Hey, everybody. This is Father John Ricardo with Acts 29. And in the middle of all the craziness

and the uncertainty that's going on right now, it seems from our perspective as a team that it's

worth using these days to reflect in a more deliberate way on the scriptures every day, which

for many of us now is the only spiritual food that we're receiving. And so we're going to do a special podcast series simply entitled,

Be Not Afraid God's Word in Uncertain Times.

And we'll try to post something every day, usually reflecting on the scriptures,

so that we can listen in on what God is trying to say to us in these days.

In today's gospel, Jesus tells us the most encouraging news that he came down from heaven not

to do his own will, but the will of the one who sent me, that is to say, his father.

And then he goes on to tell us, lest we would be in any doubt, what the will of the Father is.

And Jesus says, it's the Father's will that he should not lose anything of what he gave me,

but that I should raise it on the last day.

For this is the will of my father that everyone who sees the son and believes in him

may have eternal life.

Today also happens by Providence to be the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, and few

people have written about or

had revealed to them by God more about God's desire that all would be saved than Catherine.

And so I thought it might be most fitting just to share some of the reflections that I've

been myself praying with this morning from St.

Catherine of Siena.

So there's a collection here of just a couple of longer quotes that I want to offer to you

for your own prayerful reflection today with specifically the encouragement that you

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