Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
Taken from LWPT Meditations
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Meditation – 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C
Acts 9:1-6
Psalm 30
Revelation 5:11-14
John 21:1-9
God is great at reversals; he can change disaster into rejoicing, mourning into gladness, death into life. Many of the Old Testament stories tell of eleventh-hour escapes, or of impossible situations resolving in the face of God’s intervention – Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, three Hebrews cast into a furnace and emerging alive, the Israelites pursued to the shore of the Red Sea and crossing it dry-shod to escape the Egyptians. Greatest of all, God raised Jesus to life after he had been crucified and buried. He turns “wailing into dancing” and clothes us “with joy” (Psalm 30:11)...
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