Jesus our Risen Lord is the way, the truth and life to the full. And others should see this truth in us, by the way we live our lives full of joy and in His love. We do not then need to go out and proselytize. For the beauty and truth of God’s endearing love for us is attractive enough to captivate hearts.We daughters and sons of the living God have already been raised to new life through Jesus Christ by our baptism. And so we already have hope for life eternal with God our Heavenly Father when we pass from this world. Shall we not share this joy of the Risen Lord we possess within of hearts with others. So that they too will not let their hearts be troubled for they will trust in our Lord as we do, now and forever. Amen
First reading
Acts 13:26-33 ·
God has fulfilled his promise by raising Jesus from the deadPaul stood up in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia, held up a hand for silence and began to speak:
‘My brothers, sons of Abraham’s race, and all you who fear God, this message of salvation is meant for you. What the people of Jerusalem and their rulers did, though they did not realise it, was in fact to fulfil the prophecies read on every sabbath. Though they found nothing to justify his death, they condemned him and asked Pilate to have him executed. When they had carried out everything that scripture foretells about him they took him down from the tree and buried him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead, and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem: and it is these same companions of his who are now his witnesses before our people.
‘We have come here to tell you the Good News. It was to our ancestors that God made the promise but it is to us, their children, that he has fulfilled it, by raising Jesus from the dead. As scripture says in the second psalm: You are my son: today I have become your father.’
Gospel
John 14:1-6
I am the Way, the Truth and the LifeJesus said to his disciples:‘Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God still, and trust in me.
There are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I should have told you.
I am going now to prepare a place for you,
and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too.
You know the way to the place where I am going.’Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus said:‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.
No one can come to the Father except through me.’
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