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Sixth week of Easter “You will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy”                     John 16:16-20 The life of the follower of Jesus is exposed to the various circumstances of anyone’s life. And in anyone’s life there are joys and sorrows. This human experience explains very well the words of Jesus in today’s […]

Sixth week of Easter “Spirit of TRUTH!” Jn. 16 The full Truth that is arrived at is a gift of the Paraclete, the Spirit of Truth. It is a gift that enables disciples and those who believe in Jesus to have a profound understanding of what has happened in Jesus and, therefore, presupposes faith. There

Sixth week of Easter “If I don’t go, the Paraclete won’t come to you.” Jn. 16:5-11 Sometimes, when the leader of a group leaves, disappears, the members of the group are disoriented, they do not know what to do. They lack the word that told them where to walk, where to go, that showed them

Sixth week of Easter “The Spirit of truth will bear witness of me”. Jn. 15:26-16:4a. We are already in the sixth week of the Easter Season, which began yesterday, Sunday. Today we continue with Jesus’ teaching to his disciples about their relationship with the world (He does not refer to creation but to the world

Fifth Week of Easter “This is my commandment: love one another.” Jn. 15:12. Saint. Augustine said, “Love and then do what you will…for he who truly loves God will do only what pleases Him and will avoid all that He dislikes.” Today’s Gospel reminds us that the most important thing that Jesus came to teach

Fifth Week of Easter “Tell the wonders of the Lord!” Ps. 95. Today the liturgy brings us Psalm 95. The Psalm begins with a festive invitation to praise God, an invitation that immediately opens up to a universal perspective: “Sing to the Lord, all the earth”. This universal openness on the part of a small

Fifth Week of Easter “Abide in me, as I abide in you.” Jn. 15:6. Jesus offers us an example of the degree of the bond that He establishes with us, making us sharers in his life: the vine and the branches. This is a participation that is neither “automatic” nor passive. It puts our freedom

Fifth Week of Easter “My peace I give to you.” Jn. 14:27. From the beginning of this chapter of John, Jesus has not stopped giving great promises to his disciples. And today He promises them something that the world desperately seeks: peace. Peace was a longing of the Jews since they had lived for years

Fifth Week of Easter “He who receives my commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves me.”  Jn. 14:21-26 In today’s Gospel, as in the whole of chapter 14 of the Gospel according to John, the theme of Love is the background melody. It is about love (companionship, friendship, service, commitment) of Jesus