As we contemplate the readings for the fifth Sunday of Easter in the liturgical year, we come to a common theme, and that is that when things get turbulent in our lives, when we go through certain difficulties, when we are at a loss for words to explain what it is we might be enduring in the bitter current moment, it is always wise and good to lean on the Lord, on Jesus, he who has first suffered before us. He who himself felt the bitterness of rejection and abandonment by those who were even closest to him, his apostles.