Sixth Sunday of Easter
Reading I – Acts 15:1-2, 22-29
Reading II – Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23
Gospel – John 14:23-29
The Workings of the Spirit - There’s a good chance that you are reading this bulletin article because you went to Church for Sunday Mass. With any luck (even if it’s the Saturday Mass of anticipation), the sun is shining outside. If it’s early Sunday morning, perhaps you still saw the moon in the sky as you were on your way to cele brate the Eucharist. Church, sun, moon. Stable and staple parts of our lives. But today we hear of a place, the place of our Christian destiny—the new and heavenly Jerusa lem—where there is no temple, no sun, no moon. All of these will be replaced by the Lamb of God: Jesus Christ crucified, dead, bur ied, and risen from the dead!
Day by day, week by week, we will still have, and we need, the sun and the moon, and the Lord’s house on earth to offer our worship. But even while we enjoy the celestial lumi naries and offer our praise to the Lamb, we keep our gaze focused on that time and place when all light will be eclipsed by the light of Christ’s eternal glory, and we will join the angels and saints in the temple that is God, as we continue to sing our ceaseless praise in the power of the Spirit. Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.
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