Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter

April 23, 2024

Today’s Readings:

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042324.cfm

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And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon.
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him,
“How long are you going to keep us in suspense?
If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Jesus answered them, “I told you and you do not believe.
The works I do in my Father’s name testify to me.
But you do not believe, because you are not among my sheep.
My sheep hear my voice;
I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.

John 10:23-28

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Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:

We may find ourselves not unlike the crowd in today’s Gospel: impatient for answers we already have!

Sometimes, if the apparent answer isn’t what we want, we persist in believing we haven’t been answered at all.

Jesus says what makes the difference is faith which opens us to a logic beyond this world – the Logic of eternal life.

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Prose: from Rainer Maria Rilkë

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

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Music: Unanswered Prayer – Garth Brooks