Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter – Jn 16:16-20 There are two details that call our attention in today’s Gospel, in which Jesus continues His discourse with His disciples in the upper room. First, although the disciples have been listening to Jesus speak, this last line, “A little while and you will no longer […]
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Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter – Option 1 – Jn 16:12-15 In today’s Gospel Jesus continues the Last Supper discourse, telling His disciples about the Holy Spirit and His relation to Himself and to the Father. We can consider three phrases more in detail: first, Christ’s comment that the disciples cannot bear the
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Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter – Jn 16:5-11 Today’s Gospel continues the Last Supper discourse, that we’ve been hearing the past weeks, and, although the passage is short, there are a number of things that call our attention. Two such things are, first, the phrase, “For if I do not go, the Advocate
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Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter – Jn 15:26—16:4a In today’s Gospel Christ continues the Last Supper discourse, encouraging His disciples not only with the promise of the Holy Spirit, but also by forewarning them about the difficulties that are to come. For us as Catholics, and especially for religious, the passage serves both
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Sixth Sunday of Easter – Year A – Acts 8:5-8,14-17; Ps 66:1-7,16,20; 1 Pt 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 Both this week and last, we’ve heard Gospel passages taken from the Last Supper discourse. Today’s Gospel includes some difficult passages, but we can break it down and consider just some small pieces, and how they apply to
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Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Jn 15:18-21 Today’s Gospel presents us with a rather bleak warning: Jesus tells us quite clearly that the world will hate and reject us, because they do not know God the Father. Yet, we can follow the example of the saint mentioned in today’s first reading; this
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Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Jn 15:12-17 Today’s Gospel continues the Last Supper discourse, and both at the beginning and the end of the passage Christ tells His disciples that “His commandment,” the one thing that they must do, is love one another. There are two passages that warrant some consideration, and
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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Jn 15:9-11 In today’s Gospel, a whole three verses, Jesus continues with the Last Supper discourse, asking His disciples to remain in His love so that His joy might be in them, and their joy might be complete. The Greek word John uses for joy is χαρά
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Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Option 1 – Jn 15:1-8 In today’s Gospel Jesus uses the beautiful image of the true vine and His Heavenly Father as the vinedresser. We can examine that image, and consider three elements: first, the relationship the vinedresser has to the vine, second, the vinedresser’s actions, and,
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Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Jn 14:27-31a Today’s Gospel continues the readings we’ve been hearing from the Last Supper discourse, and it begins with Christ’s words and command to His Apostles, a command that all of us would do well to heed: Christ tells them “Peace I leave with you; my peace
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