{"id":1295,"date":"2016-05-02T08:22:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T06:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2022-05-23T10:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:53:22","slug":"6th-week-of-easter-monday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/05\/02\/6th-week-of-easter-monday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Week of Easter, Monday (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s First Reading Paul arrives in Philippi, his first missionary stop in Europe after spending time evangelizing Asia Minor. In <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2016\/04\/30\/5th-week-of-easter-saturday-2\/\">Saturday<\/a>&#8216;s First Reading we saw the Spirit urging Paul to head to Macedonia, and Philippi is the biggest city in that district. The culture is no longer predominantly Jewish; in Paul&#8217;s time, when there weren&#8217;t\u00a0enough Jewish families to found a synagogue, the Jews of the town would go to pray in a spot outside of it instead, which is why Paul goes to the most likely spot today where Jews would gather in order to share the Gospel with them.<\/p>\n<p>Luke recalls this momentous occasion because Paul does find people there\u00a0who believe and are baptized. We know that a thriving Christian community begins\u00a0there, which is why Paul sends them a letter that we still have today in the canon of Scripture: the Letter to the Philippians.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Spirit sent Paul to Philippi, and also prepared those living there to welcome the Gospel preached by Paul. The Spirit was able to use Paul&#8217;s astuteness and Lydia&#8217;s faith to found a Christian community. Let&#8217;s ask the Spirit today how we can use our talents to help spread the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a0Acts 16:11\u201315;\u00a0Psalm 149:1b\u20136a, 9b;\u00a0John 15:26\u201316:4a.<\/em>\u00a0See also <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/05\/11\/6th-week-of-easter-monday\/\">6th Week of Easter, Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s First Reading Paul arrives in Philippi, his first missionary stop in Europe after spending time evangelizing Asia Minor. In Saturday&#8216;s First Reading we saw the Spirit urging Paul to head to Macedonia, and Philippi is the biggest city in that district. The culture is no longer predominantly Jewish; in Paul&#8217;s time, when there &#8230; <a title=\"6th Week of Easter, Monday (2)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/05\/02\/6th-week-of-easter-monday-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 6th Week of Easter, Monday (2)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,14,39],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-easter","tag-monday","tag-sixth-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-kT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}