NOTE: Due to illness, we will interrupt our meditations on the Gospel of John for the next few days and listen to a three-day series on the purification of the heart. An inner connection can be made, for throughout the Gospel of John we have encountered the closed hearts of the hostile Jews, and it […]
A way to a pure heart – Part 1 Read More »
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 14:15-23): “I will not leave you desolate” Read More »
“Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 14:1-14): “Jesus is the way to the Father” Read More »
When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of man glorified, and in him God is glorified; if God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me; and as I
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 13:31-38): “True brotherhood” Read More »
When Jesus had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 13:12-30): “The Traitor’s Name” Read More »
Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 13:1-11): “The service of Jesus” Read More »
Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And he who sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If any one hears my sayings and
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 12:44-50): “The word of Jesus judges” Read More »
The crowd answered Jesus, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?” Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, lest
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 12:34-43) “Believe in the light” Read More »
He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If any one serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also; if any one serves me, the Father will honor him. “Now is my soul
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 12:25-33): “The time has come” Read More »
The next day a great crowd who had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (Jn 12:12-24): “Hosanna to the Son of David” Read More »
