Jesus The Good Shepherd
Reflection on the Gospel of the Fourth Sunday of Easter John 10: 1-10 Jesus is alive! He hasn’t left us alone to reside in heaven. The good Lord is the good shepherd. He gives us an invitation to have a personal relationship with Him. He calls us by name. Unlike, the shepherds of our world who […]
The Words of Eternal Life
Reflection on the Gospel of the Saturday In The Third Week Of Easter John 6: 60-69 “… the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” These words of Jesus need to be placed in context of all that He was saying in John 6 – I am the bread of […]
Eating the Flesh of the Messiah
Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Third Week Of Easter John 6: 52-59 The Gospel text of today continues with the discourse on the Bread of Life. Jesus speaks of the necessity of eating his flesh and drinking his blood. The language of Jesus is shocking to his audience: eating his […]
Believe in the Goodness of God and Merit Eternal Life
Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday In The Third Week Of Easter John 6: 44-51 The last few days we have been reading John 6, where John presents Jesus as the Bread/Nourishment that sustains us to live full lives. In John 6 the topic/theme is Jesus the Bread of Life (an I AM […]
The Bread of Life Eternal
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Third Week Of Easter John 6: 35-40 One great theme of the New Testament is – Hodas, meaning the Way. Understood correctly in the sense of the New Testament it means the New Exodus. The Early Christians were so known (The People of the Way) […]
The Ascension of Jesus
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Third Week Of Easter Mark 16: 15-20 Before the death of our loved one what is of utter most importance? What he/she says just before departure from the earth and that we will remember for life. In today’s gospel Jesus before his ascension to heaven […]
Jesus The Bread from Heaven
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Third Week Of Easter John 6: 22-29 “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves…” v.26 “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has […]
Walking With God to Emmaus
Reflection on the Gospel of the Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24: 13-35 The road to Emmaus. It’s a journey of hopelessness that turns into hope. We may say that one of the two disciples was Cleophas but the other is just a guess. However, the other could well be you. We often find […]
Jesus Walks on the Water
Reflection on the Gospel of the Saturday In The Second Week Of Easter John 6: 16-21 This Gospel Passage is after the feeding of the Five Thousand, Jesus has stayed back to pray, and asked His Disciples to carry on and travel to Capernaum, where he was staying and operating His ministry from. And […]
Feeding the Five Thousand
Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Second Week Of Easter John 6: 1-15 This event of the ‘multiplication of the Loaves’ took place in Galilee where Jesus miraculously fed the 5000 with five barley loaves and two fishes. In the Gospel of John there is no teaching before the multiplication of […]