Apr
19
Body and Soul, Flesh and Spirit: Third Sunday of Easter (Cycle B)
Acts 3:13–15, 17–19; 1 John 2:1–5a; Luke 24:35–48
We get an interesting juxtaposition this week in our first reading from Acts and the Gospel reading from Luke. Acts addresses the ignorance of the Jewish masses that Jesus was the Messiah and the Holy and Righteous One, the Author of Life. The Jews' lack of faith lie in their inability to see in Jesus anything more than temporal messiah, which is what they were expecting. They could not see that He is the very the Author of Life.
The Gospel presents just the opposite—the Apostles' lack of faith in accepting that Jesus died yet lived again.
We get an interesting juxtaposition this week in our first reading from Acts and the Gospel reading from Luke. Acts addresses the ignorance of the Jewish masses that Jesus was the Messiah and the Holy and Righteous One, the Author of Life. The Jews' lack of faith lie in their inability to see in Jesus anything more than temporal messiah, which is what they were expecting. They could not see that He is the very the Author of Life.
The Gospel presents just the opposite—the Apostles' lack of faith in accepting that Jesus died yet lived again.
