As the [Resurrection] story unfolds through
history his disciples will learn that the Bread they taste
in Eucharist, the Gospel they hear in
Scripture, the friend, or spouse or suffering neighbor they see and touch in community and ministry – indeed, all the sacramental experience of
their life of faith – is real contact with the living Jesus who is bodily risen
in our midst. This sacramental
revelation of Jesus alive in our own experience is just as real, indeed more
real because no more limited by death, as was the vision of Jesus’ pre-Easter
disciples who walked the roads of Galilee with him or even his post-Easter
disciples who would eat with him at Emmaus, touch his glorified wounds, receive
his missioning breath, hear his commission to be and promote community as his
living Body in the world.
--Sandra
Schneiders, IHM,
Image source: Nicolas Poussin, Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, ca. 1650, http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-name-that-saves-healing-of-lame-man.html
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