Thomas who earlier on doubted the LordвЂ™s resurrection was dumbstruck in awe and finally believed when the Lord appeared before him and the other disciples in the flesh. Before this, He Himself had also appeared to His disciples in two occasions just as we heard it in our last SundayвЂ™s Gospel, where St. He has told the women who witnessed His resurrection that He would go before His disciples to Galilee, and He would see them there later on. John detailing to us what happened that day when the Lord appeared to His disciples in Galilee just not long after He had risen from the dead. In our Gospel passage today, we heard from the Gospel of St.

They had been called and sent forth by the Lord, and they would not betray or abandon their Lord and Master. They proclaimed courageously their Lord and Saviour, Whom they had witnessed and seen Risen from the dead with their own eyes, witnessed Him performing His miracles even before He had gone through His Passion, suffering, death and resurrection, and as we also heard from our Gospel passage today, they had also seen and witnessed the miracles that God continued to perform after He had risen from the dead.

And the Apostles had been entrusted with the role as shepherds in the image of the one and true Good Shepherd, Christ Himself, to lead the people of God towards Him.Дespite the threats and warnings that the Sanhedrin gave to them, the Apostles were not afraid at all. Peter firmly and courageously refused to remain silent or to obey the order of the High Priest and the Sanhedrin, as they had been tasked and entrusted by God with the very important mission of revealing the truth and the Good News of His salvation, His great and amazing love, all that He had done for the sake of His beloved people through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who had cone into this world to gather all the lost sheep of His flock, and lead them to the reconciliation with God and hence, the assurance and certainty of eternal life. At that time, the Lord had risen and ascended into Heaven, and the Holy Spirit had descended upon the Apostles, whom encouraged and strengthened by the Holy Spirit, went forth to proclaim courageously the truth about God and His salvation, in Jesus Christ, the same One Whom the Sanhedrin had arrested and accused, sent to the Romans to be crucified and killed. Peter, against the Sanhedrin, the powerful High Council of the Jewish people led by the High Priest, who had arrested the Apostles and ordered them to stop preaching in the Name of the Risen Lord.

In our first reading today, we heard from the Acts of the Apostles of the confrontation between the Apostles and disciples of the Lord led by St. Through Him, all of us have received the assurance of eternal life and true joy, assured of the final victory that will come with Him, if we remain faithful and steadfast, staying true to Him to the very end. Then the Jews asked Him, вЂњWhat shall we do? What are the works that God wants us to do?вЂќ And Jesus answered them, вЂњThe work God wants is this : that you believe in the One Whom God has sent.вЂќДear brothers and sisters in Christ, this Sunday, the third in the glorious and joyous season of Easter, all of us are called to remember once again, through the Sacred Scriptures, of the reason why we celebrate this season and why we rejoice so happily, all because of the great victory and triumph that Our Lord and Saviour has won for us, that by His death and resurrection, He has purchased for all of us, the freedom and liberation from the tyranny of sin and death. The Son of Man will give it to you, for He is the One on Whom the Father has put His mark.вЂќ Work then, not for perishable food, but for the lasting food which gives eternal life. Jesus answered, вЂњTruly, I say to you, you look for Me, not because of the signs which you have seen, but because you ate bread and were satisfied. When they found Him on the other side of the lake, they asked Him, вЂњMaster, when did You come here?вЂќ When they saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. At that time, the next day after Jesus fed the five thousand men, the people, who had stayed on the other side, realised that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with His disciples but rather, the disciples had gone away alone.Д«igger boats from Tiberias came near the place where all these people had eaten the bread.

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