Homily for Thursday
2d Week of Easter
April 16, 2026
Acts 5: 27-33
Christian Brothers, St.
Joseph’s Residence, N.R.
The apostles before the Sanhedrin
(John T. Squires website)
“You want to bring this
man’s blood upon us” (Acts 5: 28).
Precisely! tho not in the
sense meant by the high priest. The
apostles want the leaders of their people, and the entire nation, to be washed
by the blood of Christ. That’s why
they’re defying the Sanhedrin’s prohibition of preaching about Jesus (Acts
4:17,21). That’s why they continue to
announce his resurrection and his place at God the Father’s side, “granting
Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins” (5:31).
To bring repentance and
forgiveness to the whole human race thru Christ’s blood remains the mission of
his Church, which “must obey God rather than men” (5:29). In defiance of the powers of the earth, we
will preach peace, human dignity, and the rights to life and liberty that God
gives to every one of his children. “We
are witnesses” (5:32) to God’s universal love expressed in Jesus our Lord,
risen and pouring forth from his pierced heart his sacrificial blood.
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