April 29, 2011 Friday: Octave of Easter
“By what power or by what name have you done this?”
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, answered them, “...that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.” (John 4:10-12)
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On some Sundays, I like to look through Sunday newspaper inserts. In it I find outdoor store advertising fish finding sonars. I talked to a person who enjoys fishing about these devices, and he said, "Father, it won't work unless you get your boat near where the fish are."
On some Sundays, I like to look through Sunday newspaper inserts. In it I find outdoor store advertising fish finding sonars. I talked to a person who enjoys fishing about these devices, and he said, "Father, it won't work unless you get your boat near where the fish are."
This past Lent and Easter Triduum, we all had some very powerful experiences through mass, homilies, parish mission, and spiritual readings. In our Gospel today, Jesus is instructing us to go back to those experiences and cast our nets there again. There we will find the catch. There we will find our spiritual nourishment. Follow where the Lord points to us where the school of "fish" are.
