Hey, everybody. This is Father John Ricardo with Acts 29. And in the middle of all the craziness

and the uncertainty that's going on right now, it seems from our perspective as a team that it's

worth using these days to reflect in a more deliberate way on the scriptures every day, which

for many of us now is the only spiritual food that we're receiving. And so we're going to do a special podcast series simply entitled,

Be Not Afraid, God's Word in Uncertain Times.

And we'll try to post something every day, usually reflecting on the scriptures,

so that we can listen in on what God is trying to say to us in these days.

A very happy Easter to everybody on this Easter Tuesday. on what God is trying to say to us in these days.

A very happy Easter to everybody on this Easter Tuesday.

I think most of us know, but maybe not all of us,

that the church doesn't celebrate Easter just over one 24-hour day.

She actually celebrates Easter Day for eight days. It's called an octave. And then the season of Easter for 50 days and how appropriate it is in the midst of all that's going on in not just our

country, but in the world that we would take this time to celebrate. The reason that the church does

this is because you can't possibly exhaust in one 24-hour period.

All that is fittingly due to God, most especially at times like this, when we're in the

midst of this pandemic and still so much uncertainty and so much confusion, it's this

feast, namely Jesus' glorious resurrection from the dead, his triumph over the powers of sin and death, which enables you and me, even in the midst of times like these, especially in the midst of times like these, to live our lives with quiet, confidence, hope, and joy.

Because God's done something about the mess that we're in.

So I just want to share a couple of thoughts with you on this Tuesday. First, I just want to begin by sharing a little bit of feedback that I've heard from some folks over the last couple of days, more or less having to do with how I've been speaking

about Jesus actively doing something in his passion,

as opposed to just being the passive victim,

how much that's one either changed their approach to engaging in, reading about, partaking

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