Sixth
Sunday of Easter
Mother’s Day
44While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard
the word. 45The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that
the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, 46for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter
said, 47“Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have
received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” 48So he ordered them to be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days.
Acts 10:44-48
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And when we (to use Alice Walker’s lovely phrase)
go in search of our mothers’ gardens,
it’s not really to learn who trampled on them
or how or even why — we usually know that already.
Rather, it’s to learn what our mothers planted there,
what they thought as they sowed,
and how they survived
the blighting of so many fruits.
~ Sherley Anne Williams
How simple a thing it seems to me
that to know ourselves as we are,
we must know our mothers’ names.
~ Alice Walker
Sunday lunch with Linda Kirkpatrick
at Keys on the Green.
Nancy Priest, Ellen Jones, Bob Sims
May birthdays at Painted Toe Art Society.
Anna Marie Nelson and I had lunch at Brooks Place Tavern in Conifer.
“It’s
Personal”
Center for the Arts
Evergreen
Rowdy Rotarians
Dave Stansbury, Sondra Kellogg, Bill Manning
Rowdy Rotarians
Lisa Nierenberg, Executive
Director Center for the Arts Evergreen,
with Barb and Curt Harris
I really only love God as much as
I love the person I love the least.**
~ Dorothy Day
May 9, 2021 Sixth Sunday of Easter Year B
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9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you;
abide in my love.10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in
my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that
your joy may be complete.
12“This is my
commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater
love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends
if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you servants any longer, because
the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you
friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my
Father. 16You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and
bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you
ask him in my name. 17I am giving you these commands so that you may
love one another.”
John 15:9-17
Agnus
Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Mother’s
Day
On the Beach
by Don Hatfield
Acts 10:44-48
Psalm 98
1 John 5:1-6
John 15:9-17
First Reading Acts 10:44-48
44While Peter was
still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. 45The circumcised
believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy
Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, 46for they heard them
speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, 47“Can anyone
withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit
just as we have?” 48So he ordered them to be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days.
1 O
sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done
marvelous things.
His right hand and his holy arm
have gained him
victory.
2 The LORD has made known his victory;
he has revealed his
vindication in the sight of the nations.
3 He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness
to the house of
Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen
the victory of our
God.
4 Make
a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth;
break forth into
joyous song and sing praises.
5 Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre,
with the lyre and
the sound of melody.
6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn
make a joyful noise
before the King, the LORD.
7 Let
the sea roar, and all that fills it;
the world and those
who live in it.
8 Let the floods clap their hands;
let the hills sing
together for joy
9 at the presence of the LORD, for he is coming
to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness,
and the peoples
with equity.
1Everyone who
believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves
the parent loves the child. 2By this we know that we love the children of
God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3For the love of God
is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not
burdensome, 4for whatever is born of God conquers the world.
And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. 5Who is it that
conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6This is the one who came by water and blood,
Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the
Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.
9As the Father has
loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in
my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11I have said these
things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
12“This is my commandment, that you love one
another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater love than this, to lay down
one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command
you. 15I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know
what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made
known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16You did not choose
me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will
last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17I am giving you
these commands so that you may love one another.”