota de la Pasion de Cristo (16 de 33)
La Pasión de Jesucristo: El testimonio del Amor más Grande; la fuente viva de nuestra redención; la razón de toda nuestra esperanza; el principio sólido del amor que nos une; la revelación de la misericordia en su forma más perfecta. Tema 16: Jesús de nuevo ante Pilato
Recovering the Hope of Childhood
The City of God, book 9 of 22
Book 9 – Having in the preceding book shown that the worship of demons must be abjured, since they in a thousand ways proclaim themselves to be wicked spirits, Augustine in this book meets those who allege a distinction among demons, some being evil, while others are good; and, having exploded this distinction, he proves that to no demon, but to Christ alone, belongs the office of providing men with eternal blessedness.
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Riquezas del Bautismo Cristiano
El bautismo es la experiencia misma del amor que salva. Pero, ¿qué es ser salvado? ¿Por qué esa salvación tiene tan alto precio, como es Cristo en la Cruz? ¿Qué implica eso para nuestra valoración del bautismo y de ser padrinos, por ejemplo?
The City of God, book 8 of 22
Book 8 – Augustine comes now to the third kind of theology, that is, the natural, and takes up the question, whether the worship of the gods of the natural theology is of any avail towards securing blessedness in the life to come. This question he prefers to discuss with the Platonists, because the Platonic system is “facile princeps” among philosophies, and makes the nearest approximation to Christian truth. In pursuing this argument, he first refutes Apuleius, and all who maintain that the demons should be worshipped as messengers and mediators between gods and men; demonstrating that by no possibility can men be reconciled to good gods by demons, who are the slaves of vice, and who delight in and patronize what good and wise men abhor and condemn—the blasphemous fictions of poets, theatrical exhibitions, and magical arts.
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Riquezas de la Paciencia y del Padecer
Para muchos de nosotros, paciencia ha significado solamente una cosa: aguantar, soportar mientras pasa la tormenta. Pero la paciencia está ligada con el padecer y la Pasión de Cristo, que es fuente de nuestra salvación. ¿Qué podemos y debemos aprender de ahí? En este tema te aguarda una muy buena noticia, un secreto que hoy hemos de redescubrir.
The City of God, book 7 of 22
Book 7 – In this book it is shown that eternal life is not obtained by the worship of Janus, Jupiter, Saturn, and the other “select gods” of the civil theology.
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El Año en Spitzberg, por Pedro de Alarcón
The City of God, book 6 of 22
Book 6 – Hitherto the argument has been conducted against those who believe that the gods are to be worshipped for the sake of temporal advantages, now it is directed against those who believe that they are to be worshipped for the sake of eternal life. Augustine devotes the five following books to the confutation of this latter belief, and first of all shows how mean an opinion of the gods was held by Varro himself, the most esteemed writer on heathen theology. Of this theology Augustine adopts Varro’s division into three kinds, mythical, natural, and civil; and at once demonstrates that neither the mythical nor the civil can contribute anything to the happiness of the future life.
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Viva el Papa – Una novela de Pedro de Alarcón
The City of God, book 5 of 22
Book 5 – Augustine first discusses the doctrine of fate, for the sake of confuting those who are disposed to refer to fate the power and increase of the Roman empire, which could not be attributed to false gods, as has been shown in the preceding book. After that, he proves that there is no contradiction between God’s prescience and our free will. He then speaks of the manners of the ancient Romans, and shows in what sense it was due to the virtue of the Romans themselves, and in how far to the counsel of God, that he increased their dominion, though they did not worship him. Finally, he explains what is to be accounted the true happiness of the Christian emperors.
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The City of God, book 4 of 22
Book 4 – In this book it is proved that the extent and long duration of the Roman empire is to be ascribed, not to Jove or the gods of the heathen, to whom individually scarce even single things and the very basest functions were believed to be entrusted, but to the one true God, the author of felicity, by whose power and judgment earthly kingdoms are founded and maintained.
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Meditacion Devota de la Pasion de Cristo (15 de 33)
La Pasión de Jesucristo: El testimonio del Amor más Grande; la fuente viva de nuestra redención; la razón de toda nuestra esperanza; el principio sólido del amor que nos une; la revelación de la misericordia en su forma más perfecta. Tema 15: Jesús ante Herodes