4th Week of Eastertide Gospel Thoughts 2020
My dear friends, I invite you to dig deep into the tool bag of your faith and use those tools and the depth of your personal relationship with Jesus, to ponder and allow your heart and mind to be opened to the spirit of the risen Jesus!
Reflect on what you read and hear, what Jesus is saying to you in the context of the Gospel message for each today!
May you discover anew the power of Jesus’ words in This the Year of the Word ‘The God Who Speaks’ and be that word that you read, so that through you, it becomes real for all those around you and be, a great source of hope and faith for your salvation!
Monday 4th English Martyrs Feast
Gospel Reading – Matthew 10: 17-20
Jesus said to his disciples. Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles. When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
The Gospel of the Lord
The Mass intention is for Maryann Scanlon RIP
Reflection:
My friends today we celebrate the feast of the English Martyrs, and call to mind not only the forty priests, religious and lay men and women canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970, but the further two hundred and forty-two declared ‘blessed’ and those many unknown Catholics who died defending the faith in a period of around 150 years following the Reformation.
In today’s gospel reading from Saint Matthew, Jesus reminds us ‘The Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you’. Do not worry about how to speak or what to say. It will be given to you when the time comes. Its not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you!
The English Martyrs gave there all for you and I. They sacrificed everything they had for their faith and the belief that the spirit of God was with them and they knew what they needed to say, why? Because they gave their all for Christ and his Church.
• Would I give my all for Christ and his Church?