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In my worry about family members, I sometimes forget that there is always hope—in God. Are there moments you feel you must fix things, forgetting that God is there?
Paul and Barnabas are not successful with the Jews at Antioch in Pisidia. God does not always work in ways we expect. But he does always brings about his own kind of success.
Dreaded chores or cherished hobbies have a centering power that can bring us closer to God.
Paul’s first major address is about God’s relationship with the Israelites: their liberation from Egypt, their capture of the Promised Land, their experience with judges and kings. Finally God sent them a Savior, Jesus.
It doesn’t take much looking in our economy to see that in fact there is a great deal of work that doesn’t pray, work that disconnects us from our sources of life rather than moves us toward wholeness. For work to pray, it must have a sense of vocation attached to it—we must feel some calling toward that work and the wholeness of which it is a part, that there is something holy in good work. Vocation is a calling and prayer is a call and response, deep calling to deep. For work to pray, to be vocation, it must be brought into a larger conversation.
God wants us to be joyful, but sometimes life makes that hard. Here are some tips.
In this week’s Gospel, Jesus tells the disciples that he is the true vine and they are the branches.
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”:
