Feast of Ascension

The Acts of the Apostles starts with an injunction by the risen Christ to wait. I…

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…