Sunday

26 May 2019

Sixth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C Click here for all content for this cycle Sixth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C

SUNDAY SUMMARY

Acts of the Apostles 15:1-2, 22-29  Trouble over circumcision is resolved by the council of Jerusalem.

Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8  God rules and guides the nations of the earth.

Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23  In the new Jerusalem, the glory of God supplants religion itself.

John 14:23-29  There is no obedience without love, and no peace but from the Lord.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

In a way, this weekend’s readings speak of the ideal and the real. Conflict hits the community in Acts, and responsible persons step forward to try to resolve it. Revelation describes a place of faith, the new Jerusalem. And Jesus says he must go, and warns of trouble, but also promises help and ultimate peace.

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Exploring the word

Trouble in paradise

"Let not your hearts be troubled,” Jesus said in the familiar translation of today’s gospel. This is not the easiest of his teachings to follow, not by a long stretch. Our hearts are routinely troubled for lots of very good reasons.

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In other words

The Sunday gospel in everyday English

Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”

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Homily stories

A moving gift

David and I married on a Saturday in August and on the following Monday, we packed all of our earthly possessions in a U-Haul, and left the Midwest for a new life that awaited us in Boston. We left behind every family member and friend that we had except for each other.

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Homily stories

What’s heaven like?

What’s your image of heaven? Years ago, the editors of U.S. Catholic magazine conducted a survey of their readers’ notions of heaven. Many respondents pictured heaven as a rural setting such as a walled garden, a mountaintop cabin, or a haven in the woods.

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Homily stories

The laugh’s on us

My sister’s friend Natalie was the richest girl in our town, mainly because most of her father’s property was owned by trusts in her name. She and her mother even had streets named after them, Rose Avenue and Natalie Lane.

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Homily stories

Faith is a family feast

At our house, Sunday lunch was pasta. It always had been and I guess that I always expected that it would be. When I left home and went off to college, after the Sunday community Mass, the entire seminary population would gather in the dining hall for a big banquet meal.

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

As our Easter celebration of new life continues, we look to God’s mercy and ask for God’s pardon.

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Quotes

You are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

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