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
Wednesday in the Octave of Easter
Reading 1 acts 3:1-10 Peter and John were going up to the temple area for the three o’clock hour of prayer. And a man crippled from birth was carried and placed at the gate of the temple called “the Beautiful Gate” every day to beg for alms from the people who entered the temple.
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).
Tuesday in the Octave of Easter
Reading 1 acts 2:36-41 On the day of Pentecost, Peter said to the Jewish people, “Let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other Apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?” Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.” He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day