2nd week in Easter Time, Tuesday – 18th April 2023 – Acts 4,32-37; Jn 3,7-15
Christian Communal Life
The first reading emphasizes the communal ownership and mutual responsibility of the community members for each other. There are four common elements among them: 1) The believers form a community; 2) They are of one heart and mind, deeply united with each other; 3) No one claimed anything as belonging to themselves; everything was held in common; and 4) They gave witness to the Risen Jesus with great power, through signs and healings. Therefore, there were no rich or poor in this community. Each one’s aim was to ensure that the needs of the others were met rather than their own needs. Their material sharing was simply an expression of the care which they felt for each other at a much deeper level. Do we find such sharing among both religious and parish communities in our Church today? Are we caught up in the individualism, hedonism, consumerism, and materialism that dominates our societies today?
