The Easter Call: Listen to the Living Word

Thursday within the Easter octave: 5th April, 2018

Acts 3: 11-26; Lk 24:35-48

Understanding the Scriptures was an essential part of realising their identity for the disciples. From yesterday we see the Risen Lord take upon himself the task of opening their minds to the scriptures,  because it was from that understanding that they were able to make sense of all that they were going through. Once clarified, their identity was extraordinarily strong and they accomplished feats that nobody would imagine. That is the power of clear and specific identity.

The Easter Call thus is to Listen to the Living Word. The Word made flesh, lived among them and they failed to completely grasp what was happening. When the Lord resurrected, they beheld the Word anew...now it was a Word that was fulfilled, accomplished in history, holding out to them new life and new meaning, an altogether new identity! It is the same Living Word that speaks to us today - in the Scripture, the Sacraments and the Situation around. Are we listening?

If we are truly listening we would hear these questions posed to us: what is your identity?  What does the Scripture say to you? Do you spend time listening to the Lord speak in and through the Scripture, the Sacrament and the Situation? Do you really seek to understand what the Lord wants of you today and strive to fulfill it?