We are coming to the end of the fifty days of the Easter season. During these days we have been reading from the Acts of the Apostles and, for the past few weeks, from the Gospel of John. Today we read the last chapters of those two books. I remember coming to the end of the novel, Shogun, recently made into a mini-series. It was 1312 pages long but I was still upset when it ended. I wanted to know what happened next! Why did the author stop there? We can feel the same way about the Biblical books. What happened to St. Paul? Where did St. Peter get led where he did not want to go? The authors don’t tell us. This is a strategy on their part because the Biblical story only continues in our lives. We aren’t reading ancient history but current events. We have to complete the narrative of how Jesus transforms lives by the way we live ours. We are what happened next. We are the rest of the story.
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By Church Staff
