
Sharing the Word for May 9, 2020
Jesus is leading his followers into the deepest truths about God. Step by step he is making them aware of the intimate life of God, and inviting them to share it.
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Jesus is leading his followers into the deepest truths about God. Step by step he is making them aware of the intimate life of God, and inviting them to share it.

The Kingdom of God is not a place for us to reach. It’s a person. It’s Jesus who offers himself to each of us every day. He is our happiness.

We’re living in a time when the far right and the far left in almost every institution are using the eccentricities and evils of the other end to justify their own extremes.

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.