Daily Gospel Meditations - Saint John Society

The qualities of the Good Shepherd - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What kind of relationships do you tend to establish with others: those of the hireling, or those of the shepherd? In what ways has Christ been your good shepherd? How does He want you to replicate toward others that sacrificial love that you see in him?

Jesus, the Good Shepherd and the Gate - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. In what ways has Jesus been the gate through which you have found access to your true self, to freedom, to a higher kind of love? How is Jesus guiding your interactions between the inner world and the outside world? Is He encouraging you to go out, or to come in?

What are these signs accompanying the proclamation about? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Where have you seen the changes that the proclamation of the gospel can introduce in someone’s life? What is Jesus trying to show you through the things He emphasized in this sending? What attitude does He want to form in you?

Why does Jesus say we cannot have life unless we eat his flesh? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What are the hidden aspects of the Eucharist that Jesus wants you to rediscover today? What are the needs and desires in your soul that only this food can satisfy? What are the thoughts and feelings of Christ that the Holy Spirit wants you to receive? Or, to put it another way, wha...

“Mannas” that are not enough - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What are those daily “mannas” you go for? How has the Father been drawing you to Jesus? In what ways has your relationship with Christ become life-giving?

How could the crowd not believe if they had seen? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How has your faith grown over time? What steps of faith is the Lord inviting you to take? What do you find encouraging in Christ’s faithfulness?

The life of Jesus is the bread of life - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Was there a time in which God sustained your life, as He protected Israel in the desert? How could you grasp this idea: that Jesus has become the sustenance, the one who restores you to your true identity? What aspects of Jesus’ life speak of that to you?

Jesus blended thoughtfulness and sternness - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What do you find intriguing and thought-provoking in Jesus’ responses? What do those responses reveal about the mystery of the heart of Jesus? In what ways do you think that Jesus would challenge you to seek higher things?

The apparition to the disciples of Emmaus - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What is significant to you in this passage? Why do you think Jesus wanted to appear to the disciples the way He did? What signs has He been placing on your path?

How to navigate moments of desolation? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Does this Gospel help you discover how Christ worked through trials you’ve been through in recent times? What was the cause behind those challenges? Did you discover any signs of his presence during those times?

The pedagogy of desire - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Why does the Lord want to involve his disciples in distributing his gifts? What are the natural blessings that may result from people being drawn to him? What are the higher gifts He wants us to discover through those natural blessings?

Why is Jesus a contested figure? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Have you discovered that logic of the Trinity, so different from the logic of the world, when you entered the Body of Christ? Have you had to battle for your faith in contentious situations? What have you learned through those experiences? What steps you’ve taken have led you to discover that God is trustworthy?

Why is there condemnation, if God loves his creation? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. When have you experienced God’s love for you most clearly? Do you believe in God’s love for you and for the world? Why do you think God made such a bold and compassionate move: to manifest his love in sending us his Son? What are the implications of the way in which God guides the world, all...

What does Jesus mean by being born of the Spirit? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. We are contemplating the big landscape here: what life in the Spirit is and how it is nourished. As you meditate on this, you may reflect on the impact that following Christ has had on you. How would your life be different, if you hadn’t been born from above? Have you experienced the signs of th...

Actual graces that lead to being born of Spirit – Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Can you relate this to your own journey of faith? Have you seen the progression of graces that has led you to grow as a disciple of Christ? Do you find that your journey has some points of connection with Nicodemus, or with the questions he had?

What was Thomas doubting exactly? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How do you respond to the fact that Christ places such high expectations on us? What is the mission He is entrusting you with? What are the implications of being sent as a representative of Christ in your own vocation? What would be the implications if we were never trusted with any significant mission?

Why could the disciples doubt the risen Christ? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. Do you recognize some of these perplexities and doubts in your own heart? What resonates with you in today’s gospel? With which of the characters there do you identify? What step of faith is the Lord inviting you to take?

The apparition at the Lake of Tiberias - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How does this passage remind you of what Jesus has done in your own life? What do you find especially inspiring in Christ’s example of friendship? How can you imitate him in this aspect? What is the Lord telling you about how stay consistent through changes in mood?

What the resurrection accounts teach us about the dynamics of the spiritual life - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What is significant to you in the way Jesus acted in this passage? Have you received signs from God that caused that blending of joy and shock? What changed in your spiritual life when it went from a set of practices to following a living person?

The apparition to the disciples going to Emmaus - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. How do you relate to the particular trial of these disciples? How does this passage resonate with your own faith journey? How is the Lord encouraging you to imitate him in helping others reignite their faith?

Why did Jesus ask Mary not to hold on to him? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. The Lord is inviting us to seek Christ, as Mary Magdalene did. How can you do that? What does it mean for you to seek him? Is it possible that Christ has been showing that He is close to you in new ways, in ways that are different from what you expected?

How could they feel fear and joy at the same time? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What has the Lord done, what has the Lord shown you, so that you can be overjoyed? What prompts you to feel fear? What do Jesus’ words “do not be afraid” mean for you, in practical terms? Where are you focusing your gaze? On that which God can do even through our human frailty? Or on what the p...

New life in the resurrection - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. What are those glimpses that help you anticipate something of what life in the resurrection is like? What signs in your life point to the grace of the resurrection?

The purification that the Passion operates in us - Fr. Lucas Laborde. How has the Lord purified you through trials? What does He want to heal in you through this contemplation of his Passion?

A contemplation of the Passion - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today’s readings. In what ways is the trial of Christ still being played out in today’s world and in your soul? What is the Lord showing you about himself and about where your heart is at through this contemplation of his Passion?