Daily Gospel (2709)
May 6, 2021
Written by Super User
Gospel: Jn 15:9-11
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love! You will remain
in my love if you keep my commandments, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
May 5, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 15:1-8
I am the true vine and my Father is the vine grower. If any of my branches doesn’t bear fruit, he breaks it off; and he prunes
every branch that does bear fruit, that it may bear even more fruit. You are already made clean by the word I have spoken
to you. Live in me as I live in you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself, but has to remain part of the vine; so neither
can you, if you don’t remain in me. I am the vine and you are the branches. As long as you remain in me and I in you, you bear much fruit;
but apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not remain in me is thrown away, as they do with branches, and they wither. Then
they are gathered and thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you want, and
it will be given to you. My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit: it is then that you become my disciples.
Reflection:
We only remain fecund when we stay attached to the Vine. For we do not have
roots of our own. It is the Vine, our Lord Jesus Christ that provides us with the things we
need to bear much fruit in our personal and social spaces. In the level of the personal, it is
the transformation of self for the better. In the social level, it is the growth in love of God
and our fellow humans. If cut abruptly from the Vine, we are useless. If we must venture on
our own, we need a process of grafting that allows us to grow roots of our own while
still attached to the Vine.
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May 4, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 14:27–31a
Peace be with you! My peace I give you; not as the world gives peace do I give it to you. Do not be troubled! Do not be afraid!
You heard me say, ‘I am going away, but I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I go to the Father, for the
May 3, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 14:6-14
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me. If you know me, you will know
the Father also; indeed you know him, and you have seen him.” Philip asked him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that is enough.”
Jesus said to him, “What! I have been with you so long and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever sees me sees the Father;
how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? All that I say to you, I do not say
of myself. The Father who dwells in me is doing his own work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; at least believe
it on the evidence of these works that I do. Truly, I say to you, the one who believes in me will do the same works that I do; and he will even do
greater than these, for I am going to the Father. Everything you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Indeed,
anything you ask, calling upon my name, I will do it.
Reflection:
The greatest legacy of our parents is us. Who we are today is a product of
their painstaking parenting that they did day in and day out during our young
formative years. That is why they shine in us. What they leave behind in us is
an imprint of themselves. No wonder Jesus said that whoever has seen Him has
seen the Father. All that He has comes from the Father. And all of these He returns
back to the Father. There was no holding back for both of them. That is why
Jesus in His humanity is the perfect icon of the Father. He is the spitting image of
His Father.
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May 2, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 15:1–8
I am the true vine and my Father is the vine grower. If any of my branches doesn’t bear fruit, he breaks it off; and he prunes every branch that does
bear fruit, that it may bear even more fruit. You are already made clean by the word I have spoken to you. Live in me as I live in you.
May 1, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 14:7–14 (or Mt 13:54–58)
If you know me, you will know the Father also; indeed you know him, and you have seen him.”
Philip asked him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that is enough.” Jesus said to him, “What!
I have been with you so long and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever sees me sees the
Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
All that I say to you, I do not say of myself. The Father who dwells in me is doing his own work. Believe me when
I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; at least believe it on the evidence of these works that I do.
Truly, I say to you, the one who believes in me will do the same works that I do; and he will even do greater than these,
for I am going to the Father. Everything you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the
Son. Indeed, anything you ask, calling upon my name, I will do it.
Reflection:
It’s amazing how people can be awed by the wisdom and powers that
Jesus demonstrates in front of their eyes, yet at the same time unwilling to
give proper respect simply because He and His family is familiar to them. Joseph
whose feast we celebrate today is not specifically mentioned. Only his trade
as a carpenter is mentioned. This is an acknowledgement somehow that Jesus was
cared for by Joseph in his lifetime. We do not have access to the growing up
years of the Lord, and scant biblical data can be gleaned about His father here on
earth. Yet we need not go far to know what kind of person Joseph is. We only have to
look at Jesus to know the father He acknowledges here on earth. For a part
of Joseph is forever lodged in the person of Jesus as a significant adult in Jesus’
life. Jesus in His humanity is a masterpiece of both Mary and Joseph.
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April 30, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 14:1-6
“Do not be troubled! Trust in God and trust in me! In my Father’s house there are many rooms; otherwise, I would not have
told you that I go to prepare a place for you. After I have gone and prepared a place for you, I shall come again and take you to me,
so that where I am, you also may be. Yet you know the way where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know
April 29, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 13:16–20
Truly, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his master, nor is the messenger
greater than he who sent him. Understand this, and blessed are you, if you put it into
practice. I am not speaking of you all, because I know the ones I have chosen, and the
Scripture has to be fulfilled which says: The one who shares my table will rise up against
me. I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may know that I am He.
Truly, I say to you, whoever welcomes the one I send, welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me,
welcomes the One who sent me.”
Reflection:
Jesus now is speaking intimately with His disciples. Time is running
out and He has many to tell. Perhaps, this is the moment when Jesus feels
overwhelming love to the few who walked with Him this far. He is reminding
them that their life’s journey should pattern that of His own. They will
have to face their own Via Dolorosa and Golgotha in the future. Yet not all of
them will follow His path. He already knows that one of His own will betray
Him. And so Jesus spends His remaining time with His disciples instructing
them. Until the end, He is a Teacher who leads His own to the truth.
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December 10, 2021
Written byGospel: Mt 11:16-19
Now, to what can I compare the people of this day? They are like children sitting in the marketplace, about whom their
companions complain: ‘We played the flute for you but you would not dance. We sang a funeral song but you would not cry!’
April 28, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 12:44–50
Yet Jesus had said, and even cried out, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. And whoever
sees me, sees him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
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April 27, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 10:22–30
The time came for the feast of the Dedication. It was winter, and Jesus walked back and forth in the portico of Solomon.
The Jews then gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in doubt? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
April 26, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 10:1–10
Truly, I say to you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a
robber. But the shepherd of the sheep enters by the gate. The keeper opens the gate to him and the sheep hear his voice;
he calls each of his sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them,
April 25, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 10:11-18
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. Not so the hired hand, or any other person who is not the shepherd, and to
whom the sheep do not belong. They abandon the sheep as soon as they see the wolf coming; then the wolf snatches and scatters the sheep. This is
because the hired hand works for pay and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, as the
April 24, 2021
Written by Super UserGospel: Jn 6:60-69
After hearing this, many of Jesus’ followers said, “This language is very hard! Who can accept it?” Jesus was aware that
his disciples were murmuring about this, and so he said to them, “Does this offend you? Then how will you react when you
see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, not the flesh.
The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. But among you there are some who do not believe.” From
the beginning, Jesus knew who would betray him. So he added, “As I have told you, no one can come to me unless it is
granted by the Father.” After this many disciples withdrew and no longer followed him. Jesus asked the Twelve, “Will you also
go away?” Peter answered him, “Lord, to who shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We now believe and know that
you are the Holy One of God.”
Reflection:
In the end, many who cannot stand the preaching of Jesus have to
leave. It does not jibe with their long held belief. They are not strong enough to
let go of what they already have. With a heavy heart, Jesus asks His closest
collaborators, the Twelve. Will they also leave? Peter on behalf of the others
answered that which will be the answer of future followers of the Lord. His
teachings may be hard but He has the words of eternal life. Inconvenience
brought about by a change of perspectives is nothing compared to receiving His
words eternal.
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