Fifth Sunday of Easter – Year C

May 18, 2025

Gospel Lectionary Text

John 13:31-35
13:31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

13:32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.

13:33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'

13:34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Context

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Question

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Reflections

Two Letters

By Lina Thompson | May 17, 2019

How are we to live our everyday lives in light of the Risen one? What difference does it make? What changes? What is new? Two letters. That’s it. In all the words that Jesus spoke to his disciples, its my favorite. It’s a small word, but it is everything

By Kris Rocke | April 22, 2016

The poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, “That only which we have within, can we see without.” If we see hope, love and beauty “out there” it’s because we have those same gifts at play “in here.” If we see the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven it’s because it’s rising up in our souls. If…

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Understanding the Bible anew through the Mimetic Theory of René Girard.

Poetry

Love Is Not Concerned
by Alice Walker

love is not concerned
with whom you pray
or where you slept
the night you ran away
from home
love is concerned
that the beating of your heart
should kill no one

Prayer

This week, the call to prayer comes from the Street Psalms Centering 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

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