Category: 6Easter

  • Now with 20% Less Mercy

    John J McNeill – in need of a corrective. ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 6th Week of Easter: Acts 18:23-28 John 16:23b-28 Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the Way of God more accurately. Took him aside and explained… we nearly never do that these…

  • Paul gets all up in the Pagan Air

    No, no! That’s the wrong Damon… +J+M+J+ The Readings for Wednesday in the 6th week of Easter (C1) Acts 16:15, 22-18:1 John 16:12-15 I see that in every respect you are very religious… Paul’s word for “religious” is δεισιδαιμονεστέρους deisidaimonesteros. This is the only place in the Greek scriptures where it is used. It means…

  • Authoritay

    +J+M+J+ The Readings for Tuesday in the 6th week of Easter (C1) Acts 16:22-34 John 16:5-11 (Who proceeds from the Father…) I will send him to you. I’m not going to defend the Filioque clause with this essay except by accident. I’m continually asked why I left Orthodoxy for Catholicism traveling from east to west,…

  • Neither fish nor fowl.

    The Heavenly Banquet? +J+M+J+ The Readings for 6th Sunday of Easter (C1) Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23 John 14:23-29 The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb. If you paid any attention to the passage from Revelation…

  • Filling All Things with Light

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Solemnity of the Ascension (B2) Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 4:1-13 Mark 16:15-20 Propter quod dicit : Ascendens in altum, captivam duxit captivitatem : dedit dona hominibus. Quod autem ascendit, quid est, nisi quia et descendit primum in inferiores partes terrae? Qui descendit, ipse est et qui ascendit super omnes caelos, ut…

  • Paul on the Hill of Athens

    Today’s Readings: Acts 17:15, 22—18:1 John 16:12-15 {The Spirit} will guide you to all truth. John 16:13What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. Acts 16:23 I love that these two readings are a set, coming as we ramp up to Pentecost. The entire mystery of Passover is about to be revealed to the…

  • Serve’n’Wash’n’Serve

    Today’s Readings: Acts 16:22-34 John 16:5-11 He took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized at once. He brought them up into his house and provided a meal and with his household rejoiced at having come to faith in God. Acts 16:33b-34…

  • Wash’n’Serve

    Today’s readings: Acts 16:11-15 John 15:26-16:4A After Lydia and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home.”  Acts 16:15a What’s the first thing the new believer wants to do? Serve. The natural sense of the clergy is to…

  • Sanctify in Y’all’s Hearts.

    Today’s Readings: Acts 8:5-8, 14-1 1 Peter 3:15-18 John 14:15-21 Dominum autem Christum sanctificate in cordibus vestris, parati semper ad satisfactionem omni poscenti vos rationem de ea, quæ in vobis est, spe. Sed cum modestia, et timore, conscientiam habentes bonam.Sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh…