Skip to Content
  • One Mission, Four Continents
  • Follow us
    Click here to setup your social networks
    Click here to setup your social networks
    Click here to setup your social networks
    Click here to setup your social networks
    Click here to setup your social networks
Bethlehem Mission Society
  • Sign in
  • About Us
    • Brief Portrait
    • General Council
    • History
    • Founder
    • Spirituality
    • Mission
  • Our Houses
    • Immensee Switzerland
    • Torry Switzerland
    • Harare Zimbabwe
    • Driefontein Zimbabwe
    • Taitung Taiwan
    • Popayán Colombia
  • Word of God
  • Blog
  • SMB Formation
    • Formation Journey
    • Apply Now
  • Discover the Bible
  • Publications
  • Donation
  • Contact Us
Bethlehem Mission Society
      • About Us
        • Brief Portrait
        • General Council
        • History
        • Founder
        • Spirituality
        • Mission
      • Our Houses
        • Immensee Switzerland
        • Torry Switzerland
        • Harare Zimbabwe
        • Driefontein Zimbabwe
        • Taitung Taiwan
        • Popayán Colombia
      • Word of God
      • Blog
      • SMB Formation
        • Formation Journey
        • Apply Now
      • Discover the Bible
      • Publications
      • Donation
    • One Mission, Four Continents
    • Follow us
      Click here to setup your social networks
      Click here to setup your social networks
      Click here to setup your social networks
      Click here to setup your social networks
      Click here to setup your social networks
    • Sign in
    • Contact Us
    • Blogs:
    • All
    • The SMB Blog
    • Word of God
    Word of God
    • All
    • The SMB Blog
    • Word of God
    32 Articles
    Bible ×
    Sent and Consecrated: The Prayer That Holds the Mission
    The seventh week of Easter continues to read the great Johannine prayer of Jesus alongside Paul's farewell to the elders of Ephesus. Today both texts turn to the same hinge: those entrusted are also t...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 19, 2026
    The Glory Asked, the Life Given
    Two farewells anchor the seventh week of Easter today: Jesus lifting his eyes to the Father at the end of the Last Supper, and Paul, years later, taking leave of the elders of Ephesus on the beach at ...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 18, 2026
    The Peace That Precedes the Scattering
    The seventh week of Easter holds the Church in the threshold between Ascension and Pentecost. The liturgy reads the closing of Jesus's farewell discourse and the founding of the Ephesian community by ...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 17, 2026
    A Way Made More Accurate, a Heart Made More Free
    In This Saturday before Pentecost gives us two scenes of teachers being taught. In Ephesus, the eloquent Apollos is taken quietly aside by Priscilla and Aquila and shown the Way of God "more accuratel...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 16, 2026
    I Have Many People in This City
    The Friday after the Ascension finds us in two cities at once. In Corinth, Paul receives a vision in the night that gently overturns his fear. In the Upper Room, Jesus draws on the most familiar of hu...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 14, 2026
    Why Do You Stand Looking Up?
    The Solemnity of the Ascension does not mark the day Christ leaves us. It marks the day his presence stops being limited to one place. The disciples gaze into the sky; two angelic figures gently turn ...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 14, 2026
    What You Worship Without Knowing
    This Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter brings us to the great hinge of Christian witness: how to speak of God to those who do not yet know him. Paul finds an altar in Athens; Jesus promises a Spir...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 12, 2026
    The Defender Who Comes Through Closed Doors
    The sixth week of Easter places before us a paradox: it is good that Jesus goes away. In the Upper Room he says it plainly. In Philippi we see what kind of strength that promise grows — Paul and Silas...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 11, 2026
    Hearts Opened by the Spirit
    On this Monday of the sixth week of Easter, the Word of God draws us into the quiet mechanics of mission: a heart opened to receive, a heart sustained to give. Two sides of the same grace, both from t...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 10, 2026
    I Will Not Leave You Orphans
    On this sixth Sunday of Easter, Jesus speaks one of the most tender lines in all of his Farewell Discourse — a sentence so simple it can almost slip past us: "I will not leave you orphans." The whole ...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 9, 2026
    Living stones on the Way
    On this fifth Sunday of Easter, the liturgy weaves together three readings that say, with three different voices, the same astonishing thing about us. The Acts of the Apostles tells of a young communi...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 2, 2026
    Whoever has seen me has seen the Father
    On this Saturday of the fourth week of Easter, the Church celebrates Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, bishop and Doctor of the Church. The pairing of readings could not be more fitting for him. In the ...
    Bible Spirituality
    May 1, 2026
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    WORD OF GOD & THE SMB BLOG

    Each day of the year, this blog offers a short meditation on the Gospel of the day, read in the light of Bethlehem spirituality.

    Stories, reflections and testimonies from the SMB and its MISAL partner societies — historical portraits, biblical and missionary spirituality, news from the houses of mission across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

    Archives
    Tags
    Theme
    Bible News Spirituality

    Our Series


    Learn more


    Learn more


    Learn more


    Learn more


    Learn more


    Learn more

    SMB - Bethlehem Mission Society
    Home Privacy Policy Cookie PolicyContact us
    Follow us
    Copyright © SMB - Bethlehem Mission Society
    Powered by Odoo - Create a free website
    SMB - Bethlehem Mission Society

    Respecting your privacy is our priority.

    Allow the use of cookies from this website on this browser? 

    We use cookies to improve your experience on this website. You can learn more about our cookies and how we use them in our Cookie Policy.

    Allow all cookies
    Allow only essential cookies