Fifth Sunday of Easter (C), April 28, 2013

It took the apostles some time to come to terms with the reality of Jesus raised from the dead but once they accepted it they had to face the challenges of day-to-day life in the context of their newly aroused faith It was this tension between the mundane reality of ordinary life and the glorious

It is easy to forget how few Christians there were when the church began Acts 1 15 says there were 120 people gathered together after Pentecost Acts also narrates the mass conversions of many people sometimes in the thousands but Robert M Grant said that ldquo one must always remember that fig

One of the most difficult things for Western Christians to grasp is the reality of the miraculous which infuses the whole of the New Testament We labor more than we know under the assumptions of a world that is a closed empirical system from which God is absent Rudolf Bultmann the great 20th-

But we had hoped he was the one to redeem Israel rdquo There it is in a short summary sentence the end of their hope When hope is placed in the past tense it is over You get up share a last word and embrace with your friends dust yourself off and begin to walk home The Greek tense of the v

Palm Sunday of the Passion of our Lord (C), March 24, 2013