A Loving Kingdom

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.

Hate feeling lost on Sundays at church? Searching for a better explanation of the Bible than what you hear from your pastor's sermon? Check out the following collection of audio, video, and text commentaries from various Christian experts for a better understanding of today's scripture that deal with: ChurchCommandmentCommunityCovenantCreationDarknessDeathDiscipleEarthEnvironmentEvangelizeFollowGloryHeavenHistoryJudasKingdomLoveMotherNewPaulRelationshipRestorationResurrectionRevelationSacrificeSinStruggleSuffering

Acts 14:21-27
Catholic Productions

“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.”


Brant Pitre in "Apostolic Succession and Suffering in Acts 14" (November 13, 2019)
Psalm 145:8-13
John 13:31-35
Holy Name of Jesus Church & Loyola Ministry

“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”


Fr. Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ in "Loving as Christ Loves" (May 15, 2022)
Catholic Productions

“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”


Brant Pitre in "What is a Disciple?" (May 13, 2019)
U.S. Catholic magazine

“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”


Rebecca Bratten Weiss (May 06, 2022)

“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”


Fr. Emmanuel Ochigbo (May 09, 2022)
Catholic Women Preach

“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”


Mariann McCorkle (May 15, 2022)
Overall Readings
Catholic Women Preach

“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.”


Melinda Brown Donovan (May 08, 2019)