Reflection for MONDAY,  5th Week of Easter.

By

 Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar 

Reflective Reading of the Word of God

John 14:21-26 


The Advocate, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them

will be one who loves me;

and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father,

and I shall love him and show myself to him.’

Judas – this was not Judas Iscariot – said to him, ‘Lord, what is all this about? Do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?’ Jesus replied:

‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word,

and my Father will love him,

and we shall come to him and make our home with him.

Those who do not love me do not keep my words.

And my word is not my own:

it is the word of the one who sent me.

I have said these things to you while still with you;

but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit,

whom the Father will send in my name,

will teach you everything

and remind you of all I have said to you.’


Reflection on the readings 

As Christians, our mission is to proclaim the Good News.

We proclaim the Good News in whatever state of life we are in.

So it may be by preaching and teaching, or in witnessing by what we do at work, or in whatever service we provide for others.

The core of this Good News is summed up concisely by St. Paul in the 1st reading as he said this:

We have come with Good News to make you turn from these empty idols to the living God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that these hold.

That is the Good News that we bring to others so that they will come to believe in God and be saved.

But others will only believe when they can see that we ourselves are living out the Good News of salvation.

So the Good News must make its home in us. That also means that God has made His home in us.

When God has made His home in us, then our words and our actions will be from the One who is living in us.

When God is living in us, then the Good News will just flow from us to others.


            GOD BLESS YOU

Good morning. Have a nice day.

Let's pray for the forthcoming state elections and the leaders in the fray