For this 5th Sunday after Easter we are still moving through John 16 and the Lord’s Last Supper Discourse as well as the Letter of James.
Our Gospel readings are inexhaustible and there are always manifold treasures to unlock. At the same time and for the sake of brevity, we will entrust ourselves to the clarity of Christ’s words to the Apostles about His ascent to the Father, when they exclaimed “Ah, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure!” (v. 29 RSV).
That “speaking…