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4th Week of Easter
Acts 13:13-25
Ps. 88(89): 2-3,21-22, 25,27
Jn. 13:16-20
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Both Paul and Jesus use the Old Testament to verify the truth of their teaching. Paul shows how the Old Testament prepared the way for the Messiah. Jesus points to the Old Testament as the source from which to understand what will happen to him in Jerusalem.

Both passages today, then, affirm the value of the Old Testament to help us attain a deeper insight into our own lives and to help us understand Jesus more fully. There is a deep continuity between the Old and the New Testaments, for God has only one plan of salvation, to reconcile all things to himself in Jesus the Messiah.

Jeremiah expressed it well when he spoke God's word to Israel, and so to each one of us: "I have loved you with an everlasting love, and so I am always constant in my affection for you" (Jeremiah 31:3). Both Testaments testify to this wonderful truth: in spite of all our human sinfulness, throughout all history God's love for us has been constant and faithful. Reaching its historical fulfilment in Jesus, God's abiding love is the source of all our hope and consolation



God our Father, you promised that your love and kindness would always be with David. Deepen our faith in Jesus that we may always experience Your presence with us in all the difficulties of life.

DAILY OFFERING
Eternal Father, I offer You everything I do this day; my thoughts, words, joys and sufferings. Grant that, vivified by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, my life this day may be of service to You and to others. I also pray that all those preparing for marriage discover in Sacrament the source of Christ's grace for living a fithful and fruitful love. Amen.

PRAYING WITH THE CHURCH
INTENTION
That the laity and the Christian Communities may be responsible promoters of priestly and religious vocations.
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