Prayer Prompt before reading JN 15:9-11 Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and God the Son so that I may know who I am.
“I HAVE TOLD YOU THIS SO THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU AND YOUR JOY MIGHT BE COMPLETE.” JN 15:9-11
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
St. Thomas Aquinas says, “Joy comes from hope and proceeds from love”. He further adds, “Joy is full, when there is nothing more to desire”. He continues in the Summa Theologica, “Hence desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God, but all our desires: so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection–indeed over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring: for “neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).”
Joy is an interesting thing. There is no opposite to joy. Everything I can think of in this world has an opposite, but not joy. Unless we think of spiritual garbage or hell as it’s opposite-Peter Kreeft
The only way joy can be taken away from you is if you stop believing or give up hope and do not love. I can be running on the coldest day in the middle of winter with no leaves and dead grass around me, but still have joy (I still believe Jesus Christ resurrected and saved me). I can be sick on the couch for a week, but still have joy. I can be fasting and still have joy.
I can be going through depression and still have joy. Joy leaps forth from love and hope, a firm belief that we are saved. It can be snatched by the Devil only if you let Him by giving up hope and not loving. Our joy will be complete when we no longer desire God, we will be with Him forever in heaven and our joy will be over-filled because we had no idea how awesome the goodness of God is.
Today’s challenge: Follow the commandments, pray, believe, hope, love, and never let anyone or anything steal your joy!
Suffering brings joy! St. Francis and his brothers would look for suffering in the most radical ways and deny themselves every comfort in radical ways. They were full of joy!
Perfect Joy according to St. Francis of Assisi
http://www.missa.org/joie_parfaite_e.php
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
Your joy comes from God and Jesus. Jesus gave His life so that we can feel complete joy
This is saying that we need to be good disciples if we want to be united with the father.
“Joy leaps forth from love and hope, a firm belief that we are saved. It can be snatched by the Devil only if you let Him by giving up hope and not loving. Our joy will be complete when we no longer desire God, we will be with Him forever in heaven and our joy will be over-filled because we had no idea how awesome the goodness of God is.” This stood out to me because I never knew or thought about why we have joy. I think it means we have Joy so we can love and be grateful and happy for everything God has done for us.
“I HAVE TOLD YOU THIS SO THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU AND YOUR JOY MIGHT BE COMPLETE.” JN 15:9-11. Something that stood out to me about this is that Jesus is saying that his joy is in us and our joy might be complete because of Jesus.
Today’s Gospel is very short but has a powerful message of hope and love. Today Jesus just says that if the Father loves Him so too does He love us.
“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.
This part stuck out to me the most because it talks about how that if we always follow, and love God, he will stay with us. Granite he will always be with us, its just he will give us eternal life with him in heaven. When we love Jesus we love others, because God is in us, Jesus is in us, they live on in us. Always love the Lord.
God wants us to remain in His joy and His love! God brings us joy all the time even though sometimes we don’t even realize it. We will always remain in God’s love because He loves us so much. We don’t think that He loves us sometimes because we mess up or sin but in reality He is always forgiving us and loving us!
Today scripture talks about joy and how Jesus had so much of it and its sort of ingraved in our minds that joy is only gotten through things like video games or hanging out with friends but in reality theirs much more. Jesus suffered greatly yet he was filled with joy and we need to strive to be like him and be overcome with it. We can get joy through things like prayer and mass, or just helping those who need it around us.
Being joyous is the greatest feeling ever. Not having anything knock you down from your joy and happiness makes you feel on top of the world and there is nothing like it. There are so many people who seem like they have never been this kind of joyous and it is a tragedy. This is the kind of joy Jesus had on the cross, He looked like He was suffering, and He was, but He knew that it was worth it and happiness comes through suffering.
In today’s Gospel it talks about Jesus’ love and how you will always be in it but if you do not keeps his commandments he will be disappointed in you because you disobeyed his will and his love for you. Like he said in the Gospel, he is saying this to bring you joy, if you stay in the commandments you will be in love with the father and in the love of Jesus.
I HAVE TOLD YOU THIS SO THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU AND YOUR JOY MIGHT BE COMPLETE.” JN 15:9-11 What this means to me is that when we follow his rules and commandments he will love us like he has followed his father we will have to follow him he wants us to live in his kingdom and live in happiness so he tries and guide us from the bad things with his commandments. Even if we do mess up we are all human and everyone makes mistakes and what Jesus is trying to do is bring us back with his love because at the end of the day no one is perfect and God will still love us no matter what and try and guide us back
Today, Jesus tells us that if we stay with Him through everything, we will be happy because we know Jesus. If we trust in Him, our joy will be complete. We need to believe that Jesus has a plan for us. Sometimes, if we sin and break the commandments, we feel that Jesus doesn’t love us anymore. But that’s not true at all! He loves no matter what we do and He will always come back to us.
