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Constancy and Communion

Constancy and Communion

In today’s reading both Paul and Jesus stress the importance of being sent into the world to be signs of God’s love while remaining faithful to the communion and teaching received from them. In the first reading from Acts, Paul gives his farewell address to the...

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Complete Joy

Complete Joy

We are rapidly approaching the end of the Easter season. Each year we celebrate this season to renew our joy. Our joy as Christians has its root in the Christ’s victory over sin and death, the resurrection, and our undeserving incorporation into the resurrection....

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Peace

Peace

In today’s gospel we read: “I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world.” (John 16:33) The word “this” refers to all that Jesus has told his disciples in this and the...

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Be Not Afraid

Be Not Afraid

In today’s first reading the Lord tells Paul, “Do not be afraid.”  The Lord does not promise Paul a carefree life.  Indeed, Paul is hauled before the proconsul Gallio by the Jews in Corinth and accused of “inducing people to worship God contrary to the law.” ...

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Joy

Joy

Today’s Gospel comes from Jesus’ prayer and discourse during the Last Supper. He is trying to prepare the apostles for his imminent passion, death, and resurrection. He says: A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see...

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Paul and the Athenians

Paul and the Athenians

The Apostles have been commissioned to preach the Gospel to the whole world: “But you will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8).  In...

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Blessing and Praising God

Blessing and Praising God

Today we see an amazing attitude in Paul and Silas – an attitude that has been largely forgotten by modern day Christians. After preaching they are arrested. At the public trial the whole crowd of people present there spoke against them. As a result, they were beaten...

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Spirit and Persecutions

Spirit and Persecutions

The readings for today continue the account of the early Church as told in the Acts of the Apostles and continues the Farewell Discourse from the Gospel of John in which Jesus, on Holy Thursday, after the Last Supper, is still working to encourage and prepare his...

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Much Debate

Much Debate

Controversy and debate are not something new in the church.  As we hear in today’s first reading even in the earliest church there was “much debate.”  Luke begins this chapter by presenting the reason for this debate: “Some who had come down from Judea were...

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