Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him, saying, ‘Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?’ Then Peter began to explain...
“Truly, O people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you. Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet...
It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught by God.” Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. (John 6:45) In my text of last Thursday, I spoke to you about Peace, in a perspective of faith, being seen as a certitude...
Christ “is the image of the unseen God, the first-born of all creation; for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible… all things were created through him and for him. He exists before all things and in him all things hold...
Tucked away in a corner of my guest room, there is a stack of worn-out photo albums. Inside them, pictures of my family: my childhood, my parents, my grandparents, sometimes at home, sometimes in strange and unpredictable places. My own family preserved remarkably little of this material, which I regret,...
We wanted to kill Love – Carried by the Easter liturgy, I decided to write a series of 3 texts to help us see this time of imposed confinement as Good News. I would like to say that in my life I try to apply this maxim in a perfectly...
In his book “The Greatest Miracle in the World” the philosopher Augustine “Og” Mandino presents an interview of God with the human entitled. “The Memorandum of God”, which would leave no human indifferent, and here are some excerpts: Be aware of my message, I hear your cry… He has come...
Readings for April 21 Psalm 37, verses 32, 33 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom * and their tongue speaks what is right The law of their God is in their heart * and their footsteps shall not falter Romans 5, verse 1 Therefore, since we are justified by...
Today’s appointed psalm uses the phrase ‘(God’s) steadfast love is eternal,‘ twenty-six times. The phrase ‘steadfast love,’ which in Hebrew is hesed, is found in the New Jewish Publication Society’s translation. Hesed, God’s steadfast love is revealed and continues to reveal the character of God for the Jewish people. In...
Today we read of the second miracle of fish in John 21. The first miracle of fish is in Luke 5 at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. There, Jesus was in the boat, now Jesus, in a post resurrection appearance is on the shore waiting to have breakfast with the...
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. …. But...
Well, here we are on Tuesday in Easter week, and though I know that Easter arrived on Sunday, somehow it feels like we’re still in an in-between place, more like Holy Saturday than the joyous, springlike, hope-filled Easters I remember from more than sixty years of life. I loved our...