HIT THE ROAD – One Bread, One Body, May 9, 2014
Acts 9:1-20 | Psalm 117:1-2 | John 6:52-59 “I have been sent by the Lord Jesus Who appeared to you on the road.” —Acts 9:17, our transl. Saul went to Jerusalem and then to Damascus to arrest those who were “living according to the new way” (Acts 9:2)
THE RESURRECTION DESERT – One Bread, One Body, May 8, 2014
Acts 8:26-40 | Psalm 66:8-9, 16-17, 20 | John 6:44-51 “Head south toward the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.” —Acts 8:26 We’ve just spent forty days fasting in the Lenten desert, in imitation of Jesus’ forty-day desert fast (Mt 4:1-2). Now Jesus is risen, and we celebrate the season of Easter, a fifty-day Sunday of feasting and rejoicing. Yet, like Philip, some of …
SUNDAY AFTERNOONS – One Bread, One Body, May 4, 2014
Third Sunday of Easter Acts 2:14, 22-33 | 1 Peter 1:17-21 | Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-11 | Luke 24:13-35 “Were not our hearts burning inside us as He talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?” —Luke 24:32 On the afternoon of His resurrection, Jesus walked about seven miles with two of His disciples and “interpreted for them every passage of Scripture which referred to Him” (Lk 24:27). He did this even though His last three years of teaching the ..
Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Thursday 12 May 2011
Acts 8: 26 – 40 26 But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert road.