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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