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The story about Saul and the Jerusalem community reminds us how important it is to affirm one another within our contemporary parish settings. We must welcome and integrate those who are new to the community.
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
April 28, 2021
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Acts 12:24-13:5a
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When we move low, back toward the soil from which we can learn the lessons of our true humanity, we are able to enter a kind of peace. Humility is not about struggle or diminishment but rather is the relief that we are not God, that we are mere creatures. Wendell Berry gives voice to this truth in one of his most popular poems, “The Peace of Wild Things”:
Rain helps this author slow down and connect with God.
We may not be able to control what goes on in the world, but we can control how we react to it. This prayer can help us stay focused.
A loving, nightly ritual with her young son teaches a mom more than she expected.
When the Jerusalem community sent Barnabas to Antioch he was deeply impressed by what he found. Many Gentiles there were ready to accept Jesus as Lord.
Humility, by helping to return us to the integrity of our humanity, which involves an acceptance of our particularly human creatureliness, also helps to make our lives more coherent, more integrated.
Old wooden floorboards have saved my sanity more than a few times. In the right light, they’re practically a cloister walk.
When the Spirit descended on a Roman centurion and his entourage, it became clear to Peter that Gentiles could–indeed should–be baptized.
