Third Sunday of Easter
This week’s gospel from Luke picks up after the event on the road to Emmaus. The two whom Jesus had revealed himself to in the breaking of the bread have turned around and gone back to Jerusalem to tell the others about their experience, when Jesus just appears among them. What is different from John’s account of the appearance of Jesus to the disciples is that rather than breathing the Holy Spirit upon them, he opens their minds to finally understand the Scriptures. Luke reserves the account of the descent of the Holy Spirit to a much more majestic event than does John. It is important to remember that each gospel writer is communicating to a different community and audience, so we see a subtle difference in the description of the same events. What this should say to us is that we all have our own experience of the risen Christ, and they all are valid. What is your experience?
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Abundant blessings,
Rev. Kate Lehman, OSB
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Christ Appears to the Disciples on the Mountain in Galilee
Panel from the Maesta Altarpiece of Siena
Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=49158
Artist: Buoninsegna di Duccio(d. 1319)
License: Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License
Welcome!
St. Teresa of Ávila is united with many other authentic Catholic faith communities as a member of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC). The ECC is a "community of communities" that share a common theology and liturgical tradition with the Roman Catholic Church, but do not participate in its canon law.
The "ECC Difference" can be seen in the inclusion of all baptized Christians at the Eucharistic table, respect for and recognition that the Spirit is at work in those of other religions, ordination of women and married individuals, offering of the sacrament of marriage to committed LGBT couples and those remarrying after divorce, invitation to follow conscience regarding birth control, and active/equal involvement of the laity in the governance of the Communion.