Both His Wounds and His Peace
4/8/202615 min
Friends, peace be with you—an echo of the words of the risen Jesus in our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Easter, also called Mercy Sunday. Christ gives his disciples the gift of shalom (peace). But there’s an exceptionally important juxtaposition here: He also shows them his wounds, a sign of humanity’s own sin and dysfunction. It’s not one or the other, his peace or his wounds; it’s both. To get this wrong is to get a lot of Christianity wrong.
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[uplifting music] Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and his Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today, we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
Robert Barron· Host0:36
Peace be with you. Friends, I'm very aware as I say those words that kind of the privilege of a bishop to greet people liturgically with, "Peace be with you," it's echoing the words of Jesus, the risen Christ, and we hear it in the gospel for today on the second Sunday of Easter called Mercy Sunday. And it's just one of those beautiful displays of the divine mercy and this gift that Jesus gives, which is the gift of peace. But let's look at the way this begins, because there's a juxtaposition here that's exceptionally important, and to get it wrong is to get a lot of Christianity wrong. So listen now. "On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst.