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Spiritual Reflections on Sunday's Readings
Ascension or 7th Sunday of Easter
May 13 or May 16, 2021
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

Stay for a While

What sort of lives were Jesus’ followers to find after the very center of their lives had been taken away?

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser
OMI

Feeling God in Vulnerability
(7th Sunday)

Brute things don’t suffer anxiety, rocks don’t worry about betrayal, and self–centered egoists aren’t concerned about sin.

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Traveling Mercies

Once when one of my children was traveling to Bangladesh, I made a list of dos and don’ts  for him. It was a list intended to help keep him safe.

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Reflections

Larry
Gillick, SJ

Let Us Pray

Jesus, who was sent into the “world” as a gift, has given the gift of life to his apostles and is praying that they would remain consecrated.

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

Love and Leadership
(7th Sunday)

The leadership of the apostles and their successors also binds the Christian community together, and the story of the choosing of Matthias reminds us of the importance of that leadership.

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

A New World

Does it work both ways: love of God leads to love of neighbor, and love of neighbor leads to love of God?

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A Poem to
Sit With

J Janda

Mystical Rose

if you prays
you be all
God-colored

which is to say you be bathed in the essence of God

who possess all color

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