Category Archives: Daily Gospels

Reflection: John 16:16-20   Today, the Church celebrates the feast of Saint Philip Neri. Saint Philip was born into a well-educated, Catholic, middle-class home in Italy. After growing up in Florence, he moved to Rome to study Theology. While he was still a layperson, he founded a group to care for the many impoverished pilgrims […]

Reflection: John 16:12-15 In today’s Gospel, Jesus promises us that when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide us into all truth. It is important to read this sentence well. Because it does not say that today, here and now, we already have the whole truth. What he tells us is that the Holy […]

Reflection: John 16: 5-11 With today’s passage begins the third part of the farewell discourse of Jesus. Many scholars believe that the rest of the chapter would repeat most of the points raised in Chapter 14. Although John presents one single long teaching of Jesus during the Last Supper, but in reality, Jesus may have […]