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22/04/2024

Gospel and Reflection
21 April 2024
4th Sunday of Easter/Good Shepherd Sunday

John 10:11–18
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd. This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”

Reflection:

People may call us useless and worthless. But for God, we are still worth dying for.

-Very Rev. Monsignor Belstar O. Ediang, STL
Vicar General, Diocese of Pagadian

27/01/2024

26/01/2024

Today’s Gospel
26 January 2024
Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops

Mark 4:26-34
A man scatters seed on the land and would sleep and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.

Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”
He said, “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.” With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it. Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.

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Reflection:

There is no problem that we cannot carry if we have companion. Be the help not a burden.

-Rev. Monsignor Belstar O. Ediang, STL
Vicar General, Diocese of Pagadian

25/01/2024

Today’s Gospel
25 January 2023
Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle

Mark 16:15-18
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Reflection:

If we have faith, no bad experiences could harm us. Faith is both a weapon and a shield.

-Rev. Monsignor Belstar O. Ediang, STL
Vicar General, Diocese of Pagadian

05/07/2022

25/06/2022