These two passages are very familiar ones. I want to focus on something these two passages have in common: through the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Adulteress, we can learn how to forgive ourselves.
Read More“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”-Luke 23:34
Back in November of 2015, I got the chance to venerate the relics of St. Maria Goretti. I learned a lot about Saint Maria Goretti that night.
Read MoreThe story of Jonah is both a comedy and a tragedy. It’s comical because of the irony: a prophet actively trying to hide from God while all the pagan pirates and the city of Nineveh were more than willing to ask God for mercy when the situation calls for it.
Read More“Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…”
Why does anyone need forgiveness? Because at some point in our lives, we hurt God in the same way that Adam and Eve hurt God in the Garden of Eden.
Read MoreBob Marley and the Wailers had it right when they hummed sweetly, “One love. One heart. Let’s get together and feel alright. Give thanks and praise to the Lord.” This is exactly what the apostles at the finally of Acts are doing. We read,
Read MoreCiao Bellas! Today we are coming to the end of Peter’s Pentecost speech. He has been explaining the promise of resurrection through Joel 3 and Psalm 16 to his fellow pious Jews. He’s told them that Jesus is the Messiah whom has been promised for the rebuilding of the Kingdom of Israel
Read MoreBut God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it.For David says of him: ‘I saw the Lord ever before me, with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.
Read MoreIn today’s scripture Peter is taking on his role as leader of the twelve once more. This is the first speech he gives to the disciples dealing with the resurrection of Jesus and its messianic significance.
Read MoreIn the Book of Genesis (11:1-9), the writer tells the story of the Tower of Babel. God jumbles the language of the people working on this Tower so as not to have them become too powerf
Read MoreWhen the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each of them.
Read MoreIn today’s reading we witness Peter taking on his role as leader of the New Church/New Israel. We read that he “stood up in the midst of the brothers (there was a group of about one hundred and twenty persons in the one place)” ready to talk about a painful betrayal in the community. In this time period ‘brother’ could be used to describe any male relative. Also, all female relatives could be labeled as sisters
Read MoreAs I am doing this with you a memory from years ago floats up. I am twenty years old. I have decided to skip out on another year of college. It will be there when I’m ready to buckle down on adulthood. About midway through my year of mission work I am exhausted. Did I mention this is my second year doing this? What was I thinking?! I must be crazy.
Read MoreWhen they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Read More“In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught ,I have always been curious about this Theophilus guy. Who the heck is he? My english brain thinks, “A person with yet another bizarre hard to pronounce name, that’s who!” Why is he important?
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