Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
On the day of Pentecost, Peter said to the Jewish people,
“Let the whole house of Israel know for certain
that God has made him both Lord and Christ,
this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart,
and they asked Peter and the other Apostles,
“What are we to do, my brothers?”
Peter said to them,
“Repent and be baptized, every one of you,
in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins;
and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the promise is made to you and to your children
and to all those far off,
whomever the Lord our God will call.”
He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them,
“Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”
Those who accepted his message were baptized,
and about three thousand persons were added that day. ACTS 2:36-41
Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping.
And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb
and saw two angels in white sitting there,
one at the head and one at the feet
where the Body of Jesus had been.
And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “They have taken my Lord,
and I don’t know where they laid him.”
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there,
but did not know it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you looking for?”
She thought it was the gardener and said to him,
“Sir, if you carried him away,
tell me where you laid him,
and I will take him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,”
which means Teacher.
Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me,
for I have not yet ascended to the Father.
But go to my brothers and tell them,
‘I am going to my Father and your Father,
to my God and your God.’”
Mary went and announced to the disciples,
“I have seen the Lord,”
and then reported what he had told her. JN 20:11-18
“Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Jesus breathed the same Holy Spirit on Peter and the Apostles in that upper room on Pentecost as He breathed on you and me at our baptism and confirmation. We are to do all things in the name of Jesus Christ, repent (change our lives), and allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives. What does that mean? Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you, study the fruits and gifts of the Spirit that you have been given at Baptism, look at what gaping holes you have in your life, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you in those areas as part of your daily prayer life.
The fruits of the Holy Spirit are what we should see in our lives if we are doing the will of God: joy, peace, love, kindness, gentleness, long-suffering, self control, modesty, chastity, generosity, patience, and faithfulness. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you at the beginning of each day and throughout the day. The Holy Spirit is the Advocate that Jesus gave us until His return. Jesus says at the Last Supper in John’s Gospel, “15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. j16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate* to be with you always ,k17 the Spirit of truth,* which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you.l”
Are you weeping because they have taken the Lord from you? Mary Magdalene is blessed to be the first to recognize that the resurrected Jesus is no longer in the tomb. She weeps. Does Jesus weep if we do not take time to spend with Him in prayer each day? If we leave Him alone in our churches and Adoration chapels, does He weep? He died on a cross so that we may live. Let us rejoice and be glad by spending time with Him each day so that one day we may not be weeping in eternal life without our Lord. The Resurrection of Jesus is not one single day on the calendar but everyday of the year! -Matt Maher
Today’s challenge: Educate yourself in the YouCat or look up in the Catechism of the Catholic Church the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Start praying for the areas you need the most help in, Jesus sends us the Holy Spirit to help us know the Truths which He revealed to be passed on to each new generation. Spend time in prayer each day with our Lord remembering what He did for us.
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created and you shall renew the face of the earth.
Holy Spirit, please bring forth the gifts of your Spirit within me so I may do the Father’s Will and see the fruits of your Spirit in my life.
#Christian YOLO
Be a servant, become a saint!
This shows us that we need to recognize the Lord to rejoice in him.
What I got out of this gospel is that I should start praying more and try to strengthen my relationship with out Lord. He has done so much for us and me not trying to get closer to him is very disappointing. We all shgould strive for a good relationship with God even if its hard for me.
I think this is saying that now, after Lent, and after Easter with the risen Christ, we should change the way we live our lives. With what we did through Lent, we should change our lives and be able to grow closer to God with our new lifestyles.
What stuck out to me in the Gospel is how Jesus said “don’t hold on to me.” That is the opposite of what He had been teaching. He was teaching us to follow Him, that He was the Way the Truth and the Life and no one goes to the Father except through Him. I think that He was just telling Mary to prepare for when He left, but we as Catholics need to follow Him and stick with Him no matter what.
If you are with God He will give forgiveness, He brings the joy that many cannot attain by themselves. He is the Man that brings things to the people that are unfortunate.
We are told in the Scripture that Baptism is our way to get to Jesus. If we are baptized then we will be forgiven of our original sin.
This scripture is saying to follow God and to always chose him. Choosing to do right God will give back to you. Jesus is our father, we are his children. Loving him can change our lives forever.
Today, Peter tells us and the Jews exactly what Jesus had been telling them and us all of his life: “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Repent and believe in the Gospel. This is Jesus’s message. Why haven’t we listened to him?
