The Center

The words and steps of Christ, as graphic novels.

The Metanoias showed lives that changed their center. This series shows the Center itself: what Christ taught and the path he walked, in eight graphic novels to read slowly, page by page.

The words. Six discourses of Jesus: five from the Gospel of Matthew and the farewell from the Gospel of John.

The steps. His life contemplated in the Holy Rosary and his road to the cross in the Way of the Cross.

Each novel reads like a book: one page at a time.

The collection

Eight novels. One voice.

Choose a novel and open it. The reader remembers where you left off, so you can come back whenever you like. The novels are in Spanish.

The words

What Christ taught.

Novel 120 pages

The Sermon on the Mount

Matthew 5–7

Seated on the mountain, Jesus teaches his disciples the charter of the Kingdom: the Beatitudes, salt and light, a righteousness that goes beyond the law, the Our Father, trust in Providence and the house built on rock.

Novel 211 pages

Parables of the Kingdom

Matthew 13

From a boat, facing the crowd, Jesus speaks in parables: the sower, the wheat and the weeds, the mustard seed, the leaven, the hidden treasure, the pearl and the net. The Kingdom begins small, grows in silence and is worth more than everything else.

Novel 314 pages

Teachings on Discipleship

Matthew 10

Jesus calls the Twelve and sends them out without gold or bag, like sheep among wolves. He warns them they will be persecuted and promises they will not be alone: do not be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows. Whoever loses his life for Him will find it.

Novel 49 pages

Teachings on Community

Matthew 18

Who is the greatest in the Kingdom? Jesus places a child in their midst. He teaches them not to cause the little ones to stumble, to seek the lost sheep, to correct a brother with charity, and to forgive not seven times, but seventy times seven.

Novel 520 pages

The Olivet Discourse

Matthew 24–25

Facing the Temple, Jesus foretells its destruction and speaks of the end of time: keep watch, for you know neither the day nor the hour. The ten virgins, the talents and the last judgment, where whatever was done for the least was done for Him.

Novel 623 pages

The Farewell Discourse

John 13–17

At the Last Supper, Jesus washes his disciples' feet, gives them the new commandment, promises the Spirit, calls himself the true vine and prays to the Father for his own.

The steps

The path he walked.

Novel 720 mysteries

The Holy Rosary

Four sets of mysteries

The twenty mysteries of the Rosary in their four sets: joyful, luminous, sorrowful and glorious. Choose the one for today, or whichever you wish to contemplate, and walk through it mystery by mystery: the life of Christ seen through the eyes of his Mother.

Novel 814 pages

The Holy Way of the Cross

The 14 stations

The fourteen stations of the way of the cross: from the sentence before Pilate to the tomb. The three falls, the meeting with his Mother, Simon of Cyrene, Veronica and the women of Jerusalem, station by station.

The other series

The Metanoias

Forty-two lives that changed the map or received a new center, as single-page graphic novels.

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The Center

Second-order metanoia is not manufactured.
It is received.

The only thing we can truly do on our part is kenosis: emptying the self until it becomes as transparent and available as possible.

In plain words: maximizing our condition as a vessel.

KenosisDo your bestTheosisLet God do the rest

Self-emptying does not oblige God.
It only removes the main obstacle, so that, if He wills, He can fill.

Without kenosis, the center remains occupied.
With kenosis, at least there is room.

That is all that is ours to do.— Mario Garza Livas