Láthair Dé

A Dhia, tá tú níos gaire a chreidim, níos gaire ná m’anáil féin. Táim beannaithe ag do dhlúthchaidreamh liom agus ní gá go mbeadh eagla orm.

Saoirse

A Thiarna, chruthaigh tú mé le bheith beo i saoirse.
Déanaim talamh slán den mbronntanas seo go hiondúil.
Spreag mé le maireachtáil sa tsaoirse a bhí beartaithe agat,
le croí saor ó bhuairt agus le muinín iomlán asat.

Comhfhios

Feasach ar do láthair, a Thiarna,
Breathnaím ar an am atá caite agam le déanaí.
Lig dom a bheith macánta liom féin faoi conas a bhí mé
agus cad atá déanta agam,
mar tá a fhios agam go bhfuil grá agat don fhírinne sa chroí
agus glacann tú liom díreach mar atáim.

Briathar Dé

³¹The Jews took up stones again to stone him. ³²Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” ³³The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human, are making yourself God.” ³⁴Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? ³⁵If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’—and the scripture cannot be annulled—³⁶can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? ³⁷If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. ³⁸But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” ³⁹Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands.

⁴⁰He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. ⁴¹Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” ⁴²And many believed in him there.

Inspioráid

Bhíodh Naomh Iognáid, bunaitheoir na nÍosánach, ag comhairliú dá chéad chompánaigh an tuiscint is fearr a bhaint as aon trácht nó gníomh a thiocfadh ina dtreo. I bhfianaise shoiscéal an lae inniu agus chumas na nGiúdach a mhalairt a dhéanamh go díreach, d’fhéadfadh sé go gcuideofaí linn ár gcéim is fearr a thógáil dá nglacfaimis mana Iognáid go hiomlán.

Comhrá

Cén focal nó frása a tharraing m’aird ó shoiscéal an lae inniu? Fiafraím den Tiarna cad ba mhaith leis a rá liom tríd an bhfocal seo…

Conclúid

Gabhaim buíochas le Dia as bronntanas a ghrá
agus mé ag imeacht le lúcháir agus dóchas
chun freastal ar a mhuintir.

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