Both today and yesterday, we hear readings from the 13th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Paul is in in Antioch, addressing the people in the synagogue there about the Good News of Jesus, the message that he brought to the world as the word of salvation. For them, their faith in Jesus, his proclamation of God’s kingdom, and Christ’s death and resurrection: all these things propel their work of Evangelization and their new life in the values of the Gospel. Every Easter season, we hear the story of the founding of the Early Church and of the way in which the early Christians lived out their faith. We are called to be inspired by their zeal and energy. Everyone remembers that the Second Vatican Council called us to modernize the Church and to read the signs of the times of the modern world. But the Second Vatican Council also called us to look back to our roots in the traditions and teachings of the Early Church, to see them as our foundation as a community of believers in what they believed and in what they practiced. Let us never forget Paul and that original group that founded the Early Church. Let us never forget the Mothers and Fathers of the Early Church who passed down the faith to us. Let us forever follow in their footsteps.
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