Tag: Easter 7C (RCL)

Unity

Seventh Sunday of Easter; 29 May 2022; Easter 7C (RCL); Acts 16:16-34; Psalm 97; Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21; John 17:20-26.

This is one of those passages in John in which boundaries are blurred. If you listen to it (rather than read it), by the end, you’re not sure who is in whom. I think that is precisely the evangelist’s point. If we entrust our lives to one another, then our lives will overlap. Jesus has entrusted his life to us, and in that life is the Father, so our lives and the divine life overlap. We are one just as the Trinity is one (even though John does not use the concept of Trinity, he comes close). Just as we share in the divine life, we share in each other’s lives.

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What is glory?

2 June 2019
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Easter 7C (RCL)
Acts 16:16-34
Psalm 97
Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, , 20-21
John 17:20-26

I’m sure Luke included this little story as a way of showing that Jesus’s name continues to have power over the spiritual powers of the world, even in the age of the apostles. When things like the theater and the arena were considered the realm of demons, and practitioners thereof who became Christian had to extract themselves from such employment, one could speak of that process in terms of exorcism. I suppose we could use such language today (and I’m sure there are some who do) when speaking of leaving a life of drugs or the sex trade. Jesus’ name continues to have power. Continue reading “What is glory?”