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The disciples’ care-filled service to others is to be the medium through which Jesus extends his ministry to the world. The disciples’ mission is also ours.
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JN 14:1-12
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.
The words of Psalm 67 pray that God’s salvation may be known among all the nations of the earth–that all the ends of the earth might praise Him and obey Him.
At the beginning of the 19th century, New York City was a prosperous urban development. With a population of some 60,000 at the time, it served as a primary center for trade.
If you want to know who and what Jesus is you have to belong to his flock. If you follow Jesus and accept his shepherding he will lead you into eternal life.
Jesus loves his flock and wants to bring us to an abundance of life. We can’t be what we are meant to be with any other guide but him.
On the Sundays of Easter the liturgy offers instruction for the newly baptized. The chosen scriptures suggest how a community rooted in Christ witnesses to the world.
Mary’s life, like that of her son, will be a living out of her own canticle.
One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem. You are always the locus of conversion and transformation. It is always about you first of all—always. You can even use that as a good litmus test for authentic spirituality. Is it keeping you listening for God? Is it keeping your own feet to the fire? Then it is probably healthy teaching. Is it leading you to suspicion, paranoia, accusation, and blaming? Then it is from the “Accuser,” which is a quite significant New Testament name for Satan (Revelation 12:10).
God makes grace out of our grit, salvation out of our sin. We are saved, ironically, not by doing it right as much as by the suffering of having done it wrong. We come to God not through our perfection (thank God!) as much as through our imperfection. Finally, all must be forgiven and reconciled. Life does not have to be fixed, controlled, or even understood for us to be happy. That is good news! In fact, what else would it be? The gospel is a new “logic” that “The Fool on the Hill,” as in the Lennon and McCartney song, brought to the world.
