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GOSPEL POWER |APRIL 18, 2021 SUNDAY
GOSPEL POWER |APRIL 18, 2021
SUNDAY | 3rd Sunday of Easter | Gospel: Lk 24: 35 – 48
The two disciples recounted what had happened on the road, and how Jesus had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread. While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and
still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you — that everything written about me in the
law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
REFLECTION
“Fulfillment” rather than “random tragedy” is the apt description of what happened to Jesus of Nazareth. His death was purposeful. It was a representative-death, signifying our own death to what St. Paul calls the “old-self” — the toxic self-centeredness that blocks life-giving connections with God and with others. It was a self-sacrifice that accomplished God’s will to empower us for genuine freedom. But empowerment does not happen automatically. God does not impose his gifts, but awaits human receptivity. And the way to receive the gift of redemption and make it fruitful in one’s life is through a commitment to interior work that will bring about metanoia or repentance — having new wineskins to contain the gift of new wine.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, grant that our gratitude for the gift of redemption be expressed in genuine repentance. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER |APRIL 18, 2021
SUNDAY | 3rd Sunday of Easter | Gospel: Lk 24: 35 – 48
The two disciples recounted what had happened on the road, and how Jesus had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread. While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and
still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you — that everything written about me in the
law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
REFLECTION
“Fulfillment” rather than “random tragedy” is the apt description of what happened to Jesus of Nazareth. His death was purposeful. It was a representative-death, signifying our own death to what St. Paul calls the “old-self” — the toxic self-centeredness that blocks life-giving connections with God and with others. It was a self-sacrifice that accomplished God’s will to empower us for genuine freedom. But empowerment does not happen automatically. God does not impose his gifts, but awaits human receptivity. And the way to receive the gift of redemption and make it fruitful in one’s life is through a commitment to interior work that will bring about metanoia or repentance — having new wineskins to contain the gift of new wine.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, grant that our gratitude for the gift of redemption be expressed in genuine repentance. Amen.