列印 O Christ God, You have ascended in Glory,
Granting joy to Your disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit.
If you have risen with Christ,
Set your hearts seek the things that are above, not the things that are on earth.
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Acts 1:1-11
In the first part of my work,
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I was very sure that my parents would give me what I want. I knew that they love me.
Jesus draws me right into his life, fully and generously offering me the relationship with his Father that he has.
"Whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you"
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Acts 18:23-28
After spending some time there,
列印 Lydia, a devout woman who was a dealer in the purple-dye trade.
She must have been a woman of some means.
When Paul preached the gospel to her and some other women in Philippi,
‘the Lord opened her heart to accept what Paul was saying’.
Jesus promises to send the Advocate, the Spirit of truth, from the Father,
to empower us to witness to our relationship in him.
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Acts 16:11-15
So, we put out to sea
列印 As long as we have faith in God we will rejoice in the end.
Pain and the varied difficulties of life need not be the final word for the follower of Jesus.
Pain often turns to joy, and in every small 'death' in life is the hope of rising into a deeper life with Jesus.
Enduring presence of the Risen Jesus with us at all times, wherever we happen to be,
St. Damien Joseph de Veuster of Molokai, priest/St. John of Avila, priest & doctor
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Acts 18:9-18
One night, in a vision,
列印 The first commandment that Jesus gives His disciples before His passion is for them to love one another.
The love of Jesus felt from the Father, He now shares with His disciples.
The love of Jesus felt from the Father, He poured out to His only-begotten Son. The Son in turn shared it to his friends.
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Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48
As Peter was about to enter,
列印 We will be willingly and gladly heard. We will sometimes be treated rudely, harshly, unkindly, uncharitably,
sometimes even inhumanely. Not only misunderstanding, All throughout this ordeal though.
we lean on the power and strength of the Holy Spirit: our Advocate and Comforter.
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Acts 18:1-8
After this,
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“God so loved the world that he gave his only Son”.
Jesus asking the disciples to abide in his love, He also wants them to remember,
and transform it into energies of love, facing hatred with the power of love.
Jesus frankly tells His disciples the lot they will face in the future,
It would be a hard life.
We must therefore care for the world – and not just for people, but for the created world as well.
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Acts 16:1-10
Paul traveled on,
列印 The Father gives everything he has and is to the Son; the Son gives everything he has and is to the Spirit.
The Spirit is the promised Helper who will guide the disciples into the whole truth.
The Spirit will continue to move forward what the Father through Jesus has inaugurated.
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now”
The disciples “cannot bear” certain things now but will — through the Spirit — be guided “into all the truth”
1st Reading: Acts 17:15, 22-18:1
Paul was taken
列印 Saint Philip was one of the Twelve Apostles. He was most likely a follower of Saint John the Baptist.
After Pentecost, James became the first bishop of the Church in Jerusalem.
…he was thrown from the pinnacle of the temple, and was beaten to death with a club.”
What we know for certain about these two disciples,
They were uniquely chosen by the Savior to continue His divine mission of evangelizing the world.
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1 Corinthians 15:1-8
Let me remind you,
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列印 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father
—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.
" The Holy Spirit dwelling in us and linking us to the Father as he linked Jesus to the Father. "
Paul and Silas converted the jailer and baptized his entire household.
Once again, the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus had promised strengthened them.
The Holy Spirit is always there to strengthen and empower us.
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Acts 16:22-34
So they set the crowd
列印 Saint Athanasius, whom we honor today.
Athanasius was born in Alexandria, in northern Egypt, in 293.
The fourth century bishop is known as “the father of orthodoxy” for his absolute dedication to the doctrine of Christ's divinity.
Arius taught that the Father created the Son, making the Son subordinate to the Father and neither co-eternal nor co-equal with Him.
Finally, at a Church council in Nicaea, called by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great.
The Nicene Creed got it right, and today’s saint made sure of it.
St. Athanasius, bishop & doctor
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Acts 15:7-21
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