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Lections: The Fourth Sunday of Easter , AD 2026 A Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Alleluia! Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. A former Catholic priest once told to me a story. It began one day with the television on, and a Protestant televangelist up on stage, working himself into a great froth, sweat streaming down his brow, with a big, floppy Bible in his hand. “People keep on asking me,” the TV preacher cried out, “What would Jesus do? What would Jesus say?” And here he built to his crescendo: “Well, I don’t care what Jesus says! Tell me, what does the Bible say?” And the ex-priest said to me, “That’s blasphemy.” A little while later this same priest found himself at a meeting in which several clergy were trying to discern how to respond to a local crisis, and one of them inevitably asked, “Well, what would Jesus do?”—to which a yo...
