Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter (2024)

[avatar user=”RobinS” size=”medium” align=”center” /]

(A reflection on the readings of the day: Acts 13:26-33 and John 14:1-6.)

To us this word of salvation has been given.

We have heard the story of Jesus life, the death sentence he received, and – the utterly unexpected words of Mary “He is risen from the dead” – we are his witnesses – and we spend a lifetime pondering “what does it mean to rise from the dead.

Jesus has said many things to us. We have walked with him – and with one another along the road of life and still we say with Thomas “Master, we do not know where we are going – much less where you are going; how can we know the way?” “And what is this place you are preparing for us?”

And Jesus replies “I am the way.  I am the place.  I am the life. I am in you and you are in me. We walk together, one with all humanity toward an unimaginable future where the place will be a person “in whom we will live and move and have our being.”