"JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF JOY"

 22^nd May, 2022:

SATURDAY,  SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER (C)

(Acts 18: 23-28); (Jn 16: 23B-28)

"JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF JOY"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we paid attention to the expressions of the Scriptures which addressed us about the disclosure of truth that has come to us from God, and how every single one of us as Christians are completely called to be His observers and to announce His equivalent truth and love to every one people, as we trust that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, has come into our middle from the Father to uncover the affection for God to us all. Similarly as we have gotten these from Christ, our Lord and Savior, thus, every single one of us have been called to give them to numerous other people who have not yet known Him.

In our most memorable reading today, as we kept on tuning in from the entry from the Acts of the Apostles similar to the case for this whole time of Easter, we heard the continuation of crafted by the Apostles and today we heard specifically the narrative of Apollos, otherwise called St. Apollos, who was a Jewish believer to the Christian confidence that came from the locale of Egypt. He came from Alexandria in Egypt to Ephesus, where there had been a developing local area of early Christians like in Alexandria. He came to Ephesus and started to teach people, in light of how he might interpret the confidence. He was known to be extremely articulate and insightful, and yet, as indicated by the Acts of the Apostles, he was all the while coming up short on the full information on the lessons of Christ.

Almost certainly, Apollos got the lessons of Christ through the Jewish people group in Alexandria in Egypt, as well as from the previous information passed on from St. John the Baptist and his supporters. Be that as it may, he had not yet gotten the insight of the Holy Spirit and had not yet completely known the totality of the Christian truth and confidence. Also, subsequently, a portion of the devoted who were there in Ephesus assisted with getting Apollos modern and consequently, this gutsy Jewish evangelist kept on declaring the Word of God, enriched with the Christian truth and lessons, as he voyaged overall around the Mediterranean much as St. Paul had additionally done.

St. Paul, Apollos and the numerous different followers of the Lord went to do numerous great works for the Lord and His people, getting out the Good News and the Christian confidence to an ever increasing number of people by and large around the entire Mediterranean and then some, developing solid groundwork of the Church and assisting the beginning Christian people group with prospering and develop past anybody's minds. They talked the very truth that they had gotten from the Lord Himself, in all that He had conveyed to them, and through the direction and astuteness given to them by the Holy Spirit, Whom they have all gotten and given to each other, the gifts of confidence, trust and love, the products of the Holy Spirit of God.

In our Gospel section today, the Lord addressed His devotees in continuation of what we heard yesterday, as He kept on empowering them and showing them of all reality that He had brought into their middle, and how He approached them all to proceed with His benevolent acts, and to place their confidence in Him. They will be honored and reinforced by God, and they won't have to stress for the Lord Himself will direct them in the way of truth. They are the workers of the reality of God, the observers of all that He had done, and of all that He had declared, and they are to bring these into the world so that an ever increasing number of people might come to know about this equivalent information and be saved also through confidence.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, all of us as Christians are the replacements and as the ones who are supposed to proceed with the benevolent acts started by the Apostles and every one of the people who had first addressed the Lord's call. There are still a great deal of regions where crafted by the Church and the Lord are still yet inadequate, and there are still a lot of chances that have been given to us, for us to set out on this excursion of evangelization, to declare to an ever increasing number of people the illumination of God's reality, His affection and graciousness, His sympathetic benevolence and care for all of us, the offspring of humankind.

We all ought to in this manner give our all to commit our time, exertion and consideration, continuing in the strides of the Apostles and the holy people, as St. Paul, Apollos, and the multitudinous different workers of God who had served Him steadfastly at all various timeframes, in various and different places everywhere, all announcing similar Gospels of God's reality and love, broadcasting His Good News and salvation, the delight of the radiance of Christ's guaranteed everlasting life that will beat even the most profound murkiness that is available by and large around in this world. We are undeniably called to be the followers and observers to go forward to the countries and declare God's reality, presently and consistently.

May the Lord Jesus Christ, our Risen Lord and Savior, be with us generally, and may the Holy Spirit give us the strength and consolation so we all might dedicate ourselves, our significant investment, boldly in the way of evangelization, and commit ourselves in our regular living, in all our words, activities and deeds to celebrate the Lord generally, so that an ever increasing number of people might come to put stock in the Lord also, and be saved along with us. May God favor us all and all our merchandise tries and works, for His more prominent magnificence. Amen.