Apr-11 Liturgical Study for Second Sunday of Easter

 

Second Sunday of Easter

Acts 4:32-35

Who is my neighbor? This passage is to challenge us, to shake us and poke us when we have become too unquestioning and comfortable about our own way of living our faith. Do we even stop to think that people are not created to serve the economy but rather the economy should serve the people.



Psalm 118

The cornerstone is sometimes translated to mean the capstone which is the very center stone at the top of an arch; it is truly what holds all the other pieces together. Without it, the arch would definitely fall. And so it is with us. Jesus is so crucial for our lives today. Without Him we would surely fall.


John 5:1-6

This is a pastoral letter to churches in conflict––written to address the conflict of some who denied the Incarnation and the deity of Jesus and to prevent its spread. They could not accept that Jesus (the man) is the Christ (the messiah, the spiritual entity). They could accept that Jesus (the man) was “born of God the Father.” . In Greek Tikto is the word for giving birth by the mother, while Gennao is the word for begetting by the father.


Gospel John 20:19-31

Receive the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit acts in our lives powerfully through the sacraments of the Church, through the preaching and teaching of the Church’s ministers, and through our own prayer and reflection on the Scriptures. If we are ready to find the Holy Spirit in these channels that Christ has established, he will readily fill our lives with the extraordinary fruits of his action.


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