Sixth Sunday of Easter/A
Massimo Palombella
In today’s Gospel (Jn 14:15-21) Jesus says to his disciples: “You will see me, for I live and you will live”.
Seeing God, slowly enabling our inner eyes to grasp God’s presence in the patterns of our personal lives, in the events that happen. This is what enables us to “really live”.
God is waiting for us “beyond”. Beyond our anger and violence that is always generated by our unacknowledged pain, beyond our reaction, beyond the patterns that calm us down but, in essence, do not allow us to live, beyond the limits that we impose on ourselves out of fear of reality.
Only “beyond” can we see God, the true God who is waiting for us to love us as we really need, to make us taste “life in abundance”.
The text of the first Alleluia in Gregorian chant (during the Easter season the gradual is not used; another Alleluia chant is sung in its place, with the exception of Easter Week) for today’s celebration has liturgical origins (referring to 2 Timothy 1:10 and Revelation 1:5) and reads as follows:
Alleluia. Surrexit Christus et illuxit nobis, quos redemit sanguine suo.
(Alleluia. Christ has risen and he has shone upon us whom he has ransomed with his own blood).
The attached music, in Gregorian chant, is taken from the Graduale Triplex published at Solesmes in 1979. The performance, dating from 1959, is by the Monastic Choir of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes, conducted by Joseph Gajard. The track can be found on the CD “History Records – French Edition 3 – Gregorian Chant – Masses of the Easter season (Original recordings – remastered)” published by History-Records in 2013.
A blessed Sunday and heartfelt greetings.
Buona domenica e un caro saluto.
