radioalba.org schedule for May 12th
note the script for Canon Bob Hill’s reflection on the Sunday Gospel below
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the Morning Hour at 7.00 is repeated hourly until 12.00
7.00: Morning Prayers this week are led by Annette Carachi, Willie Rayworth, Donald MacInnes, Clare McDonald, Stephen Eric Smyth, Gerry Fitzpatrick and Clare McDonald.
7.15:Morning Prayer for Easter is led by Cara and Kirsty with music by Magdalen MacInnes.
7.21: Canon Bob Hill comments on the Gospel for the liturgy of Sunday the 19th May taken from John 13: 31-33. 34-35 (see the script below)
7.25: This week begins with Good Shepherd Sunday which is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. We pray for those who share in the special ministry of the Church.
7.30 : Our Magazine this week includes Pope Francis writing to the church for Vocations Sunday; the Joint Scottish Churches comment on the service marking the 50th anniversary of Continuous at Sea Deterrent; Fides reports from the Lebanon on the Maronite Bishops deploring the US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan; from Vatican media the Holy See urges Israel and Palestine to alleviate the sufferings of people; the WCC and Vatican media condemn the attack on the California Synagogue; a book review – Does religion do more harm than good? Finally Mary Molloy reads about our politicians and the plight of persecuted christians 12.00: News from the Scottish Catholic Observer
7.21: Canon Bob Hill comments on the Gospel for the liturgy of Sunday the 19th May taken from John 13: 31-33. 34-35 (see the script below)
7.25: This week begins with Good Shepherd Sunday which is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. We pray for those who share in the special ministry of the Church.
7.30 : Our Magazine this week includes Pope Francis writing to the church for Vocations Sunday; the Joint Scottish Churches comment on the service marking the 50th anniversary of Continuous at Sea Deterrent; Fides reports from the Lebanon on the Maronite Bishops deploring the US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan; from Vatican media the Holy See urges Israel and Palestine to alleviate the sufferings of people; the WCC and Vatican media condemn the attack on the California Synagogue; a book review – Does religion do more harm than good? Finally Mary Molloy reads about our politicians and the plight of persecuted christians 12.00: News from the Scottish Catholic Observer
12.15: ‘How blest are they’ – praying with the bereaved
12.35: archive music
18.00: News from the Scottish Catholic Observer as above.
18.15: How blest are they’ – praying with the bereaved18.35: archive music
The evening hour at 20.00 is reported at 21.00 and 22.00
20.00: The Evening Prayers for Easter are led by Jean Swinbank and Gerry Fitzpatrick with music by the St Mungo Singers, organist Jane McKenna and harpist Noel Donnelly.
20:20: Our Magazine this week includes Pope Francis writing to the church for Vocations Sunday; the Joint Scottish Churches comment on the service marking the 50th anniversary of Continuous at Sea Deterrent; Fides reports from the Lebanon on the Maronite Bishops deploring the US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan; from Vatican media the Holy See urges Israel and Palestine to alleviate the sufferings of people; the WCC and Vatican media condemn the attack on the California Synagogue; a book review – Does religion do more harm than good? Finally Mary Molloy reads about our politicians and the plight of persecuted christians
20:50: Night Prayers
script
Canon Bob Hill comments on the Sunday Gospel Sunday 19 May 2019.
Sunday 5 Easter C. John 13:31-33. 34-35
We haven’t heard about Judas since the Passion reading on Good Friday, when he led the group who would arrest Jesus to the garden across the Kedron valley. It could only have been a couple of hours earlier when Jesus and Judas had conversed at the Last Supper. In John’s version of that story, Jesus washed the feet of all the disciples including Judas. In John’s version, Jesus predicted that the one who would betray him would be the one to whom he gave the morsel (of bread) which he had dipped (in the cup). Many commentators see in this Jesus giving Eucharist to Judas, knowing full well what Judas was about to do. In today’s passage from John, we are back to the Last Supper gathering in the upper room, but without Judas. Jesus now speaks of the hour when the Son of Man has been glorified, and in him, God is glorified. This is such an important theme in John. For Jesus to be glorified is effectively a way of saying that in Jesus’ death and resurrection, Jesus makes visible and real God’s total commitment to humanity. This is not something just to be observed: this is turned into a new commandment – disciples are to love one another as Jesus has loved them – and us! How can someone be commanded to love? You can’t command the emotions of another person; but Love in the bible is about what you do to or for another; not what you feel. Love, as Jesus has expressed it and lived it, is the total commitment he has made to the whole of humanity, past, present and future! Disciples are therefore told they too must love one another. This is crucial because it is the one way in which everyone will recognise us as Jesus’ disciples
