On April 9 we celebrated Easter, and we entered what is known as Eastertide, which will culminate on Sunday, May 28th, with the celebration of Pentecost. All of this is more than enough reason for a new appointment with the Bible.
Two weeks ago, we celebrated what we call the greatest week of our Faith: Holy Week, where the Son of Man gave his life for the salvation of all. They are intense days where we see and hear how much God, through his Son Jesus, loves us. During these days the Messiah teaches us that love is the best tool to relate to one another. Love is the human and spiritual engine that should drive us to serve our neighbor. Throughout this week, Jesus shows us that, despite any doubts, we can remain faithful to the Father because the Father will always be by our side, directly or through a brother or sister who will help us carry our cross; He will quench our thirst with “living water”, through some gesture or word.
So it seems that in the Easter Season, or Eastertide, which began on Easter Sunday and will end on Pentecost Day, is a good time to meditate on all of this. To that end, we have selected the following passages from the Bible for contemplation.
With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?”
Luke, 24, 31-32.
For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.”
Acts 2. 39.
But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were “no people” but now you are God’s people; you “had not received mercy” but now you have received mercy.
1 Peter 2, 9-10.
“Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages 3 and given to the poor?” He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions.
John 12, 5-6.
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
John 14, 18.
