Ordinary Time

Cruz-Mariaca

Daily Bread, reading 24 of 30

John 15:1-8

1 minute

I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples.

John 15:1-8 Douay-Rheims

A thought

A vine and its branches. A branch cannot make fruit alone, and the passage says so plainly. Pruning is described as care, though it does not feel that way.

A question

What in your life might need pruning so something else can grow?

Read all of John 15

That is it for today.

Sources

Scripture

  • John 15:1-8 . Douay-Rheims text copied from drbo.org checked