Tag: Epistle Passage
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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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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…
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Holy Week – Holy Saturday, Year B 2023: Considering the wait for Jesus the Christ & Messiah
Preface: Yesterday when I was writing reflections on Good Friday, I was not feeling well. I stand by what I wrote – just know I was feeling physical pain and turmoil. Good Friday was not easy for the disciples, meaning the larger group that traveled with Jesus and ministered to him as he ministered to…
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Holy Week – Good Friday, Year B 2023: Considering . . . . . Jesus the Christ & Messiah
“See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.” (Isaiah 52:13) What follows is a description of a man who one would not consider to be exalted. Was the writer of the the book Isaiah/the prophet Isaiah talking about Jesus the Christ & Messiah (these two descriptive…
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Holy Week – Maundy Thursday, Year B 2023: Considering others before one’s self
Whether it was actually Wednesday when these events happened, or that it was really a Thursday – this is the record of events that happened that day, and how they were translated to the modern scripture. And it includes the reflections and interpretations of that day, and that meal. “For I received from the Lord…
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Holy Week – Wednesday, Year B 2023: Considering others & other things on the path
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the…
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