Scriptual Reflection
DAILY READINGS - 21ST MAY 2025

Daily Readings

May 21, 2025

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter

 

Reading 1

Acts 15:1–6

 

In those days: Some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.

 

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 122:1–2, 3–4ab, 4cd–5

 

Response: Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

 

I rejoiced when they said to me,

“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

And now our feet are standing

within your gates, O Jerusalem.

 

Response: Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

 

Jerusalem is built as a city

bonded as one together.

It is there that the tribes go up,

the tribes of the Lord.

 

Response: Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

 

For Israel’s witness it is

to praise the name of the Lord.

There were set the thrones for judgment,

the thrones of the house of David.

 

Response: Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

 

Alleluia

John 15:4a, 5b

 

Abide in me, and I in you, says the Lord; whoever abides in me bears much fruit.

 

Gospel

John 15:1–8

 

At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.”

 

Reflection

 

The Gospel invites us to abide in Christ, allowing him to reside in our lives. Just as the vine is nourishment for the branches and the fruits it produces, Jesus is our source of nourishment. Thus, the call is to cultivate our relationship with him by spending time in his presence. When we abide in Christ, we remain stable and steady. When we keep our eyes fixed on him, our eyes are removed from the problems that concern us. Jesus can cause all things for good. This involves everything he does to make us fruitful; pruning and removing sinful desires, attitudes, and actions that prevent us from being fruitful in the life that God created us to have.

 

Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara (Priest, Martyr) (1869 – 1927)

 

Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, also known as Christopher Magallanes was killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War after the trumped up charge of inciting rebellion.

 

He was born in Totatiche, Jalisco, Mexico on July 30, 1869. He worked as a shepherd in his youth and enrolled in the Conciliar Seminary of San José in Guadalajara at the age of 19

 

Cristóbal was ordained at the age of 30 at Santa Teresa in Guadalajara in 1899 and served as chaplain of the School of Arts and Works of the Holy Spirit in Guadalajara. He was then designated as the parish priest for his home town of Totatiche, where he helped found schools and carpentry shops and assisted in planning for hydrological works, including the dam of La Candelaria. He took special interest in the evangelization of the local indigenous Huichol people and was instrumental in the foundation of the mission in the indigenous town of Azqueltán.

 

Magallanes wrote and preached against armed rebellion, but was falsely accused of promoting the Cristero Rebellion in the area. Arrested on May 21, 1927, while en route to celebrate Mass at a farm, he gave away his few remaining possessions to his executioners, gave them absolution, and without a trial, he was killed four days later with Agustín Caloca in Colotlán, Jalisco. His last words to his executioners were "I die innocent, and ask God that my blood may serve to unite my Mexican brethren."

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