Sixth Sunday of Easter – Year C
May 25, 2025
Gospel Lectionary Text
John 14:23-29
14:23 Jesus answered him, "Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
14:24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me.
14:25 "I have said these things to you while I am still with you.
14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.
14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
14:28 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
14:29 And now I have told you this before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe.
OR
John 5:1-9
5:1 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5:2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.
5:3 In these lay many invalids--blind, lame, and paralyzed.
5:5 One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"
5:7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me."
5:8 Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk."
5:9 At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath.
Context
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Question
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Reflections
Praying Eucharistically - Weekly Homily by James Alison:
Understanding the Bible anew through the Mimetic Theory of René Girard.
Poetry
Night Prayer
by Rumi
Prayer
(inhale) Christ in me
(exhale) Me in Christ
(inhale) Christ in all
(exhale) All is well
(inhale) Christ in me
(exhale) Me in Christ
(inhale) Christ in all
(exhale) All is one
(inhale) Christ in me
(exhale) Me in Christ
(inhale) Christ in all
(exhale) All is Christ
(inhale) All is Christ
(exhale) All is One
(inhale) All is well
(exhale) In Christ