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Between Easter 6 and 7 (Year B)
As we approach the end of Easter, we are confronted by the teaching Jesus offers—to keep loving long after he is gone—but instead we worry.
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Love—we have to learn it
We often treat love like an emotion that we merely experience. But Jesus commands us to love, to treat it like a behavior we are to learn.
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Inseparable
As Jesus describes himself as the vine and we are the branches, he compels us to reexamine the way we approach our world.
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Are we too obsessive? Yes. Yes we are.
We’re conflicted by the thought that God is responsible and also so are we, making it about our own obsessions with getting it right.
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Between Easter 4 and 5 (Year B)
The gap between the fourth and fifth Sundays of Easter highlights the nature of the love Jesus commands his followers to share.
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In the light of the resurrection
In the resurrection story from Luke, we are reminded, not of the fear of the future, but of not knowing what to do—when we actually do.
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Between Easter 2 and 3 (Year B)
Before Jesus appears to the disciples in Emmaus, he shows up to a pair of them on the road. This shapes the character of Easter for us.
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Peace—when we’re scared
We often treat fear as uncontrollable or something to ignore. But Jesus invites us to see that it is bot something real and temporary.