Gospel for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year A) (10 May 2026)
Today’s Gospel brings together three essential themes in John’s Gospel: “Love” and “obedience” and the power of the “Advocate” to ensure the possibility of both.
Michael Whelan SM, PhD
Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year A) (3 May 2026)
Believing – and seeing – are in fact ways of relating. Jesus, in asking his disciples to believe, is inviting them into the relationship he shares with the Father (10:30).
Gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year A) (26 April 2026)
Those who are transformed become those who transform. The presence of Jesus, alive for us an active partner in conversation, becomes the presence of Jesus alive for our world.
Gospel for the Third Sunday of Easter (Year A) (19 April 2026)
What would it be like if we applied what is happening for the two on the road to Emmas to our own faith journey and to our sharing of that faith with others?
Gospel for the Second Sunday of Easter (Year A) (12 April 2026)
The enfleshing of God in Jesus of Nazareth, his death and resurrection and his ongoing presence in our daily lives is a continuing fulfilment of the promise: “I will be with you as who I AM will I be there.”
Gospel for the Sixth Sunday of Lent (Year A) (29 March 2026)
It is relatively easy for us to “see” God present in the living Jesus – his teaching, his miracles, his transfiguration and his resurrection. Jesus on the cross is quite a different matter.
Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year A) (22 March 2026)
Could Jesus perhaps be talking to each of us? Lazarus’ tomb was probably a cave or at least a place that was built for him and perhaps others in death. We can all build tombs for ourselves. If the truth be told, we are remarkably good at it. The building blocks of ordinary everyday tombs can be pretty much anything – a slight here, a lack of affection there, an injustice some time ago, a compliment overlooked, a rude remark, a put down, a failure, a significant disappointment …… Such experiences very easily become places of death in our lives.
Gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year A) (15 March 2026)
Recognition is at the heart of both a deepening humanity and a deepening faith. Without such moments of recognition our lives are impoverished. It behooves us to be alert, always listening, paying attention, so that we can be surprised and see anew, anytime, anywhere.
Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent (Year A) (8 March 2026)
To the extent that he is “born” of the “world” he currently inhabits, he will not “see the kingdom of God” (3:3). Jesus, in his very being, opens us to reality beyond the “worlds” we create. Did Nicodemus enter? We do not know. The Samaritan woman certainly did.
Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent (Year A) (1 March 2026)
Matthew reminds us that knowing Jesus is an ever-deepening and never-ending process for the disciples as it is for us.