FEAST OF SAINT MATTHIAS, APOSTLE, Gospel (John 15:9-17) Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. “I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you:  love one another.”  The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear people of God, In today's Word of God, Jesus says to His disciples: “Remain in my love, as I have remained in My Father’s love; and keep my commandments, as I have kept My Father’s commandments. And that commandment is love.” Jesus has left a good example and calls upon His disciples to imitate Him. That is: - Being faithful to God the Father and obedient to the Word that the Father commands. - Sacrificing one's own life to love others. - Knowing how to cast aside one's selfish ego to bring love to humanity. - Abiding in the love of God so that He may grant you increase in strength. - Being united with the Holy Trinity as Jesus is united with the Father and the Holy Spirit as one. It is this unity that provides the strength to defeat Satan and to win back love for souls. And to be happy with God, disciples must follow the example of Jesus Christ, observing how He obeyed God so that they may follow in His footsteps. It is God Himself who chooses and calls His disciples to follow Him. God chooses whom He wills, and the vocation God bestows upon each person is different. When God calls someone, He sends that person forth to bear much fruit, which are souls; and to bear much fruit, one must become conformed to the image of Christ, which means sacrificing one's own life to save souls, just as Christ Himself sacrificed His life, hanging on the Cross, to bear the sins of all mankind. And now, to bring love to souls, the disciples whom God has chosen and called must walk the path of sacrifice, the path of love that Jesus Christ traversed, which is the way of the Cross. Let every person take up their own cross and follow Him. Thanks be to God. Amen.

WEDNESDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER Gospel (John 16:12-15) Jesus said to his disciples: "I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you." The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear people of God, In today's Gospel, Jesus tells His disciples: “I still have many things to say to you. But now you cannot bear what I have to tell you. But when the Advocate, the Spirit of truth,  comes, He will tell you all things.” That Spirit of truth is the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity. In the work of creation and the salvation of humanity, there is always the presence of the Triune God: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The era of creation by God the Father was perfect in its own way. The era of salvation by Jesus Christ was also perfect in its own way. And the era of the Holy Spirit is currently active in its own way. But all Three Persons of the Trinity are always united. And the work of human salvation will be perfectly completed  when God comes for the second time. This is the era in which the person of the Holy Spirit works most clearly. The Holy Spirit Himself will bear witness and glorify the Second Person of the Trinity, the Son of God who came down to earth as man, died, and rose again. The Holy Spirit comes to enlighten, guide, reveal to humanity, and to remind them of the teachings of Jesus Christ: that He died only once, and He lives forever with humanity. The Holy Spirit will help people remember, or make the very life of Jesus Christ present again. Jesus Christ is always right beside them, accompanying them in every word, thought, and deed, thanks to the strength and power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is always living and working beside each person in every prayer, in the liturgy of the Mass, the Eucharist, in supplication, and in the Word of God read from the Holy Scriptures. The Holy Spirit has been active since the time of the Apostles, and the promise of Jesus Christ before His ascension has become a reality. The Holy Spirit is active within the Church, within the soul, and within the life of every person. He works gradually. He reveals the words of Jesus Christ, and little by little, He lets humanity know about the words and deeds of Jesus Christ toward them. From ancient times to the present, the Holy Spirit has always been active. At the House of God the Father, the sign of the Holy Spirit's activity is that He uses angel Thien Thuong to write the Word of God the Father, to remind everyone of the things Jesus Christ taught, and to help humanity live closer to God, making them always know how to run to God to eat, dwell, live, and pray with Him. It is the Holy Spirit who is at work in the House of God the Father, and among the people chosen by God in this age of the Holy Spirit That is the sign showing the power and strength of the Holy Spirit manifesting at the House of God the Father and upon those whom God has chosen. Thanks be to God. Amen.

TUESDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER Gospel (John 16:5-11) Jesus said to his disciples: "Now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts. But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation: sin, because they do not believe in me;  righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned." The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, Today's Word of God reveals to humanity that Jesus always loves His disciples. He always stands by, accompanies, and teaches His disciples to prepare them for their mission in the world. Before Jesus Christ returned to God the Father, He confided to His disciples, His beloved children: “It is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you.” He prepared everything for His beloved children to battle against Satan. He would depart, but that does not mean He would cease to act. He remains the Living God, always present and working with humanity. To know and remember that Jesus is the Living God, humanity needs the strength and the spirit of the Holy Spirit to enlighten and guide them. Today’s era is the one in which the Holy Spirit is at work. The Holy Spirit will help humanity remember all that Jesus Christ has taught and help people live according to God's commandments. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth who comes to convict the world, bearing witness to the truth that the Living God is always with humanity. The power of the Holy Spirit will spread to all righteous souls. The holiness of God will dwell in the hearts of those who receive the Holy Spirit to bear fruit, which is: peace, charity, joy, courage, kindness, compassion, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The Holy Spirit is always at work and dwells in the heart of every person to teach and guide them to abandon the path of sin and return to God the Father. The strength and power of the Holy Spirit are active and dwelling at the house of God the Father in Bao Loc. God uses His power manifested through the Angel Thien Thuong to write down the Word of God the Father, teaching and helping all humanity to know how to live in a way that pleases God, and to help them remember the law that God has commanded humanity to live by: to live in love as God loves humanity. Thanks be to God. Amen.

MONDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER Gospel (John 15:26-16:4a) Jesus said to his disciples:  "When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. "I have told you this so that you may not fall away. They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God. They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me. I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you." The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, Today's Word of God reveals to humanity that Jesus always loves all His disciples. He taught and told His disciples carefully that the Father would send the Spirit of Truth to accompany and protect them. The Spirit of Truth will come to bear witness to the truth that the words of Jesus Christ come from God the Father. And the Spirit of Truth will always be with the disciples, so that they may live and act according to what Jesus taught: to believe in Jesus Christ, who died and rose again to save humanity. The very lives of the disciples will serve as the most authentic testimony: through a way of life marked by love, forgiveness, humility, self-abasement, and absolute faith and trust in the one God, who is the God of love. When they live according to what Jesus taught, His disciples must go forth to bear witness to God, spreading that testimony to others to help save their souls, guiding them away the path of sin and back to God. When the disciples proclaim and bear witness to Christ, the Holy Spirit is always with them and works through them. It is the power of the Holy Spirit that will support, shelter, and protect the disciples from the temptation and the power of Satan. For when one bears witness to God, Satan will not leave them in peace. They will seek to expel the disciples from the synagogues, persecute, manipulate, kill, and torment them, so that they may no longer spread the saving love of God to humanity. Those who persecute the disciples are themselves being deceived by Satan, thinking they are carrying out the righteous path of God. Today, God the Father is calling those He has chosen for His work: - to live according to what He has taught and go forth to bear witness to Him. He promises that He will always grant the strength and the spirit of the Holy Spirit to be with and work within those who go out to preach and bear witness to Him. - He also tells His children carefully in advance: “When you live according to what God teaches and go forth to bear witness to God, you will also be persecuted, condemned, and rejected, just like the apostles of old.” He teaches and tells them carefully in advance, “so that when it happens, you may have peace; and you should rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” - to live in love as God loves, to bear witness to God, and to spread the saving love of God to people to save their souls; this is what God desires and calls His disciples to do. Thanks be to God. Amen.

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - YEAR A Gospel (John 14:15-21) Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.” The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone. Dear People of God, In today's Word of God, the Lord reveals the power of the Holy Spirit to all humanity. Before Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, He still loved humanity and wanted to continue accompanying and being with mankind, so He promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to all humanity. Anyone who believes in God will always have the power of the Holy Spirit with them. It is through the Holy Spirit working within those who believe in God that all their thoughts, words, actions, and deeds become pleasing to God the Father; and when they ask for the Holy Spirit to guide and work within them, their prayers will be answered by God. Like the image of the apostles in the past, when they laid their hands and prayed over others, they were granted grace by the Holy Spirit. In today's world, if humanity does not have the Holy Spirit working and guiding them, they will only live in worldly passion and sin. Therefore, let humanity give thanks to God the Father for sending the Holy Spirit to work within us. Today's Word of God also introduces humanity to the power of the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In God's work of salvation, from beginning to completion, the Holy Trinity always works together in perfect unity. It is through the power of the Holy Trinity that sinful people will be transformed and know how to return to God the Father. God the Father also invites humanity to glorify His holy name in the name of the Holy Trinity. Never forget to worship the Holy Trinity, the only One who saves humanity. God lets humanity know that without the work of the Holy Spirit, humanity will not be resurrected with God the Father. For in God's work of salvation in this present age, God promises to send the Holy Spirit to work upon those who believe absolutely in God the Father and believe in the words proclaimed by Jesus Christ: He will send the Holy Spirit to work and remain with humanity. But the world does not believe in the Holy Spirit working within humanity. Therefore, Satan attacks and tempts humanity not to follow the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Today, God the Father invites humanity to open their hearts to receive the work of the Holy Spirit, so that humanity may fulfill the commandment taught by God the Father, which is: to worship and love God the Father above all things and to love your neighbor as yourself. It is through the power of the Holy Spirit that humanity will be able to do what God the Father desires. Especially for those who are walking in the work of God the Father in this new era, He invites them to: - Listen to the word of God the Father and put it into practice. - Open their hearts to receive the work of the Holy Spirit; only then will they have the strength to fight against Satan, have the power of the Holy Spirit working within them to lay hands and heal the sick, and have the strength to call people to abandon the path of sin and return to God the Father. As in the early days, the apostles were granted the power of the Holy Spirit, and they were able to save many souls for God the Father. God the Father further invites humanity in this present age: - Believe absolutely that this is the work of God the Father with the activity of the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. - Receive the power from the Holy Trinity, so that the power of the Holy Trinity may work within the very people whom God the Father chooses and uses as effective instruments in the work of God the Father. - For those who come to God, listen to His Word, and put it into practice, the power of the Holy Spirit will work within their very souls, helping them to please God the Father in all their deeds. Thanks be to God. Amen.

