Dos regalos maravillosos

From telemarketers to traffic jams to twenty-item shoppers in the ten-item line, our lives are full of interruptions. They're often aggravating, sometimes infuriating, and can make us want to tell people what we really think about them. But they also tell us something quite important about ourselves. The prophet Jonah's life was interrupted by a clear call of God that made him mad enough and scared enough to run in the completely opposite direction. Yet it wasn't really an interruption. It was an opportunity for Jonah to be involved in something the likes of which the Old Testament world had...

Las primeras generaciones de cristianos pertenecían plenamente a la religión judía, en cuyo libro sagrado, la Biblia, hallaban inspiración. La proclamación del mesías Jesús no los extrañaba de las sinagogas, antes al contrario, los presentaba como fieles hijos de la promesa de Dios a Abrahán. Convencidos de la inminencia del fin del mundo, algunos cristianos sostuvieron que los paganos, muchos de los cuales frecuentaban ya las sinagogas como simpatizantes, debían ser admitidos en el seno del pueblo elegido sin pasar por la circuncisión. Pablo de Tarso fue el adalid de este...

Al profesar que Jesús de Nazaret es Cristo y Señor, la fe cristiana lo reconoce por eso mismo como verdadero hombre y verdadero Dios. Por eso es justo que se hable corrientemente de él como del "hombre-Dios".

This was the message from Pope John Paul II in his farewell speech during his last visit to Mexico in 2002. Mexico and Karol Wojtyla adopted each other, from his kiss on Aztec soil during his first stay. Reading this book is to see through the eyes of a man who radiated light.