Daughters of St Paul | Daily Gospel Reflections

 Gospel Lk 12:35-38 Learning to be vigilant?....  Jesus said to his disciples: "Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master's return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants." Reflections : This parable is an indication of our lives as servants of God. Jesus has called each one of us to serve God who is ready to reward those who have laboured in his absence, and are awake and alert . Jesus is a loving redeemer and protector. Our Master’s return will be   glorious  for those who believe in him and have sought to know him through prayer, the scriptures and following the path he showed. On that day, he will acknowledge how hard w

 Gospel  Lk 6:12-19 Want to be a true disciple of Jesus? Gospel Text: Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all. Reflections: Gospel - Luke 6:12-19 It is important to recognize that when we pray, we c