EASTER WEEK REFLECTIONS

Acts 2:14, 22b-32Psalm 16: 8-11St. Matthew 28: 9-15The appointed lessons for Easter Monday are surprisingly the same as for Easter ...

Acts 2: 36 - 41Psalm 33: 18 - 22St. John 20: 11 - 18"Supposing him to be the gardener...". Magdelene, ...

Acts 3: 1 - 10Psalm 105: 1-8St. Luke 24: 13 - 35   Conversation is something we do not participate in so ...

Acts 3: 11 - 26Psalm 8St. Luke 24: 36b - 48 There are three interlocking components of the resurrection of ...

Acts 4: 1 - 12Psalm 116: 1 - 8St. John 21: 1 - 14 In today’s appointed Gospel, the disciples…or ...

The Book of Acts 1: 1 – 2“In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus ...

The Book of Acts 1: 3 – 11In this opening section, Luke summarizes the apparitions of the Risen Lord, and ...

Acts 1: 12 – 26We are a story telling species. Narratives are how we make sense of our own lives, ...

Acts chapter 2Shavout was a Jewish Festival occurring on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan. This moveable ...

Acts chapter 3Nothing like a powerful experience to make you behave like an idiot. At the conclusion of Acts 2, ...

Acts 4 The priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon Peter and John proclaiming the ...

Acts 5 During the course of thirty-six years of priesthood I’ve heard a hundred versions of: “We talk too much ...

Acts 6 and 7 The Sacrament of Ordination has been around for a long time, with men and more recently ...

Acts 8: 1 - 24 When in Guatemala some years ago my cousin Jeff and I sought out the enormous ...

Acts 8: 26 – 40 The extraordinary octagonal Martyrium of St. Philip the Apostle at Hierapolis is built on the ...

Acts 9: 1 – 9 A paradigm shift, as described by American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn, applies to revolutions ...

Acts 9: 10 - 31 As is common in the Book of Acts, visions are a frequent medium for God’s self-communication ...

Acts 10: 1 – 8 “He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I ...

Acts 10: 9 - 23The Kashrut Laws of Judaism dictate what may and may not be eaten and are enumerated ...

Acts 10: 24 – 48Cornelius, a verified Theophilus, a lover of God, doesn’t have his dogma fully ironed out. When ...

Acts 11My new barber Ramiro came to my house last week and gave me a very decent haircut. Bald men, ...

Act 12Judaism was one of the 1st century religions tolerated by the Roman Empire. As Christianity comes into its own, Hellenizes, ...

Acts 13: 1 - 4Saul is called Paul for the first time in Acts 13. Does this reflect a continuing ...

Acts 13: 5 - 52Few populations in South America have as much over which to feel aggrieved as the Argentines ...

Acts 14St. Paul has long intrigued me, and I have retraced portions of his footsteps on multiple occasions. I'd like ...

Acts 15My seminary, Seabury-Western, was located on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois outside of Chicago. Seabury-Western Theological ...

Acts 15: 36 – 16: 15In the last few verses of chapter 15 we see the culmination of the rift ...

Acts 16: 16 - 40At 4:30 in the morning on Sunday June 28th, 1992 I got out of bed in ...

Acts 17Four centuries prior to St. Paul’s arrival in Athens, the orator Demosthenes chastised his fellow Athenians for their preoccupation ...

Acts 18Back in 1976, ABC, when there were only three television networks, aired a game show called ‘Family Feud’ created ...

Acts 19Ephesus, among the best preserved of archaeological sites, is a dazzling place to visit, and must have been a ...

Acts 20As a boy I always enjoyed slide shows. These were family affairs during visits to the grandparents after dinner ...

Acts 21“Look Homeward Angel,” published in 1929, was Thomas Wolfe’s first novel. It was 40 chapters long, autobiographical, and a ...

Acts 22Learning a language is an affair of the heart. I did not fall for German in seventh grade at ...

Acts 23 - 25The rooster started crowing at 3am outside my small REI wrought tent pitched on the family compound ...

Acts 26 - 27 Luke, our author, accompanies Paul on many of the travels recounted in the Book of Acts ...

Acts 28 I was much given to catching garter snakes as a boy, always keeping a few in a large ...