April 11, 2021: Second Sunday of Easter/Divine Mercy Sunday

Jesus has given us a great victory in His Resurrection, and the Gospel reading shows how much humanity needs it.  After the discovery of the Empty Tomb, the disciples are still filled with fear and doubt.  The victorious Risen Jesus breaks into the locked room to speak peace, which leads the disciples to rejoice.

And He does it again a week later, pressing through the doubts of even Thomas to his heart to summon Him forth to faith.

So this victory continues to persist:  His Love and Mercy, demonstrated as more powerful than death and sin, endure forever, and what a comfort this is we celebrate on this Sunday of Divine Mercy.  And the victory persists in us as we live as an Easter people, because we are truly impacted and are not the same after our encounters with the Risen Christ.  We live obeying God's commandments, which are not a burden, but a joy because Christ is alive and works in us to live as God desires, so that others may be blessed by the new Life that radiates forth from us.