by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“‘Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will return in the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.'”
“‘Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will return in the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.'”
“‘… Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.'”
“… The source of all love, of course, is Divine Love, Trinitarian Love. God Who is Love could not contain that love within the Trinitarian Unity. It burst forth into a creation, every part of which God pronounced very good. God even made creatures in his own image and likeness. The whole of creation is meant to mirror and give glory to all the perfections in the creator: unity, beauty, truth, goodness, holiness, power and majesty. …”
“In the Sunday Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern Western tendency to place love in opposition with law, and law in opposition with joy. Jesus joins all three concepts and summons us to a new attitude. …”
Catholic TV Mass for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 6, 2018, from the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic TV Mass for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 6, 2018, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic TV Mass for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 6, 2018, from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“Jesus said to His Disciples: ‘As the Father loves Me, so I also love you. Remain in My Love.If you keep My Commandments, you will remain in My Love, just as I have kept My Father’s Commandments and remain in His Love. … This is My Commandment: love one another as I Love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. … go and Bear Fruit that will remain … whatever you ask the Father in My Name He may give you. This I Command you: love one another.'”
“Jesus said to His Disciples: ‘If the world hates you, realize that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. … If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. …'”