Category: Sundays After Easter 2024
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Seventh Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Preacher & Seeker take time to think with the psalmist
Preacher: “Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; . . . “ Seeker: “ . . . but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law they meditate day and night.”…
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Seventh Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Gospel Passage – The prayer & devotion of Jesus to the apostles, and to us
“I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them,…
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Ascension of the Lord, Year B 2023 – 24: Substituted Acts , Psalm, Gospel Passages; Looking up to see into the future with hope and faith
“In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.” (Acts 1:1 – 2) I like the idea of the gospel of Luke being…
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Seventh Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Epistle Passage – The adamance of the “testimony” & the apostles
“If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in…
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Seventh Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Substituted Acts Passage – Remembering Judas, then moving forward
“In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said, “Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus — for he was numbered among us and was allotted…
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Sixth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Jesus talking to us, the contemporary believers, through the psalmist
Seeker: “O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.” I have a feeling though, the victory was one that the psalmist wanted. This seems to be a pattern of the psalmist. Praising the Lord for victories that the…
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Sixth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Gospel Passage – Jesus talking to the disciples (and us) in a new way
“As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.” (John 15:9) What does it mean to abide in the Divine’s love? Realizing that at point in history we are reading this. Jesus Christ and the One who sent Him are one and the same. First, we have to understand…
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Sixth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Epistle Passage – Faith & Belief applied in a “new” way
“Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.” (I John 5:1) This opening verse has an aspect of “who is who” to it that defines the rest of the passage. I will say, to the translators and the paraphrasers of this…
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Sixth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Substituted Acts Passage – Faith Stories told in new ways
“While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word.” (Acts 10:44) Peter and a tarp of unclean food. Cornelius and a person in dazzling clothes. Faith that the Lord God had ordained this meeting. I am not sure which one of them needed this the most. Your first guess,…
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Fifth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Preacher & Seeker consider the psalmist’s beliefs in his Lord God, and the serenity it brings
Preacher: One may not be able to tell from where the RCL picks up this psalm, but the psalmist is frightened and has asked the Divine from protection. But he is also certain that protection will come, and so he feels emboldened to praise his God. “From you comes my praise in the great congregation;…
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