Regrouping on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2025

Here I am on the fifth Sunday of Easter at the start of week 21 in the year 2025, praying for guidance from God regarding the future of my Sunday blog series. I've only recently decided that my Sunday blog entries will be about my journey of faith in Jesus; that my Monday-Friday blog entries will be about my journey of faith in reform of the United Nations Charter; and that my Shabbat blog entries will be about my journey of faith in Zionism. How, within this structure, should I further organize my Sunday writing sessions? 

Well, right now I am thinking deeply about El from a source critical perspective, and how this relates to my journey of faith in Jesus. I'd like to see if I can reach a preliminary solution to the "El problem" by the last Sunday in the second quarter of 2025. Then I will set a new goal for my Q3 Sunday series. Next week I will define what I mean by the "El problem."

(On a side note, L is the 12th letter of the English alphabet and there are 12 apostles in the Christian tradition, just as there are 12 months in a Gregorian year and 12 signs in the tropical zodiac. Christian vegans depend on supplemental vitamin B-12.) 

For those of you who were hoping to read something from Dies Domini, this is a relevant excerpt from paragraph 2 of the Apostolic Letter:

The Resurrection of Jesus is the fundamental event upon which Christian faith rests (cf. 1 Cor 15:14). It is an astonishing reality, fully grasped in the light of faith, yet historically attested to by those who were privileged to see the Risen Lord. It is a wondrous event which is not only absolutely unique in human history, but which lies at the very heart of the mystery of time. In fact, "all time belongs to [Christ] and all the ages", as the evocative liturgy of the Easter Vigil recalls in preparing the Paschal Candle. Therefore, in commemorating the day of Christ's Resurrection not just once a year but every Sunday, the Church seeks to indicate to every generation the true fulcrum of history, to which the mystery of the world's origin and its final destiny leads.

Powerful. Have a blessed week.