Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today, Jesus has for us good news and bad news. The good news is that he is eventually going to send the Holy Spirit upon the world. The Holy Spirit will be a new Advocate for us, and … Continued
Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today’s scriptures speak to us about the essence of what it means to live a Christian life. First, as we can see in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, it means making a clean break with … Continued
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings This week we have been hearing in our first readings from the Acts of the Apostles, about the controversy concerning the Gentiles. As the Church grew and grew, many people from all walks of life began to turn … Continued
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings So the goal is for each of us disciples to bear much fruit. That’s how the kingdom of God is built here in our time and place. Jesus says that the way we get there is by remaining … Continued
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Paul was obviously a pretty tough guy. I don’t know about you, but if I barely weathered the storm of people throwing rocks at me and leaving me for dead, I might think twice about how I handled … Continued
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Jesus tells us in the Gospel today that he did not “come to condemn the world but to save the world.” His implication here is that being condemned is our choice. God’s choice is that all of creation … Continued
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings “It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.” You know, I think the name Christian is so common to us that we take it for granted. For those first disciples, there had to be a … Continued
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings Today’s brief Gospel reading begins with the wonderful line, “My sheep hear my voice.” However, I have two problems with that. First, who wants to be compared to sheep? Sheep are not the brightest of animals, and they … Continued
Friday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings Saul is proof that God’s ways are not our ways. How is it that God would pick for one of his chief Apostles a man who imprisoned and murdered the followers of the Christian Way? That had to … Continued
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings Being in the right place at the right time isn’t usually a coincidence. Far more often than we realize, I think it’s the work of the Holy Spirit. Certainly that has to be the case in today’s first … Continued
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