YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

"You'll Never Walk Alone" was part of Carousel, Rogers and Hammerstein's 1945 Broadway musical. Many artists have covered this song. These include Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Lettermen, Elvis Presley, and, my favorite, The Righteous Brothers. Sunday's lection reminds me of the song.

If Pentecost happened 50 days after Jesus’s resurrection in Acts, in John it happened on Holy Week. (The Spirit comes on Easter evening.)

Sunday's reading is part of the gospel's Farewell Discourse. Jesus, bidding his disciples goodbye, promises the coming of the Advocate or Comforter. Jesus knows the sadness they feel so he promises them someone who will take his place: someone who will do more for them than he did; someone who will help them bear their sorrows; someone who will always be there for them; someone who will always lead them to seek truth-- the truth that sets people free.

Someone who will make sure that, through life's storms, they will never, ever, walk alone.


*art, "Pentecost," JESUS MAFA, 1973 (Cameroon), from the vanderbilt divinity library digital archives.
The Righteous Brothers singing "You''ll Never Walk Alone."
The Ed Sullivan Show, November 7, 1965.