JESUS, THE G.P.S. – One Bread, One Body, May 18, 2014
Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 6:1-7 | 1 Peter 2:4-9 | Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19 | John 14:1-12 “How can we know the way?” —John 14:5 In recent years, the G.P.S., that is, the Global Positioning System, has become extremely popular. The GPS device knows your exact location on earth. You type into the GPS where you want to go
THE PENTECOST GUILT-TRIP – One Bread, One Body, May 11, 2014
Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 2:14, 36-41 | 1 Peter 2:20-25 | Psalm 23:1-6 | John 10:1-10 “When they heard this, they were deeply shaken.” —Acts 2:37 There were two outpourings of the Holy Spirit at the first Christian Pentecost. At nine AM, one-hundred and twenty people received the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:15; 2:15).
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 …
May 11th 2014 – Fourth Sunday of Easter
Listen Here! What Are We to Do? Readings: Acts 2:14, 36-41 Psalm 23:1-6 1 Peter 2:20-25 John 10:1-10 Easter’s empty tomb is a call to conversion.
OUT OF ORDER? – One Bread, One Body, Apr 27, 2014
Second Sunday of Easter, Mercy Sunday Acts 2:42-47 | 1 Peter 1:3-9 | Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 | John 20:19-31 The brethren “devoted themselves to the apostles’ instruction and the communal life, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” —Acts 2:42 “In the first community of Jerusalem, believers ‘devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and the prayers.’ This sequence is characteristic of the Church’s prayer” ( Catechism, 2624 , … More