“Especially when the skies of my soul are cloudy and my cross weighs more heavily, I feel the need to repeat to You: Father, I believe in Your love for me!” (from Mother Eugenia Ravasio’s prayer “God is my Father”).
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THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 7:14-24): “Seeking God’s glory”
About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.The Jews marveled at it, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me; if any man’s will is to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?” The people answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” Jesus answered them, “I did one deed, and you all marvel at it. Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man upon the sabbath.
YOU ARE MY FATHER AND I AM YOUR SON
“My Father in Heaven, how sweet it is to know that You are my Father and that I am Your child!” (from Mother Eugenia Ravasio’s prayer “God is my Father”).
GOD IS MY FATHER
This is part of the prayer that God the Father Himself imparted to Mother Eugenia Ravasio:
My Father in Heaven, how sweet it is to know that You are my Father and that I am Your child!
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 7:1-13): Jesus goes up to Jerusalem in secret
After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews’ feast of Tabernacles was at hand. So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples may see the works you are doing. For no man works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” Read More
THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Prov 1:7).
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 6:60-71): You are the Holy One of God
Many of Jesus disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you that do not believe.” Read More
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 6:41-59): Bread of eternal life
The Jews then murmured at Jesus, because he said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.” They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” Jesus answered them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. Read More
THE THRONE OF JESUS
“He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne” (Rev 3:21).
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 6:30-40): Him who comes to me I will not cast out
So they said to Jesus, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”