Today's Gospel
Don’t Surrender Your Joy!
3 min
Gospel
Jn 16:20-23
Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world. So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.
Readings are from Dynamic Catholic’s New Testament Bible: RSV Catholic Edition
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Transcript
Don’t Surrender Your Joy!
Welcome back to Radical and Relevant, where we are exploring the genius of the gospel, the genius, Jesus, the genius of Catholicism, and each day looking for a word or a phrase or an idea from today's gospel to anchor our lives so that we can take it out, we can live it, we can try and place it at the center of the situation and circumstances that emerge for us throughout the day today. Today's reading comes from the Gospel of John chapter 16 verses 20 through 23. "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy. When a woman is in travail, she has sorrow. But her hour has come. But when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that the child is born into the world. So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice and no one will take your joy from you. In that day, you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, If you ask anything of the Father, He will give it to you in my name."
