5th Sunday of Easter (4)

There is one image that holds all the readings today. It is the image of a house. Not a perfect house, but a real one. A place where people live together, where meals are shared, where burdens are noticed, where there is room for those who might otherwise be left outside. …

Have you ever had to return to a place where it once hurt? Where the wounds still whisper, where the memories weigh heavy? The hardest journeys are often those that bring us back—to the roots of pain, to the soil where love must be lived again, even when it hurts.

This …

In today’s readings I think there are two verbs we should take special notice of. The first is ‘encourage’ from our first reading. The selection from the Acts of the Apostles describes the conclusion of St Paul’s first missionary journey where he took the good news of Jesus. …

In today’s first reading we hear how, as a result of the evangelization of the apostles, the number of disciples grew. But as the number of disciples grew, we are told, so did the complaints. In ways that we can identify with today, the complaints ran along the …