This tells me we need to get closer to God instead of pushing him away and thinking we find something that is more important than him.
she was talking to jesus but she did not recognize him so i wonder how many times it has happened to us
“Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” The scripture is saying that once you repent your sins you will be able to receive all the graces of God. Once you dedicate your whole life to Jesus you will be closer to God than ever before.
They realized what they have done to Jesus the only Song of God and they “cut to the heart.” They had realized they killed the man that came to save them and that even though they killed Him He still loved them the same.
In todays gospel got is telling me that when He says “cut to heart” that doesn’t mean hurt in any way, it means that you are touched in a spiritual way that helps you.
Easter is a time for us to realize that all that we have is a gift from God. We are so blessed to be able to attend a Catholic School, and have others willing to help us achieve greatness in God’s eyes. Jesus, died, but He is now risen! He loved us enough to die, and rose from the dead to make it possible for us to be with Him forever.
“Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Jesus tells us many times in the Bible to repent. It doesn’t matter how grave our sin was, he will always love us and strive to get us back to him. In the story of the Prodigal Son, the Father doesn’t wait for the son to come inside in order to greet him, the second he sees the son he runs out there to him. That is what Jesus does for us. The moment we decide to repent, He meets us and helps us along the way. All we need to do is start. ‘Try your best and God will do the rest’ is what our younger teachers used to say.
In today’s gospel, Jesus tells us to repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of our sins. Jesus tells the same people that killed Him to be sorry for their sins and He will forgive them. We do not deserve God’s love and forgiveness, but God loves everyone.
When Peter says “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Peter did a confession for all of the Jewish people. He just forgave them for killing Jesus and for all of their sins
Rejoice, for the Lord has redeemed us from our sins and has risen from the dead! Let us share the Good News with the world!
Peter baptized and had a lot of people repent after Jesus came back. Mary Magdalene did not recognize Jesus and mistook him for the gardener. Even when his friends had lost hope and he came back for them.
We should repent for our sins, and go to confession.
In the Gospel Jesus says go out and be baptized. We need the Holy Spirit in our life so we can be closer to God. We need to control what we do in our time.
This means that everybody has to believe in Jesus Christ
In today’s scripture, today Peter redeems himself by telling the apostles, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” The other half talks about Mary Magdalene seeing Jesus on earth although she believed he was stolen at first, and then going to spread the word. Just like Peter and Mary, we should go out, repent, and spread Jesus’s good news.
We have to let go of Jesus and trust Him when he goes to Heaven. He will still be with us and help us through life. We should be happy when he enters Heaven so we can also enter with Him.
In this scripture the word of the life of Jesus was so strong that 3000 people were converted. They believed the word was true and choose to follow.
In today’s scripture we see that God has resurrected. We need to celebrate everyday because God has died for us and if we do not celebrate all that God has done for us then we will suffer because God wants to be with us but you have to want God.
What reached out to me was when it said, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” What this means to me is that God’s forgiveness is amazing. He always forgives us even after we keep on sinning over and over again.
This scripture is saying like when you have a loved one and that loved one pass you shouldn’t weep for them because they will have a better life and another thing that this scripture says is that on the day of Pentecost peter tells the Jews that Jesus is like the one true man he tells the Jews that they crucified there King and when the Jews heard this they were like shocked and to it to like to a meaning an they said well how do we repent and peter tells them by baptizing yourself.
This scripture tells us that Jesus is risen, Jesus asks Mary why she is weeping, so do the angels. We should be happy that Jesus died for us, and he saved us. We should still always remember that Jesus suffered and died, but know that we are saved.
Jesus died for our sins, and allowed for us to enter Heaven. Even though He did all that for us, we still sin. When we sin it hurts God and ourselves. But we repent and we go back to God. Distancing ourselves and not believing only hurts us. We can’t say that Jesus didn’t die for us because He did. There is so much evidence proving He did. We just have to believe it.
It really amazes me that Mary Magdalene didn’t reconize Jesus. The scripture says,”When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for? She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” She did not know it was Jesus.
Today Jesus talks about His Ascension. When Jesus said He has not went to His Father yet He is saying He is about to. Jesus came back to help us on Sunday. But today Jesus tells Mary Magdalene to go tell His brothers that He will go to His Father soon. Just like we will hopefully go one day.
