Category: 7easter

  • Overcoming the World

    Overcoming the World

    JMJ✙ The Readings for 7th Monday after Easter I have overcome the world. John 16:33 JESUS SAYS HE HAS OVERCOME the world. Yet, this is before his Crucifixion, before the Agony in the Garden – just before the High Priestly prayer. How has he already overcome the world? What does this mean for us? John…

  • Jesus’ bloody feet we track

    Jesus’ bloody feet we track

    Memorial of St Charles Lwanga & Companions, Martyrs Readings for 7th Friday after Easter (C2) Acts 25:13b-21 John 21:15-19 He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.” John 21:19 OUR LORD SAYS TO St Peter, “Follow me.” It…

  • One in the Spirit, One in the Lord

    One in the Spirit, One in the Lord

    Readings for 7th Thursday after Easter (C2) Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 John 17:20-26 …so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me,…

  • The Opposite of Acedia

    The Opposite of Acedia

    Readings for 7th Wednesday after Easter (C2) Acts 20:28-38 John 17:11b-19 I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is…

  • A Trick of the Tongue

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 7th Week of Easter: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 John 17:20-26 Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; I am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”…

  • Are you a hacker?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 7th Week of Easter: Acts 20:17-27 John 17:1-11a What will happen to me there I do not know, except that in one city after another the Holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my…

  • Stick a fork in me, I’m done.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saint Charles Lwanga & Companions, MartyrsMonday in the 7th Week of Easter: II Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 Matthew 5:1-12 It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life.The feast of…

  • Image and Likeness

    ✙ JMJ Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension: Acts 7:55-60 Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20 John 17:20-26 …so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one…I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that…