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Not every good is mine to do. Important as some good things are, I cannot say yes to every good thing without having to say no to my vocation, the primary good thing that Lord has given me to do.

People do convert every day. People do change every day. People do respond to that basic Gospel message every day. If we don’t see it, it might be because we keep the message to ourselves too much.

Peter's bold Pentecost sermon is a reminder to us that God works all things for good.

We do not have to imagine what it was like being a part of the earliest community of Christians because we can live the way they lived. We too can devote ourselves to studying our faith, to living in communion, to Mass, and to a regular life of prayer.

Peter emphasizes Jesus’ ministry, Passion, and bodily Resurrection, such that they “ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.” This stubborn insistence of the Apostles that a dead man came back to life–and not just the same kind of life he had before death but to a new way of existing with a human body–is the central and definitive claim of Christianity.