Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
April 26, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042624.cfm
Jesus said to his disciples:
John 14: 1-6
“Do not let your hearts be troubled.
You have faith in God; have faith also in me.
In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.
If there were not,
would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back again and take you to myself,
so that where I am you also may be.
Where I am going you know the way.”
Thomas said to him,
“Master, we do not know where you are going;
how can we know the way?”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.”
The disciples today, especially Thomas, remind me of myself on my first day of kindergarten. I had never done anything without my mother beside me, (except when, early one morning before the adults awakened, my three-year-old self tried to escape our front door to capture myself a pet pigeon.)
The disciples now face a life without Jesus’s physical presence. They’re scared. But Jesus assures his nervous followers that, in Him, they now have all they need to move forward with the Gospel. If they hold to his Way, his Truth, and his Life, they have nothing to fear.
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy,
We ask to trust Christ’s assurance to us as well, focusing our days on his Way, Truth, and Life by our sincere study and practice of a Gospel spirituality.
Prose: ― Thomas Keating – from Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: ‘All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.’ This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.
Music: Here’s a little “cardio-prayer” for your enjoyment! 😀
Lavish Mercy 
That “cardio-prayer” was magnificent…thank you! We remember days when we could jump around like that…thank you, God, for those days! and thank you, Renee!
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