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Yesterday we dicussed the readings for the 4th Sunday of Easter, B Cycle. Some of the people in the group had attended a showing of the movie The Robe the previous Saturday, and some had attended a lecture on conditions in the world at the time of St. Paul (specifically in Corinth) so there was greater than usual interest in the historical background of Acts, as well as of the times of Jesus and the Gospel. A good part of our discussion involves looking for similarities and differences between lidw in our time and Biblical times. We spent a little time picking out some variations in the words in our different Bibles, such as finding both ‘love’ and ‘mercy’ used in the same place, or ‘thanks’ and ‘praise’ similarly standing for the same thing.