Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter

Homily for Second Sunday of Easter (B), Divine Mercy Sunday

Raphael, *Coronation of the Virgin*, Vatican Museums

Were the first Christians communists? Today’s first reading from Acts of the Apostles says that in the first community of believers, no one claimed any possessions of his own, but they held everything in common. If you teach Acts of the Apostles in a high school, when you get to this passage some kid will inevitably raise his hand and say, “So the apostles—they were communists, huh?”