The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A
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The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
Acts 2.14a, 36–41
1 Peter 1.17–23
Luke 24.13–35
Today’s readings bubble over with the excitement of the new moment that has dawned in Israel’s story, in the world’s story, with the resurrection. It isn’t merely that God is offering a new kind of spiritual experience, or that there is now a new belief in life after death (which most Jews believed in anyway). It is the sense that something has happened, as a result of which everything is different. But the thing
which had happened was emphatically...
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A by N T Wright
Published by SPCK