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 11th
Gospel Reading – John 14:21-26
Jesus said to his disciples: “Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.” Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, then what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me. “I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name — he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.”
The Gospel of the Lord
The Mass intention is for M & P
Reflection:
In today’s gospel, which is part of Jesus Last Supper discourse, Jesus speaks of the love He has for His disciples and of his Father’s love. He exhorts them to prove their love for him through their loyalty and obedience to his word. In commenting on this love, Saint Augustine says: “The Lord loves each of us as if there were only one of us to love.”
Jesus loves each one of us and this love is as real and tangible as the love of a mother for her child. It is because he makes us know him personally and to grow in the knowledge of his great love for us. How can we know and be assured of the love of God? Somebody, I was talking to said that the Holy Spirit helps them to grow in the knowledge of God and his great love.
The Spirit enables us to experience the love of God and to be assured of the Lord’s abiding presence with us. The Holy Spirit also opens our ears to hear and understand the word of God.
• How do I hear the word of God? During this Year of the Word, ‘The God Who Speaks’
• And what is that word saying to me?