Daily Gospel Meditations - Saint John Society

The washing of the disciples’ feet - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Why do you think Jesus chose this gesture to symbolize his life? What do you need to allow Jesus to purify in you?  What is most significant to you about Christ’s love? How is He asking you to imitate that love?

How could Judas betray Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What can you learn about the dynamics of sin in the story of Judas? What did Jesus do to address those growing roots of sin? Are there any tendencies or thoughts that Jesus would want you to address in your life, so as to stop the spread of sin in your soul?

Sins of weakness vs. deliberate sins - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What difference do you discover in this gospel between sins of weakness and deliberate sins? What strategies can you learn from Christ on how to fight these different kinds of temptation?

The anointing of Jesus in Bethany - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Why does the Lord value actions like those of Mary? What generous gestures is the Lord inspiring you to offer him? When you feel resistance to those generous offerings, where does it come from? How can you unite your heart to the Passion of Christ in this Holy Week?

Why did Jesus accept being acclaimed as Messiah on Palm Sunday? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Why did Jesus act the way He did when entering Jerusalem? What is your experience of the changes that Christ can generate in people’s lives? Has the novelty that Christ brought to your life awakened opposition at times? Just as Christ waited for the right time to manifest his kings...

Reactions to the resurrection of Lazarus - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Do you see yourself reflected in some of these reactions to the Lord’s miracles? Are the voices of fear rising above other important factors in your decisions? Is there anything that God is inviting you to do to manifest his light, even when that could be met with opposition?

How Jesus confronts human hardness of heart - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. When you hear Jesus responding in this way to those who didn’t trust him, can you imagine the Lord reasoning with you along similar lines? What would He say to you?

The roots of unbelief: a distorted idea of God - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What’s your experience of that life made of communion with the Father that Jesus speaks of? What are those distorted images of God that could tempt us to displace the living God from our hearts? How does the word of Christ provide a corrective for that temptation?

A deeper conversion: receiving the heart of children - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What do you find most striking in the freedom and identity of Christ? Does this gospel help you detect any roots of sin in your heart? What is Jesus asking you to do, so you can live in greater freedom?

The problem of reading Jesus in a political sense - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What do you find significant about Jesus’ revelation of who He is and about his coming from the Father? What may be blocking your capacity to listen to God? How can you break free?

On right judgment and the failure of consensus - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How has your moral judgment been healed and improved since you began to be clearly guided by Christ? How would Jesus guide you to avoid both extremes of relativism and harshness?

The perfect balance of Christ’s mercy - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. With which character of this story do you identify – the woman, the Pharisees, Jesus? Place yourself under the gaze of Christ in this meditation. What does the Lord see in you? What does He say to you? And what would He want to teach you on how to judge sin in a way that doesn’t condemn and destroy, but act...

The battle that rages inside the soul - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Can you identify the voices that arise in your reason and in your sensibility in both camps, for Jesus and against him, for what He says and against what He says? How does the Holy Spirit argue with you, to bring you to side with Christ?

The attempt to explain who Jesus is in a human way - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Are there situations now in which Jesus is inviting you to act with courage, and yet, to do so shrewdly, with a strategy in mind? What aspects of your life – or in the life of believers – do you sense can only be explained as coming from God?

What made it difficult for them to believe in Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Why did God want to provide you with sufficient witnesses that would strengthen your faith? What have been those different testimonies that impacted your life? Is something acting as an obstacle to your faith? What are subtle ways of choosing the glory of this world over the glory of God?

How can Jesus be always at work? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How would you assess your daily activities, according to this gospel? When does your work feel alienating? And when do you sense you can do things in Christ, in keeping with your identity? To what extent are you doing things that give life to others? Are you radiating the light of Christ in the world, so that th...

“Do you want to be well?” - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What gifts have you received from Christ that enabled you to do better, but also led you to new responsibilities and new challenges? What are those challenges, and how are you responding to them? Have you been faithful to the salvation and the graces that the Lord has given you? Why is that faithfulness necessary to ke...

The transformation of a powerful man - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What changed in this royal official? What was the inner process of coming to faith like? How did he see his own life before and after? How do you imagine his daily life being different? And how does this resonate with you? Why does Jesus want you to reflect on this today?

The parable of the prodigal son - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. In what way do you resemble the younger son, or the older one? Have you ever experienced the Father’s generous love the way they did? What has inspired you, and inspires you still, to want to live in the Father’s house?

Pride, humility, and the standard of morality - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How does pride manifest itself in my own heart? What is the Lord inviting me to do about it? What is the standard of morality that I normally apply to myself? What is unique and inspiring in Christ’s humility?

Why was the scribe asking Jesus about something he knew? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Think of the activities and projects that occupy most of your mental time. How are those connected with love of God and love of neighbor? What would Jesus encourage you to do, so that your capacity to love God and others may grow?

How Jesus exposes the strategies of the evil one - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Do you find in your thoughts, feelings, or reactions, any agreement with the lies and accusations of the Evil One? How could someone fall for those lies? What brings home to you the evidence of God’s goodness? In what ways is Jesus asking you to side with him more clearly?

Why does Jesus say He hadn’t come to abolish the Law? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Can you verify the benefit of good rules in your own life? Are there particular areas in which you don’t need many rules, because your heart has grown strong? Is the Lord encouraging you to go back to certain basic rules of Christian life?

The mystery of God’s calling and human freedom - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What is the Lord teaching you through Mary’s vocation? What aspects of your own life have you come to know through callings that came to you from outside? In which cases would the Lord want your life to be more connected to him and to others, so as to overcome individualism?

Why did people of Nazareth reject Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Could any of the difficulties the people of Nazareth experienced when it came to accepting Christ reflect your own difficulties? What do you find inspiring in Jesus’ response to rejection, and what is He encouraging you to learn from him in this regard?