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On Today’s Gospel

Posted: April 7, 2014 by CatholicJules in Personal Thoughts & Reflections
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Is it not in our nature to be prideful? To think we can do it all on our own for we are strong, wise and highly capable. Who has the time for God? Why do I even need Him?

Then what do we do when things don’t go as planned? When things start falling apart? Some start cursing and swearing, others complain and grumble. Where was God? Why did He allow for this to happen? I knew all along there is no God! How different are we from the children of Israel led out of slavery by Moses? Have we not turned our backs on our loving Father?

And yet with sorrow in our hearts for what we have done and by turning back to Him, our loving Father extends His loving hand to save us. All we need to do is to look upon the cross and gaze upon love most pure, our redeemer, our liberator, our salvation, our Lord and God, Jesus Christ! Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Amen

FIRST READING
Numbers 21:4–9

GOSPEL
John 8:21–30

Jesus said to the Pharisees:
“I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.” They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father. So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.” Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.