Pathways of Hope: "A Source of Confidence"

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2025Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent Memorial of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop, Martyr GOSPEL OF THE DAY: JOHN 10:31-42

Once again, the Jews picked up rocks to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have performed in your presence many good works from my Father. For which of these works are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered, “We are not going to stone you for any good work you have done, but for blasphemy. Even though you are a man, you are claiming to be God.” Jesus replied,

“Is it not written in your Law,
‘I said: You are gods’?
If those to whom
the word of God was addressed
are called ‘gods’
—and Scripture cannot be set aside—
how can you say, ‘You blaspheme,’
to the one whom the Father has consecrated
and sent into the world
for saying, ‘I am the Son of God’?
“If I am not performing
the works of my Father,
then do not believe me.
However, if I am doing them,
then even if you do not believe me,
at least believe my works,
so that you may realize and understand
that the Father is in me
and I am in the Father.”

They again tried to seize him, but he escaped from their clutches.

He went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and he remained there. Many people came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many there came to believe in him.

Reflection by Raoul Roncal: Licensed Engineer (ECE). Lay missionary-Servants of the Word Brotherhood. TheologyInstructor, Ateneo de Manila University.

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