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Monday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings So they drag Saint Stephen before the Sanhedrin, and make all sorts of false claims against him. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? In fact, Stephen is in good company. He is brought to the same place where his Lord Jesus, and later Peter and the apostles, have gone before him. And just like all…
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Third Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings There is a big difference in Peter in the Gospel and Peter in our first reading from the Acts of the Apostles today. As the Gospel story begins, we find Peter completely wounded by his past. He had denied his Lord, not once, but three times. Now that the crucifixion and resurrection has…
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Friday of the Second Week of Easter
Today’s readings Once again, the disciples are overjoyed that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the Name. That seems rather counter-intuitive, but when you stop to think about it, given all the possible reasons to suffer dishonor and to be beaten, the best reason is “for the sake of…
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Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today’s first reading is one of the most exciting readings of the New Testament for me. And it’s the angel of the Lord, the Lord’s messenger, who puts it all into crystal clear focus. The angel opens the prison doors as if they weren’t even locked and says to the imprisoned disciples, “Go…
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Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter
Today’s readings Our first reading from Acts this morning tells us that the early Christian community cared for one another deeply, and were generous in that care. They were even selling their possessions to give to those who were in need. Nobody felt needy, nobody felt cheated, nobody felt like they were doing more than…
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Monday of the Second Week of Easter
Today’s readings One of the great things about being Catholic, I think, is the celebration of Easter. We do it up right, and keep doing it for fifty days! In fact, just yesterday we completed our celebration of Easter Day, which lasts for eight full days. It certainly makes sense to us that the joy…
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Easter Saturday
Today’s readings We are confronted in today’s Gospel with something we all have to struggle with, and that is a reluctance to believe. In the disciples’ case, it was a slowness to believe based on the fact that they didn’t really have the resources that we do – like the Gospels and two millennia of…
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Easter Friday
Today’s readings It is always interesting to me that the disciples, who we are told were trained fishermen, never catch anything unless they are with Jesus. Go through the Gospels and you will see that this is true. Their nets always come up empty until he gives the command to cast the nets. Then they…
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Easter Thursday
Today’s readings I’m trying to get a picture of how the disciples were feeling at this point. Prior to today’s Gospel selection, the women found the empty tomb, Peter has seen the Lord, and the two disciples had experienced him in the breaking of the bread on the way to Emmaus. Their minds were most…
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