Claim OwnershipDaily Gospel Meditations - Saint John Society
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Reflections on the daily Gospel to help you prepare your morning meditation. The Saint John Society (www.socsj.org) is a society of priests in the Catholic Church, dedicated to the new evangelization. Fr. Lucas Laborde and other priests in the DGM team started this podcast in 2019 to encourage Catholics around them in the daily practice of lectio divina, or meditation.
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How can Jesus be always at work? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.How would you assess your daily activities, according to this gospel? When does your work feel alienating? And when do you sense you can do things in Christ, in keeping with your identity? To what extent are you doing things that give life to others? Are you radiating the light of Christ in the world, so that those called to belong to him may be judged worthy to inherit eternal life?
“Do you want to be well?” - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.What gifts have you received from Christ that enabled you to do better, but also led you to new responsibilities and new challenges? What are those challenges, and how are you responding to them? Have you been faithful to the salvation and the graces that the Lord has given you? Why is that faithfulness necessary to keep doing well?
The transformation of a powerful man - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.What changed this royal official? What was the inner process of coming to faith like? How did he see his own life before and after? How do you imagine his daily life being different? And how does this resonate with you? Why does Jesus want you to reflect on this today?
The light of faith as a contested gift – Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.How has faith in Christ enabled you to see yourself and the world in a different light? What are some of the dilemmas and debates in your heart that hinge upon the question of who Jesus is? What step of faith is Jesus inviting you to take?
Pride, humility, and the standard of morality - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.How does pride manifest itself in my own heart? What is the Lord inviting me to do about it? What is the standard of morality that I normally apply to myself? What is unique and inspiring in Christ’s humility?
Why was the scribe asking Jesus about something he knew? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.In this meditation think of the activities and projects that occupy most of your mental time. How are those connected with love of God and love of neighbor? What would Jesus encourage you to do, so that your capacity to love God and others may grow?
How Jesus exposes the strategies of the evil one - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.Do you find in your thoughts, feelings, or reactions, any agreement with the lies and accusations of the Evil One? How could someone fall for those lies? What brings home to you the evidence of God’s goodness? In what ways is Jesus asking you to side with him more clearly?
Why does Jesus say He hadn’t come to abolish the Law? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.Can you verify the benefit of good rules in your own life? Are there particular areas in which you don’t need many rules, because your heart has grown strong? Is the Lord encouraging you to go back to certain basic rules of Christian life?
Forgiveness as part of daily life - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.What would Jesus say to you on this topic of forgiveness? What are those daily annoyances that require you to be forgiving with those around you? What are the things on which others need to be patient with you?
Why did people of Nazareth reject Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.Could any of the difficulties the people of Nazareth experienced when it came to accepting Christ reflect your own difficulties? What do you find inspiring in Jesus’ response to rejection, and what is He encouraging you to learn from him in this regard?
Encountering truth as a living Person - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.How has God shown you that deeper thirst that things of this world can’t satisfy? In what ways has He challenged you to step into the light? How is an encounter with a personal truth different from finding truth as an abstract standard?
The parable of the prodigal son - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.How does the Father reason with you, response to those doubts? What does he say? How is the Lord inviting you to move from fear to love, from living like a slave, to living like a child in the house?
How could the stewards of the vineyard reject the Messiah? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.Is it a temptation for me to be territorial, to become possessive of some things, people, or tasks? Can I navigate the right balance between truly caring for those entrusted to me, without giving in to a controlling attitude? Has the Lord in some way been coming to me to ask for an account? Is He, the Son of God, my inheritance?
What was the sin of the rich man? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.How does this story help you detect the roots of sin in your own heart? How does it help you detect the ways in which sin wants to work its way into your mind, justify itself, and become a hollow identity?
Why didn’t Jesus reject this ambitious request right away? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.How has Jesus redirected your own desires in the past? What ambitions would Jesus encourage in you, even when they are imperfect, and in need of purification? How would the Lord challenge you to purify your desires?
Temptations around religious authority - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.Which of these perspectives better reflects your position? What is the Lord telling you through this reading? How is He encouraging you to consistency, humility, and trust?
Unpacking the golden rule - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.In today’s meditation, observe the traits of Jesus: his generosity, his patience, his disposition to forgive. And then reflect: How is the Lord encouraging you to grow in these?
The Transfiguration as an anchor of the soul - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.In what ways has God manifested himself to you, so as to strengthen your faith? Do you discover his providence, in the way He prepared you for trials? Did some blessings reach you indirectly at times, through graces God gave to others?
What love of enemies can do - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.What is the way in which Jesus wants you to love those that are hard to love? Have you received love from the Lord and from others when you feel you didn’t quite deserve it? Have you experienced first-hand the power that Christ’s love has to bring about personal transformations?
Why is Jesus so strict about anger? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.What are the things that may commonly trigger anger for you? How could you apply Jesus’ teaching to those situations?
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Greetings from Scotland. Many thanks for these series podcast. I hear them every day. They are s great complement for what I already hear in my parish (St. Sylvester's, Elgin). I think the man who talks, as I am, is a Spanish speaker. Saludos y bendiciones Raffaele Storino