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.”
It was telling me that joy is the one thing that does not have an opposite!
God tells us to live like him, to love like him, just to be like him. No one is perfect and Jesus never said you have to be perfect because no one is. His arms are open waiting for you to run back to him after each and every time you sin. You will never love yourself or love fully until you know Jesus’s love.
In today’s scripture reading it really stuck out to me that it says that the only way we lose joy in this world is if we stop believing in the Lord Jesus Christ that is the only way we can lose hope and lose joy. No matter what and how painful that man’s death was on the cross, he never lost hope and he never lost his joy. He still believed in his father in heaven. He knew this was his Father’s plan for him, to create his salvation story. If am sick in bed, with a fever does not mean I will lose joy just from being sick because Jesus went through way more than I did. Joy leaps forth from love and hope, a firm belief that we are saved. We need God to have joy., I can be suffering from anxiety but still be happy because I know I have Jesus on my side and he will never leave me alone or ever feel isolated, he always sends an amazing person to help me in my life, he sent me an amazing friend in 7th grade who loves me for who I am. Have a good rest of your day!!! God loves you so much and will never give up on you in your lifetime. God bless!!! Viva Cristo Rey!!!
Jesus is saying if we follow the commandments we will be loved by him. And we love him.
Today Jesus tells us that he loves us as the father loves him, and that as long as you love him you remain in him and in his father, and through that you will have joy and eternal life forever.
In the Gospel, Jesus is saying that if you love those, you will be filled with joy. If you follow the Commandments, you will be filled with joy. If all of Jesus’ disciples on earth follows God’s will, the whole world will rejoice.
what i learned in todays scripture is joy is an intresting thing.I like this part because it makes you want to go deeper and deeper to find what this is all about it makes you want to explore and adventure the works,love,and joy of jesus christ
Jesus says that he loves you with the same deep, perfect love that God the Father has for him. To “remain” in this love, you just need to follow his teachings and live the way he showed us, which is mainly about loving others. Doing this isn’t just a chore or a list of rules; it’s the secret to finding a type of happiness that lasts much longer than temporary “good feelings”. Essentially, he shared this message so his own joy could fill you up and make your life feel truly complete.
In today’s gospel, Jesus wants us to remain in him and we should love him so that we can enter eternal life in Heaven with God. He wants us to have joy within our selves and our joy will be complete.
The only way joy can be taken away from you is if you stop believing or give up hope and do not love. So never give up on loving Jesus. Go to mass every Saturday and challenge yourself to remember what the priest said in his Gospel and homily. Always follow the 10 Commandments or you will have trouble getting to heaven. Pray every night and you will be a good Catholic. Read the Bible every day and just find time to talk to Jesus.
What really stood out to me in the Gospel was this “As the Father loves me, so I also love you.” Because this is something we all know just in different words The Golden Rule. But the reason it stood out was because I am so use to hearing this but for it to be in the Gospel and said this way is why it stood out to me. Another thing that stood out to me was how short but also how powerful this Gospel really is.
The beginning of the Gospel tells that Jesus loves us like the the Father loves him. I think this is kind of telling us how we are all sons and daughters of God. I think it is also a hint about the Trinity being one. The rest is pretty straight foward, love God and follow his commandments. be with him in everything you do and make him the center of your life. If you do this you will be joyful, and that is awesome for the world that we are living in while we wait for heaven. Jesus is the key to joy and having joy is awesome.
In the Gospel today Jesus is talking about how if we keep the commandments will remain in His and God’s love. How no matter what we go through here on earth if we keep his commandments we will forever be joyful in Heaven with him.
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love.”
In today’s gospel Jesus says “Remain in my love.” REMAIN in my love. It is our choice on wheather we want Gods love or not. He will allways love us but we have to chose to remain in his love. How can we remain in his love? that is answered in the next sentance where Jesus says “If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love.” It’s that easy all we have to do to remain in his love is to follow his commandments. That may be hard at times but it is still way easier than what we should have to do to get his love. We don’t deserve it.
What I learned from the Gospel today is that joy comes from places we wouldn’t think of it coming from, like sickness, low confidence,
eating food from the trash, but still going to Mass every Sunday, and finally making it to Heaven. Joy doesn’t come directly through that though, its what comes after. Finally making it through every obstacle in the way of the light, making it through all the turns and doubts of the maze to Heavens gate, escaping everything the devil would throw at you. Or just like completing an assignment due the next day. Joy is the reward of your suffering.
“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” If we love God He will love us and we will be joyful. A lot of the saints suffered terrible disease and torture but they were all joyful because they loved God.
