Category: Sixth Week

⏰Saturday After Ascension (23 May 2020) 📖Acts 18:23-28; Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10; John 16:23b-28 🎤”ASK, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE, THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE FULL” (John 16:24b) Imagine a situation without Jesus after we have been with him for a long time. A close example to this would be the death of loved one especially one to whom we have been dependent to a very large extent. That is a picture of the situation the disciples found themselves since the Ascension of Jesus. However, Jesus knew that a situation like that would arise and it would bring them so much...

⏰Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter (After Ascension – 06 May 2016) 📖Acts 18:9-18; Ps 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; John 16:20-23a There was a time when multiple chariots of the Arameans came to arrest the prophet Elisha. His servant felt helpless at that sight. With the prayers of the prophet, the servant’s eyes were opened and he saw that chariots of fire that were protecting the prophet was greater than that of the Arameans (2 Kings 6:15-17). Remember what we reflected on yesterday. We noted that Christ’s ascension into heaven does not really mean a departure from us. In fact,...

⏰Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter (20 May 2020) 📖Acts 17:15, 22 – 18:1; Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14; John 16:12-15 There are a number of very important lessons that we can learn from St Paul’s meeting with the Council of Areopagus: 👉We must appreciate and respect the values in the life of others as Paul did with the religion of the Greeks while condemning the bad in them (cf. Acts 17:22-25); 👉God may be invisible but he is very much present and available to us (Acts 17:24, 27b); 👉Conversion does not depend on the expertise of the preacher...

⏰Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter (19 May 2020) 📖Acts 16:22-34; Ps 13b:1ac-2a, 2bcd-3, 7c-8 (R.v.7c); John 16:5-11 Jesus had warned his discipled, ahead of time, that they were going to face persecution for the sake of their faith (John 16:1-4). But the Holy Spirit would be with them to teach and enlighten them as well as encourage them (John 16:7-15). More so, he would be with them always till the end of time (Matt 28:20). Paul and Silas got their own share of the persecution that Jesus warned them about and taught us an important lesson on how...

⏰Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter (18 May 2020) 📖Acts 16:11-15; Ps 149:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9bc (R.v.4a); John 15:26 – 16:4a At the beginning of this new working week, my dear, we are reminded that God can choose just anyone or anything to do his work, even ordinary or unusual people or things. That tells us that before God, there is no favouritism. Otherwise, salvation would have remained simply for the Jews without considering the gentiles and, by extension, you and me. And may God use you in a great way this week and beyond so that you...