I am True Vine. John 15: 1-8 Fifth Sunday Easter. Vine & Branches Pruning God + Jesus=Fruitful Life

I am True Vine, says Jesus in John 15: 1-8 on Fifth Sunday of Easter Gospel reading. The Vine & Branches are We abide in Jesus. Pruning by God+ commit with Jesus gives Fruitful Life. Prayer to Pruning God: Dear Father, who art in heaven, we thank you and praise you for the gift of this day. Lord, thank you for all that you have blessed us with. Help us to make this life fruitful. Thank You that You tend our life with such care and concern. Prune us and take away anything that you discover in us that does not glorify Your holy name. We are thankful that we are united with our heavenly Vine, the lovely Lord Jesus Christ. May His grace flow through us. So that we may live and move and grow and bear fruit and better life as we abide more and more in Him. We ask this in Jesus' name, Amen. John 15: 1-8 Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.” 0:00 Indian Catholic Ministry 0:05 John 15: 1-8 I am True Vine 0:23 Surrender to Jesus 0:50 Pruning God 1:30 Process of God's Pruning 2:00 Power of Pruning God 3:00 Prayer to Pruning God 3:42 Thanks Indian Catholic Ministry Images: Canva & Pixabay