Today, Jesus says, 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¨. He is saying that if you follow Him you will stay dear and close to Him. But, if you turn away and sin, leave the church, and reject Him you will no longer be close to Him.
I learned today in the Gospel, that since God the Father loves Jesus so much, Jesus Christ also loves us very much. We too, should also love those, even though it may be hard, it is not impossible. We must remain in his commandments the best we can, even if we fail, Jesus will encourage us to try again and again.
what I got out of this gospel today is that if we follow Jesus’ commandments that we will be in his joy and be faithful like him.
The only way joy can be taken away from you is if you stop believing or give up hope and do not love. I don’t really know why this line sticks out to me but it does. to me it means the devil is the only person who can take away our joy.
Love is not selective it is for everyone and given by everyone some more than others, God is love so be loved and keep loving.
“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” This stuck out to me while i was reading. I cant describe why this stuck out to me because I’m at a loss of words.
“I can be going through depression and still have joy. Joy leaps forth from love and hope, a firm belief that we are saved. It can be snatched by the Devil only if you let Him by giving up hope and not loving. Our joy will be complete when we no longer desire God, we will be with Him forever in heaven and our joy will be over-filled because we had no idea how awesome the goodness of God is.” This paragraph stood out to me the most while reading today’s gospel. Joy is amazing and joy spreads really fast, you can start the loop of joy.
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. There is nothing you can do to make the Lord stop loving you.
Todays Gospel is telling me to always love Jesus and he will love me and to have joy in him and I will have joy forever.
In today’s gospel God is saying to me as the Father loves me and I shall love you. If you keep God’s commandments you will remain in his love.
I feel like we forget that to remain in His love is to stop running. It is the spiritual practice of staying put in the awareness that you are already cherished. It suggests that the most important work of the disciple is not “doing” for God, but “being” with God.
Joy does not have an opposite that can be exploited. It cannot be taken away unless you stop believing in God, so keep believing. God wants us to be with him to be eternally joyful with us. Even in your darkest moments, you can still have joy as long as you believe in God.
“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” This means that when we follow his rules he will love us like he has followed his father we will have to follow him he wants us to live in his kingdom and live in happiness so he tries and guide us from the bad things with his commandments. But even when we mess up we are still human and we all make mistakes. What Jesus is trying to do though is bring us back to him because nobody is perfect but he will always love us.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus talks about the Father loving Him and that He loves us. He also tells us that if we follow the commandments we will stay in his love.
Jesus is telling me that I need to stay in joy and keep the holiness in my life. God loves his son so much that he sent him down to us to spread love In his name through the power of the Holy Spirit
In this scripture, joy is fullness of life. If you are full of joy, you are filled with Christ’s love, for his love is the most fullfilling thing in the world. God gave us everything, and we should be grateful for it. But instead, we waste as if there’s a tommorow. But soon, there wont be. We will be judged. So we must be joyful, and filled with his love like there’s no tommorow.
The message I got from today’s gospel was that all I need to do to be complete in life is just stay in God’s presence. God is love and he is truly all we need to have a good life.
Today in the Gospel it says, “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. This basically means if you take your time here on earth worshiping God and believing in him, and you CHOOSE his love, then you will enter his kingdom. But if you do the opposite, Jesus says you will not have eternal life.
I HAVE TOLD YOU THIS SO THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU AND YOUR JOY MIGHT BE COMPLETE.” What I got from this verse is that Joy is the best feeling in the world and we can experience this everyday with God if we just stay in his grace and his mercy.
What this gospel tells me, Is that Jesus wants us to be happy. He wants us to be joyful, He went through so much for us and wants us to rejoice with him in heaven. God gives us a choice to be joyful, or empty. If we don’t choose Jesus, we will always feel like we are missing something, some sort of thing that isn’t being fulfilled. Some people choose drugs or other things to fill this, and others pick Jesus and are filled with joy.
“Remain in my love.” if we remain in God we will get to heaven. He always loves us and we need him to get to heaven.
Today’s gospel tells us to follow Gods commandments and rules. For us to be joyful we must obey the commandments and show us it in our life’s. We have to have faith in God and believe in him always. He will always love us and care for us. Follow his commandments and we will have eternal life.
HAVE TOLD YOU THIS SO THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU AND YOUR JOY MIGHT BE COMPLETE.” JN 15:9-11. What this means to me is that when we abide by his rules and commandments he will love us like he has followed his father we will have to abide by him, he wants us to live in his kingdom and live in happiness so he attempts to guide us from the bad things so he gave us the commandments.
In today’s Gospel Jesus tells us that if we keep his commandments, then we remain in his love. He told us this so that we may find joy and love but still keep ourselves in the right place.
“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” we need
to see ourselves the way God sees us when we figure that out we will see others like
christ and that’s how you see the good in others.
