Saturday, May 27, 2017 6th Week of Easter 1st Reading: Acts 18:23-28 Gospel: John 16:23-28
Jesus said to his disciples, “When that day comes you will not ask me anything. Truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my Name, he will give you. So far you have not asked in my Name; ask and receive that your joy may be full.
“I taught you all this in veiled language, but the time is coming when I shall no longer speak in veiled language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.
“When that day comes, you will ask in my Name and it will not be for me to ask the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and you believe that I came from the Father. As I came from the Father and have come into the world, so I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life Experience)
Our willingness to suffer with Christ results in two great achievements. The first is improved relationship with the Father. With quality relationship our taste for spiritual things will level up and the quality of the things we pray for will also improve. The more this kind of prayer becomes frequent, the faster we grow in the quality of what we pray for. Time will come when we won’t be asking anymore for things contradicting the Will of the Father. Prayer then becomes a moment of cleansing, not a tug-o-war with a God perceived to be reluctant in granting human petitions. This is the kind of praying that merits positive answers. It is in this sense that Jesus said that whatever we ask the Father in his name will be granted.
The second result of suffering with Christ is wisdom. It will really be beneficial to us when we acquire wisdom because Jesus himself admitted that he had been spreading God’s message of love in veiled language (John 16: 25). One way to unveil this is through the wisdom we gain by partaking of Jesus’ sufferings in our daily struggles. Suffering makes us more judicious about our preferences because it cleanses us. Cleansed by what we suffer our preferential option goes to the things of God, making us keen about the mysteries revealed by the Father in Jesus Christ. Suffering also makes us wiser because it removes impurities that block the outpouring of grace into our lives. Without these hindrances grace works best in us. We shall then have the wisdom to comprehend heavenly things.
When called to suffer with Christ let us take it as a privileged opportunity to improve our relationship with the Father, and to acquire wisdom to understand heavenly mysteries. Over and above these two advantages, let us suffer willingly for God because God deserves all our love. –(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM
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