From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make…
Month: May 2021
Monday Addition to Sunday Note of May 16
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about…
Brief Friday Note 6th Week of Easter
John 16:12-13a: 12 “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. 13 But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. A footnote in the NABRE explains that Jesus is not saying the Spirit will predict the future, but that the Spirit will illuminate Jesus’ teachings. Those…
Costs and benefits, Acts 16
The first and last sections of this incident (16:16-21 and 16:35-40) are never read in the liturgy, and the center section (16:22-34) is used only as a daily Mass reading on Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter. It is quite a story. Note, the “place of prayer” where Paul and Silas had met and…
Sunday Note Plus, Sixth Week of Easter
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only…
Brief Note for Friday, May 7
Acts 15:7-9, from Friday’s first reading: After much debate had taken place, Peter got up and said to the Apostles and the presbyters, “My brothers, you are well aware that from early days God made his choice among you that through my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the Gospel and believe. And…
What manner of banner? Realism in Acts
Acts 14: 19-23, from Tuesday’s first reading: In those days, some Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But when the disciples gathered around him, he got up and entered the city. On the following day…
Monday additional, Fifth Week of Easter
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: In Sunday’s Gospel, John reveals how to receive whatever you pray for! “[A]sk for whatever you want and it will be done for you.” John 15:7b. All we have to do is “remain.” “Remain” or “abide” is an important word in John’s Gospel. Earlier, Jesus speaks of himself…