Mass readings for the 5th Sunday of Easter:Acts 9.26-31 Psalm 22.25b-26, 27, 29, 30-31 1 John 3. 18-24 John 15.1-8 Today’s gospel is familiar, it’s about our connection to Christ, and to each other through him; and of the expectation that this will bear fruit. It seems so lovely! A romantic image evoking a sundrenched rolling Mediterranean landscape; rows of
Mass readings for the 4th Sunday of Easter:Acts 4.1-12 Psalm 118.1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28-29 1 John 3.1-2 John 10.11-18 Today Jesus talks about sheep, and shepherds and hired hands; and says he is “the Good Shepherd.” What makes him a “good” shepherd is his willingness to lay down his life for the sheep; the “bad” shepherds, the “hired hands”
Mass readings for the 3rd Sunday of Easter:Acts 3.13-15, 17-19 Psalm 4.1, 3, 6, 8 1 John 2.1-5 Luke 24.35-48 We are faced with choices; and there’s a persistent human desire to avoid choices, to “have one’s cake and to eat it too,” to “have it both ways” even when a decision is needed and has real consequences. There is
Mass readings for the 2nd Sunday of Easter:Acts 4.32-35 Psalm 118.2-4, 16-18, 22-24 1 John 5.1-6 John 20.19-31 In the run up to Easter, there were a number of stories about Christian revival in the United Kingdom, in Europe, among notable public intellectuals around the world. And we might say, ‘hallelujah!’ but for what we find when we delve a
There was an item in the National Post recently concerning an RCMP briefing paper for the federal government. While heavily redacted – that is, censored to protect sensitive information – there was still enough to make it a depressing read. Our national police force’s analysts forecast serious civil unrest in this country in the next five years. This will arise
Our gospel today says, “He who saw this has testified so that you may also believe.” Our own St. Augustine commented, “he didn’t say, that you may also know, but that you may believe…” The passion of our Lord Jesus Christ was not read today as information; and this liturgy is not for our education. I think we all already
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