Weekly Message from Fr. Rick:
Third Sunday of Easter
April 18, 2021
“Have you anything here to eat?”
A simple question: Yet filled with meaning, revealing an astonishing reality.
Jesus Christ is risen!
Truly put to death He just as truly rose to life and lays before us all just as He laid it out before His amazed and dumbfounded Apostles.
“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.” Then, “Have you anything here to eat?” By appealing directly to their senses just as He would later do with St. Thomas Jesus invites them, and us to see, to touch, to watch as He does the most ordinary thing in all the world. He eats.
Through such a simple, ordinary, act, eating Jesus invites His Apostles and He invites us to trust the reality before our very eyes.
Jesus Christ is risen!
He stands before His Apostles in His risen glorified body no longer subject to death or decay or any limitations of time and space yet still a human body, He is recognized, He can be touched, yet He cannot be confined.
Now, today in and through His Church the joyous news continues to go forth.
Jesus Christ is risen!
Fr. Rick