--- title: Daily Readings for 4/01/09 description: Daily Readings for 4/01/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/04/01/daily-readings-for-40109#) # Daily Readings for 4/01/09 Apr 1, 2009 4:00:43 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 4/01/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/040109.shtml) Scripture: Wednesday of fifth week in Lent: Daniel 3:14-20. 91-92.95. Response is Daniel 3:52.53.54.55.56.  John 8:31-42. Lectionary # 254: Again we have some events from the prophet Daniel.  In fact, our first reading and the response is from Daniel.  The first scene is the episode of Daniel and his companions in the fiery furnace. God sends his angel to save them and there is a reconciliation with the King who recognizes the power of the God of the Israelites.  Praise is offered right from the Book of Daniel for God's miraculous help.  They praise God singing, "Glroy and praise forever." In the Gospel Jesus continues to dialogue with some of the Judeans about his origin from the Father; they counterpoint him with their origin from the Patriarch Abraham, the Father of all believers.  Jesus understands where they are coming from but challenges their fidelity to the example of Abraham, whereas he affirms his origin as coming from God the Father and Creator. In looking at the heat and argumentation of this chapter, we come to realize we are again more in the time of the separation from Jewish Christians from those who did not accept Jesus' words and practices. We are probably seeing a dialogue that is characteristic of the polemich between Christian Jews and Jews in the eighties of the first century.  John's Gospel reflects this the most among the four Gospels.  Of course, the God of Abraham is the God of Jesus and the Jews.  However, Jesus' dialogue reveals his origin and he affirms that he and the Father are one.  He even witnesses to the Divine Name by saying it of himself "I AM HE."  Thus this Gospel of John divides the lines sharply both in the controversy between Jesus and the leaders and now in the separation of the synagogue from the Church.  For us as individual believers and as Christians it remains the Gospel of decision making in our own existential situations and also in the doubts and problems we too have with understanding who Jesus really is. John demands of his readers to put one's faith and trust in the person of Jesus, Son of God. 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