Scripture of the Week
Mass Readings—Third Sunday of Easter
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter three, verses thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, & nineteen;
Psalm Four (R/. seven[a]; or, "Alleluia"), verses two,four, seven & eight, & nine;
The First Letter of John, chapter two, verses one thru five(a);
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter twenty-four, verses thirty-five thru forty-eight.
Commentary: Easter Readings.
Gospel reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel, the risen Jesus appears to his eleven disciples. He does not appear as a Platonic soul, a ghost, or a hallucination. Instead, he can be touched and seen, has flesh and bones, and can consume baked fish. Against all their expectations, a dead man had returned, through the power of God, bodily and objectively, from death.Video reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire): Sunday Sermon.
Even while insisting on this bodiliness and objectivity, we must not go to the opposite extreme. It really was Jesus, the crucified, who had returned from the dead. But he did not come back simply resuscitated to the confines of ordinary space and time. He was not, in a word, like Lazarus, the daughter of Jairus, or the son of the widow of Naim, all people who had been raised only to die again.
Instead, Jesus’ body is transformed and transfigured, independent of the strictures of space and time; it is, in Paul’s language, a “spiritual” body. And the point is this: he has triumphed over death and all that pertains to death. His resurrected body is a foretaste and promise of what God intends for all of us.
Video reflection by Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M. (U.S.C.C.B.): Easter Reflection.
Video reflection by Doctor Tim Gray (Augustine Institute/Formed.org): Easter Reflection.
Video reflection by Jeff Cavins (Ascension): Encountering the Word.
Audio reflection by Scott Hahn, Ph.D. (St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology): Breaking the Bread.
Papal Quote o' the Day
"Responsible parenthood involves not only bringing children into the world, but also taking part personally & responsibily in their upbringing & education. True live in the family is forever!"Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope Saint John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, r. 1978-2005; feast: 22 October)
"A woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold."Mother Teresa Quote o' the Day
—Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, O.C.D. (1891-1942, feast: 9 August)
"A beggar one day came up to me & said, 'Mother Teresa, everybody gives you things for the poor. I also want to give you something, but I only have ten pence. I want to give you that.' I said to myself, 'If I take it, he might have to go to bed without eating. If I don;t take it, I will hurt him.' So I took it. And I've never seen so much joy on anybody's face who has given food or money as I saw on that man's face that day. He was happy that he could give something. This is the joy of loving."Archbishop Sheen Quote o' the Day
—Saint Teresa of Calcutta, M.C. (1910-1997, feast: 5 September)
"Let those souls who think their work has no value recognize that by fulfilling their insignificant tasks out of a love of God, those tasks assume a supernatural worth. The aged who bear the taunts of the young, the sick crucified to their beds, the ignorant immigrant in the steel mill, the street cleaner & the garbage colector, the wardrobe mistressin the theater & the chorus girl who never had a line—all these will be enthroned above dictators, presidents, kings, & cardinals if a greater love of God inspires their humbler tasks than inspires those who play nobler roles with less love."
—Venerable Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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