Just two more days from today before we arrive at Pentecost! Are we ready to come out of our tombs into the light of our Risen Lord; to receive a great awakening of the Holy Spirit within us, so as to glorify God our Heavenly Father by living our lives in the Spirit?
Before we give a resounding Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes, Yes Lord!
We have to ask ourselves just how much do we really love Jesus? Are we fully reconciled with the Lord our God by turning away from and confessing all our sins? Have we emptied ourselves of all the baggage we carried in our hearts so as to be filled with His love? Have we moved past from lip service into using our hands and feet for love of Him and of brethren? Have we moved past a mere friendship with Him, are prepared to lay down our lives and have we picked up our cross to follow Him? Are we ready to be sent into the world to nourish His flock with His Word, truth and life!
Lord Jesus I truly love You! Holy Spirit Lord Come!
Just as You moved upon the Void and darkness at creation.
Just as You moved in the tomb of Christ
Just as You moved upon the disciples at Pentecost
Move in my life, in my family, in the Church, in my Nation and in my World today. Amen Alleluia!
First reading
Acts 25:13-21 ·
‘I ordered Paul to be remanded until I could send him to Caesar’
King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus. Their visit lasted several days, and Festus put Paul’s case before the king. ‘There is a man here’ he said ‘whom Felix left behind in custody, and while I was in Jerusalem the chief priests and elders of the Jews laid information against him, demanding his condemnation. But I told them that Romans are not in the habit of surrendering any man, until the accused confronts his accusers and is given an opportunity to defend himself against the charge. So they came here with me, and I wasted no time but took my seat on the tribunal the very next day and had the man brought in. When confronted with him, his accusers did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected; but they had some argument or other with him about their own religion and about a dead man called Jesus whom Paul alleged to be alive. Not feeling qualified to deal with questions of this sort, I asked him if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem to be tried there on this issue. But Paul put in an appeal for his case to be reserved for the judgement of the august emperor, so I ordered him to be remanded until I could send him to Caesar.’
Gospel
John 21:15-19
Feed my lambs, feed my sheep
Jesus showed himself to his disciples, and after they had eaten he said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?’ He answered, ‘Yes Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’ A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ He replied, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Look after my sheep.’ Then he said to him a third time, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was upset that he asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep.
‘I tell you most solemnly,
when you were young
you put on your own belt
and walked where you liked;
but when you grow old
you will stretch out your hands,
and somebody else will put a belt round you
and take you where you would rather not go.’
In these words he indicated the kind of death by which Peter would give glory to God. After this he said, ‘Follow me.’
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