The Acts of the Apostles starts with an injunction by the risen Christ to wait. I…
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6th Sunday of Easter – FIRST IMPRESSIONS
What I find astounding in the Acts reading today is that the Samaritans accept Phillip’s preaching…
6th Sunday of Easter
I have friends who have been married for 40 years and say that they have had…
5th Sunday of Easter – FIRST IMPRESSIONS
It is said that an optimist looks at a half glass of water and sees it…
5th Sunday of Easter – Year A
Our reading from Acts today describes a scene from the earliest days of the church. The…
3rd Sunday of Easter – FIRST IMPRESSIONS
At an earlier time in ministry, when I lived in rural South Carolina and Virginia and…
3rd Sunday of Easter – FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The time frames for today’s readings require us to put aside our usual sequential, way of…
2nd Sunday of Easter – FIRST IMPRESSIONS
In a college philosophy course the topic of the day was, “What distinguishes humans from animals?”…
Easter Vigil – FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The story of the Resurrection begins for us with an empty tomb. Not the way I…
Easter Vigil – FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Today readers of Matthew’s Gospel welcome the re-appearance of an angelic figure. The attentive reader is…