GOSPEL POWER |APRIL 21, 2021

WEDNESDAY | Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

3rd Week of Easter | Gospel: Jn 6: 35 – 40

Jesus said to the crowd, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away; for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose

nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life; and I will raise them up on the last day.”

REFLECTION

Faith in Jesus is both a gift of God and a human decision.  The initiative is always God’s, a gratuitous offer. But God  always awaits a free human response of acceptance and  commitment. Are we, human beings, truly capable of making such  a decision by ourselves? Mystery of mysteries! We are always held  within the gracious saving will of the Father, gently sustained by  his power and are being led toward the fulfillment of his desire to  make us sharers of the divine life through the mission of his Son. St.  Paul’s positive vision of the end-time is a constant source of hope: “When everything is subjected to the Son, then the Son himself will also  be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may  be all in all” (1 Cor 15:28).

PRAYER

Lord Jesus, open our hearts to the gift of faith, and enable us to respond  to that gift by placing our life in your hands. Amen.