4 May 2026 – Monday of the 5th week of Easter
H O M I L Y
Dear brothers and sisters,
Today’s Gospel, again taken from chapter 14 of John, as in recent days, takes up the theme of ‘dwelling’. This theme of ‘dwelling’ is linked to that of the ‘way’ taken to reach it. It is also linked to that of love and communion. When we dwell somewhere with someone, when we have chosen to make our home there, this implies that there is a relationship of communion and friendship between us and that person (or those people). Otherwise, it would be hell. “Hell is other people,” said the philosopher Sartre – other people, when there is no bond of communion between them and us.