Gospel: Jn 14:27–31a
Peace be with you! My peace I give you; not as the world gives peace do I give it to you. Do not be troubled! Do not be afraid!
You heard me say, ‘I am going away, but I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I go to the Father, for the

Gospel: Jn 14:6-14
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me. If you know me, you will know
the Father also; indeed you know him, and you have seen him.” Philip asked him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that is enough.”
Jesus said to him, “What! I have been with you so long and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever sees me sees the Father;
how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? All that I say to you, I do not say
of myself. The Father who dwells in me is doing his own work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; at least believe
it on the evidence of these works that I do. Truly, I say to you, the one who believes in me will do the same works that I do; and he will even do
greater than these, for I am going to the Father. Everything you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Indeed,
anything you ask, calling upon my name, I will do it.

Reflection:

The greatest legacy of our parents is us. Who we are today is a product of
their painstaking parenting that they did day in and day out during our young
formative years. That is why they shine in us. What they leave behind in us is
an imprint of themselves. No wonder Jesus said that whoever has seen Him has
seen the Father. All that He has comes from the Father. And all of these He returns
back to the Father. There was no holding back for both of them. That is why
Jesus in His humanity is the perfect icon of the Father. He is the spitting image of
His Father.

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Gospel: Jn 15:1–8
I am the true vine and my Father is the vine grower. If any of my branches doesn’t bear fruit, he breaks it off; and he prunes every branch that does
bear fruit, that it may bear even more fruit. You are already made clean by the word I have spoken to you. Live in me as I live in you.

Gospel: Jn 14:7–14 (or Mt 13:54–58)
If you know me, you will know the Father also; indeed you know him, and you have seen him.”
Philip asked him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that is enough.” Jesus said to him, “What!
I have been with you so long and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever sees me sees the
Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
All that I say to you, I do not say of myself. The Father who dwells in me is doing his own work. Believe me when
I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; at least believe it on the evidence of these works that I do.
Truly, I say to you, the one who believes in me will do the same works that I do; and he will even do greater than these,
for I am going to the Father. Everything you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the
Son. Indeed, anything you ask, calling upon my name, I will do it.

Reflection:

It’s amazing how people can be awed by the wisdom and powers that
Jesus demonstrates in front of their eyes, yet at the same time unwilling to
give proper respect simply because He and His family is familiar to them. Joseph
whose feast we celebrate today is not specifically mentioned. Only his trade
as a carpenter is mentioned. This is an acknowledgement somehow that Jesus was
cared for by Joseph in his lifetime. We do not have access to the growing up
years of the Lord, and scant biblical data can be gleaned about His father here on
earth. Yet we need not go far to know what kind of person Joseph is. We only have to
look at Jesus to know the father He acknowledges here on earth. For a part
of Joseph is forever lodged in the person of Jesus as a significant adult in Jesus’
life. Jesus in His humanity is a masterpiece of both Mary and Joseph.

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Gospel: Jn 14:1-6
“Do not be troubled! Trust in God and trust in me! In my Father’s house there are many rooms; otherwise, I would not have
told you that I go to prepare a place for you. After I have gone and prepared a place for you, I shall come again and take you to me,
so that where I am, you also may be. Yet you know the way where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know

Gospel: Jn 13:16–20
Truly, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his master, nor is the messenger
greater than he who sent him. Understand this, and blessed are you, if you put it into
practice. I am not speaking of you all, because I know the ones I have chosen, and the
Scripture has to be fulfilled which says: The one who shares my table will rise up against
me. I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may know that I am He.
Truly, I say to you, whoever welcomes the one I send, welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me,
welcomes the One who sent me.”

Reflection:

Jesus now is speaking intimately with His disciples. Time is running
out and He has many to tell. Perhaps, this is the moment when Jesus feels
overwhelming love to the few who walked with Him this far. He is reminding
them that their life’s journey should pattern that of His own. They will
have to face their own Via Dolorosa and Golgotha in the future. Yet not all of
them will follow His path. He already knows that one of His own will betray
Him. And so Jesus spends His remaining time with His disciples instructing
them. Until the end, He is a Teacher who leads His own to the truth.

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Gospel: Jn 12:44–50
Yet Jesus had said, and even cried out, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. And whoever
sees me, sees him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

Gospel: Jn 10:22–30
The time came for the feast of the Dedication. It was winter, and Jesus walked back and forth in the portico of Solomon.
The Jews then gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in doubt? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

Gospel: Jn 10:1–10
Truly, I say to you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a
robber. But the shepherd of the sheep enters by the gate. The keeper opens the gate to him and the sheep hear his voice;
he calls each of his sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them,

Gospel: Jn 10:11-18
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. Not so the hired hand, or any other person who is not the shepherd, and to
whom the sheep do not belong. They abandon the sheep as soon as they see the wolf coming; then the wolf snatches and scatters the sheep. This is
because the hired hand works for pay and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, as the