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SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 17, 2020

Icon of the New Testament Trinity, Anonymous (1445) Sixth Sunday of Easter May 17, 2020

Weekly Scripture “If You Love Me...” Sunday, May 17 Gospel Reflection Based on John 14:15-21 Sixth Sunday of Easter We have just heard the words of Jesus: “If you love me, you will keep my Acts 8:5-8. 14-17 commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor, Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 to be with you for ever, the Spirit of truth” (Jn 14:15-17a). With these words Jesus 1 Pt 3:15-18 reveals the profound link between faith and the profession of Divine Truth, between Jn 14:15-21 faith and dedication to Jesus Christ in love, between faith and the practice of a life Monday, May 18 inspired by the commandments. All three dimensions of faith are the fruit of the Easter Weekday action of the Holy Spirit. This action is manifested as an inner force that harmonizes Acts 16:11-15 the hearts of the disciples with the Heart of Christ and makes them capable of loving Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b as he loved them. Hence faith is a gift, but at the same time it is a task. Jn 15:26–16:4a Christ says: “If you love me ... ” Faith does not just mean accepting a certain Tuesday, May 19 number of abstract truths about the mysteries of God, of man, of life and death, Easter Weekday of future realities. Faith consists in an intimate relationship with Christ, a Acts 16:22-34 relationship based on love of him who loved us first (cf. 1 Jn 4:11), even to the total Ps 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8 offering of himself. “God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Jn 16:5-11 Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8). What other response can we give to a love so great, Wednesday, May 20 if not that of a heart that is open and ready to love? Easter Weekday But what does it mean to love Christ? It means trusting him even in times of Acts 17:15, 22–18:1 trial, following him faithfully even on the Via Crucis, in the hope that soon the Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14 morning of the Resurrection will come. Entrusting ourselves to Christ, we lose Jn 16:12-15 nothing, we gain everything. In his hands our life acquires its true meaning. Thursday, May 21 Easter Weekday Love for Christ expresses itself in the will to harmonize our own life with the thoughts and sentiments of his Heart. This is achieved through interior union Acts 18:1-8 based on the grace of the Sacraments, strengthened by continuous prayer, praise, Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 thanksgiving and penance. We have to listen attentively to the inspirations that he Jn 16:16-20 evokes through his Word, through the people we meet, through the situations of Friday, May 22 daily life. To love him is to remain in dialogue with him, in order to know his will Easter Weekday and to put it into effect promptly. Acts 18:9-18 Excerpted from Homily by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Warsaw, 26 May 2006 Ps 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/homilies/2006/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20060526_varsavia.html Jn 16:20-23 Saturday, May 23 Easter Weekday Acts 18:23-28 Kindness is my Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10 only guiding star. Jn 16:23b-28 In its light, Access The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) online at http://cms.usccb.org/bible/index.cfm I sail a straight route, I have my motto written on my sail: I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS; “To live in love.” I WILL COME TO YOU. St. Thérèse of Liseux JOHN 14:18 Doctor of the Church Sixth Sunday of Easter May 17, 2020

On the Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity From the Catechism of the

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the "hierarchy of the truths of faith".56 The whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means by which the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, reveals himself to men "and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin".57 (CCC, 234) The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the "mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God".58 To be sure, God has left traces of his Trinitarian being in his work of creation and in his Revelation throughout the Old Testament. But his inmost Being as Holy Trinity is a mystery that is inaccessible to reason alone or even to Israel's faith before the Incarnation of God's Son and the sending of the Holy Spirit. (CCC, 237) "O blessed light, O Trinity and first Unity!"93 God is eternal blessedness, undying life, unfading light. God is love: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God freely wills to communicate the glory of his blessed life. Such is the "plan of his loving kindness", St. Rita of conceived by the Father before the foundation of the world, in his beloved Son: "He Feast Day May 22 destined us in love to be his sons" and "to be conformed to the image of his Son", Rita was a very religious child and through "the spirit of sonship".94 This plan is a "grace [which] was given to us in visited the Augustinian in Cascia Christ Jesus before the ages began", stemming immediately from Trinitarian love.95 regularly. But her call to serve the Lord It unfolds in the work of creation, the whole history of salvation after the fall, and was abandoned when her parents the missions of the Son and the Spirit, which are continued in the mission of the arranged her marriage to an abusive Church.96 (CCC, 257) and angry man who worked as the town Catechism of the Catholic Church, https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p2.htm watchman. She and her twin sons lived under her husband’s abuse for eighteen years, until he was killed in an ambush. A Twenty-Four-Hour Prayer She taught her sons forgiveness, and from Mother Teresa: In My Own Words when they died she was grief-stricken. She entered the convent and lived There are some people who, in order not to pray, use as an excuse the fact that there for forty years. The patroness of life is so hectic that it prevents them from praying. loneliness was a sad wife, a grieving This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that mother, and, in the end, a bedridden we continue working as if it were a prayer. . However, through it all she was devoted to the Lord. It is not necessary to always be meditating, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with him, living in him, in his will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to love the poor, is a twenty-four-hour prayer. Prayer in Loneliness

Mother Teresa (1996). Prayer. In J. L. González-Balado (Ed). Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, Gramercy Sweet and loving St. Rita of Cascia, Books, New York. I entreat your prayers in battling this loneliness. Ask the Lord to enable me to seek out those who need me, the many who love me. Ask God to help me feel that love and hold it close to my heart so that I never feel alone in His grace. Amen.

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