Note to the Reader:The Easter Acclamation is to be used as a call-and-response “refrain” throughout the sermon, repeating it three times at the end. Alleluia! Christ is risen!The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! Or is he? Book after book, magazine article after magazine article, movie after movie, all try to tell us just who this…

On this Easter Sunday, it is a good thing to turn to that rather neglected book in the canon, the Acts of the Apostles. It is full of wonderful stories, intimate and touching stories of a great variety of people. St. Peter dominates the first part of the book and St. Paul the second half….