MAY 18, 2020
GOSPEL READING AND REFLECTION
JOHN 15: 26-164a
From the Father, will send you the Spirit of truth. When this Helper has come from the Father, he will be my witness, and you, too, will be my witness, for you have been with me from the beginning.
I tell you all this to keep you from stumbling and falling away. They will put you out of the synagogue. Still more, the hour is coming, when anyone who kills you will claim to be serving God; they will do this, because they have not known the Father or me. I tell you all these things now so that, when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you about this in the beginning, because I was with you.
POINT OF REFLECTION
Being in the cause of proclaiming the good news is never easy. If Jesus was crucified, then would believers and torment of the Christian followers. But despite all this and across generations, Christian believers became stronger and stronger in their faith. Amidst persecution, steadfast with the mighty Helper, the Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit is the helper from the Father coming down on Jesus behalf while He left for a while to prepare our rooms in the Father’s house in heaven. There was never a single moment in our lives that we are left unattended by the Father. He will not allow anyone of us go astray.
As early disciples and followers were gone after and persecuted, we will also share the same fate with them but not in a way like before. Our own version of persecution and torment are our personal struggles of this life. The challenges, problems, failures and worries that we have are the new version of persecution. We need to be careful about this things for it will affect our being much more on our soul. But similar to what the early disciples had done, we will overcome them with the presence of the Holy Spirit in order to win the kingdom in heaven.
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