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Fifth Sunday of Lent (Cycle A)

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The Raising of Lazarus Lectionary:  34 Reading 1 -  Ezekiel 37:12-14 Responsorial Psalm -  Psalm 130:1-8 Reading 2 -  Romans 8:8-11 Verse - John 11:25a, 26 Gospel -  John 11:1-45 Lazarus, come out! LESSON: The Power of God Through Those Who Believe We’re a week away from the start of Holy Week. Our Lord now has his sights set on Jerusalem, and the pace is quickening. In these next two weeks, we’re living just one part of the Gospel passage from today: an encounter with the reality of suffering and death. Jesus is asking us to have faith in him. In today’s First Reading the prophet Ezekiel reminds us of the Lord’s promise to not only to bring us back to life but to bring us home. The background of this passage is the famous "Valley of Dry Bones." The people of Israel were in exile in Babylon. They weren't just sad; they were spiritually and nationally "dead." Their common saying was: "Our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, and we are cut off." They d...
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Sixth Sunday of Easter (Cycle C)

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Sixth Sunday of Easter Lectionary: 57 Reading 1 -  Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Responsorial Psalm -  Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 Reading 2 -  Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23 Alleluia -  John 14:23 Gospel -  John 14:23-29 During these last days of Eastertide before the Feat of the Ascension, we liturgically “re-live” the end of the forty-day period the Apostles spent with Jesus as he prepared them for his departure.  We have no direct record of Jesus’ teachings during this time, either in Acts or the Gospels.  So the Church turns to Jesus’ discourse in John during the Last Supper ... which suits very well, because in it, Jesus speaks extensively about His imminent departure and the coming of the Holy Spirit.  It is also a reminder that, as they later “remembered” what He had said, and what had been written about Him, and had been done to Him, the original inability of the disciples to understand the words and deeds of Jesus would be overcome … This “ remembering ” w...
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