In this week's edition of There's More in the Gospel than Meets the Eye, Jill
Bevilacqua brings us readings and reflections for the Gospel of the Second Sunday
of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday. Listen:
Gospel Jn
20:19-31
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 and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said
this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw
the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent
me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to
them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and
whose sins you retain are retained.”
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was
not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen
the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and
put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
Now
a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus
came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace
be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and
bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.” Thomas
answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you come
to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have
believed.”
Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that
are not written in this book. But these are written that you may come to believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have
life in his name.