A Brief Directive for Church Leaders from the Acts of the Apostles � Archdiocese of WashingtonPOPE: The Second reading from yesterday’s mass (5th Sunday of Easter) is very Catholic and too informative to merely pass up. It presents a Church as rather highly organized and possessed of some the structures we know to day in full form. Granted, some of these structures are in seminal (seed) form, but the ARE there.
We will also notice qualities of the original kerygma that are at variance with what some modern thinkers declare should be the methodology of the Church. The soft, cross-less Christianity of many today who remove the cross and replace it with a pillow and insist merely on inclusion and affirmation is strangely absent in this early setting.
