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Who Are His Sheep?
Monday and Tuesday the Fourth Week of Easter – Acts of the Apostles 11:1-26, John: 10:11-18, 22-30. Yesterday’s and today’s readings are in sequence, both the first reading and the gospel. I’d like to think about them together because this provides a fuller look at how the Church first spread beyond the Jewish enclaves around…
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The Flesh is the Hinge of Salvation
Friday the Third Week of Easter: Acts of the Apostles 9:1-20, John 6:52-59. Today’s readings are two incredibly important passages; one describes Saul’s transformation from persecutor to “chosen instrument” of Christ, and the other gives us Christ’s words that insist upon the literal ingestion of his flesh and blood, which we Catholics likewise insist is…
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Drawn by the Father
Thursday in the Third Week of Easter: Acts of the Apostles 8:26-40, John 6:44-51. Today’s readings describe the action by which we find salvation in Jesus Christ, and it starts by being first drawn by the Father. St. John gives us Jesus’s description of this action in the Discourse of the Bread from Heaven, and…
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The Work of God
Monday of the Third Week of Easter: Acts of the Apostles 6:8-15, John 6:22-29. In today’s readings, we encounter two men — filled with the Holy Spirit and dedicated to the Father — in the moments before they speak with great eloquence to those who do not understand or believe. In the gospel, it is our…
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God’s Ever-Generative Endeavors
Friday of the Second Week of Easter: Acts of the Apostles 5:34-42, John 6:1-15. Today’s readings place two disparate events in context with one another and reveal the ever-generative aspect of God’s reign. In the first reading, a member of the Sanhedrin is inspired to share some wisdom about the divine nature of the spread…
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Community in the Spirit
Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter: Acts of the Apostles 4:32-37, John 3:7b-15. We encounter lessons about the Holy Spirit in both of today’s readings. The first is about the beginnings of the Church in the Apostolic age, an ideal community living in truth, trusting one another, and filled with the Holy Spirit. The…
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From Despondency to Boldness
Friday in the Octave of Easter: Acts of the Apostles 4:1-12, John 21:1-14. Today’s readings show us Peter and John revisiting places that were instrumental in Jesus’s ministry before His death. One scene is marked with despondency and ineptitude, while the other is filled with boldness and perfection. How do they manage to make this…
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Stay With Us
Wednesday in the Octave of Easter: Acts of the Apostles: 3:1-10, Luke 24:13-35. Today’s readings display the natural desire to have Jesus with us, as He was before His death. They also show the dawn of a new, more potent way that Jesus is still with us. This is the advent of the Church, the…