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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n5th Week of Easter\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nMay 18 – 24\, 2025\n\n\n\nSun\n18\nMon\n19\nTue\n20\nWed\n21\nThu\n22\nFri\n23\nSat\n24\n\n\nOffice\n5th Sunday of Easter\nEaster Weekday\nEaster Weekday\nEaster Weekday\nEaster Weekday\nEaster Weekday\nEaster Weekday\n\n\nVigils\nRev 18:21-19:10\nRev 19:11-21\nRev 20:1-15\nRev 21:1-8\nRev 21:9-27\nRev 22:1-9\nRev 22:10-21\n\n\nLauds\nCol 2:9-15\nCol 3:1-11\nCol 3:12-17\n1 Tim 1:1-7\n1 Tim 1:12-17\n1 Tim 2:1-7\n1 Tim 4:6-10\n\n\nMass\n54\n285\n286\n287\n288\n289\n290\n\n\n1st\nActs 14:21-27\nActs 14:5-18\nActs 14:19-28\nActs 15:1-6\nActs 15:7-21\nActs 15:22-31\nActs 16:1-10\n\n\n2nd\nRev 21:1-5a\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nJohn 13:31-33a\, 34-35\nJohn 14:21-26\nJohn 14:27-31a\nJohn 15:1-8\nJohn 15:9-11\nJohn 15:12-17\nJohn 15:18-21\n\n\nVespers\nActs 16:35-40\nActs 17:1-5a\nActs 17:10-15\nActs 17:16-23\nActs 18:18-23\nActs 19:8-12\nActs 19:13-20
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 5th Sunday of Easter
DESCRIPTION:A LOVE THAT \nTRANSCENDS THE LAW \nFrom a commentary by St Cyril of Alexandria \n◊◊◊ \nI give you a new commandment\, said Jesus: Love one another. But how\, \nwe might ask\, could he call this commandment new? Through Moses\, he said to \nthe people of old: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with \nall your mind. And your neighbor as yourself. Notice what follows. He was not \ncontent simply to say\, I give you a new commandment: love one another. He \nshowed the novelty of his command and how far the love he enjoined surpassed \nthe old conception of mutual love by going on immediately to add: Love one \nanother as I have loved you. \nTo understand the full force of these words\, we have to consider how \nChrist loved us. Then it will be easy to see what is new and different in the \ncommandment we are now given. Paul tells us that although his nature was \ndivine\, he did not cling to his equality with God\, but stripped himself of all \nprivilege to assume the condition of a slave. He became as we are\, and \nappearing in human form humbled himself by being obedient even to the \nextent of dying on a cross. And elsewhere Paul writes: Though he was rich\, he \nbecame poor. \nDo you not see what is new in Christ’s love for us? The law commanded \npeople to love their brothers and sisters as they love themselves\, but our Lord \nJesus Christ loved us more than himself. He who was one in nature with God the \nFather and his equal would not have descended to our lowly state\, nor endured \nin his flesh such a bitter death for us\, nor submitted to the blows given him by \nhis enemies\, to the shame\, the derision\, and all the other sufferings that could \nnot possibly have been enumerated\, nor being rich\, would he have become poor\, \nhad he not loved us far more than himself. It was indeed something new for love \nto go as far as that. \nChrist commands us to love as he did\, putting neither reputation\, nor \nwealth nor anything whatever before love of our brothers and sisters. If need be\, \nwe must even be prepared to face death for our neighbor’s salvation as did our \nSavior’s blessed disciples and those who followed in their footsteps. To them\, \nthe salvation of others mattered more than their own lives and they were ready \nto do anything or to suffer anything to save souls that were perishing. I die daily \n\, said Paul. Who suffers weakness without my suffering too? Who is made to \nstumble without my heart blazing with indignation? \nThe Savior urged us to practice this love that transcends the law as the \nfoundation of true devotion to God. He knew that only in this way could we \nbecome pleasing in God’s eyes\, and that it was by seeking the beauty of the love \nimplanted in us by himself that we should attain to the higher blessings.
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