Journey to Wholeness
And Jesus led his disciples out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Paraklétos is variously translated as Paraclete, Advocate, Intercessor, Consoler, Comforter, Helper, Strengthener, Standby, and Counselor. Paraclete, the Anglicized form of the Greek word, is used here to represent all possible translations.… Read the rest
When they lead you away and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say. But say whatever will be given to you at that hour.
You are not abandoned—God draws near within you, guiding, comforting, and revealing His living presence through the Spirit of truth.… Read the rest
“God’s Treasure”
Responsorial Psalm 100:3 (2 panels)
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”
“Do you see that the love of God is intertwined with our own and connected like a sort of chain? Thus, it sometimes says that there are two commandments, sometimes only one.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him.
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
