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April 26, 2015Fourth Sunday of Easter    Reading 1 Acts 4:8-12 Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said:“Leaders of the people and elders:If we are being examined todayabout a good deed done to a cripple,namely, by what means he was saved,then all of you and all the people of Israel should knowthat it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazoreanwhom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead;in his name this man stands before you healed.He is the stone rejected by you, the builders,which has become the cornerstone.There is no salvation through anyone else,nor is there any...

Sunday May 6, 2001 Fourth Week of Easter Reading I (Acts 13:14, 43-52);Reading II (Rev. 7:9, 14b-17) Gospel (St. John 10:27-30) When we look at the readings that the Church gives to us today, it may leave us shaking our heads a little bit because they are a whole series of seeming contradictions. In the first reading, the Jewish people had stirred up a violent protest, a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. Paul and Barnabas shake the dust from their feet and walk away rejoicing. One could ask, on the natural level, "How many of us would do that?" If...