Living Branches

04-29-2018Weekly Reflection

The Gospel and second reading for this Fifth Sunday of Easter emphasize the need for us to remain in Christ, and he in us. This shared life finds expression in the image of the one vine and many branches.

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Saved By the One Who was Rejected

04-22-2018Weekly Reflection

Some city teenagers often scorn and reject farm kids. Yet it’s no exaggeration to say that humanity owes its life to farmers who care for the world’scrops and livestock. This week’s scriptures remind us that Jesus was as rejected as a shepherd, a farm boy, yet we owe our very lives to him.

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Believing in Jesus Christ

04-15-2018Weekly Reflection

Throughout the Easter season, all three of the Sunday readings are taken from the New Testament—the Christian scriptures. Together they explore what it means to believe in Jesus as the Christ, the One who fulfilled the prophecies of the Jewish scriptures.

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So That You May Believe

04-08-2018Weekly Reflection

It is not often that the author of one of the books of the Bible comes right out and tells us directly why he is writing what he is writing. In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, taken from the conclusion of John’s Gospel, the author tells us that he has chosen to record these events so “that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name” (20:31).

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Proclaim the Risen Christ

04-01-2018Weekly Reflection

On Easter morning everything—the spring weather, the flowers, birds, and butterflies, the people around us in their finery, the beautiful liturgyand music—everything seems to bear witness that Jesus Christ is risen today! Like the eyewitness accounts in today’s scriptures, the glorious and joyfullife all around us helps us to believe the good news of the Resurrection and sing “Alleluia!”

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