22 Apr
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3rd Week of Easter
Acts 8:26-40
Ps. 65(66): 8-9,16-17,20
Jn. 6:44-51
(Ps Wk III)
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"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him to me." This clearly shows us that salvation is indeed a gift from God, our loving Father. We are saved only by the grace of God. The text from Acts that shows us the events, encounters and circumstances that finally let the Ethiopian eunuch to his baptism in the water gives us another clear glimpse of salvation as a gratuitious gift of God.

"Everyone will be taught by God" (Jn. 6:45) and we remember the other text that says "To everyone He gives a measure of faith." Our God is indeed a just and fair Father. What is left then for us to experience the eternal and abundant life that He came to give us is our own response. "Anyone who hears the Father and learns from Him comes to me ¡K, he who believes has eternal life." (Jn. 6:45,47). In our given freedom and in that loving voice of God that invites us over and over again "Come", do we hear? Do we learn? Do we believe and do we say "Yes" and come into the arms of the one who has been waiting for us all His life ¡K just to embrace us into Himself that each of us may know that we are eternally and unconditionally loved. He loves us so much that He gave His body and His blood just so that we may live. Yes! He has loved us and continues to love us with His very life.



Father remove the scales from our eyes, the plugs from our ears and the layers that have hardened our hearts so that we may hear and learn and respond positively to Your invitation, "Come."

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 every tendency to fundamentalism and extremism may be countered by respect, tolerance, and dialogue among believers.
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