Tagged: Daily Reflections

“The Holy Spirit Whom the Father will send in My name will instruct you in everything.” –John 14:26 Mass Readings: May 15 First: Acts 14:5-18; Resp: Psalm 115:1-4,15-16;Gospel: John 14:21-26 Listen to the Mass Readings As Jesus is a Paraclete and Teacher (see Jn 20:16), so the Holy Spirit is “another Paraclete” (Jn 14:16) and another Teacher (Jn 14:26). The right attitude to have towards a teacher is to be teachable, that is, docile. Pope St. John Paul II has taught that the Holy Spirit is “received by the humble and docile heart of the believer” (Splendor of the Truth,...

“The word of the Lord was carried throughout that area.” –Acts 13:49 Mass Readings: May 13 First: Acts 13:44-52; Resp:Psalm 98:1-4; Gospel:John 14:7-14 Listen to the Mass Readings The Word of the Lord is being carried at this moment throughout your area and throughout the world. However, if there is unrepentant sin in your life, you will be manipulated into rejecting and opposing God’s Word (see Acts 13:45-46). But if you repent, you will believe in God’s Word, delight in it, and respond to it with praise (Acts 13:48). This may result in your being persecuted by those who reject...

“These are His witnesses now before the people.” –Acts 13:31 Mass Readings: May 12 First: Acts 13:26-33;Resp: Psalm 2:6-11;Gospel: John 14:1-6 Listen to the Mass Readings Throughout Acts of the Apostles, the Lord repeatedly commands us to be His witnesses (Acts 1:8; 2:32; 3:15; 10:39; 13:31). Now that we are more than halfway through the Easter season, it is appropriate to ask ourselves whether we have obeyed the Lord’s command to be His witnesses. Hopefully, we have done this throughout our Christian lives and even more intensely in this Easter season. If you were subpoenaed as a witness by a...

“There John left them and returned to Jerusalem.” –Acts 13:13 Mass Readings: May 11 First: Acts 13:13-25; Resp:Psalm 89:2-3,21-22,25,27; Gospel: John 13:16-20 Listen to the Mass Readings John Mark had accompanied Barnabas and Saul on a relief mission to help the starving Judean Christians (Acts 12:25). Next, John Mark accompanied Barnabas and Saul on the first evangelistic mission of the Church (Acts 13:5). However, John Mark dropped out of that mission (Acts 13:13). There’s a big difference between a relief mission and an evangelistic mission. Many of us have been on relief missions. We have given our time, energy, and...