Sixth Sunday of Easter/C
Massimo Palombella
In today’s Gospel (John 14: 23-29), Jesus connects love for Him and peace, the true peace that Jesus Himself gives us.
If we strive to understand the essence of what Jesus communicates to us, we must honestly acknowledge the great distance between our ordinary way of life and where the Lord is waiting for us. Indeed, from a cultural-educational heritage, our notion of peace is basically the absence of problems, tranquillity, a ‘low-energy’ situation. The Lord asks us to go “beyond” all this, beyond problems, difficulties, unresolved issues. A “beyond” that can only be pursued by taking on everything, by passing through everything, to meet the true God who is waiting for us together with the truth of us. True love for the Lord is, in the end, the handing over of our life to Him, it is ” leaving” Him to write our story, it is leaving Him to reveal Himself and be found in the truth “beyond” all our invention, “beyond” all our “filters”. It is to go where He is waiting for us, it is to learn to ask the Lord to take us where He wants us to go. There, and only there, will we find peace, His peace.
The verse of the second Alleluia of today’s celebration is taken from chapter 16 of the Gospel of John (Jn 16:28) with the following text:
Alleluia. Exivi a Patre, et veni in mundum: iterum relinquo mundum, et vado ad Patrem.
(Alleluia. I came forth from the Father and have come into the world now I am leaving the world and going to the Father).
The attached music, in Gregorian Chant, is taken from the Gradual Triplex published in Solesmes in 1979. The interpretation is by the Chœur des moines de l’abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes conducted by Dom Joseph Gajard. The musical track can be found on the CD “Messes du temps pascal” published by BNF Collection in 2013 (on a previous publication of 1962).
A blessed Sunday and heartfelt greetings.
