Easter 3, 2022
title: The Third Sunday of Easter author: " St. Paul's, Monroe " date: " May 1, 2022 " Opening ^1a "This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it." ( Ps. 118:24 ) So begins the well-known children's hymn. Today is the day the Lord has given to us. There will never be another like it. Count your blessings. Make every moment count. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Conversion During the season of Easter we hear from a series of readings from The Acts of the Apostles. Popularly this is known as the narrative of the birth of the church. It relates foundational episodes in the early years of the Jesus movement, known in its earliest manifestation as The Way . Today's reading introduces one of the most important episodes from that, the conversion of Saint Paul . The writer of The Acts of the Apostles -- the same author that gave us the Gospel of Luke -- ...