Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Saturday, 6th Week of Easter
07 May 2016
Saturday, 6th Week of Easter
White.
Acts 18: 23 – 28 / Jn 16:23b – 28
Gospel Reading: Jn 16: 23b - 28
Jesus said to his disciples, "When that day comes you will not ask me anything. Truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my Name, he will give you. So far you have not asked in my Name; ask and receive that your joy may be full.
"I taught you all this in veiled language, but the time is coming when I shall no longer speak in veiled language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.
"When that day comes, you will ask in my Name and it will not be for me to ask the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and you believe that I came from the Father. As I came from the Father and have come into the world, so I am leaving the world and going to the Father."
Reflection
The spiritual world is as real as the material world. But some people think religion and philosophy are just a waste of time. People who indulge in them are just trying to escape from the real world, they say. But what if the spiritual world is real? What if God, who is Spirit, is real? That angels and demons are real? That heaven and hell are both real? Then we should reorder our priorities in life because the spiritual world is where we will eventually go to when we die.
I would like to narrate a story about a group of Yolanda victims. When the storm surge hit Palo, Leyte, ten members of a clan perished. Five were children and the other five were elderly people. The father of two of the children who had died shared the following to my friends: "We understand that if the elderly died, it is not too sad since they were already in the twilight of their lives. But why the children?" Then, with tears streaming down his face, he said that the kids died most probably to keep the old ones company in heaven. What faith that man has!
I also personally talked to a young lady whose mother also died in the same barangay. She said that since her mother died, she had been receiving so many signs in many different ways that her mother was in a much better place. Because of these assurances from the Lord, after the burial of her mother, she and her father immediately went to help the other victims of the typhoon.
Obviously, there is a spiritual world, a heavenly kingdom.
WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:
BIRTHDAY
Criselda P. Marin
Arnel P. Paragsa
IN MEMORIAM (+)
Yldefonso Pt Yang
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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