Daily Prayer & Reflection

It has been over three weeks since we celebrated Easter!  And yet, we are still very much in the middle of the Easter season!  If we stop to think about it, we prepare for Easter throughout the 40 days of Lent, observe Holy Week, and then Easter Sunday...but Jesus was not still finished.  As we know from the Scripture readings from Easter Sunday until Pentecost ( which makes the season a 50-day celebration!), the apostles and followers of Jesus, many hiding in fear, were totally devastated at His death and confused about His resurrection.  Jesus spent these 50 days that we call 'the Easter Season' doing all sorts of things to make clear to all that He, indeed, had risen, was with us in new ways, and would always be, The Acts of the Apostles, which immediately follow the Gospels in the New Testament,  give amazing testimony to the unfolding of understanding that became evident in the rapid spread of this new faith ⏤ Christianity. Taking the time to read this text can be a source of hope and promise to us in today's world.  We have nothing to fear if we live out our own faith and share it with others as the Apostles and Disciples show us how it is done.  

 

Enjoy the rest of this Easter Season and maybe we can all take some good examples from the Acts of the Apostles to use in our day to day lives....alleluia, alleluia!