In today’s reading “For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call” I think that this stuck out to me because it shows that god loves everyone not just the people that sin. And that people who repent really are saved but even of you sin and turn your back from God he still loves you just in a different way.
Jesus became man just like us and he died for our sins.
Are you cut to the heart by what happened to Jesus? He died for you so that you could go to heaven. Love him for it.
When we were baptized and confirmed Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit on us. This allows the Holy Spirit to work inside of us and to do great works.
We can’t save ourselves, but we can ask for Jesus’ forgiveness, and He will save us. He will give us the gift of eternal life with Him if we ask for His forgiveness and mercy. We must be truly sorry for our sins and repent and let Jesus overcome us.
What stood out to me was, “THEY WERE CUT TO THE HEART.” It stood out to me because we all sin and us humans are the reason that Jesus was crucified. We are cut to the hearts because of our sins. Every time we sin just apologize or start to pray and just go to confession. Are lives are meant to be given away.
“THEY WERE CUT TO THE HEART.” we will have our sins shown and we will be “THEY WERE CUT TO THE HEART.” we will repent in the presence of Jesus.
what the scipture is telling me is that what Jesus says people really feel. His words were felt by the people all the way to the heart so they listend to him and were baptized.
“Stop holding on to me” We should not hold onto the people we have lost. It is okay to mourn but we need to let them go at some piont. Hopefully they are in heaven with Jesus.
Three thousand people were baptized that day. Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit that day. We too on Easter were filled with the Holy Spirit. Now we need to evangelize and spread the word of God.
It is never too late to repent to God. You should not worry about God but yourself, what you are doing. Are you sinning? Are you repenting and actually meaning it when you repent?
Jesus is with us in everything that we do while the Holy Spirit guides us in everything that we do.
“What are we to do, my brothers?”Peter said to them,“Repent and be baptized, every one of you,in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off,whomever the Lord our God will call.” Peter turned to God when him and the Apostles were struggling. It shows one of the great relationships Peter had with Jesus. He trusts him just like we all should. No matter how difficult the struggle is, you should always turn to God.
Today scripture is telling me that Mary Magdalene is blessed to be the first to recognize that the resurrected Jesus is no longer in the tomb. She weeps. Does Jesus weep if we do not take time to spend with Him in prayer each day?
I think today’s scripture passage is trying to tell us that we need to be sorry for the sins we commit and ask God for forgiveness because he died on the cross for our sins.
Mary was so sad that Jesus has died so she went to his tomb but when His body was not there she was a little angry and upset. Then all of a sudden a mad talks to Mary and “Woman, why are you weeping?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him,
“Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” Mary was so happy that Jesus was here. Jesus said spread the word so she did.
“Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day.” In this piece of Scripture, it says that on Pentecost, Peter went to preach the Gospel to the Jewish people. He did it so well that he brought about 3,000 people into the Church.
I think this scripture is saying that Peter and John come back to the apostles and say that he is risen, and that we should repent and try to be better.
“Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day.” In this piece of Scripture, it says that on Pentecost, Peter went to preach the Gospel to the Jewish people. He did it so well that he brought about 3,000 people into the Church. Just like how our parents made the decision to baptize us and bring us into the church.
This gospel is saying that whenever we lose someone or something, we are hurt. The disciples and Mary had to go through this pain of loss. Losing someone is always terrible.
Jesus tells us to repent. He wants us to repent so we can get closer to him. We also repent so we can reflect and pray.
We need to get closer to God. We usually push Him away because it is easier to do what we want rather than doing what God wants us to do.
After Jesus has risen, we should strive to grow closer to God. We need to spread His Word, which everyone should do. This especially would make God happy instead of us to sit around and waste the gifts God had given us out of love. We all should understand that God loves us so much and would give anything to us.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is telling me that we should rejoice and be glad, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and eternal life is open.
I think that this Gospel passage is saying that Jesus went through a lot of pain and suffering, just like we have. We need to stop being selfish and remember what God did for us, and how He was so selfless.
About three thousand realized their mistake and got baptized. Do we realize our mistake right away after it has been made? Not all of the time. Sometimes we need someone to tell us, hey, you shouldn’t have done that. That what Peter did. He said “guys, Jesus was the Lord whom you just crucified for He has risen from the dead.” And people realized that they had just killed the Messiah and repented. Believe and repent. Realize your mistakes. Peter won’t always be there to tell you that it was wrong. Someone might be, but try to see it for yourself.
