WHAT MUST WE DO IF WE ARE TO DO THE WORKS THAT GOD WANTS

MONDAY 3RD WEEK OF EASTER Universalis

‘This is working for God: you must believe in the one he has sent.’

Reading Acts 6:8-15 

They could not get the better of Stephen because the Spirit prompted what he said

Stephen was filled with grace and power and began to work miracles and great signs among the people. But then certain people came forward to debate with Stephen, some from Cyrene and Alexandria who were members of the synagogue called the Synagogue of Freedmen, and others from Cilicia and Asia. They found they could not get the better of him because of his wisdom, and because it was the Spirit that prompted what he said. So they procured some men to say, ‘We heard him using blasphemous language against Moses and against God.’ Having in this way turned the people against him as well as the elders and scribes, they took Stephen by surprise, and arrested him and brought him before the Sanhedrin. There they put up false witnesses to say, ‘This man is always making speeches against this Holy Place and the Law. We have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene is going to destroy this Place and alter the traditions that Moses handed down to us.’ The members of the Sanhedrin all looked intently at Stephen, and his face appeared to them like the face of an angel.

Gospel John 6:22-29 Do not work for food that cannot last, 

but for food that endures to eternal life CDR

After Jesus had fed the five thousand, his disciples saw him walking on the water. Next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side saw that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had set off by themselves. Other boats, however, had put in from Tiberias, near the place where the bread had been eaten. When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into those boats and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus. When they found him on the other side, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’

Jesus answered: ‘I tell you most solemnly, you are not looking for me because you have seen the signs but because you had all the bread you wanted to eat. Do not work for food that cannot last, but work for food that endures to eternal life, the kind of food the Son of Man is offering you, for on him the Father, God himself, has set his seal.’

Then they said to him, ‘What must we do if we are to do the works that God wants?’ Jesus gave them this answer, ‘This is working for God: you must believe in the one he has sent.’

Loving Father what must we do if we are to do the works you want us? God our heavenly Father only through your wondrous grace can this happen. Father make us love you, make us love your Son Jesus Christ. Fill us Father with your Holy Spirit to be our wisdom and guide.

Each day loving Father we experience various signs in our lives and in creation. The greatest sign is Jesus Christ the Bread of Life.  Our Spiritual food in the Most Holy Eucharist. May we yearn for Christ as we work for the food that endures our hope of eternal life. Christ gave himself to us as the bread of Life for on him the Father, God himself, has set his seal.

 

Lord Jesus Christ make us one as you and the Father are one. We believe in you were sent to redeem us by God. Make us understand the power of your love so as to be instruments of your peace to our broken world. 

 

Lord Jesus I trust in you. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me, God’s Holy Angels and Saints pray for me. My Guardian Angel pray for me.

 

Pray your Holy Rosary: Hail Mary full of grace. Hail Holy Queen.