Monday, 26 May 2025

 

John 15:26-16:4a
Saint Philip Neri

St. Philip Neri in Ecstasy,

Painting by Guido Reni (1575-1642),

Painted in 1615,

Oil on canvas

© Wikimedia Commons, Santa Maria in Vallicella, also called Chiesa Nuova, Rome

Gospel Reading

At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, ‘But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.


‘I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.’


Reflection on the painting

by Father Patrick van der Vorst


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