--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 5/22/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 5/22/11 --- [![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/2011/05/21/daily-readings-reflection-for-52211#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 5/22/11 May 21, 2011 6:00:59 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 53. Acts 6:1-7. Psalm 33:1-2.4-5.18-19. I Peter 2:4-9. John 14:1-12 [Sunday's Reading](http://www.usccb.org/nab/052211.shtml)s Easter continues as we read the last discourse of Jesus. Jesus is getting us ready for our mission in the world by telling us the Spirit will soon be with us as he returns to the Father to send the Spirit upon us. We are together with the apostles as Jesus speaks to us in his testament of love. He must leave us, but greater things will be done in his Name when he is united with the Father and when they send the Spirit of love, wisdom, courage, and truth to us. Dom Ralph Russell, O.S.B., tells us how to read and understand this last discourse of John. He writes in his commentary, "There are no logical divisions, no systematic developments, but always the same spiral, circling movement of the eagle, the same recurring thoughts ('the Father', some 40 times, going to the Father, coming--seeing--knowing--believing--loving the Spirit--life--truth--abiding--peace--fruitful--prayer--persecutions from the world---unity--glory) progressively strengthened and deepened." (A New Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, p.1063). Jesus is speaking to us for all of us through our confident faith in him are apostles who are gathered around him to listen to his living voice telling us we are to be prepared by the coming of the Holy Spirit to do even greater things than he has done! His words are consoling and we are led to see him as the way, the truth, and the life. We do not let our hearts be troubled for he will be with us through the Holy Spirit abiding within us and giving us the courage and boldness to witness to his Name. Jesus has to go in order to prepare a place for us, each and everyone of us. Our mission in the world will be difficult. We will need to invite others to be a part of our task. "Prayer 'the soul of every apostolate'. To pray in Jesus' "name" (the Person manifested, cf. 17:6,26) is to pray in full faith as to who he is, his revelation about himself and his relations to us, cf. 'pray in me' , and 15:7. As what they hear ask 'in my name' concerns the apostolate, it accords with his will, , I Jn 5:14. Henceforth the Lord whom they ask, will not only intercede for them (Rm8:34; I Jn 2:1) but act himself, so continuing his work for the glory of his Father. The early Church prayed this wholly new prayer (Ac 3:6; Rm 10:13; Phil 2:10). (Dom Ralph Russell, p. 1064). As the eagle has been chosen as the symbol for the Evangelist of the Fourth Gospel, we are to be eagles who soar above his Gospel texts in order to see the bigger picture of the revelatory nature of God's Word and its saving power both from the beginning of the world to its consummate end. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, in all that he says and does for all humankind. Amen . 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