“Jesus said to His Disciples: ‘Whoever has My Commandments and observes them is the one who loves Me. Whoever loves Me will be loved by my Father, and I will love Him and reveal Myself to Him.’ … ‘Whoever loves Me will keep My Word, and My Father will love Him, and We will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; … the Word you hear is not Mine but that of the Father who sent Me.'”
Mass Readings 5.4.15 – FIRST READING: Acts 14:5-18 – PSALM 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16 – GOSPEL: John 14:21-26 … FIND A MASS: MassTimes.org – FIND A MASS: TheCatholicDirectory.com
MONDAY TV MASS: Catholic TV (Boston)
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Not to us, O Lord, but to Your Name give the Glory.
GOSPEL
Jesus calls us to a personal relationship with God, in which we show we love Him by keeping God’s Commandments and God’s Word. If we do so, God will come make His Dwelling with us. The Holy Spirit helps to teach us, and remind us of what Jesus has taught us.
Jesus said to His Disciples: ‘Whoever has My Commandments and observes them is the one who loves Me. Whoever loves Me will be loved by my Father, and I will love Him and reveal Myself to Him.’ … ‘Whoever loves Me will keep My Word, and My Father will love Him, and We will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; … the Word you hear is not Mine but that of the Father who sent Me.’
MONDAY TV MASS: Toronto
FIRST READING
Paul and Barnabas proclaim the Gospel, at one point moving on to avoid those who wish to stone them.
When Paul heals a cripple miraculously, pagan followers of Greek “gods” want to honor them as Zeus and Hermes, prompting fierce rebukes from Paul.
At Lystra there was a crippled man, lame from birth, who had never walked. He listened to Paul speaking, who looked intently at him, saw that he had the faith to be healed, and called out in a loud voice, ‘Stand up straight on your feet.’
The man is cured. Note the key element of the account, that Paul sees that the cripple, in himself, has the faith to cooperate with God in being cured miraculously.
LINKS & RESOURCES
- “The word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me” – Gospel Commentary by Saint John of the Cross, The Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book 2, ch. 22 – DailyGospel.org
- Find a Mass: MassTimes.org
- Find a Mass: TheCatholicDirectory.com
- VIDEO: Sunday Mass – Basilica in Washington, D.C.
- VIDEO: Sunday Mass – Passionists (New York)
- VIDEO: Diocese of Sioux Falls, including Sunday Masses
- VIDEO: Sunday Mass – University of Notre Dame
- VIDEO: Daily Mass – Toronto
- VIDEO: Daily Mass – Boston/Catholic TV
