“Most people have no idea what God could do with them if only they would place themselves at His disposal” (St Ignatius of Loyola).
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THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (5:19-30): Whatever the father does, that the son does likewise
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself is doing; and greater works than these will he show him, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. Read More
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 5:1-18): A healing in the pool of Bethesda
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za′tha, which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed. One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your pallet, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Read More
CONFESS JESUS
“I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels” (Rev 3:5).
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 4:43-54): The second sign of Jesus at Cana
After the two days Jesus departed to Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.
So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Caper′na-um there was an official whose son was ill. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. Read More
“FATHER, THE HOUR HAS COME”
“Father, the hour has come” (Jn 17:1).
GOSSPEL OF SAINT JOHN (): The Second Sign Of Jesus At Cana
MY EYE UPON YOU
“I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you” (Ps 32:8).
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 4:27-42): The Samaritans embrace faith
Just then the disciples of Jesus came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, “What do you wish?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the city and were coming to him. Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” So the disciples said to one another, “Has any one brought him food?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” Read More
THE TRUE FACE OF GOD
“The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil” (1 Jn 3:8).