Tuesday of the Fifth week of Easter
Acts of the Apostles 14,19-28.
In those days, some Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
But when the disciples gathered around him, he got up and entered the city. On the following day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
After they had proclaimed the good news to that city and made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch.
They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, "It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God."
They appointed presbyters for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith.
Then they traveled through Pisidia and reached Pamphylia.
After proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia.
From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now accomplished.
And when they arrived, they called the church together and reported what God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
Then they spent no little time with the disciples.
Psalms 145(144),10-11.12-13ab.21.
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.
Making known to men your might
and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.
Your Kingdom is a Kingdom for all ages,
and your dominion endures through all generations.
May my mouth speak the praise of the LORD,
and may all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 14,27-31a.
Jesus said to his disciples: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
You heard me tell you, 'I am going away and I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.
And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.
I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me,
but the world must know that I love the Father and that I do just as the Father has commanded me."
COMMENTARY
Peace is the simplicity of the Spirit, its serenity, the tranquility of the soul, the bond of love. Peace is order, harmony in all our being; It is a continuous joy which is born from the testimony of a good conscience; It is the holy joy of a heart in which God reigns. Peace is the path of perfection, or rather in peace is perfection. And the demon, who knows all this very well, makes all his efforts to make us lose our peace.
We will never take a step towards the virtue of evangelical simplicity if we do not strive to live in a holy and unalterable peace. Sweet is the yoke of Jesus, slight its weight, which is why do not allow the enemy to insert themselves into our heart to tear away this peace. The enemy of our salvation knows too well that the peace of the heart is a secure sign of divine assistance, and that is why he does not let any opportunity to make us lose it.
So let's always be alert to this. Jesus will help us. Let us turn our thought to heaven, our true homeland, of which this world is only a poor image, and let's strive with divine aid to keep, in all sad or joyful events, this serenity and this calm that befits real disciples of the Nazarene.
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