Daily Catholic Reflection: Saturday, May 11, 2024, Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter, Year B

Acts 18:23-28,

Psalm 47:2-3.8-9.1,

John 16:23b-28                                   Full Readings

Saint Ignatius of Laconi

Whatever You ask in My Name You Will Get 

The farewell speech of Jesus is drawing close to an end. Today he tells his Apostles that: "...anything you ask for from my Father he will grant in my name...so that your joy will be complete" Of course when Jesus was with them, they would lack nothing. They had everything they needed but since Jesus was going to the Father they had to start asking in the form of prayer. Their relationship was to be no longer physical but spiritual and the only way to communicate spiritually to God is through prayer.

Daily Catholic Reflection: May 7, 2024, Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter, Year B

Acts 16:22-34,

Psalm 138: 1ac-2a.2bcd-3.7c-8,

John 16:5- 11                                   Full Readings

Saint Rose Venerini

The Roles of the Holy Spirit

Brethren, Jesus continues to prepare his Apostles for his departure to his Father in heaven and today tells his Apostles that His going (ascension) to His Father is for their own good and our own good too. This is because when He goes will send us an Advocate, who will be with us forever. If Jesus does not go to His Father, the Advocate will not come.

Daily Catholic Reflection: Monday, May 6, 2024, Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter, Year B

Acts 16:11-15,

Psalm 149: 1bc-2.3-4.5-6a and 9bc,

John 15:26-16:4a                                  Full Readings

Saint Marian and James

The Spirit of Truth Will Be My Witness 

As days draw near to His ascension, Jesus is preparing His disciples for the life when He will not be with them physically. He is telling them what will really happen and prepares them in time so that they will not be surprised when the time comes. Today He tells His Apostles that they will be expelled from synagogues and even killed but no worry the Spirit of truth will be with them to strengthen them and give them what to say.

Daily Catholic Reflection: Sunday, May 5, 2024, Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B

Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48

Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4

1 Jn 4:7-10

John 15: 15:9-17                                  Full Readings

Saint Hilary of Arles

I Chose you to Go and Bear Fruit

Brethren, on this sixth Sunday of Easter, let us Reflect on Jesus' words: "You did not choose me: no, I chose you; and commissioned you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last." We all have at least an experience of being chosen among many, and we are all aware of how it feels to be among the chosen ones especially for the good. It's pleasing to behold and fills us with joy. On the other hand, it's too disappointing when you are not chosen, it hurts and leaves us with a judgmental attitude towards self. This reveals the desire we have to be among the chosen ones. Being among the chosen ones of Jesus, is the best thing to behold. The good news is that Jesus chooses each one of us, he chooses us, calls us by name and commissions us to a specific mission, so that we bear fruit. There is no one who is left unchosen in the face of Jesus.

Daily Catholic Reflection: Saturday, May 4, 2024, Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter, Year B

Acts 16: 1-10,

Psalm 100: 1-2.3.5,

John 15:18-21                                  Full Readings

Blessed Michael Giedroyc

The Reality of Following Christ

Brethren, today's Gospel reading presents to us the reality of following Jesus. It's Jesus Himself who speaks to us 'If the world hates you, remember that they hated me first...if they persecuted me, they will persecute you too.'

Daily Catholic Reflection: Friday, May 3, 2024, Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles

 1 Corinthians 15:1-8,

Psalm 19: 19:2-3.4-5,

John 14:6-14                                  Full Readings

Saints Philip and James

Jesus, the Way to the Father

Today my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the Church celebrates the feast of the two apostles, Philip and James. Their relics are kept together in the Church of the Twelve Apostles in Rome and, from the day of its dedication in 565, these two apostles have been celebrated together. Not much is known about these two Apostles of Jesus. James, son of Alphaeus and cousin of the Lord, ruled the Church of Jerusalem, and probably authored the letter we find in the New Testament. He suffered martyrdom in the year 62.

Daily Catholic Reflection: Thursday, May 2, 2024, Memorial of Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, Year B

Acts 15:7-21

Psalm 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10,

Jn 15: 9-11                                  Full Readings

Saint Athanasius 

The Joy of Christ 

Brethren, out of Jesus' unconditional and overflowing love to his disciple, he gave them and left with them only gifts which only God can give in full abundance. His love to his disciples was not only from him but from the whole the Trinity. So, the love he showed his disciples was the love of the Father through the Holy Spirit. We receive and experience the Father’s love through Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus told his disciples for he himself says: “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him” (John 14:23).