Tag: Book of I John
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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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Fifth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Epistle Passage – A precedent of juxtapositions of love
“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.” (I John 4:7 – 8) I can rarely read this verse without remembering the little refrain I learned in youth group. It…
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Fourth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Epistles Passage – “Building up” our love & compassion
“We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us–and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?” (I John 3:16 – 17) There is a…
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Third Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Epistle Passage – The expectation of belonging to & being in relationship with the Divine
“See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” (I John 3:1) On one level I agree with this. If our upbringing is not known, it is…
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Second Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023: Epilogue with gentle instruction – Epistle Passage
“We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life– this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life…
A Simple Desire 