(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) It is close to the feast of Pentecost, which brings to a close the Easter Season. The privileged readings for the Easter Season is the Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) This is Paul’s only preaching to a Christian audience. The context is that Paul’s missionary work is coming to an end. He looks back into the past, acknowledges the present and looks … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) In this passage we meet two people who are migrants. Priscilla and Aquila have come from Rome to Corinth. Apparently, they were Jewish people who believed in Jesus. They left Rome when … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) St Francis admonished his brother to spend two years living with a people before preaching to them about Christ. He wanted them to know the people, their customs and heritage. St Paul … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) Lydia was a dealer in the purple dye industry. Purple dye was made from the bladder of the murex shellfish. It took about 60,000 murexes to make one pound of the dye. … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) The mountain of God is huge and enormous. On this mountain is the City of God, called the New Jerusalem. In the days of the Apostles, before we had airplanes, the walls … Continued
Mis hermanas hermanos, La montaña de Dios es grande y muy larga. Hay en esta montaña la ciudad santa de Dios que se llama la nueva Jerusalén. En los días de los apóstoles, cuando no había los aviones, las murallas … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) Paul and Barnabas had returned from the first missionary journey, during which many Gentiles had come to believe. They returned to their home base in Antioch. Their stories brought great joy to … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) There was tension in the early Church. It was liberals against conservatives, Democrats versus Republicans, native Jewish Christians versus upstarts from pagan territories, and strict constitutionists versus broad interpretationalists. The apostles had … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) Three times Luke, who wrote both the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, describes the healing of crippled people, one in the Gospel (5:17-26), two in Acts (3:1-10 … Continued