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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What does Bartimaeus’ healing represent? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
Is your life diminished in some sense because there are steps you are reluctant to take? How has Jesus opened your eyes? Have you fully embraced the consequences of the grace Jesus has given you?
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How Jesus addressed misaligned feelings - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
With which of the characters in this passage would you identify at this time? Express your feelings to the Lord, and, based on this gospel, imagine what He would say to you.
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The rewards of those who venture things for Christ - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
What things have you risked or given up to follow Christ? In what ways have you experienced that paradox of receiving from the Lord the true measure of those things you had given up to follow him?
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The calling of the rich young man - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
How has Jesus led to you ascend from grace to grace? What are things that come natural to you now, but would have been difficult at the beginning? Can you identify some step or trial that Christ has encouraged you to face, something you need or have the grace to tackle, even when it’s not a step for everyone?
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Why the Trinity is significant for our spiritual life - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
In which ways have you received your own being and gifts from God and from others? In which ways have you been called to give of yourself to others?
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Why did Jesus want children to come to him? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
Is Jesus inviting you to review any guiding principles in your life regarding the importance of forming others and his insistence that young minds be allowed to approach him? What does it mean for you to have a child-like heart, and how is that different from being childish?
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What did Jesus teach about divorce? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
What has it meant, in your case, to be challenged by Christ to believe you can aspire to a higher kind of love? What is the resistance you have found in your own hardness of heart? How has the Lord provided you with strength to overcome that resistance?
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Protecting our relationship with God - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
What are possible things you could do in attention to Christ? Could some words or actions of yours cause others to sin? Can you recall situations in which a challenging sacrifice was required to preserve your integrity or your faith? What helps you keep your distinctively Christian flavor?
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How can Jesus be so strict and open-minded at the same time? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
Do you recognize the patience of Christ toward you as you began your journey, when your steps were still imperfect, but well-directed? How is Jesus asking you to support the positive steps of others who are still on the way to a deeper life of faith?
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Why the disciples avoided the topic of the Passion - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
Are there questions about being a disciple that you are hesitant to bring up to Jesus? How can you expand your horizon, so as to see things from Jesus’ perspective? What entices you to want to be first in the way Jesus understands it?
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Mary, our mother in the order of grace - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
In what ways have you grown in union with Christ, so as to partake of his sufferings and of his joys, as Mary did? Imagine you are the one at the foot of the cross, and that Mary receives you as her son, as her daughter, today.
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Why did Christ sent his Spirit upon his disciples? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
What calls your attention in the way the Holy Spirit works? Have you seen signs of the Holy Spirit in you or others in recent times? What dimension of the action of the Holy Spirit resonates with you?
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The temptation to compare ourselves with others - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
Are there areas in your life in which you feel insecure, or you tend to compare yourself with others? What does Jesus say in response to those voices? How does He encourage you? What is it that matters to him?
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“Simon, do you love me?” - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
Imagine you are Peter and Jesus asks you these questions. Do you love me? How can you show Jesus your love for him? How could your love for him grow?
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What does Jesus ask for when He prays for us? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
What does each of these gifts Jesus prayed for mean to you? What is keeping you from receiving them? How would your life look like if you received a greater portion of these gifts?
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What does Jesus mean by asking that his disciples be consecrated? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
How has Jesus protected you and watched over you? How has the message of Christ transformed you and led you to live in a way that is distinctive? In what ways has the Lord consecrated you, that is, established you solidly in faith?
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Remaining in Christ’s love and friendship - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
In what ways has Jesus manifested his love for you? What is your perception of Christ’s commandments? Why is that? Is there anything that is keeping you from opening your heart to God in prayer? Take a time to do that, as you conclude this meditation.
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Signs of spiritual growth - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
Where are you in your spiritual journey? Can you identify some steps of growth you have taken? What is still lacking? Where is Jesus pointing next? Where do you get your identity from? How can you become more rooted in the Father?
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The synergy of Christ and the apostles - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
What is the mission that the Lord is entrusting to you? Why does He do that – why doesn’t He do it all by himself? What are the signs of his presence? What can you do to take up that task of the great commission?
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What does it mean to pray in the name of Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings.
What do you imagine Jesus saying in his prayer to the Father? How could your prayer become more Christ-like? What do you think would change in you if your outlook and intentions were more like those of Christ?
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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