Glimpses of the Gospel

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 24: 35 – 48 Then the two disciples recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, "Why are you tr...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 24: 13 – 35 Now that very day two of the disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. He asked them, "What a...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 20: 11 – 18 Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him." When she had said thi...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 20: 1 – 9 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him." So Peter and the other discip...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 24: 1 – 12 At daybreak on the first day of the week they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed their faces t...

+ Commentary on the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. John 18: 1 – 19: 42 Today, more than ever, we must pray, meditate and lapse into silence; we must grow quiet. The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. John that is read in the celebrations is too long for an audio message; that’s why I suggest that you read it on your own so that you can meditate on it. (St. John th...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 13: 1 – 15 Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from G...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew 26: 14 – 25 Then one of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, "What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over. On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and sai...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 13: 21 ̶ 33, 36 ̶ 38 When he had said this, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, "Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me." The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus' side. So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant. He leaned back against...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 12: 1 – 11 Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.  Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her ha...

+ Commentary on St. Luke 22: 14 – 23: 56 Today is Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday; they are two sides of the same coin, two realities that the same person lived, that you and I also live. Acclaimed by many, Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey to gradually climb up the cross which will be His throne, the throne He'll climb to reign in our hearts. But this throne will not be the definitive, it'll...

+ Holy Gospel according to Saint John 11: 45 – 57 Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs. If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, an...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 10: 31 – 42 The Jews again picked up rocks to stone Jesus. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?" The Jews answered him, "We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God." Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You...

+ Holy Gospel according to Saint John 8: 51 – 59 Jesus said to the Jews:  “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death." So the Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed. Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.' Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? Or the prophets, who died? Who do yo...

+ Holy Gospel according to Saint John 8: 31 – 42 Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, "If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, 'You will become free'?" Jesus answered them, "Amen, amen, I say to you...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 8: 21 – 30   Jesus said to them again, "I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."   So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"   He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 8: 12 – 20 Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”  So, the Pharisees said to him, “You testify on your own behalf, so your testimony cannot be verified.”  Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I do testify on my own behalf, my testimony can be v...

+ Holy Gospel according to Saint John 8: 1 – 11 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very a...

+ Holy Gospel according to Saint John 7: 40 – 53  Some in the crowd who heard these words said, "This is truly the Prophet." Others said, "This is the Messiah." But others said, "The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David's family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?" So a division occurred in the crowd because...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. John 7: 1 – 2, 10, 25 – 30 Jesus moved about within Galilee; but he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret. So, some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they...

+ Holy Gospel according to John 5: 31-47 Jesus said to the Jews:  "If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony cannot be verified. But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. I do not accept testimony from a human being, but I say this so that you may be saved. He was a bur...

+ Holy Gospel According to St. John 5: 17 – 30 But Jesus answered the Jews, "My Father is at work until now, so I am at work." For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God. Jesus answered and said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what...

+ Holy Gospel according to Saint John 5: 1 – 16 There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep (Gate) a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a...

+ Holy Gospel according to Saint John 4: 43 – 54     After the two days, Jesus left there for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast. Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where h...

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 15: 1 – 3, 11 – 32 The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." So to them he addressed this parable. Then he said, "A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of your estate that should...