Homily
for Thursday
Octave
of Easter
April
9, 2026
Acts
3: 11-26
Luke
24: 35-48
Christian
Brothers, St. Joseph’s Residence, N.R.
St. Peter Preaching in Jerusalem
(public domain)
“Repent and be converted,
that your sins may be wiped away” (Acts 3: 19).
Christ’s victory over
death signifies our redemption, i.e., our restoration to a good relationship
with God. The Father forgives our sins
and ends our alienation from him and from one another. The only condition is that we repent, reject
our sinful inclinations, and desire to adhere to our Lord Jesus.
Our sins distress us. Some of them may haunt us. No one in his right mind wants to be
alienated from God or from his brothers or sisters.
Rather, we desire what we
pray for: to be one in the faith of our
hearts and the homage of our deeds (Collect), i.e., to believe that “the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has gloried his servant Jesus … and raised him from
the dead” (3:13,15), which effects reconciliation for us; and to act as Jesus’
disciples, as men and women who have learned from him how to conduct ourselves
as children of God. That belief and that
conduct is repentance, the repentance that brings forgiveness and redemption.
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