Saturday of the 6th week of Eastertide
Saint Bernardine of Siena, Priest
First reading – Acts 18:23-28
“When he arrived there he was able by God’s grace to help the believers considerably by the energetic way he refuted the Jews in public and demonstrated from the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ”. In this passage of the Acts of the Apostles, we see Apollos who is very talented. We read, “He was an eloquent man, with a sound knowledge of the scriptures, and yet, though he had been given instruction in the Way of the Lord and preached with great spiritual earnestness and was accurate in all the details he taught about Jesus, he had only experienced the baptism of John”. He was very talented and very knowledgeable but only experienced the baptism of John. Priscilla and Aquila trained him and gave him further instruction about the Church. He was humble enough to accept that. Moreover we read that he was able to help the believers by God’s grace. So Apollos, so talented, needed the training from Priscilla and Aquila along with the grace of God, to help the believers. The humility to accept the training from others and the openness to the grace of God are necessary to become real instruments of God to demonstrate that Jesus was the Christ. Both this come from the Holy Spirit. Let’s reflect: Do I have the humility to accept the training from others and the openness to God’s grace?
Saturday 20 May
