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This 21st Sunday opens us to salvation. However, this salvation holds unpleasant surprises for us as long as we are not serious about our spiritual life. God wants everyone to be saved, but each person is personally invited to prove what they are capable of in order to pass through the narrow gate.

Si le Fils de Dieu s’est incarné, c’est pour permettre à l’humanité de se lier à la vie divine grâce à l’Esprit Saint qu’il répand sur nous. C’est cet Esprit qui illumine certains hommes pour poursuivre, dans l’Eglise, la mission du Fils qui est Un avec son Père. C'est la méditation que nous proposons ce sixième dimanche de Pâques.

Le Père a envoyé son Fils par amour ; Jésus est passé par la passion et par la mort au nom de l'amour. En ressuscitant, il nous envoie son Esprit qui nous émerveille et nous ouvre le Royaume des cieux. C’est dans cet élan que nous célébrons ce cinquième dimanche de Pâques avec la conviction que Dieu nous aime et nous devons aimer les uns les autres.

Today's Gospel opens our reflection on a right conscience. These short sentences read this Sunday invite us to act with discernment and judgment in order to produce good fruits capable of pleasing God and society. All this is only possible when our hearts conceal the treasure that should enlighten our actions. To this end, I propose these three steps.

If last Sunday we were in the baths of 4 beatitudes followed by 4 lamentations, today Christ shows us the way to follow to really reach these beatitudes. It is about this passage from the animal man to the spiritual man. An obligatory scheme to savor the effects of the Kingdom from now until everything is fulfilled at the end of time.

Around Jesus we are gathered to listen to him and experience the fulfillment of his signs. Let us make our hearts pure to welcome his Word, purify our hands to receive his body and prepare our tongue to sing his holiness.