Daily Gospel Reflection on Veritas Catholic Network

Today’s Gospel Reading is Jn 15:26-16:4.

We are preparing for Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit. Jesus prepares his disciples for all the realities of the Gospel, from the Passion to the recep…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Jn 15:9-17

No one has greater love than to lay down their life for their friends. Further, if we live according to the teachings of Jesus, we are truly friends with Christ.

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Today’s Gospel Reading is Jn 15:18-21.

Jesus tells his disciples that the world will hate them. This is because there is a consequence to accepting God’s mercy, namely, there are certain behaviors th…

Today we celebrate the feast of the apostles of St. Philip and St. James. We read from Jn 14:6-14.

“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life”. Have you fully assented to this? Is it personal?

Pray today…

Today is the feast of St Athanasius, we read from Jn 15:9-11.

God’s desire for us is that we experience His love in all things, and as such, that we would have love and joy to the fullest extent.

St.…

Today is the Feast of St. Jospeh the Worker!

We sometimes fall into the fallacy that work is contrary to God’s plan. However, from the beginning work has been included in the Lord’s plan. Prior to th…

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 14: 27-31 .

The Lord brings peace, but not the same the world brings peace. Is peace just the absence of noise and conflict?

The peace Jesus brings us is a peace of sou…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Jn 14: 21-26.

Whoever has the commandments of Jesus and observes them, loves. In turn, those who love God are loved by God.

God is love, and in an act of pure love creates a…

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 12:44-55

Jesus tells us that He will always remain with us and that whoever believes in Him believes in the One who sent Him.

Jesus is the light of the World and is giv…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Jn 10:22-30.

Jesus calls us by name, and when we are in the care of the Good Shepherd, no one can take us out of the care of the Father.

No matter how far we find ourselves …

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 10:1-10.

The Good Shepherd enters through the gate. Anyone one who doesn’t enter through the gate is a thief and a robber, who destroys.

The Good Shepherd calls us back…

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 6:60-69.

There is quarreling among Jesus’s disciples because He said, “I am the bread of life, My Flesh is true food and my Blood is true drink. Unless you eat the fles…

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 6: 55-59.

Jesus is doubling down on the point. If we do not eat His Flesh and drink His Blood, if we don’t share in the Eucharist, we are missing something essential fo…

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 6:44-51

No one can come to Jesus unless His Father draws them. What does this mean? It means that the very faith we have in Jesus and in the Eucharist is itself a gift.

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 6:35-40

Jesus is raising the stakes. He’s not just satisfying our physical and spiritual hunger. Now He tells us that He who is the Bread of Life will give us Eternal L…

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 6:30-35

“I Am the Bread of Life”. Jesus is going to give Himself to us as the true food. Just as God gave the people bread from Heaven through Moses, so too, Jesus givi…

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 6:22-29

The people recognize that only one boat had crossed the sea. Why is this important? The people hunger for Christ. They are not just physically hungry, but spiri…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Luke 24:35-48

Jesus reminds the apostles of who they are, witnesses of “these things”… Jesus’s Life, Mission, Death, and Resurrection. Jesus is not just speaking to the 11 r…

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 6:16-21

The Disciples are in a boat crossing the sea. Jesus is walking on water towards them, and though they are afraid, they immediately arrive on shore.

Jesus wants …

Today’s Gospel Reading is John 6:1-15.

This is the beginning of the Bread of Life Discourse, where Jesus feeds the 5000. Jesus wants to feed the people with bread that has no earthly origin. It is a …