Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn, and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily Gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Friday, April 4th, and we will be reading John 7, 1-2, verse 10, and verse 25-30.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read John 7, 1-2, verse 10, and 25-30. After this, Jesus went about in Galilee.
He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
But after his brethren had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but in private.
Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?
And here he is speaking openly, and they said nothing to him.
Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
Yet we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.
So Jesus proclaimed as he taught in the temple, You know me, and you know where I come from, but I have not come of my own accord.
He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.
So they sought to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come. Today’s reading makes me think again about how special Mass is.
The mystery of Christ makes being a Catholic so special.
Because Jesus is a divine person, he sometimes speaks and acts in mysterious ways which are not always understood by us.
I hope this Lent you are able to pray and know him better.
Every day we should try to grow closer to him.
If not, you’ve got time.
There are still less than 20 days to use the quiet time of the Lenten season to draw closer to Christ through prayer, fasting, and alms.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, please help us to grow closer to you this Lenten season, and thank you for giving up your life for us.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back next week scattering more flowers.
See ya!