Before we go any further with the First Letter to the Corinthians, I would like us to first have a look at the Gospel today, as it invites us to reflect a little bit more on the themes we have talked about in the two past weeks. Luke presents us a Jesus “filled with the…

As we celebrated the Lord’s Baptism last week, we spent some time thinking about what baptism is for all of us and what it means for our lives as Christians. We noticed in Luke’s Gospel, as well as in the Book of Acts, that baptism is about “water and fire” – according to the terms…

As we remember today Jesus’s Baptism, the lectionary offers us as a New Testament reading a short extract taken from the Book of Acts, Chapter 8, and it’s about the baptism of the Samaritans. A few verses before our passage (v.5), we are told that Philip had started “proclaiming the Messiah” in Samaria, he has…