"The first reading from Sunday Mass this [past] week (5th Sunday of Easter) is very Catholic, and it's too informative to just pass by. It presents a Church as rather highly organized and possessed of some the structures we know today in full form. Granted, some of these structures are in seminal (seed) form, but the are there.
"One can detect qualities of the original kerygma that are at variance with what some modern thinkers declare should be the methodology of the Church. The soft Christianity of many today, who remove the cross and replace it with a pillow and who insist upon inclusion and affirmation to the exclusion of all else, is strangely absent in this early setting.
"Let's examine the reading (Acts 14:21-27) and see the true path of priests, teachers, and leaders in the Church. . . ."In a recent commentary, Monsignor Charles Pope (pastor of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Parish,
Washington, DC) reflected on the importance of announcing the gospel as good news, admonishing a world obsessed with pleasures to embrace the cross as our
only hope, and being accountable to one another..
To access Msgr. Pope's complete post, please visit:
Community in Mission: Learning from the Early Church: It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God. (16 MAY 22)
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