Jesus’ Death and Resurrection are the single most important events in all of history – past and future.
Jesus’ Death and Resurrection are the most important events affecting your life. Without His Resurrection, you would have no future.
With His Resurrection, you have eternal life before you.
In celebrating the Sunday Eucharist, we worship, praise, and thank God for His saving acts.
We also bring our lives to offer in thanksgiving.
In gratitude, we do this every Sunday, the Lord’s Day and invite all to join us.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040421.cfm
The Trinity; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the epitome of love.
We were created because of that love and for that love.
We are destined to remain in that love for eternity.
God is with us always, in spite of what we do that is not right. God’s love is unconditional.
We are called to believe so that we may respond and not reject our destiny.
Can we open our hearts to God’s urgings?
Jesus gives us a commandment and a promise.
Stay with Me and live in accord with what I have taught you.
I will send you help, the Advocate.
You will see Me through Him. You will experience Me through Him.
When you see Me, you will have life and realize the love of God in your life.
The Spirit comes to us again on Pentecost, only a few weeks away. Are you ready?
Jesus said “I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”
Jesus is the way we see God.
He encourages us to stop looking elsewhere for what we need, or need to know.
He passes on to us the power of His spirit.
Are we ready to follow His words and do the works that He has shown us how to do?
Jesus offers us life and not a scattered existence.
He is willing to lead us if we are willing to follow.
There are so many ideas and individuals who would lead us astray.
Jesus tells us to keep our eyes and ears on Him and He will take us through the right gate.
We know who He is.
Why would we follow someone or something else?
Jesus’ disciples knew much of what happened to Him. They knew the history.
Their hearts burned while He opened the scriptures for them.
This was not just history but faith.
It all came together for them…. His life, His death, His resurrection. History, faith, and experience gave them meaning.
We, too, can find him again and again in the breaking of the bread.
History, faith, and experience can cause our hearts to burn, too.
The promises of Jesus have been fulfilled.
Jesus is the Resurrection and the life.
We can trust in His saving power.
His life was about healing body, mind, and soul.
He is with us now. Believe!
– We are offered a relationship with Jesus Christ.
– He asks us to love one another as He loves us.
– We are called to keep His commandments and to love, even to the point of giving up our lives.
– Stay attached to the vine and you will bear much fruit. The Father will give you whatever you need to succeed.
– Are you willing to go this far?
– What else do you want?
– Like the Apostles we are now locked in our rooms as we consider what happened in the Passion and the Resurrection. It is almost beyond belief. What does it mean to me?
– Jesus comes to us and says “Peace be with you”. “Blessed are you who have not seen and yet believed.” Let it sink in.
– Are there times when we struggle to believe?
– Turn to Jesus who has suffered and died for you. He says do not be afraid and know that my mercy will dispel all doubts and heal all wounds. You are safe and you are saved.
– My mission is complete and yours’ is still ongoing. “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” This is the same for us as it was for the Apostles. Now it is up to us. With his Resurrection you have eternal life before you.
– Jesus tells us that our mission is to believe and share “that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in His name.”
– What else could we possibly dream of? What else do we need to know? What will we do to find out?
