Fifth Sunday of Easter 2026 John 14:1-14 Rev. Neli Miranda Today, our Christian spirituality invites us on a journey that leads toward the celebration of the Ascension, which takes place forty days after Jesus’ resurrection. To guide us along this path, the lectionary presents a series of readings that recount the intimate and moving moments Jesus shared with his disciples just before his arrest and crucifixion. For several Sundays, we listen to portions of Jesus’ Farewell Discourse in the Gospel of John, delivered to his first community of disciples during the Last Supper. For the Johannine community, these words held deep significance, and they were preserved so that Jesus’ message might continue to reach disciples throughout the centuries. Today we read from ch...