Today’s Readings – Friday of Week 7 of Easter - First Reading

Commentary on Acts 25:13-21

We are now moving rather quickly to the end of Acts.  We have to finish between today and tomorrow, which is the end of the Easter season.  Next week we will return to what is called “Ordinary Time".

After Paul was rescued from the uproar in the Sanhedrin, a group of Jews were determined to assassinate Paul and were concocting a plot to bring it about.  However, Paul’s nephew got wind of it and passed the information to the Romans.  So Paul was taken away from Jerusalem and sent under heavy guard to Governor Felix in Caesarea to await formal charges from his Jewish accusers. 

Both the Jews and Paul presented their case to Felix in the most flattering terms.  Felix was rather sympathetic to Paul and was apparently aware of Christian be … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr

Boniface was born at Crediton in Devon, England, in 675 AD and baptised with the name Wynfrith (Winfred). The name means “Friend of Peace”, possibly because his father was a Saxon and his mother a Briton, to show that the two peoples had come together.

He entered a monastery at Nurs … Continue