ONLY JESUS LOVES NOBODIES – One Bread, One Body, Apr 26, 2014
Easter Week Acts 4:13-21 | Psalm 118:1, 14-21 | Mark 16:9-15 “What shall we do with these men?” —Acts 4:15 Like the apostles in today’s Gospel reading, many Christians today are stubborn and lacking in faith (Mk 16:14). Like Peter and John, most Christians in the world are uneducated and unimportant by the world’s standards (Acts 4:13).
HEALING THE HANDICAPPED – One Bread, One Body, Apr 25, 2014
Easter Week Acts 4:1-12 | Psalm 118:1-2, 4, 22-27 | John 21:1-14 “If we must answer today for a good deed done to a cripple and explain how he was restored to health, then you and all the people of Israel must realize that it was done in the name of Jesus Christ.” —Acts 4:9-10 “Many wonders and signs were performed by the apostles” after the first Pentecost (Acts 2:43). The few healings recounted in Acts of the Apostles were chosen to be proclaimed not just because they were healings, but because of their …
A GHOST WRITER – One Bread, One Body, Apr 24, 2014
Easter Week Acts 3:11-26 | Psalm 8:2, 5-9 | Luke 24:35-48 “They thought they were seeing a ghost.” —Luke 24:37 “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us” (Jn 1:14). God became a human being so that we could have a flesh-and-blood, deeply personal relationship with Him. After Jesus’ death, His Incarnation seemed finished
GO BACKWARD TO GO FORWARD – One Bread, One Body, Apr 23, 2014
Easter Week Acts 3:1-10 | Psalm 105:1-4, 6-9 | Luke 24:13-35 “They got up immediately and returned to Jerusalem.” —Luke 24:33 Acts of the Apostles was written over forty years after Jesus’ resurrection. By that time, some of the second generation Christians had lost their first love for the Lord (see Rv 2:4).