Glimpses of the Gospel

Glimpses of the Gospel

By Fr. Rodrigo AguilarReligion & Spirituality
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Glimpses of the Gospel episodes

  • March 24th 2021- V Wednesday of Lent
    + Holy Gospel according to Saint John 8: 31 – 42
    Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, "If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
    They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, 'You will become free'?"
    Jesus answered them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. A slave does not remain in a household forever, but a son always remains. So if a son frees you, then you will truly be free. I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are trying to kill me, because my word has no room among you. I tell you what I have seen in the Father's presence; then do what you have heard from the Father."
    They answered and said to him, "Our father is Abraham."
    Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works of Abraham. But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God; Abraham did not do this. You are doing the works of your father!"
    (So) they said to him, "We are not illegitimate. We have one Father, God."
    Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me."
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min
  • March 23rd, 2021 - V Tuesday of Lent
    + Holy Gospel according to St. John 8: 21 – 30
    Jesus said to them again, "I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."
    So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"
    He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins."
    So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world."
    They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father. So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.
    Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min
  • March 22nd, 2021 – V Monday of Lent

    + Holy Gospel according to St. John 8: 1 – 11


    Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.


    Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. 


    Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. 


    But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.


    And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him.


    Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"


    She replied, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."


    The Gospel of the Lord

    10 min
  • March 21st, 2021 - V Sunday of Lent

    + Holy Gospel according to Saint John 12: 20 – 33 


    There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the feast. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus." Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, 


    "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me. "I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it and will glorify it again." The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, "An angel has spoken to him." Jesus answered and said, "This voice did not come for my sake but for yours. Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself." 


    He said this indicating the kind of death he would die.


    The Gospel of the Lord

    10 min
  • March 20th, 2021 - IV Saturday of Lent
    + Holy Gospel according to Saint John 7: 40 – 53
    Some in the crowd who heard these words said, "This is truly the Prophet." Others said, "This is the Messiah." But others said, "The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David's family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?" So a division occurred in the crowd because of him. Some of them even wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
    So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why did you not bring him?"
    The guards answered, "Never before has anyone spoken like this one."
    So the Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed."
    Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to them, "Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?"
    They answered and said to him, "You are not from Galilee also, are you? Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee."
    Then each went to his own house.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    7 min
  • March 19th, 2021 – IV Friday of Lent - Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    + Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 2: 41 – 51a
    Each year Jesus’s parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
    After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.
    When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety."
    And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
    But they did not understand what he said to them.
    He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    10 min
  • March 18th 2021 - IV Thursday of Lent
    + Holy Gospel according to Saint John 5: 31 – 47
    Jesus said to the Jews:
    "If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony cannot be verified. But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true.
    You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. I do not accept testimony from a human being, but I say this so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than John's. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form, and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.
    You search the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. But you do not want to come to me to have life.
    "I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?
    Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min
  • March 17, 2021 - IV Wednesday of Lent
    + Holy Gospel according to St. John, 5: 17 – 30
    Jesus answered the Jews, "My Father is at work until now, so I am at work."
    For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.
    Jesus answered and said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also. For the Father loves his Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to his Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life. Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself. And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
    Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation. I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me”.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    8 min
  • March 16th, 2021 - IV Tuesday of Lent

    + Holy Gospel according to Saint  John  5: 1 – 16


    There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.


    Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep (Gate) a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. 


    One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be well?"


    The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me."


    Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk."


    Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. 


    Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat."


    He answered them, "The man who made me well told me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'" 


    They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Take it up and walk'?"


    The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.


    After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, "Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you."


    The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well. Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.


    The Gospel of the Lord

    8 min
  • March 15th, 2021 - IV Monday of Lent
    + Holy Gospel according to Saint John 4: 43 – 54
    After the two days, Jesus left there for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
    Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
    When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death.
    Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
    The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
    Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
    He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon."
    The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he and his whole household came to believe.
    Now this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.
    The Gospel of the Lord
    10 min

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Daily readings from the Gospel and a brief audio comment by Father Rodrigo Aguilar, Dioceses of San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.