RECOGNITION, REFORMATION
BREAKING THE BREAD OF GOD’S WORD 3 rd Sunday of Easter B – April 19, 2015 RECOGNITION, REFORMATION Peter was more than just understanding. He gave it to people who “acted out of ignorance.” He was tolerant and forgiving … like his Master, who “looked at him with love” even if he betrayed him thrice. John, for his part, was more than just warm to people he endearingly calls his “children.” He writes to them, he says, “so that [they] may not commit sin.” But again, like Peter, he gives it to weak people like me and you, who sin seventy times seven times, for “we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous One.” The Lord, in the Gospel according to Luke, was more than just encouraging. Alluding to the sad and dejected disciples on the way to Emmaus, Luke then reports a “sighting” of the Risen Christ, on the part of “startled and terrified” disciples gathered in a huddle. To startled and terrified disciple...