Tag: Gospel Passage
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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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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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Fifth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Gospel Passage – A metaphor of growing in love, and the consequences of withering away
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.” (John 15:1 – 2) I am taken by the image that we, the branches, are in the Messiah. That we, as…
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Fourth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Gospel Passage – Exercising love & compassion
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” (John 10:11) From what I have learned and understood of Jewish society at that time, shepherds were not held in high esteem. The stayed long days and weeks with the sheep, and did not have opportunities to bath. Probably less…
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Third Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Gospel Passage – The expectations & understanding of what it means to be in relationship with the Divine
“While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” (Luke 24:36b) This passage comes right after one of my favorite post-Easter stories about the two travelers on the road to Emmaus, where Jesus met them on the road and traveled with them explaining the passages…
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Second Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023: Epilogue with peaceful instruction, & the bestowing of the Holy Presence – Gospel Passage
“When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” (John 20:19) The writer of the gospel of John makes it clear…
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Concluding Holy Week – Easter, Year B 2023: The Wait is Over!
“On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.” (Isaiah 25:6) On this day the Lord of Hosts will announce liberty for the imprisoned, sight for the blind, and healing for…
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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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