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On Today’s Gospel

Posted: December 3, 2025 by CatholicJules in Personal Thoughts & Reflections
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If we cherish our sisters and brothers in Christ, and our fellow beloved children of God, our Heavenly Father, we will do what it takes to share the joy of the Gospel. This is our mission as Christians, and no one is exempt.

While it is our duty, it should also be our passion. Our love for our Lord Jesus Christ compels us to share His love and His message with everyone we meet. We have been empowered to demonstrate that the living God is alive even today. We are called to show His love through deliverance and healing.

As we bring His peace, mercy, and love into the world, let us be courageous and bold in our efforts. Our time here on Earth is short, and we shall soon return to the loving arms of our Savior.

Amen.

Saint Francis Xavier, Priest pray for us…


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First reading
1 Corinthians 9:16-19,22-23


I should be punished if I did not preach the Gospel

I do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which has been put into my hands. Do you know what my reward is? It is this: in my preaching, to be able to offer the Good News free, and not insist on the rights which the gospel gives me.
    So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could. For the weak I made myself weak: I made myself all things to all men in order to save some at any cost; and I still do this, for the sake of the gospel, to have a share in its blessings.



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Gospel
Mark 16:15-20


Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News

Jesus showed himself to the Eleven and said to them:
    ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.’
    And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven: there at the right hand of God he took his place, while they, going out, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it.

On Today’s Gospel

Posted: April 19, 2021 by CatholicJules in Personal Thoughts & Reflections
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Whether it be with separated Christians of other denominations, atheists or believers of other religions. If we enter into discussions with them or even debates it is not about winning the arguments or displaying superior knowledge or wisdom; it is about how much more we can love them through Christ our Lord,  both in our words and in our deeds. Such that the light of Christ shines through us. For whether they reject us personally or reject all that we have shared with them, it does not change the reality of the truth, the way and the life to be found in Jesus alone.

We can share His love and peace with all that we meet because we have ourselves received His immense love for us, His peace and joy; having sought Him daily through His Word and entering into His presence to listen to His will for us.  Grace filled we go out as witnesses to His love, peace and share the great joy of the Gospel.

Lord Jesus we desire the food that You offer us, that which endures to eternal life. Amen Alleluia!

First reading

Acts 6:8-15

They could not get the better of Stephen because the Spirit prompted what he said

Stephen was filled with grace and power and began to work miracles and great signs among the people. But then certain people came forward to debate with Stephen, some from Cyrene and Alexandria who were members of the synagogue called the Synagogue of Freedmen, and others from Cilicia and Asia. They found they could not get the better of him because of his wisdom, and because it was the Spirit that prompted what he said. So they procured some men to say, ‘We heard him using blasphemous language against Moses and against God.’ Having in this way turned the people against him as well as the elders and scribes, they took Stephen by surprise, and arrested him and brought him before the Sanhedrin. There they put up false witnesses to say, ‘This man is always making speeches against this Holy Place and the Law. We have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene is going to destroy this Place and alter the traditions that Moses handed down to us.’ The members of the Sanhedrin all looked intently at Stephen, and his face appeared to them like the face of an angel.

Gospel

John 6:22-29

Do not work for food that cannot last, but for food that endures to eternal life

After Jesus had fed the five thousand, his disciples saw him walking on the water. Next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side saw that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had set off by themselves. Other boats, however, had put in from Tiberias, near the place where the bread had been eaten. When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into those boats and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus. When they found him on the other side, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’

    Jesus answered:

‘I tell you most solemnly,

you are not looking for me because you have seen the signs

but because you had all the bread you wanted to eat.

Do not work for food that cannot last,

but work for food that endures to eternal life,

the kind of food the Son of Man is offering you,

for on him the Father, God himself, has set his seal.’

Then they said to him, ‘What must we do if we are to do the works that God wants?’ Jesus gave them this answer, ‘This is working for God: you must believe in the one he has sent.’