19/04/2026

Third Sunday of Easter

The Mass Readings for today present to us the experiences of those who had first known Jesus as "true man". 

Peter had been his companion for three years listened to his words, witnessed the miracles but knew that he had failed to be with him as he went through the agony that culminated in his death on the cross.

Luke had known Mary, the Mother of the Lord and the other Apostles and was able to confirm that his Gospel was as factual as the Acts in which he himself had played a part.

All that I strive to be and understand about my life depends on the Resurrection. Paul writes "If Jesus had not been risen from the dead then our faith is in vain" and it is this faith that enables Peter to proclaim:

 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God,

and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit,

he has poured out this which you yourselves are seeing and hearing.’

having accepted the forgiveness won for him by the "Precious Blood".

By the time that the first letter of St Peter was written, 30 or so years after the Resurrection, the man Jesus had become to be recognised as the "Son of God", the Eternal Word who was always with God in the beginning WITH  Holy Spirit which confirmed that IAMIAM is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and the Last Supper had become the liturgical celebration that recreated the Sacramental Real Presence of True Man and True God that had shaken the disciples into recognition of the Lord at the "Breaking of the Bread" in Emmaus. 

All the billions of words that have been written about Jesus and his Church can tell us no more about him than that which is the record of the eye-witnesses we call the New Testament and that to be able to respond to the Holy Spirit we have to open our hearts to WORD who reveals himself in every word that comes from the mouth of God.

                                                "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother."