Saturday of 5th Week in Easter Rejected With Christ Introduction The world that has rejected Christ hates Christ and his disciples; it persecutes them because the lifestyle of a good Christian is a silent condemnation of […]
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Friday of 5th Week in Easter You Are My Friends Introduction Fraternal love among Christians, but also love of all people for one another, without boundaries or reservations is inseparable from friendship with God. Both loves are in fact one. For Christians, human relations have a religious content and express a religious relation. […]
Thursday of 5th Week in Easter All Are Welcome In the Church Introduction In full collegiality, the apostles decided at the Council of Jerusalem that the Church is to be open to all without any distinction. All are saved in the same way: through Jesus Christ. God loves all people. That must have been […]
Wednesday of 5th Week in Easter One in the True Vine — Factions in the Church Introduction Implanted by baptism in Christ, the true vine, and therefore, by vocation and by our being Christians, we are called to be one in him, however we often fall apart into factions because of our background […]
Tuesday of 5th Week in Easter The Peace of Christ Introduction In carrying out his mission of proclaiming the Gospel, Paul and Barnabas with him, is persecuted, stoned, driven from one place to another. He doesn’t give up; he continues founding local communities and giving them a basic structure of leadership, so […]
Monday of 5th Week in Easter God Living in Us Introduction In the first reading, Luke shows Paul working the same signs among pagans as Peter among the Jews (here the cure of a crippled person), and preaching the same message. In the Gospel, Christ speaks of God’s indwelling. In the Old […]
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Love Is Inventive See How They Love One Another Greeting (See Second Reading) God lives among his people, he makes his home among us in his Son Jesus Christ. In Jesus, may he be our God-with-us. The Lord be with you. R/ And also with you. Introduction by the […]
MATTHIAS, APOSTLE, Feast Introduction Matthias was elected by the apostles to replace Judas, the traitor, because he had been a disciple of Jesus from the very beginning, from the time when Jesus was baptized by John until the ascension. His qualification was, then, that he could witness to the risen Christ. And so should […]
Friday of 4th Week in Easter The Way, the Truth, the Life Introduction In the synagogue, Paul proclaims the risen Christ. That Christ is risen is not merely an important event of the past: it is, as Paul says, “a message of salvation meant for you. We have come here to tell […]
Thursday of 4th Week in Easter Servants With Christ Introduction In his preaching, Paul presents Christ as the one who is coming which the whole Old Testament was leading to, and John the Baptist as the immediate announcer of Jesus’ appearance of that fulfillment. Jesus had told his disciples quite insistently and emphatically […]