Quick Summary:

During these Sundays of Easter the first readings follow the ARC of Christ’s mission vision in the book of ACTS. YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES, Jesus had told his disciples, IN JERUSALEM, IN JUDEA, SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. Today’s pivotal story tells how the Holy Spirit disrupts
status quo, opening up new territory for the gospel.

Through the chapters before chapter 10, we see the circles of witness grow ever wider. In chapter 10 its takes a great leap forward into gentile territory--which was something the disciple community did not at all anticipate.

Parallel visions by gentile Cornelius and Jew Peter lead to the opening up of a new arena for ministry among non-Jews. The Spirit doesn’t wait for our permission or our assent. The Spirit goes ahead of us, blowing past old conventions and boundaries; disrupting the status quo and bringing old promises to fulfillment in new ways.

An example of this is Father Greg Boyle and Homeboy Industries.