Easter Week Reflections

Acts 4: 1 – 12Psalm 116: 1 – 8St. John 21: 1 – 14   In today’s appointed Gospel, the disciples…or some of them anyway…have gone back to fishing. They went back to doing what they knew best, which is how most of us deal with grief or disappointment or disorientation when it comes our way. One […]

Acts 3: 11 – 26Psalm 8St. Luke 24: 36b – 48    There are three interlocking components of the resurrection of Jesus: 1. the empty tomb, 2. the multiple apparitions, and 3. the seismic change in the followers of Jesus.    Jesus was buried in a conspicuous place in a new tomb, and that this tomb is found with

Acts 3: 1 – 10Psalm 105: 1-8St. Luke 24: 13 – 35   Conversation is something we do not participate in so much as once. We talk at each other. We talk past each other. Two men in distress are headed out of Jerusalem for a place called Emmaus. They are anonymous disciples, perhaps fleeing for their

Acts 2: 36 – 41Psalm 33: 18 – 22St. John 20: 11 – 18 “Supposing him to be the gardener…”. Magdelene, when she meets Jesus immediately after his resurrection, mistakes him for a day-laborer. Magdalene saw correctly. The Christ who advocated for the “least of these,” and insisted that God must be perceived in one’s