Thursday, April 13, 2023

Homily for Thursday, Octave of Easter

Homily for Thursday
Octave of Easter

April 13, 2023
Luke 24: 35-48
Provincial House, N.R.

“You are witnesses of these things” (Luke 24: 48).


Our Risen Lord tells the gathered disciples that they’re witnesses of the fulfillment of the Scriptures about himself:  his passion and rising from the dead, his message of repentance and forgiveness meant for all nations.

In the days after Pentecost, Peter, John, and the others begin to bear witness, to preach repentance, the forgiveness of sins, and the “universal restoration of which God spoke thru his holy prophets” (Acts 3:21).

Now it’s our turn, the offspring in faith of Peter, John, and the others, to bear witness that Jesus lives and restores us to God’s favor.  Our witness reveals itself “in the faith of [our] hearts and the homage of [our] deeds,” as we prayed in the collect, so that we and all “the many nations” might form a unity of the Holy Spirit with our Lord Jesus and his Father, forever.

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