Tag: Nature of Jesus Christ
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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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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 – 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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Palm Sunday, Year B 2023: Psalm Passage – Celebrating Jesus’ & the Divine’s Identity during Lent
Preacher: “Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away. I am the scorn of all my adversaries,…
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Palm Sunday, Year B 2023: Gospel Passage – Confirming Jesus’ identity during Lent
I want to tell you, beloved reader, I have been freely going back and forth between the passage citations for the liturgy of the Palms & the liturgy for the Passion. Mostly the liturgy of the Passion because the Palm verses are scant in passages. Both are applicable for Palm Sunday. Just so you know.…
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Transfiguration Sunday, Year B 2023: Gospel Passage – Transformation vs Transfiguration
“Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with…
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Fifth Sunday After Epiphany, Year B 2023: Gospel Passage – The contrariness of Jesus’ desire for publicity
“As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she…
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Fourth Sunday After Epiphany, Year B 2023: Gospel Passage – Concerning the application of knowledge and authority
“They went to Capernaum; and when the Sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.” (Mark 1:21 – 22) I added a new learning and understanding, beloved reader, which is a little unusual for me. Not…
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Second Sunday After Epiphany, Year B 2023: Gospel Passage – Being called to see, and be seen
“The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph…
A Simple Desire 