Friday, May 7, 2021 PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - Laying Down His Life John 15:12-17 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 This I command you, to love one another. Reflection by: Jim Orbe: Lay missionary. Regional Elder-Servants of the Word Brotherhood. Director-Kairos, Sword of the Spirit Asia.

Thursday, May 6, 2021 PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - Your Joy Be Complete. Jn 15:9-11 Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. “I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” Reflection by: Danny Dy: Management consultant and urban farmer. CEFAM-counselor. Former CYA and member of LNP.Core team member for National Family Life Service Coordination-BCBP

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - Abide in Him Jn 15:1-8 Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.” Reflection by: Christopher Luke Felix: Compliance Executive for a local bank. Missionary for the youth and young adults called FIT (Faith, Integrity and Truth). Covenanted Member- Servants of Yahweh Covenant Community-KL, Malaysia.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - Peace. Jn 14:27-31a Jesus said to his disciples: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe. I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me, but the world must know that I love the Father and that I do just as the Father has commanded me.” Reflection by: Steve Sandoval: CEO and Training Director-LeadCore Training and Consultancy, Strategic Planner, Organizational Development Expert, Site Leader-Pathways Sta. Rosa, Pastoral Leader-Ang Ligaya ng Panginoon

Monday, May 3, 2021 PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - God should be your Ultimate Goal Jn 14:6-14 Jesus said to Thomas, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen 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? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.” Reflection by: Alvin Fabella: COO-EScience. South Sector Evangelization Head, Ligaya ng Panginoon Community. Speaker. Retreat Master. Radio anchor, Kakaiba Ka! Contributor- Didache. Author.

Sunday, May 2, 2021 PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - Rootedness, Faithfulness, Fruitfulness John 15:1-8 Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.” Reflection by: Jon Kasilag: Founding Principal Engineer-AMH Phils.Inc., Former Senior Lecturer-UP,Covenanted Member-Ligaya ng Panginoon, Site Leader-Pathways North Quezon City.

Saturday, May 1, 2021 PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - Knowing the Father Thru the Son Jn 14:7-14 Jesus said to his disciples: “If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to Jesus, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen 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? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.” Reflection by: Atty. Ted Te: Human rights lawyer. Faculty member. Regional director for Western Visayas-Lingkod ng Panginoon, Sector evangelization head-Pathways. Former spokesperson-Supreme Court.

Friday, April 30, 2021 PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - Everything’s Going to be Alright John 14:1-6 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know the way.” Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Reflection by: Bobby Quitain: Lawyer. Professor. Best-selling author. Preacher. Missionary.

Thursday, April 29, 2021 Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - We bring Christ to Others John 13:16-20 When Jesus had washed the disciples’ feet, he said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it. I am not speaking of all of you. I know those whom I have chosen. But so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, The one who ate my food has raised his heel against me. From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I AM. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.” Reflection by: Raoul Roncal: Lay missionary/Brother-The Servants of the Word. Theology Instructor-Ateneo de Manila University. Licensed Engineer (ECE)

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter PATHWAYS OF HOPE: SHORT REFLECTIONS ON THE DAILY GOSPEL READING - Light of the World John 12:44-50 Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in the one who sent me, and whoever sees me sees the one who sent me. I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness. And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world. Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day, because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I say, I say as the Father told me.” Reflection by: Vanessa Ocampo: Corporate Trainer/Financial Consultant, Senior Woman Leader Trainee/Pastoral Leader-Servants of the Living God Community (Ormoc, Leyte)