Saturday of Easter
April 11, 2026
Go Into The Whole World
and Proclaim the Gospel.
Acts 4:13-21 | Mark
16:9-15
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Today's
Readings:
Acts
4:13-21 The
rulers were astonished at the boldness of Peter and John, recognizing they were
ordinary men who had been with Jesus. They ordered them to stop speaking in His
name. Peter and John answered, “we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen
and heard.”
Mark
16:9-15 Jesus
appeared first to Mary Magdalene. She told the others, but they did not believe
her. He appeared to two disciples walking in the country and they told the rest
but again they were not believed. Then He appeared to the Eleven and rebuked
them for their hardness of heart. He said, go into the whole world and proclaim
the Gospel.
Today's
Thread: Ordinary people. Unstoppable mission.
The rulers saw
two fishermen with no formal training and were astonished at their courage.
Mary Magdalene told the truth and wasn't believed. The two disciples shared
what they saw and weren't believed either. None of the people in Saturday's readings had
credentials. They just had an encounter, and an encounter changes everything.
Living
It Today:
You don't need a
theology degree, a title, or a platform. You just need to have an encounter with
Jesus. That's what made Peter and John unstoppable, not their education but
their encounter. Your faith story, however ordinary it may sound to you, is
somebody else's missing piece that will help them in their faith journey.
Something to sit with today:
Bold Faith at Any Cost
When the world
tells you to silence your faith, when the pressure mounts, when the room turns
cold, when staying quiet would be so much easier, that's the moment your faith
reveals what it's truly made of.
Peter and John
didn't just believe in Jesus. They had encountered Him. They had seen things
with their own eyes and heard things with their own ears that made silence not
just difficult, but impossible. Even under threat, even facing rulers with the
power to punish them, they looked their accusers in the eye and declared:
"We cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."
That wasn't
manufactured bravery. That was the overflow of a life genuinely and radically
transformed.
So, here's the
question worth sitting with:
If someone told
you to stop talking about your faith, could you say the same?
Not "Would
you be brave enough?", but has your encounter with Jesus been so real, so
undeniable, so deeply woven into who you are, that staying silent simply isn't
an option?
Bold faith
doesn't wait for perfect conditions. It doesn't shrink when the cost gets real.
It speaks anyway, not because it isn't afraid, but because what it has
witnessed is too real to contain.
The only question
is: Do you love Jesus so much that it makes silence impossible?
Rosary Man Jim 🌹
