As we mentioned at the beginning of today’s liturgy, it is the sixth Sunday of Easter.
And so for six, seven weeks we have been singing alleluia, yes.
And I wonder sometimes since we do these things almost out of practice or what you might say habit.
Whether we ever really stop to think.
Why are we using this one word so frequently?
Continue reading “6th Sunday of Easter – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)”Please join us to celebrate the 6th Sunday of Easter on Sunday, May 9th.
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Jesus walked before he talked. By this I mean that he saw his world up close and slow before he began his preaching and teaching. His use of biblical imagery is particularly effective because he knew the physical realities of growth and rot, care and neglect, competence and incompetence from personal experience. This is particularly important for understanding today’s gospel.
Jesus lived in Nazareth but as a general contractor – a better choice for the Greek word we usually translate as carpenter – he would have worked mostly in the Greek speaking town of Sepphoris It was about a 4 mile walk and there were many fields with sheep and many vineyards with grapes and olives. When he calls himself the good shepherd, he has seen the dedication of good shepherds but understands why the scriptures use bad, self-serving, shepherds as the most potent image of corrupt leadership. He brings his experience to give this image greater effect. So too today with the vineyard.
Jesus saw vineyards grow or decline on his walk to and from work. After an evening storm he would have seen branches that were separated from the trunk of the tree looking good and healthy on the morning walk to Sepphoris but they would have been obviously decaying on the way back to Nazareth and dead the next day. They were fit only to burn.
Please join us to celebrate the 5th Sunday of Easter on Sunday, May 2nd.
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The first reading today comes from the Acts of the Apostles. That’s that story, that lengthy story that Luke records of the experience of the early church.
And one of the things that is very much noted in that presentation is transformation.
You have, as we see in the first reading today, the transformation of Peter.
The one who was so fearful that he denied the Lord three times, rather than acknowledge that he had awareness or knowledge or relationship with him.
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Please join us to celebrate the 3rd Sunday of Easter, on Sunday, April 18th.
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