“I have seen the Lord,” The Lord has finally resurrected and what a wonderful time to rejoice. Jesus loves us so much and we finally get to be with him from his long journey.
This scripture is saying that WE the People need to follow God. If WE the people choose God and follow Him good things will happen. Sometimes bad things will happen it’s fine though because WE the people have God on our side.
The Apostles, Mary, Mary Magdelan and others were deeply sorrowful for what happened to Jesus. Some of them did not understand the significance of Jesus’s death. But then it says that Peter brought 3,000 people to faith in one day which is a great number of people to evangelize.
The message that Jesus is the Lord was very powerful to the people at Pentecost. When Peter told them how Jesus was the Lord “they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other Apostles, ‘What are we to do, my brothers?’”. 3,000 people joined the Church that day. We should try to be “cut to the heart” like them today.
“Let the whole house of Israel know for certain that god has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” People have to know why they are created and for what purpose. We go to a Catholic school and have a good education. Whenever we are in a situation that the topic is distant, we have to make the change and remember what Jesus told us.
God has done so much for us and we need to always choose him first. God loves us so much and when we do what he tells us to do we can live the best life we can. We need to all follow in God’s footsteps and we can live a happy and holy life.
Mary did not notice Jesus at first. We can be the same way in thing in our life. When we lose a job or get injured we may think that was not from God. But at the end we will be better off. We will realize that the gift was from Jesus.
Today’s scripture reflects on how we need to repent. As it says in the bible we will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. We need to follow Christ so we can use our gist for the greater good.
*so we can use our gifts
Today, Jesus is appearing to Mary Magdalene and showing her that he is risen. He shows her that he is not dead, but he is alive and he will save her and the disciples and everyone.
“Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” God is trying to save us in today’s Gospel. He is telling us to not follow what other people tell you like today’s generation, but what he tells us.
To me this means God is saying to us that when we disobey him we “cut him to the heart” which to me means we are hurting him and helping the devil for it’s final Goal which is bring more and more hurt into the world.
This scripture is teaching us why we should give our life to God.
What I think this is saying is that who ever is seperated from God will be hurt and will hurt them selves more than God. People who worship God will live with him forever and will not be seperated and will love who ever.
Mary went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and then reported what he had told her. This part of the scripture is exactly what Jesus wants us to do. He wants us to hear then spread the word of God just like Mary did the the Gospel today.
I think it’s telling me that we need to believe in God and when we have faith then we can be touched in a more spiritual way and better ourselves spiritually and mentally. We need Him and He is here so that He can save us and bring us to Heaven with Him.
In this scripture its talking about how we get the sacrament of baptism because it forgives original sin just like how Jesus did to the entire world.
Today’s Scripture tells us to repent and to be Baptized. Sometimes, we struggle with repenting, there are some things that we don’t think are wrong even though they are actually hurting us. But Jesus will always be waiting for us when we do choose to repent and we can rely on Him.
The Word of God isn’t just something for us to think about, it’s something for us to live by. We can’t even try to shut the Word of God out of our lives. We don’t know what’s best for us, and we’d be better off admitting that. This is how we get to Heaven.
If we are on God’s side, he will forgive us and fill us with Graces.
The part that sticks out to me is, “They were cut to the heart.” Sometimes I think we try and close our hearts off, so as to guard our hearts, and it turns our hearts to stone. We need to be open to feeling different feelings, because if we close up we could lose a piece of ourselves. Jesus can help us do this.
“Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” This line is showing us the way to Jesus, to redemption. Baptism. Baptism is a gift from God and it is the end of sin and the beginning of a new life with God. It is the doorway to Christ and all the other gifts he has given us. It has to start somewhere.
What the gospel told me is that just because He has risen doesn’t mean it is over yet. And we need to follow his foot steps. And just because Jesus has risen doesn’t mean we just stop praying to him. He will always be listening even we think he isn’t .
Jesus sent down the Holy Spirit, and the forgiveness of sins. He said that God will call them to what they are supposed to do in life.
Today’s Scripture passage is saying that we need to repent. When we repent, we are forgiven of our sins. We can go to Confession and ask for forgiveness, when we do we have a new start in life.
Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene and told her that he has risen he also told her to spread the word he has given her.
