“And you know the way where I am going. Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me.” John 14: 4-6 Jesus tells…[read more]
Amen, amen I say to you, servants are not greater than their master; nor are the ones sent greater than the one who sent them. I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, “The one who ate my bread has lifted the…[read more]
One day while they were offering worship to the Lord and keeping a fast, the Holy Spirit said, “I want Barnabas and Saul set apart for the work to which I have called them.” So it was that after fasting and prayer they laid their hands on them and sent them off. Acts 12: 2-3…[read more]
I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness to me; but you do not believe because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give them eternal life, and…[read more]
When Philip ran up, he heard [the Ethiopian] reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” “ How can I,” he replied, “ unless I have someone to guide me?” So he invited Philip to get in and sit by his side. Acts 8: 30-31 For all of us who…[read more]
For this is the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day, Jn. 6:40 A key theme in today’s gospel reading is that of seeing. In verse 36 Jesus tells the crowd that although they…[read more]
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen I say to you, it is not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” John 6: 32-3…[read more]
Then they said to him, “What must we do to be devoting ourselves to the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” John 6: 28-9 In his Inaugural Address of 1961, John F. Kennedy uttered the memorable words: With a good…[read more]
And so they left the presence of the Sanhedrin glad to have had the honor of suffering humiliation for the sake of the name. They preached every day both in the Temple and in private houses, and their proclamation of the Good News of Christ Jesus was never interrupted. Acts 6: 41-2 Jesus said, “Make…[read more]
When they had brought them to face the Sanhedrin, the high priest demanded an explanation. “We gave you a formal warning,” he said, “not to preach in this name, and what have you done? You have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and seem determined to fix the guilt of this man’s death on us.” In…[read more]
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