Friday, April 14, 2023

Saturday Within Easter Octave, 15-04-2023

Acts 4:13-21 / Mark 16:9-15

Jesus said that blessed are those who have not seen Him and yet believe.

We are indeed blessed because we are given the faith to believe that Jesus is our Saviour, and that He is risen from the dead.

So we not only have the faith, but we also believe in the accounts of His Resurrection in the gospel accounts.

In today’s gospel, the disciples initially did not believe those who had encountered the Risen Christ.

Finally, Jesus showed Himself to the Eleven themselves and He reproached them for their incredulity and obstinacy, because they had refused to believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

Although the disciples had doubted the Resurrection, later they will become witnesses of the Resurrection, even laying down their lives for it.

We have the faith, we have the Word of God, we have the teachings on the Church, to affirm us of our belief.

Let us witness to the Resurrection by the holiness and goodness of our lives.