In today’s scripture reflection it tells us there is joy in everything and God puts the joy in everything and is the living meaning of joy. The only way joy can be taken from us is whenever we stop believing in joy, that is on us and we shouldn’t blame God “why” because he’s been there always and make redirect our lives but for the good and better only.
Jesus told me today that he have to be completely in him. We have to live in his joy to be fulfilled, we have to live in his suffering to be fulfilled, we have to live like Jesus did or live how he would to this day to be fulfilled and find everlasting peace when we leave this material life.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells His disciples that if we keep His commandments, we will remain in His love. Joy. Joy is happiness because everything is complete. With God, everything that we ever hope for is complete. The love, greatness, and grandiose of Heaven is vast compared to the things that make us happy temporarily. To love and trust in God is to be joyful. When we are joyful, we feel great, and we share our joy with others.
Jesus tells us to live out the commandments in our daily lives. Most of all he wants us to remain in his love and love others. We should ask God for grace to help others we like and don’t like.
In todays Goepel Jesus says that he will love us because hi father loves him so hopefully he can also feel joy and be spread around the world. We need to love each other because Jeuss has loved us.
All love comes from God all we have to do is follow the 10 Commandments and we will be loved and will have joy. Jesus completely followed the 10 Commandents and he is loved my God. Jesus is our example.
In todays Gospel I think God is telling me that we should treat other how we would treat Jesus and how we want to be treated. We are all sons and daughters of God and no one is better than each other so we should treat every with the same love and kindness of how we would treat our Father and our Lord.
What stuck out to me from this Gospel was when Jesus says, “As the Father loves me, so I also love you.” This means to me that as God the Father loves Jesus with an unending love, so will Jesus love us forever with abundant graces and He will always be at our side.
In today’s gospel what really stood out to me was when Jesus said “so your joy may be complete”. Yes, he made us to serve him, and yes we owe it to him for saving us. Still no matter what Jesus does it always gives us something in return. He died, we are saved, He preached, we know the word, He had mercy, we can now come through the pearly gates. He tells us to follow his commandments so his joy may be in us… but so that OUR joy may be COMPLETE. #YOLO
What I took from today’s gospel is that God will always love us. We need to follow the commandments and try to love God back.
In the Gospel today, Jesus is saying that he loves us and follow the commandments. He is also saying that if we follows his rules he will love us forever and he wants us to be in Heaven with him.
“If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love.” This reminds me that ican always do better in all the commandments. I also need to help others to do better in all the comandments in any way shape or form.
Today’s Gospel reminded me of how gracious God is and the Trinity. It helped me remember how selfless all forms are.
When you believe that Christ truly died and rose For YOU, you have joy, because you love him, and hope for his 2nd coming. Joy springs from love and hope.
” There is no opposite to joy. Everything I can think of in this world has an opposite, but not joy.” We always have to be joyful, even if were having a hard time doing things in school, out of school, we have to be joyful, and happy. There’s no other word used for joy, joy has its own adjectives.
In today’s Scripture, I think God is trying to tell me he is the source of love. He should be our ultimate goal to get close to Him and serve Him. He is the person that is to fulfill us and we need to love Him and trust Him. Staying in Him and grace should be our ultimate goal in the long race.
This gospel distinguishes joy from temporary happiness, suggesting joy is a constant, supernatural state rooted in faith rather than dependent on external circumstances.
Today the Gospel was telling me that we cant give God anything but love. He gives us love unconditionally everyday. When we have his love and we give it back we feel unconditional love.
“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.” This line stuck out to me in today’s Gospel because it’s talking about that if we follow in Gods path and what He has called us to do, we will be rewarded. We will always remain in His love, whether we love Him and want Him in our lives or not.
“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” This stuck out to me because it reminds me that God loves me. We must love each other so that we can live in God’s love. We follow the commandments so we can be with Him.
“I HAVE TOLD YOU THIS SO THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE IN YOU AND YOUR JOY MIGHT BE COMPLETE.” What this to me is with God we can do all things and with God he bring’s joy. We need to always be optimistic and look at everything in a good way to bring a good atmosphere.
If we never had Jesus we would’ve been depressed for our whole life because Jesus is our joy he is THE joy! We also need to do better in our sin and follow the 10 commandments better than what we are so we can live with God forever and have joy in us
“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.” I really like this Gospel reading, because its centered around finding joy in the life around us. We will never be complete; not fully. Not until we enter into the Kingdom of God. Even when we are on our deathbeds, knowing that we’ll see His face soon, the content we will feel 100% of that will be half of a SINGLE percent of how we will feel in Heaven. In the meantime, we just have to remember to stay in God’s graces and remember that Jesus’s love for us is perpetual and fully divine.