Scripture Reflections for the Third Sunday of Easter
Year C, Lectionary 48
As disciples of Christ we must first and foremost follow Jesus. Wherever God sends us we're meant to spread Jesus to the world. We are given a responsibility of tending to his flock and never obeying man over God's will. Let us always be attentive to wherever God leads us.
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“every time we think, speak or act, the King of Kings is present and to him alone will we give account”
“So what the book of Revelation does is it...takes what we learn about in the gospel accounts of the resurrection and helps us to see the heavenly result of it, namely Christ seated as king over the universe”
“Peter may have failed at the time of Jesus’ passion but faithful to the Good Shepherd, whose successor he became, Peter glorified God by laying down his life for the flock that Jesus had entrusted to him”
“Who is Jesus to you? Not just in your head but in your heart, not just in theory or theology but in your everyday life, and how will you tend to the sheep?”
“It appears that God's love is always properly recognized when it's shared through the exercising of our gifts, offered for the good of others”
“nothing is beyond God's ability if we live in that same love”
“Peter must be reminded of his need for Christ's mercy in order to be a conduit of it. Teaching Peter that to love is to forgive is our Lord's last blueprint entrusted to a church who is asked to spill divine mercy over a world in desperate need of it.”
“Where can we as Church heed Jesus’ invitation to cast our nets differently when our present practices aren’t working? Where can we joyfully, boldly rush out to meet Jesus on the shore?”
“What does Christ-like leadership look like? Well, it looks like martyrdom. It looks like execution”
“if you're still moving with your own strength, your own stuff, your own what you got and have not given over to Christ, you'll continue to catch nothing”
“Jesus is beyond our failures. He knows what is beneath our denial just like he saw the potential hidden in Peter's weakness. What you are experiencing is either a blessing or a lesson.”
“You and I are always tempted to push away the child, or the friend, or the coworker who's asking for our time. We want to favor the task...Jesus asks us to put people first because that big wide world out there could still use a rescue, one precious person at a time.”
“Sometimes, church, Jesus' assignment to you may not make sense but do it anyway because God is calling you to do something brand new in a new way even if you've been doing it all your lives”
“What is your charcoal fire? You go back to that charcoal fire, you'll find Jesus there and you profess your own faith at that charcoal fire and you see if Jesus doesn't tell you to 'go and feed my sheep'”
“Since Christ is risen what difference is it making in your life?”
“it's only on focusing, in focusing on God that we can be who God calls us to be”
