Today’s Readings – Saturday of Week 4 of Easter - First Reading

Commentary on Acts 13:44-52

We are still with Paul and Barnabas in Asia Minor, where they are proclaiming the message about Jesus as Lord in Pisidian Antioch.  They now have the whole city coming to hear them speak the word of God.  But they now have also incurred the jealousy of some Jews who hurled abuse at the the two men.  Perhaps they believed that the word of God was only for them and not for Gentiles—pearls were not to be thrown to swine.

Paul and Barnabas (Paul is now regularly mentioned first) took this as a sign to transfer their energies to preaching among the Gentiles, who responded enthusiastically.  While Paul’s fellow-Jews in Antioch had shown themselves unfit to hear the Gospel:

It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saint Andrew Bobola, Priest SJ and Martyr

Andrew (Andrzej) Bobola was born in 1591 of an old and distinguished Polish family, in the Palatinate of Sandomir, Poland. In 1611, he entered the Jesuit order in Vilnius, Lithuania and was ordained a priest in 1622. He was subsequently appointed preacher in the Church of St Casimir, Wilno … Continue