One in Christ

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This is the Fifth Sunday of Easter and the readings are as follows:
1st Reading Ac 9:26-31, 2nd Reading 1Jn 3:18-24, Gospel Jn 15:1-8

In many ways we differ from one another. Thanks to God for the riches of this variety. How sad our world would be if we were all the same, for we would see only our own image. We differ in our faces, our characters, our personalities and occupations, our language and cluture, in so many things. Yet there is one thing that brings us here together. We belong to Christ, we are united in him. He wants this bond to be a close union: like branches on a tree, on a life-giving vine. We are one in Him with one another. We pray that this union may be close and effective.