Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Reflections on Scripture • 03-21-23 - Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Reflections on Scripture • 03-21-23 - Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Gospel
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.
Reflection
What I love about this story is the way it reveals the intention of Jesus. His intention is not to judge or condemn, but to heal, to free. And it's just by his very intention that this can happen within a human being who is open to it.
So it's a good thing to wonder about whether you believe in something as miraculous as a change within you that isn't something you achieve, but is truly a gift.
The Closing prayer
Father, awaken us to your heart so that we know your intention is always not to condemn, not to judge, but to heal. Open us to the multiple ways in which you miraculous heal us of our wounds. Amen.
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.
Reflection
What I love about this story is the way it reveals the intention of Jesus. His intention is not to judge or condemn, but to heal, to free. And it's just by his very intention that this can happen within a human being who is open to it.
So it's a good thing to wonder about whether you believe in something as miraculous as a change within you that isn't something you achieve, but is truly a gift.
The Closing prayer
Father, awaken us to your heart so that we know your intention is always not to condemn, not to judge, but to heal. Open us to the multiple ways in which you miraculous heal us of our wounds. Amen.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
View all episodes
By Msgr. Don Fischer
4.8
132132 ratings
Gospel
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.
Reflection
What I love about this story is the way it reveals the intention of Jesus. His intention is not to judge or condemn, but to heal, to free. And it's just by his very intention that this can happen within a human being who is open to it.
So it's a good thing to wonder about whether you believe in something as miraculous as a change within you that isn't something you achieve, but is truly a gift.
The Closing prayer
Father, awaken us to your heart so that we know your intention is always not to condemn, not to judge, but to heal. Open us to the multiple ways in which you miraculous heal us of our wounds. Amen.
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.
Reflection
What I love about this story is the way it reveals the intention of Jesus. His intention is not to judge or condemn, but to heal, to free. And it's just by his very intention that this can happen within a human being who is open to it.
So it's a good thing to wonder about whether you believe in something as miraculous as a change within you that isn't something you achieve, but is truly a gift.
The Closing prayer
Father, awaken us to your heart so that we know your intention is always not to condemn, not to judge, but to heal. Open us to the multiple ways in which you miraculous heal us of our wounds. Amen.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More shows like Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer
View all
Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
4,893 Listeners
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
6,134 Listeners
Pray More Novenas Podcast, Catholic Prayers and Devotions
1,033 Listeners
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
5,685 Listeners
Pints With Aquinas
6,485 Listeners
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
7,590 Listeners
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
2,150 Listeners
Abiding Together
4,067 Listeners
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
1,353 Listeners
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
1,133 Listeners
Godsplaining
1,199 Listeners
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
651 Listeners
The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
2,881 Listeners
Catholic Saints
946 Listeners
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
5,350 Listeners