SATURDAY FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER Gospel (John 15:18-21) Jesus said to his disciples:  "If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you, 'No slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me."   The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, In today's Word of God, the Lord calls upon all His children to look to the example of Jesus Christ, who sacrificed Himself, died, and rose again to save all humanity. God lets His children of light know that when He came into the world as man to bring salvation and to show His love for humanity, He was condemned, hated, and rejected by the world. He did nothing wrong, so why was He condemned, rejected, and put to death? This was due to the envy and hatred of Satan and the world. They do not want God to love humanity, and they do not want people to have eternal life with God the Father. Therefore, they seek every way to reject and kill; but the love of God always triumphs over death, and always overcomes the hatred, envy, and jealousy of Satan and the world. This is what God the Father teaches humanity: - Those who follow the light of God the Father will also have to suffer, be condemned, and be rejected by the world. This is what God the Father teaches humanity beforehand, so that when encountering difficulties and trials, one should trust absolutely and remain faithful to God the Father. - Look to the example of Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, who died hanging on the cross, so that from there, people may courageously walk the path of light and truth to come to God the Father. - God the Father is the only Teacher; all who listen to and carry out His teachings will overcome temptation and defeat the attacks of Satan. - Let love overcome hatred, and let love shatter death. Carry out the commandment of love to which God invites humanity: to love God above all things and to love your neighbor as yourself. Only by living in this way can one overcome the world and conquer death. God the Father also invites His children to be courageous and steadfast in walking in the work of God the Father, remaining faithful, obedient, and following His holy will, so that you may be saved by God the Father and granted eternal life, and through this, Satan will be forced to retreat. He also calls upon all who are walking in the work of God the Father in this new era: listen to the teachings of God the Father and put them into practice, rather than just listening and ignoring them. For the Word of God always has the power to help people escape difficulties, trials, and the persecution that the world seeks to impose through rejection and condemnation. Thanks be to God. Amen.

FRIDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER Gospel (John 15:12-17) Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another.” The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, In today's Word of God, God the Father reveals to humanity that before Jesus went to His death, He instructed His disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you, and remain in my love.” Jesus taught His disciples the necessity of maintaining a close, fraternal relationship with one another. He desired the best for His disciples, so He advised them: “Love one another”; for only love brings life, joy, and happiness to humanity. Whoever remains in God's love, He will reveal to them what He does, and whatever they ask, He will grant them. The promises of Jesus Christ are always the truth, and He never breaks His word. Jesus said: “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit.” Thus, everyone’s vocation is ordained by God. God sees what is good for each individual and entrusts them with that mission, but the most important thing God desires is that everyone to live by is: “Love.” Only by living in love can we bear much fruit; and to bear much fruit, we must sacrifice ourselves, know how to give, and know how to prune away unnecessary things- only then can we bear much fruit as God calls us to do. God calls everyone to live and act according to His teachings: to live in love and remain in God's love by spreading that love to others. Only the sign of love is pleasing to God and proves that it comes from Him. If there is no love, then it does not come from God. Those chosen by God should live by demonstrating the signs of love, forgiveness, humility, littleness, and simplicity before God. In this way, by that sign, people will recognize that these are truly the disciples of God, those whom God has chosen. However, if we do not live according to God's teachings, if we harbor envy, jealousy, hatred, anger, resentment, and mutual criticism of one another, then those things come from Satan; Satan will fail to show the sign of God's love and will not bear the fruit of bringing souls back to God. Love always requires sacrifice and self-denial, but it will bring forth many fruits of happiness. Just as Jesus Christ offered Himself for humanity to save souls, these are the good fruits that Jesus offered back to God the Father. He now also calls upon His disciples to do the same: to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others, to save souls and offer them to God the Father. Remain in God's love, and He will grant us all things and reveal His works to us. There is no greater happiness than having God dwell within our hearts. Thanks be to God. Amen.

THURSDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER Gospel (John 15:9-11) Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. “I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, In today's Word of God, Jesus speaks to His disciples and to all His children: “Keep My commandments. Love and remain in My love, just as I have remained in the love of God the Father, and I have kept the commandments of God the Father.” He invites all His children to live in a Father-child relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ. How blessed it is for humanity to be able to call God 'Father'! A powerful Father full of kindness, full of mercy, and full of love for all His children. God does not want to lose any child to the hands of Satan. The merciful Father always wants His children to be happy with God the Father. If the Father is happy, then the children must also be happy with God the Father. If a child suffers, God the Father is also heartbroken. Because of His love for His children, He cares for them every single moment. He has taught us through His Word to bring light and guide His children on their path. He earnestly invites all His children to walk on the path of the Lord, which is to follow His teachings, to live out the commandments that Jesus Christ taught when He humbled Himself to take on human form to accompany humanity and dwell with us. There is no love greater than the love of God. Everyone is a child of God; let us return to living by the word “love” to receive complete joy, happiness, and eternal peace with God the Father. Thanks be to God. Amen.