Month: April 2023

Surely you do not think that it was pure accident that that chosen disciple was missing; who on his return was told about the appearance and on hearing about it doubted; doubting, so that he might touch and believe by touching? It was not an accident; God arranged that it should happen. His clemency acted in this wonderful way so that through the doubting disciple touching the wounds in his Master’s body, our own wounds of incredulity might be healed.

Before we look at what new life looks like, I must warn you: there is always a great temptation to stay in our old life or return to it again. Even the disciples experienced this setback.

Jesus had been crucified. His body had been interred in a tomb close to the place called Calvary...

How often do we find ourselves in similar stress over events in our own lives? So many of us are like these men still today. We hear the words, we read the scripture firsthand and yet… we struggle with doubt. What can we learn from the story of Jesus’ encounter with his discpiles on the road to Emmaus?

In those moments that happened from her encounter with Jesus to her encounter with Disciples in the Upper room, Mary Magdalene would have been the only one who had seen the risen Lord; she would have been the only one in all of history to have heard the good news; she alone was the herald of the Resurrection. Put simply, in those few minutes, she was the church.