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Psalm 145
Praise to God because God cares for the oppressed and feeds all creation—God is praised everywhere.
Isaiah 25: 1-9 What’s Isaiah about?
While the people are enslaved in Babylon 600 years before Jesus, the prophet uses a series of striking weather images to promise that Babylon will but utterly crushed by God and that the people will experience God like a cool breeze on a hot day and their oppressors will worship the God of Israel. They will rejoice in this God who has been a shelter for the poor and needy. They will return to Jerusalem to find a magnificent feast there waiting for them and that death (meaning violent death and war) will be no more. The reference to the end of death is no doubt the reason this passage is read after Easter.
John 16: 16-33 What’s John about?
Shortly before his arrest, Jesus interprets the pain that future disciples will suffer because they no longer experience him physically, as labour pains before giving birth. That birth will be their full affirmation by God in which they will receive peace through Jesus’ presence in Holy Spirit. Even if the world rejects God’s love, and his future disciples, God’s love will still be fully present and fill them with joy.
This week’s collect:
Lord of life and power,
through the mighty resurrection of your Son,
you have overcome the old order of sin and death
and have made all things new in him.
May we, being dead to sin
and alive to you in Jesus Christ,
reign with him in glory,
who with you and the Holy Spirit is alive,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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