It is hard for the congregation to take the homily more seriously than the preacher takes it Anon Speakers exhibit visual and verbal signs that prompt their listeners to make judgments about their right to communicate R Kennedy quoting King Power and Communication If we ap

The Gospel selection for this fourth Sunday of Easter John 10 1-10 calls attention to at least these three points First Jesus identifies himself as the legitimate guide of Christians it is he who will lead them to have the deepest desire of their hearts As John s entire Gospel suggests the

I have a friend of mine who is a great lover of classical music His knowledge of it is vast He only needs to hear a few bars of most musical works and he confidently declares Mozart s Piano Concerto in A or Stravinsky s Rite of Spring He s always right Another of his superfluous but

From April 30 Second Sunday of Easter to but excluding Pentecost Sunday the Gospel readings of the Eucharist this year are all but one Luke c 24 taken from John s Gospel Given this attention to John in our Eastertide celebrations it might be of service to consider the principle by which

In most of the NT materials excluding the letters though the narrated events are set in the 30s of the first century C E the accounts themselves were produced decades later fruit of long and diverse reflection by the young Church on its experience of Jesus Think analogously if after many

The doubting Thomas story was intended to be the final story of the Johannine Gospel Chapter 21 is a later addition to the Gospel The Gospel of John had begun on the highest note the Word which was God became equivalently Jesus of Nazareth Throughout the Gospel the author means to have h