Daily Gospel Meditations - Saint John Society

How did Jesus manage his time? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How well are you balancing the different aspects of your life? Are there any destabilizing or intoxicating forces in your life, things that tend to take you off balance? What helps you regain your sense of purpose? How does Jesus’ example help you in this regard?

Do demons have faith? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What calls your attention about Christ’s authority? Have you experienced the power of Christ’s authority in your own life, in how He has strengthened you or delivered you?

How could people of Nazareth reject Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How does that battle of competing interpretations play out in your own case? What are the human factors that explain who you are? And then, what are those aspects of your life that you have discovered through faith, and can only be accounted for as a result of God’s power?

The harmony between the heart and visible behavior - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How is your faith manifested in your external behavior? What is your main temptation: to live in a faith made of externals, or a faith that is totally kept inside? How would Jesus want to you to establish a better relationship between your heart and your visible behavior?

The parable of the talents - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What talents has the Lord entrusted you with? Can you reconnect with your passion for making those grow? What are the fears and obstacles you’ll have to overcome to multiply your talents?

Two opposite types of foolishness - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What is lacking in your wisdom? Do you tend toward fideism, or toward naturalism? How is the Lord calling you to grow in prudence?

On true greatness and freedom - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What kind of ideal is Jesus presenting to you in the profile of this great prophet? Through this depiction of Herod’s life, is there something the Lord wants you to steer away from?

The danger of mistaking the voices of society for conscience - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Am I giving in to this temptation to some extent, caring too much for how people view me, while neglecting how I am walking before God? Is my admiration for the saints consistent with my openness to the voice of God directed to me by the saints and prophets in my own time?

The capacity to look into our spiritual blind spots - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What aspect of Jesus’ character do you find especially inspiring, as it stands in contrast with a hypocritical attitude? What is the Lord inviting you to work on?

A twisted understanding of religion - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Do you see any of these problems being a possible distortion of your faith life? When do those symptoms surface and why? What is the Lord saying to you in this regard?

“Master, to whom shall we go?” - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Have you been through situations in which your faith has been stretched and tried? What has helped you become more solid in your faith? Why would you now trust the Lord in things that would not agree with some aspects of your experience or some of your spontaneous inclinations?

The two-sided quality of personal traits - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. If you encountered Jesus today, what are those good qualities He would praise in you? What could be the flip-side of those good qualities? How would the Lord encourage you to use their good potential, and not their difficult side?

Why was the question on the greatest commandment a test? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How central is friendship with God to your own life? How would you assess your love for people around you? And where does that love spring from?

The parable of the wedding guests - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What are the obstacles people need to overcome to respond to God’s call? What are some excuses that are used to justify our rebellion against God? How is Jesus asking you to respond?

The parable of the laborers of the last hour - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What does Christ’s invitation to work in his vineyard mean for you? Do you experience it as a blessing or as a burden? What is the true motivation for serving him that Jesus wants you to find?

The spiritual danger of possessions - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Are there things you need to be more detached from? Think of situations in which being detached from material things has helped you grow spiritually. Have you experienced the grace of a higher love that helped you become more detached?

The calling of the rich young man - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Has your faith in Christ helped you grow in your sense of orientation, morally speaking? What has helped you, or could help you, discover the commandments as a path of freedom? Have you ever encountered Jesus, or someone who reflected Jesus to you, in such manner that you discovered a deeper way to live the com...

What does it mean that Jesus gives us his body and blood - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Why do you think Jesus wanted to give us his very self? What are the effects that the Eucharist have had in your life? What does it mean to live a Eucharistic lifestyle?

Why is Jesus’ blessing of children significant? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Why is this gesture of Jesus significant to you? What does Jesus want you to rediscover through it?

Marriage as the gift of a higher love - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Why did God decide to call humanity to such great and challenging vocation? Why is it a vocation, a calling? Why is it increasingly being perceived as something faith-related?

Mary’s inner freedom - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What do you find striking about Mary’s words and actions in this gospel? What elements here lead you to think of Mary as someone who was ready for heaven, even as she walked this earth? What does the Lord want you to learn from her example?

How should we exercise fraternal correction? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Who am I responsible for? What am I doing for their spiritual well-being? Why has the Lord given the Church that authority? What did Jesus intend us to gain from it?

On spiritual infancy - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What are the elements of a child’s heart that Jesus wants you to keep or recover? What is the Lord teaching you about true greatness and humility? Are there things you need to take more seriously, and others you may need to take with a grain of salt?

The mysterious payment of the Temple tax - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What calls your attention in Christ’s character, as it comes through in these lines? Why do you think He acted the way He did? What was important to him? What is He trying to tell you, in the particular circumstances you are living through now?

The Father’s inner teaching - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Can you verify this spiritual law in your own faith journey: that the one that speaks in your heart is the one speaking to you in the Gospel, in the Church? What is He saying in your heart these days? What is He saying to you through His word? If you had to picture an image of what eternal life is, what would that be...