I think that in this reading, we are given one of the best pieces of scripture to live by. When Peter says, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,” he is explaining how we become Catholic. This quote outlines three of the sacraments repent, confession, and be baptized, baptism, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, confirmation. This is how we get more people to join in our love of Christ. We need to try to convert as many people as we can to be like Peter.
After Easter, when Christ rises we need to change how we live. Rejoice in His name.
In todays Scripture Mary Magdalene was weeping outside Jesus tomb and Jesus comes out, ask her why is she weeping. We need to be joyfull because Jesus was risen fomr the dead to spread the word of God
I think this scripture tells us that Jesus has risen. Nothing is impossible for the lord. Jesus comes back to save us.
I believe that this passage means that even when we doubt, and we feel like Jesus is against us, we need to remember that Jesus loves each and every one of us with a love that cannot compare to any other love that we will recieve. Jesus has our best intrusts at heart, and he knows how to give them to us. So trust, and believe.
Peter was spreading the word for Jesus that Jesus resurrected from the dead and said “This man that you once crucified had raised from the dead and showed everyone that He was God. He never blasphemied against the church spreading lies that He wasn’t the Christ and that He was a fake. The pharisees wanted to protect their reputation but that ended up ruining it.
In this scripture it is telling us that Jesus has risen and Mary went to the disciples and peter and john followed her and he was not there but his tomb was empty and his clothes were still in there.
In today’s Scripture Mary is crying because she did not know where Jesus was. She was crying because she loved our Lord. God would do the same if we turned our backs on Him.
I think the scripture is saying that Jesus died for us so we could be set free and be baptized in His name. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit want us to be up in Heaven and spend the rest of eternity up there. They help us and are our guides. We as humans make many mistakes but going to church and believing in the Holy Trinity will help save us, as well as baptism and the many other miracles we as humans can receive.
jesua allwas frgiv us wen we sin and want us theo goth heven not hell and he sakfis him sel for us and die
Mary Magdalene rushes to tell the apostles that Jesus has risen and is not dead. Because of this 2 apostles run to the tomb and see that Jesus is not there. Later Peter tells people if they are baptized and have faith in God that they will receive grace and be saved for their belief. This is what I learned from today’s gospel.
Today’s scripture is very important to all of us. I think today’s scripture is trying to tell us that when we were confirmed and baptized that Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit on us. He is within us every single day, whether we like it or not. He is always with us even if we can’t truly see him. He will never leave our sides. He loves us. This allows the Holy Spirit to work inside of us and do mighty works. Without him we are lost.
“Repent and be baptized, every one of you,in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins;
and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Is what Peter said in today Gospel. Last Saturday new people came to our Church. They were baptized and received their first Communion. Last year I got to go to this mass for my great grandma. It was so cool getting to see everyone get baptized and have their First Communion.
This gospel is giving us the right directions to live the perfect life. Peter said to repent and be baptized. And the forgiveness of your sins. You will receive the gift of the holy spirit. Those might just seem just like a thing i said but their not they are super important for this faith and there the way to get to heaven and be with God.
I find it strange how Mary Magdeline did not realize that the man she was talking to was Jesus Christ himself, I mean, it’s kind of hard to miss. But still, this must’ve been insane for her. She watched Him die, and all of a sudden, He’s there.
People have finally started to believe that Jesus is God, and after realizing what they did, they ask what to do to save themselves from more sin, in which Peter says to repent and be baptised.
what i think this is saying is that we always talk to Jesus everyday when we pray in class or when we go to mass. but sometimes we don’t really recognize that he is here we just pray and not actually know the presence of Jesus.
Educate in our faith. The more we know God, the closer we get to him. By simply opening the YouCat, The Bible, or any other Catholic book we get closer to Him.
“Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” I think this is huge for us. We need to stay out of our own generation but we need to go to God’s generation. We need to go against what our generation says because most of it is against our faith. But we need to follow what Jesus and his bible taught us.
We are always trying to save ourselves and do everything on our own because we either forget that God is there to help us or we think we’re too good for Him. We forget that he is our creator and he is all powerful. God sacrificed everything for us even his own son yet we still hurt him everyday.
Getting out of lent is like getting baptized. In lent you try and get a better lifestyle and be more closer to Jesus. Same thing happens when you are baptized. You get closer to Jesus.