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May 2025
15m 44s

Becoming a Disciple of Jesus

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, on this Third Sunday of Easter, we have the magnificent Gospel from the very end of the Gospel of John, chapter twenty-one, which is so rich theologically. We see here, on full display, what it means for us—who are all ambiguous characters—to stop resisting the cross of self-denial and love and to walk the way of the Lord. 
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