• Sermon - Year C

    12th Sunday in Ordinary time

    Undoubtedly the World Cup is now the biggest event in these days. We can hear and see it almost everywhere; even buying soft drinks we can see “football-ish” dressing or emblems. Uncountable producers of ordinary things offer us wonderful prizes if we buy their products – of course associated to the World Cup. Some people have been excited in watching…

  • Sermon - Year C

    Corpus Christi

    Many years ago I read a book. I don’t remember either the author or the title, I barely remember that the main character had travelled in Palestine a dozen years after Jesus’ death trying to meet people who knew Jesus. There is just one thing I really do remember from that book: the explanation of the miracle from today’s gospel.…

  • Sermon - Year C

    The Holy Trinity

    The mystery of our faith which we celebrate today is one of the few rejected almost automatically by people who don’t share the Christian belief. The idea of three persons in one God  is used as “evidence” against faith. At the same time these “prophets of unbelief” produce some scientific theories which are seemingly unbelievable. Is it possible to understand…

  • Sermon - Year C

    Pentecost

    Two weeks ago I was walking in the Cairngorms and I saw a glider towed by a plane. Several hours later when I was driving back home I heard on the radio that the glider had crashed; luckily the pilot had survived and had been rescued by a helicopter. My knowledge about gliding is limited and theoretical; I’ve never flown…