Are we doing the work of God, our Heavenly Father? For in today’s gospel, Jesus defines that the work of God, our Heavenly Father, is to believe in Him, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And if we are truly believing in Him, then we will minister to others through the power of His resurrection and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, just as St. Stephen did.
So much so that his opponents could not better him in wisdom and resorted to bearing false witness against him. And so, if we are living our lives according to the word and will of Jesus, then we too are indeed doing the work of our Heavenly Father.
Here I am, Lord Jesus. I’ve come to do your will. Amen.
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First reading
Acts 6:8-15
‘They could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.’
In those days: Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. Then they secretly instigated men who said, ‘We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.’ And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council, and they set up false witnesses who said, ‘This man never ceases to speak words against this Holy Place and the Law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.’ And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
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Gospel
John 6:22-29
‘Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life.’
After Jesus had fed the five thousand, the disciples saw him walking on the lake. On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.’ Then they said to him, ‘What must we do, to be doing the works of God?’ Jesus answered them, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.’
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