Touch Me and see (Sabong News)
Author
Manila Bulletin
Date
APRIL 21 2022
The disciples of Jesus are truly traumatized by what they saw happened to their Master that even when he appears to them, believing is a great challenge. And so Jesus has to do everything to convince them: show them his scarred hands, feet, and side, asking them to give him something to eat. The appearances of Jesus then serve as a healing remedy to the deep trauma that the disciples experience. Jesus risen tries to wake them up from the terrible nightmare they had been through. Do you have anything haunting you right now? Take refuge in the Risen Jesus and listen to his soothing words.
Gospel • Lk 24:35-48
The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way, and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread. 36While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them.
He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”
SOURCE:
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