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Fifth Sunday of Easter A
May 14, 2017

Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

The Way

God’s love has been incarnated. It can never leave us, not really, not even to go to some far-away, roomy house. God is in Jesus and Jesus is in the world and he sends his Spirit to show us The Way.

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser

Where to Find Resurrection

Resurrection always eventually trumps crucifixion. What’s good eventually triumphs. Thus, while nothing that’s of God will avoid crucifixion, no body of Christ stays in the tomb for long.

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Being Small and Being Great in the Service of the Lord

Stephen didn’t complain that the job was beneath his talents and abilities. He didn’t insist on being given a role in the great work of the Apostles. He just took the small job he had been offered, and he served the Lord whole-heartedly in it.

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

Mission to Proclaim

Jesus is the way, the path to eternal life with the Father: “no one comes to the Father but through me.” To try another way is to ensure failure. Jesus is the truth, the word of God. To seek the truth elsewhere is to “stumble and fall,” to deal in falsehood and lie.

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Love Incarnate

How would a “royal priesthood or a holy nation” treat sick people, or migrants fleeing oppressors, or prisoners awaiting execution from bad drugs, or homeless people, and those who can’t find jobs?

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A Poem to Sit With

J. Janda

well then
you will never
know me

all that I
do
is to show
my
love for you.

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