Wednesday, April 15, 2015

 

THURSDAY, 2nd Week of Easter

April 16, 2015 THURSDAY, 2nd Week of Easter

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Acts 5:27 – 33  / Jn 3:31 - 36

 

Reading: Acts 5:27 – 33

     So they brought them in and made them stand before the Council and the High Priest questioned them, "We gave you strict orders not to preach such a Savior; but you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you intend charging us with the killing of this man."  

     To this Peter and the apostles replied, "Better for us to obey God rather than any human authority! The God of our ancestors raised Jesus whom you called by hanging him on a wooden post. God set him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. We are witnesses to these things, as well as the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those close to him."

     When the Council heard this, they became very angry and wanted to kill them.

 

Gospel: Jn 3:31 – 36

     He who comes from above is above all; he who comes from the earth belongs to the earth and his words, too, are earthly. The One who comes from heaven speaks of the things he has seen and heard; he bears witness to this but no one accepts his testimony. Whoever does receive his testimony acknowledges the truthfulness of God.

     The one sent by God speaks God's words and gives the Spirit without measure. For the Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything into his hands. Whoever believes in the Son lives with eternal life, but he who will not believe in the Son will never know life and always faces the justice of God."

 

Reflection:

     In the first reading, the apostles told the Sanhedrin that they had to preach Jesus as the Messiah because the Holy Spirit was telling them to do so. The members of the Sanhedrin were so angry that they wanted to kill them. But "obedience to God comes before obedience to men," the apostles said.  

     A person filled with the Holy Spirit is on fire with love for God and speaks of salvation and forgiveness of sins in Jesus alone. Jesus came to our world, lived, suffered, died and rose for our salvation. We are called to be saved and then to save others. The most important thing to do in our lives is to save men from hell and damnation and to bring them to heaven.  

     The apostles knew this because they have seen heavenly things when Jesus was with them. They have heard heavenly discourses from Jesus like the Sermon on the Mount, the parables of the kingdom, the discourse during the Last Supper, etc. They have seen how Jesus as Son of God had died a horrible death. Then they saw the Risen Christ for 40 days after his Resurrection.  

     So they knew that their preaching was so important that they risked physical harm and proclaimed Jesus as Lord and Saviour of the world, and of every individual here on earth. Filled with the Holy Spirit, they went everywhere witnessing to what they had seen and heard about Jesus. Do you feel compelled to speak about Jesus to others?  

 

 

WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:

 

BIRTHDAY

     AUGUSTINE PROBOSUSANTO

     CATALINA LIBOON

     DAVID BRIAN LU

 

IN MEMORIAM (+)

     PAUL K. S. LU

 

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who need our prayers the most. 

 

Have a good day!

 

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WEDNESDAY, 2nd Week of Easter

April 15, 2015 WEDNESDAY, 2nd Week of Easter
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Acts 5:17 – 26 / Jn 3:16 – 21

Reading: Acts 5:17 – 26
The High Priest and all his supporters, that is the party of the Sadducees, became very jealous of the apostles; so they arrested them and had them thrown into the public jail. But an angel of the Lord opened the door of the prison during the night, brought them out, and said to them, "Go and stand in the Temple court and tell the people the whole of this living message." Accordingly they entered the Temple at dawn and resumed their teaching.
When the High Priest and his supporters arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin, that is the full Council of the elders of Israel. They sent word to the jail to have the prisoners brought in. But when the Temple guards arrived at the jail, they did not find them inside, so they returned with the news, "We found the prison securely locked and the prison guards at their post outside the gate, but when we opened the gate, we found no one inside."
Upon hearing these words, the captain of the Temple guard and the high priests were baffled, wondering where all of this would end. Just then someone arrived with the report, "Look, those men whom you put in prison are standing in the Temple, teaching the people." Then the captain went off with the guards and brought them back, but without any show of force, for fear of being stoned by the people.

Gospel: Jn 3:16 – 21
Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world; instead, through him the world is to be saved. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned. He who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the Name of the only Son of God.
"This is how the Judgment is made: Light has come into the world and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. For whoever does wrong hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that his deed would be shown as evil. But whoever lives according to the truth comes into the light so that it an be cleanly seen that his works have been done in God."

Reflection:
"God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world; instead, through him the world is to be saved." The "world" here refers to those who believe in Jesus: though they deserve of condemnation, instead they receive salvation.
What moved God not to condemn but to save? Love! "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life."
God's giving his only Son brings to mind Abraham's readiness to give up his only son Isaac, the son of his old age, born to his great surprise and delight, his hope for posterity. But God dashed his hope when he asked him to give up his only son. With great anguish, obediently Abraham was ready to do so at God's bidding. This context helps us to understand God's own giving up of his only Son for us: he loved us, believers yet sinners, very much.
At the core of God's nature are mercy and love, and not justice as many insist. Cardinal Kasper says that mercy is the key to understand God, "The God of the Old Testament is not an angry God but a merciful God . . . Thomas Aquinas clearly said that mercy is much more fundamental because God does not answer to the demands of our rules. Mercy is the faithfulness of God to his own being as love. Because God is love. And mercy is love revealed to us in concrete deeds and words." God's concrete deeds and words are best illustrated when he gave up his only beloved Son for us, believers and sinners.
Cardinal Kasper explains how this key understanding of God connects to our lives, "So mercy becomes not only the central attribute of God, but also the key of Christian existence. Be merciful as God is merciful. We have to imitate God's mercy."
WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:

BIRTHDAY
BABY EDEN J. BOBADILLA
MARIBEL FABELLA
SR. MA. EULALIA G. BANAWIS, RVM

OTHER INTENTIONS:
For the healing of Joy Droke, who has fought colon cancer since 2012.

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who need our prayers the most.

Have a good day!

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