The Good Word

For the mystic—and in heaven—time falls away. Frustration gives way to fulfillment.

“The Bible: A Book for the Family” is this year’s theme for Bible Week, building on the Synod of Bishops on the Family and Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.

The last day of life is like those that precede it. Either we open ourselves to the mystery or we withdraw into the citadel of the self.

To pray is always to call down the eternal into the temporal. That is what we do today for our dead.

This feast day is good time to remember that there is really only one thing about which we should be anxious.

Saul comes to terms with his encounter with the Risen Lord.

In the end—at the end—the human heart has only one plea. It wants to live. It knows that it was not created to go down into the darkness.

Justice and peace are of God. To receive them, the depths of the human must be laid open.

This is the 26th entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This entry deals with the beginning of Saul rsquo s conversion experience For previous entries please now go to the Complete Acts of the Apostle Commentary where you can find links to each of the entries upd