Heavenly Father, we are poor reflection of your Son, Jesus Christ. Help us Lord and bring us back to you. Spirit of light, burn in our hearts. Guide our steps help us to follow the steps of your Son instead of following the dictates of our own stubborn heart. Our hearts are soil and your words are seeds. May they germinate into a rich harvest as they are being sown into our hearts. H.G. Psalm 62
Fifth Sunday of Easter 'I am going now to prepare a place for you' First Reading Acts 6:1-7 They elected seven men full of the Holy Spirit About this time, when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenists made a complaint against the Hebrews: in the daily distribution their own widows were being overlooked. So the Twelve called a full meeting of the disciples and addressed them, ‘It would not be right for us to neglect the word of God so as to give out food; you, brothers, must select from among yourselves seven men of good reputation, filled with the Spirit and with wisdom; we will hand over this duty to them, and continue to devote ourselves to prayer and to the service of the word.’ The whole assembly approved of this proposal and elected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, together with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus of Antioch, a convert to Judaism. They presented these to the apostles, who prayed and laid th...

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