What greater testimony is there? Then for the people sent our way, to see the healing, restoration, the casting out evil spirits in the name of Jesus performed by His disciples! And we are His disciples for we are committed to loving all who are sent out way. Shall we not then pray out loud “Be healed in Jesus name” or “In the name of Jesus, spirit of anxiety and depression depart from her!” Do we not at least have the faith the size of a mustard seed? Do we only have to be fanatical in our faith to try? Shall we not be the cause of great rejoicing in the Lord? As we lead His flock to a deeper relationship with Him giving Him all the glory?
What have we to lose? Our lives? Are we fearful of that even when the Lord our God has promised us that we shall have eternal life with Him? For He had said, “I should lose nothing of all that he has given to me, and that I should raise it up on the last day. Yes, it is my Father’s will that whoever sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him up on the last day.” Amen Alleluia!
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First reading
Acts 8:1-8
They went from place to place, preaching the Good News
That day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except the apostles fled to the country districts of Judaea and Samaria.
There were some devout people, however, who buried Stephen and made great mourning for him.
Saul then worked for the total destruction of the Church; he went from house to house arresting both men and women and sending them to prison.
Those who had escaped went from place to place preaching the Good News. One of them was Philip who went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves. There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.
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Gospel
John 6:35-40
It is my Father’s will that whoever sees the Son should have eternal life
Jesus said to the crowd:
‘I am the bread of life.
He who comes to me will never be hungry;
he who believes in me will never thirst.
But, as I have told you,
you can see me and still you do not believe.
All that the Father gives me will come to me,
and whoever comes to me I shall not turn him away;
because I have come from heaven, not to do my own will,
but to do the will of the one who sent me.
Now the will of him who sent me
is that I should lose nothing of all that he has given to me,
and that I should raise it up on the last day.
Yes, it is my Father’s will
that whoever sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life,
and that I shall raise him up on the last day.’
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