I'm not particularly happy with the celebration of Ascension on Sunday (last year I was traveling to either New York or Boston at this point in the liturgical year, and completely missed the Solemnity!), but you work with the liturgy that you have, not the liturgy you don't have,if you get my drift. At any rate, that gives us John 16 for today's Gospel of Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter. In the Gospel, Jesus makes one of those typically enigmatic, Johannine-type statements, "A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while and you will see me." And the disciples started asking each other what Jesus meant. Nobody thought to ask Jesus! I think this may be a rather common problem... I tend to ask myself what God is doing in my life, usually by analyzing events. Asking Jesus what he means involves paying attention to the subtle ways he communicates with us, and that involves recognition that it is he who is acting in our life. As one retreat master commented, we are so superficial when we think we see a chain of events by merely analyzing the events themselves without ascribing any serious involvement to divine providence...
Lord, increase my faith! Especially NOW when our major superiors are appointing a new local superior for our community!!!!!
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It is funny that the disciples asked among themselves instead of asking Jesus. I've wondered about that at times: where they afraid to ask him? Did they think he might chastise them a little for not understanding?
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