MY daily reflection and prayer:
Friday, March 18, 2016
The Fifth Week of Lent
Dear my friends,
Here is the Gospel for us today according to St. John 10:31-42
The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?” The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, `I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,’ because I said, `I am the Son of God’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” Again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John at first baptized, and there he remained. And many came to him; and they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many believed in him there.
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
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IN today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches us that our faith is based not only on what God has promised, but also on what he has done. So he says, “If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Here Jesus wants to emphasize that his works have spoke louder than his words. He points to his works as the basis for faith in him as the Son of the Father. His works are always more powerful than his words. And as we believe, the greatest of all these works is his resurrection from the dead, which we will commemorate a few days from now.
In the Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist, we adore Jesus Christ who still continues to do his works of the Father today, in the sacraments, especially in the Eucharist. There we let our light shine in the world so that they might believe.
Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, we believe in you. We want to abandon ourselves to you, that you may place us near you, now and forever. Amen.
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