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SUMMARY:Skema - 5th Wk of Easter
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n5th Week of Easter\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (B)\, Weekdays (II)\nApril 28 – May 4\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n28\nMon\n29\nTue\n30\nWed\n1\nThu\n2\nFri\n3\nSat\n4\n\n\nOffice\n5th Sunday of Easter\nSt Catherine of Siena\nEaster Weekday\nSt Joseph the Worker\nSt Athanasius\nSS Philip & James\nEaster Weekday\n\n\nVigils\nActs 16:16-40\nActs 17:1-18\nActs 17:19-34\nActs 18:1-28\nActs 19:1-20\n1 Cor 12:1-13\nActs 20:1-16\n\n\nLauds\nEph 2:1-10\nEph 2:19-22\nEph 3:7-13\nEph 4:1-6\nEph 4:25-32\nProv 4:10-19\nEph 6:10-17\n\n\nMass\n53\n285\n286\n287\, 559\n288\n561\n290\n\n\n1st\nActs 9:26-31\nActs 14:5-18\nActs 14:19-28\nActs 15:1-6\nActs 15:7-21\n1 Cor 15:1-8\nActs 16:1-10\n\n\n2nd\n1 John 3:18-24\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nJohn 15:1-8\nJohn 14:21-26\nJohn 14:27-31a\nMatt 13:54-58\nJohn 15:9-11\nJohn 14:6-14\nJohn 15:18-21\n\n\nVespers\nEph 2:11-18\nEph 3:1-6\nEph 3:14-21\nEph 4:17-24\nEph 5:1-5\n2 Cor 4:1-6\nCol 1:1-8
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 5th Sunday of Easter
DESCRIPTION:WITHOUT GOD\, NOTHING CAN BE DONE \nFrom a commentary by St Augustine1 \n◊◊◊ \nThe passage from the gospel in which the Lord calls himself the vine and \nhis disciples the branches affirms in its own way that\, as mediator between God \nand the human race\, the man Christ Jesus is head of the Church and we are his \nmembers. It is beyond dispute that a vine and its branches are of one and the \nsame stock. Since Christ\, therefore\, possessed a divine nature not shared by \nourselves\, he became man precisely in order that in his own person there might \nbe a vine of human stock whose branches we could become. \nDwell in me\, said Jesus\, and I will dwell in you. His disciples\, however\, \ndo not dwell in Christ in the same way as Christ dwells in them. In either case\, \nthe benefit is theirs\, not his. If branches are attached to a vine\, it is not to confer \nany advantage on the vine; it is rather that the branches themselves may draw \ntheir sustenance from the vine. The vine is attached to the branches to provide \nthem with their vital nourishment\, not to receive anything from them. In the \nsame way Christ’s presence in his disciples and their presence in him both profit \nthe disciples rather than Christ. If a branch is cut off\, another can grow from the \nlife-giving root; but once severed from the root\, no branch can remain alive. \nThe incarnate Truth goes on to say: I am the vine\, you are the branches. \nWhoever dwells in me and I in him yields fruit in plenty\, because without me \nyou can do nothing. These words are to be weighed and pondered continually. \nSomeone hearing Jesus say\, he yields fruit in plenty\, might perhaps think that \na branch can bear at least a certain amount of fruit on its own. Our Lord’s words\, \nhowever\, were not: You can do little without me\, but: you can do nothing. Little \nfruit or plenty\, there can be neither without him\, because without him nothing \ncan be done. Even if a branch does produce a little fruit\, the vinedresser prunes \nit away so that it may produce more. But if the branch does not remain attached \nto the vine and draw its life from the root\, it can bear no fruit at all. \nNow\, although Christ could not be the vine if he were not human\, he could \nnot offer such a grace to his branches if he were not at the same time divine. \nSince without this grace it is impossible to have life and consequently death is \nthe result of one’s free choice\, he said: Whoever does not dwell in me will be \nthrown away like a branch and will wither\, to be gathered in and cast on the \nfire to burn. And so the shame incurred by those branches that refuse to dwell \nin the vine is in direct proportion to the glory they will have if they do remain in \nhim. \nIf you dwell in me\, said Jesus\, and my words dwell in you\, you will ask \nfor whatever you desire and it will be yours. Can a person dwelling in Christ \ndesire anything out of harmony with Christ? The very fact that people dwell in \ntheir Savior must mean that they have no desire that is opposed to their \nsalvation. And yet we do indeed desire one thing insofar as we are in Christ\, and \nanother insofar as we are still in this world. Because of our sojourn here below\, \na thought sometimes steals into our ignorant minds to ask for something which \ncannot be good for us. But this may not be\, if we are dwelling in Christ. He does \nwhat we ask only if it is for our good. To dwell in him\, therefore\, is to have his \nwords dwelling in us; whatever we desire we shall then ask for\, and it will be \ngiven us. \n  \n1 Journey with the Fathers – Year B – New City Press – 1999 – pg 56.3 \n  \n  \n 
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