Lectio Divina: For the Fourth Sunday of Easter

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO JOHN (FIRST READER ONLY)

JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES: "IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU WILL KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS./

AND I WILL ASK MY FATHER, AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER ADVOCATE/

TO BE WITH YOU FOREVER./

THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE/

BECAUSE IT NEITHER SEES NOR KNOWS SUCH A SPIRIT./

BUT YOU KNOW THE SPIRIT, BECAUSE THAT SPIRIT REMAINS WITH YOU/

AND WILL BE IN YOU,/

I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS./

IN A LITTLE WHILE, THE WORLD WILL NO LONGER SEE ME/

BUT YOU WILL SEE ME/

BECAUSE I LIVE AND YOU WILL ALSO LIVE."