EASTER OCTAVE 2022
Wednesday, April 20 - Acts 3:11-26; Luke 24:35-48
You are witnesses of these things...says the Gospel today. We are witnesses of the great works that the Lord has done in and through us! The readings today give us three steps towards being witnesses. It would do us good to reflect on these steps.
The first reading reports the discourse of the apostles to the Jews gathered in Jerusalem after the cure of the crippled man. This is the first step: to see our history through the eyes of faith. To see through the eyes of faith, we need to identify the eyes of the world. To have a perspective that is different from the so called 'normal'...the Apostles has just gained that vision after having experienced the resurrected Lord.
The second step is to be challenged by understanding history from the perspective of faith. The apostles who deserted Jesus, hid themselves away and looked to escape into their past, were challenged by the Risen Lord as we see in the Gospel. And they accepted the challenge and understood everything that happened from the perspective of faith. The new perspective they had acquired, served not only to judge others and rate them in their quality, but it serves to challenge themselves.
The call, thirdly, is to challenge the others towards a commitment of faith! What Peter does today is not to accuse the Jews of anything, but challenging them towards a personal experience of the Risen Christ and only through that we can become real witnesses.
To see, to be challenged and to challenge - that is the road map to true witnesses!
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