Thursday 1st week of Easter Gospel Reading – Luke 24:35-48
The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way, and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them.
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 and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”
The Gospel of the Lord
Mass intention is for P&M K
My friends Jesus has come to bring Peace! Which in Hebrew means
“ To be whole , with nothing missing, nothing broken” Gloria Copeland
The personal question/action for today:
As I reflect on the Risen Lord’s message of Peace, what thoughts go through my mind?
Am I like the disciples coming back from Emmaus who have experienced the Lord Jesus and want to give witness to a relationship with Him?
Am I like the apostles who are fearfully apprehensive about the presence of the Lord Jesus, doubting if He could truly be with us after our sinful actions?
How can I share the experience of the Peace of the Risen Lord with those whom I meet today?
Fr John