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Why Did Paul Get Arrested at Philippi, and What Can a Sometimes Timid Church Learn From It? By: Msgr. Charles PopeThere is a story of St. Paul’s arrest, beating, and imprisonment at Philippi that serves as a kind of metaphor for the radical nature of true Christianity and why it so perturbs many in this world. The Christian faith, its message, and the transformation it can effect can be very unsettling to a world that figuratively and literally “banks on” sin. Let’s consider this lesser- known story of Paul and see what it ought to mean for us if we take the Christian...

Commemoration of Silas, Fellow Worker of St. Peter and St. Paul Sunday, February 15, 2009 (transferred from February 10) The Rev. Charles Henrickson First Reading: Acts 16:19b-40 Second Reading: 1 Peter 5:5b-12 Holy Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12 “Silas: Fellow Worker, Faithful Brother” (Acts 16:19b-40)Forty years ago this summer, the first moon landing took place, Apollo 11, and the first man set foot on the moon. Many of you probably remember his name, Neil Armstrong. “One small step,” and all that. There was another man on that trip who was the second man to step on the moon, and some of you...

ROBSTOWN, Tex. — Leon Little’s farm here near Corpus Christi would not be seized for Texas’s proposed $184-billion-plus superhighway project for 5 or 10 years, if ever. But Mr. Little was alarmed enough to show up Wednesday night with hundreds of his South Texas coastal neighbors to do what the Texas Department of Transportation has been urging: “Go ahead, don’t hold back.” Don’t worry. Texans have gotten the message, swamping hearings and town meetings across the state to grill and often excoriate agency officials about a colossal traffic makeover known as the Trans-Texas Corridor, a public-private partnership unrivaled in the...

A so-called “NAFTA Superhighway” earned support from the city’s mayor and discussion among residents Monday during a public hearing on the Texas Department of Transportation’s I-69 project. TxDOT held a public hearing at the Brownsville Events Center Monday to explain the progress of the Trans-Texas Corridor, a future segment of Highway I-69, which will link the U.S.-Mexico border to the U.S.-Canada border. After a short presentation, the floor was open for comments. Among the local politicians, college students and retirees at the hearing there was a wide range of opinion on the project. According to Mario Jorge, district engineer for...

Cavs Head Coach Fired UPDATED: 10:28 am EST March 21, 2005 CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Paul Silas was fired Monday. NewsChannel5's Chris Miller was told by Silas' son and assistant coach Steven Silas that Paul was let go before practice this morning. Steven Silas was also let go. Assistant coach Brendan Malone has been named interim coach. Silas had two years left on his contract. The cavs have lost three straight games and are 34-30 now. Silas, 59, had previously been fired by New Orleans after last season. He was chosen to coach the Cavs over former Knicks...

FAMILY FEUD The manuscripts and their classifications and reading will be studied in later pages. What we shall do now is closely scrutinize the centers from which our extant manuscripts have originated. It will be revealed in later study that Biblical manuscripts(MSS) are divided into two major groups. These two groups have been found to disagree with each other in many areas. Every English Bible in existence today will be found to proceed more or less from one of these two groups. The fact that there is ONE God plainly tells us that there cane only be ONE correct reading...