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What Do We Get For Following Jesus? - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is Mark 10:28-31.
The Apostles have given up everything to follow Jesus. What will happen to them? What’s the reward? The reward is that they will receive one hundredfold in return, in the next life, and persecution in this life.
Even if we experience persecution, it is worth it for the gift of everlasting life.

What Do You Need To Give Up To Follow Jesus - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Goose Reading is Mark 10:17-27.
A rich young man asks Jesus how to enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus gives him (and us) the fundamental rule, follow the commandments. Further, if you do this, sell what you have, give to the poor, and come and follow Jesus.
What is holding you back from true discipleship?

The Mystery of the Trinity - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Reading is MT 28:16-28. This Gospel calls us to contemplate the specific mystery that God is a Trinity of Persons.
Ultimately, the Trinity is not something that we are fully capable of understanding. Nonetheless, we are able to enter into relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Always Lead with Prayer & Follow With Works - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today the first reading is James 5:13-20.
James is instructing the Christian community on prayer. He teaches we should always lead with prayer and draw together in union in service, in other words to act in word and deed.

Jesus Teaches on Divorce - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel reading is Mark 10:1-12.
Today, Jesus teaches on divorce. “In the beginning it was not so”. Marriage is meant to highlight the complimentary of man and woman, with their union being a sign of the love of God Himself.
This is so challenging because we so often fail to be a good example of God’s love to each other. 
 

Sin Vs. Discipleship - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel is Mark 9:41-50. 
If we were to cause one of the littlest one to sin, we’d be better to have a millstone tied around our neck and thrown into the sea. These are not gentle words. Jesus is highlighting just how dangerous sin is. Sin truly causes death.
Jesus teaches us that the key to overcoming sin is to be a disciple of Jesus. Will people see in me love for Jesus? Or, am I one who leads people away from the Lord?
Let us pray for the grace of true discipleship.

Whoever is Not Against Jesus Is For Him? - Daily Gospel Reflection

Today’s Gospel Reading is Mark 9:38-40.
The apostles find a man casting out demons in the name of Jesus. They go to stop him, but Jesus prevents them saying that anyone who is not “against us” is for us.
Jesus desires that all of us would be exercising His power, bringing His mercy and light to the world. Jesus desires that all people would come to great faith.
It’s also helpful to remember that it’s not all up to one class of believers. Not just the pope, the bishops, the priests or laity, but all believers.

The First Must Be Last - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel reading is Mark 9:30-37. If we want to be first, we must be last. If we want to have any kind of status at all, we must humble ourselves.
The challenge is to take the second place, to say yes when we are invited to give of ourselves. Today, let us pray for the virtue humility.

The Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is John 19:25-34. Today we celebrate the Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church.
Mary is the Mother of the WHOLE Church. From the Cross, Jesus gave Mary as a mother to all of us. Just as John brings Mary into his own home, so we are called to bring her into our homes.
Mary always points us to her son, reminding us of the truths of the Gospel. The Church as a mother, mirrors Mary’s role. Each pointing us to Jesus.
Today, let’s ask for Mary’s prayers, that she might point us to her Son.

The Feast of Pentecost - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is Acts 2:1-11. It is the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit. Jesus sends the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and they go out immediately and begin sharing the Gospel.
Come Holy Spirit and renew the face of the earth, renew us! The Church is STILL in the “phase of Pentecost”. We NEED the Holy Spirit!
Come, Holy Spirit!

Be Faithful to Your Mission! - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is John 21: 20-25.
Peter asks what will happen with John the Beloved Disciple and Jesus instructs him to to be faithful to his own mission. So too we must be faithful in our own time, location, and vocation. By doing so we will bear the fruit the Lord intends.
How is that the Lord desires us, individually, to be his disciples and proclaim his Gospel to the world?

Peter, Do You Love Me? - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is John 21: 15-19.
In this Gospel, Jesus asks Peter three times, do you love me? The corresponding yes comes with the task of watching over Jesus’s sheep.
Jesus is asking us, “do you love me?”, and by this, do we love the Lord more than everything else?
Let us pray for the grace to put the Lord above everything else

Jesus Prayed For His Church! - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is John 17:20-26.
Jesus continues to pray for His disciples, us, and the Church. Not just the apostles, but all who come to faith through them. Those who have received and passed on the apostolic faith.
Is there one person who the Lord desires to bring to His mercy through us? Let us pray that our labor be fruitful, remembering He has consecrated us in the Truth.
 

Thank God for Good Christian Witnesses - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Todays reading is Acts 20:28-38. Paul is preparing the people for the time that he will have to leave. As the people pray for and over Paul, they weep. They know they won’t see him again, and so there is a sadness for his departure, but also a joy for what he’s given them.
Today let us give thanks to God for the great witnesses of the Christian faith in our own lives.

The Twelve Replaced Judas (The Feast of St. Matthias!) - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is Jn 15:9-17, the Feast of Matthias the Apostle.
The Apostles knew they needed to reconstitute the fullness of the group. As such, they had to replace Judas. They prayed that God would reveal His choice to them. Ultimately, they chose Matthias and he was numbered among the 12.
By our Baptisms, we too, are brought into the community of the Church to be witnesses to Christ in the world.

Take Courage, I Have Conquered the World - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is Jn 16:29-33.
“Take courage, I have conquered the world”, says the Lord.
There are plenty of times where we may feel oppressed or just that nothing is going our way. The Lord instructs us to take courage, and if we feel that there is nowhere to turn, we are to turn to Him.
Let us pray for courage and trust in the Lord as we embark on our mission as disciples.

Lord, Consecrate Us to the Truth - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel Reading is John 19:11-19.
Jesus prays that the Father would protect us and keep us in His name. That we would be consecrated in the Truth.
On Pentecost we are given the duty, the mission, to proclaim the Gospel to all nations. Let us ask the Lord to consecrate us to the Truth so that we might be His witnesses to the ends of the earth.

The Lord Wants Us To...Bother Him? - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today’s Gospel reading is John 15:23-28
Ask with faith and the Lord will give me whatever it is that I need. It’s tempting to think that God is too busy for me, but the truth is that the Lord ASKS us to go to Him.
When we ask in Faith, the Lord guides our hearts to recognize that which is true and good for us.

St. Paul's Sufferings - Daily Gospel Reflection

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The first reading today is Acts 18:9-18. Paul is given courage by God to continue in his ministry through all the persecutions he has suffered.
Paul goes out to spread the Gospel to all, but he doesn’t have much support. Just so, we might feel that we don’t have external support in our call to spread the Gospel. Here we must remember that God gives us strength and the promise of heaven.

Waiting For the Holy Spirit - Daily Gospel Reflection

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Today is Ascension Thursday, and today’s reading is Mk 16:15-20.
After Christ has ascended into Heaven, the disciples IMMEDIATELY go out to begin their mission. We also know they spend 9 days in prayer in the upper room in prayer, waiting for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
The permanent state of the Church is one of waiting for the second coming, constantly depending on the power of the Holy Spirit.