Download Bulletin 27th April 2025

Deacon George’s Homily for 2nd Sunday of Easter

Before they encountered Jesus, the disciples all had their own jobs, their own identities and their own way of life.  After they had encountered Jesus, their lives changed.  Their characters remained the same, and they didn’t stop being themselves.  They simply found a new way of living.  In today’s Gospel reading, the disciples now believe that Jesus is gone.  And the direction of their lives changes once again.  They are now a group of people who gather together out of fear.  They are very fearful, that they will have to face the same death as Jesus.  Their lives are now so rooted in fear, that they lock themselves away.  It is whilst they are locked away, that the Risen Jesus comes to them.  He does not come to chastise them for abandoning him, but he comes to reclaim them, with his forgiveness and love, through his words of peace.  He shows himself to his disciples.   And they can see from his hands and his side, that his resurrection does not remove his wounds, of cruelty and suffering.   Because the risen Jesus is the wounded crucified Christ…..

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