DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY!

Perhaps today’s gospel could be said to be one of the most beautiful and amazing encounter of the disciples and Jesus in the New Testament after his resurrection !  First of all, there is no locking the Risen Jesus out of our lives!   They not only feared the Jews, but they most likely also feared Jesus.   They heard He was alive and maybe thought He might not be too happy about them running away!

But when they heard the beautiful Jewish greeting of shalom, they knew His love for them was not diminished!  They were startled at first, especially in Luke’s account of His appearance.  But their anxiety quickly settled down and was transformed into incredible joy at the sight of “the Living One”.  Not only was He alive, but He chose to keep “on the Body given for us” the scars of the nails and the spear to be a perpetual and stunning reminder of His infinite love and mercy for us.

Like Thomas, we are invited to touch the marks of the nails and the open wound on His side that leads to His Heart!   Somehow, we can only experience touching His wounds by experiencing our wounds.  Like the Apostles who rejoiced to experience suffering for Christ, we need to experience pain. We must suffer to appreciate Christ who showed His love for us by pain.

The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Risen Lord to teach you to fish in this ocean of mercy and miracles . Dive into its depths in faith. No matter how deep you go, you will never reach the bottom.

The world today lives unmindful of the sufferings of Jesus which are the miracle of miracles of the love and mercy of God.  We must arouse the world from its slumber.  His Holy Spirit will surely teach us how.

Jesus I Trust in You!

Osho