5th Sunday of Easter My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! After preaching in Derbe, Paul and Barnabas finish their missionary work in the province of Asia. Now they retrace their steps, visiting each place where they had preached before. This is amazing, given the [...]
4th Sunday of Easter My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! Paul and Barnabas proclaimed the gospel in Antioch of Pisidia, a key city in the Roman province of Asia. Their initial experience was very positive; the congregation even invited them to return the next [...]
3rd Sunday of Easter My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! This reading is part of yet another dramatic episode from Acts, exhibiting the failure of earthly efforts to curtail the power of the gospel. The high council had the apostles arrested for refusing to abide [...]
2nd Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! The apostle Peter plays a prominent role in the opening chapters of Acts. He has addressed fellow Jews on the feast of Pentecost, cured a man lame from birth, [...]
Easter Sunday My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! In this reading, Luke’s second book reaches a dramatic point. For the first time, the Gospel is proclaimed to a gentile audience. Without God’s initiative in this matter, it is likely the apostles would have continued to [...]
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! A prominent feature in this second portion of Isaiah’s book is the introduction of the suffering servant. This figure is to bring welcome relief from all the prideful figures who dominated [...]
5th Sunday of Lent My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! In spite of Isaiah’s tireless efforts to steer kings and people in the right direction, they chose to invest in earthly forms of security rather than in God. The result of this choice was [...]
4th Sunday of Lent My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! After 40 years of wandering, the people of Israel have at last crossed the Jordan River into the promised land. During the course of this long journey, the generation of Israel that left Egypt died [...]
3rd Sunday of Lent My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! Moses wants to help his people. Without direction from God, however, his efforts have no lasting effect. Fearing the consequences of killing an oppressor, Moses flees to Midian, where he marries Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, a [...]
2nd Sunday of Lent My dear parishioners, God is Good!!! All the time!!! And all the time!!! God is Good!!! In previous chapters of this book, God protected Abraham in Egypt and granted him victory in the land of Canaan. Even so, the great patriarch hesitates to put complete trust in God, especially in God’s [...]