Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter

Readings of the day: RB Prol. 45-50

Mass: Ac 16:22-34; Resp Ps 138; Jn 16:5-11

 

Traditional site of Paul's and Silas' prison
(https://revsshaffer.com/2014/05/20/first-glance-acts-1616-40/)

LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD AND GIVE GLORY TO GOD,

FOR THE LORD OUR GOD REIGNS, ALLELUIA.

(Entrance Antiphon, Mass)

Do you wonder why Paul and Silas were stripped and beaten with rods? The weekday lectionary leaves out interesting details between yesterday’s account of Lydia and her household and today’s narrative of the jailer and his family. You can read for yourself Ac 16:16-21 about the girl with an oracular spirit who was annoying Paul. Paul had enough and said to the spirit: I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. ‘Then the spirit came out at that moment.’ Paul’s command impresses me as it relates to what he says to the jailer today: Believe in the Lord Jesus and your household will be saved. Not long after, the jailer ‘and all his family were baptized at once.’ The POWER of the NAME of JESUS.

She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus,

because he will save his people from their sins.

(Mt 1:21)

If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.

(Jn 14:13)

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and

believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.

(Rm 10: 9-10)

At the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

(Ph 2:10-11)