Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B
Taken from LWPT Meditations
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Meditation - 6th Sunday of Easter Year B
Acts 10: 44-48
Psalm 98
1 John 5: 1-6
John 15: 9-17
“They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” (Acts 10 v 47).
The first gentile believers were not like the Jewish Christians who had a life-long knowledge of the scriptures. Nor was their experience of coming to faith the same. The first Jewish Christians had known about Jesus, many had met him. Some of them would have been baptised by John when he came preaching repentance as the forerunner of Jesus’ ministry. They may have been amongst those who experienced the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, or they may have received the Spirit at the laying on of hands as other Christians prayed for them. They may also have spent time sharing in the ministry of making disciples – teaching, healing, witnessing to their faith...
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