(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
(Please read the passage before the homily.) In the book of Revelation, John had a vision of a new heaven and a new earth. The old ones had disappeared. We want to see the new heavens and earth, but we … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) Paul was in Antioch in Pisidia. This Antioch lay about 250 miles northwest from the Antioch on the Mediterranean Sea and about two hundred miles south of the Black Sea. Paul usually … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) We have good news, the word of God continued to grow. The Church in Antioch was very cosmopolitan. It had people like Symeon, who was black; like Lucius of Cyrene, from Africa; … Continued
(Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.) Uh-oh, Peter is in trouble. He has been rating and associating with Gentile, those vile people. Why would the great Peter do such a sacrilegious thing? Peter has his reply. He was … Continued