The Spirit Comes to Everyone

During the Easter Season, we read from the Acts of the Apostles, which gives us a history of the early Church.  Today we heard of one of the critical decisions that was made by Peter, that the followers of Christ would not simply be a Jewish sect, but a universal Church.  They would go out to the Gentiles and be part of it.

Sometimes in many ways, we make our God too small.  We have a certain image of God that fits the way we see things.  What we hear today is that the Spirit comes to everyone.  You may have heard the old story of a group of new arrivals in Heaven, and Peter was showing them around.  They came across this big wall, and one of the new members said, “What’s that?”  He said, “Well it’s a sound proof room, and we keep all the Catholics there because they think that they are the only ones who are here.”

Monsignor Daniel Hoye