Mourning Turned to Dancing
Acts 5:27-32,40-41; Revelations 5:11-14; John 21:1-19
It is not enough to be touched by Christ's redeeming love. It is not enough to recognize Christ in the stranger on the street or on the beach as in today's Gospel reading. Our texts for the third Sunday of Passover - our Pascha, our feast of liberation and freedom - show us the implications of the resurrected life, of our restored freedom. We are called to sanctify life, not simply to be grasped by the romanticism of the moment of redeeming love.