Scripture Reflections for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
Year C, Lectionary 54
Are we helping in building God's kingdom? It's not enough to preach of God's Word but we must also spread God's love too. As Jesus loves us we must also love others. In this love we bring others into God's kingdom and we help create the new heaven and the new earth.
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“So that's the authentic gospel. Preaching the Good News, making disciples, exhorting people to persevere in the object of faith, and also always having the cross as a part of the Good News.”
“So you see a new creation, number one. You see a new Jerusalem, number two. And then you also, if you look carefully here, you actually see he's also talking about a new exodus.”
“let us think about how we are called to love and that, though it may be hard work, we have that support, we have community, we have others that we can lean on, and we have our faith to guide us”
“Does everyone know you by the way you love? Is your love so uniquely different and so dramatically different than anyone else's that people know you by that love?”
“Consider in your life how you love and does it include all of creation?”
“This point is where the command to love begins, at the table of sacrifice, in the breaking of bread, in the gift of self”
“this love must involve a willingness to sacrifice everything in the spirit of love, in the name of love because that's how Christ has loved us...if we do it well it will change the face of the Earth”
“we know with the mind but we love with the heart...the deepest part of the person where a person chooses for or against God”
“Jesus's love was not essentially about depriving himself of the goods of created material existence but rather of working to get those goods to others who lack them”
“This kind of love is built not on what we can get but on what we can give. The call is to love not 'because of' but to love 'in spite of,' even those who do not wish us well”
“When you reflect this week on your own spiritual path, thank God together with me for the women in your life who have shepherded and guided you”
“Have you put Christ in the middle of your marriage? Have you put Christ in the middle of that situation that is difficult for you?...because when you do, you see, you act, and you love in a different way.”
“What does it mean to be a disciple? It means that we must love one another with all that we are because how we live into the love of Jesus is what defines us as his own.”
