What kind of resurrection do we need during this time of lock-down? Soren Kierkegaard once said his favorite text in the Gospels was the one where, after Jesus’ death, the disciples locked themselves into a room out of fear and the resurrected Jesus had to come through the locked doors of their resistance to breathe peace into them. Kierkegaard prayed for that to happen to him, that Jesus would come through the locked doors of his resistance and breathe peace into him. This year, we need the resurrected Jesus to breathe peace into a whole world that is locked down and needs a million kinds of peace.
--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, Facebook, April 14, 2020
Image source: Carl Heinrich Bloch, The Doubting Thomas, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27The_Doubting_Thomas%27_by_Carl_Heinrich_Bloch,_Ugerl%C3%B8se_Kirke.jpg
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