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Study of the Readings

Joyce Ann Zimmerman, ed.

• Words, Phrases
• To the point

Ascension

7th Sunday of Easter

The Word Embodied

John Kavanaugh, S. J.

...Robert Funk, who started the Jesus Seminar and has taught at the academic shrines of Texas, Harvard, and Emory, wants to “set Jesus free,” he says, from scripture and creed...

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

Jesus ends his farewell address with two prayers. The first is concerned with Jesus’ immediate disciples after his death; the second looks to believers yet to come...

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Thoughts from the
Early Church


Edith Barnecut, O.S.B., ed.

Commentary: Gregory of Nyssa

Ascension


Commentary: Cyril of Alexandria

7th Sunday of Easter

Preparing for Sunday

Larry
Gillick, S. J.


This is the Sunday after Ascension Thursday and the Sunday before Pentecost. We prepare for celebrating the Eucharist by the way we live our previous Holy Exchange....

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

An analysis of the readings for this Sunday.

Ascension

7th Sunday of Easter