Monday 17 April, 2023 | Monday of the Second Week of Easter |Readings: Acts 4:23-31; Psalm 2:1-9; John 3:1-8 (You can find these in full on the Universalis website – Click here)
During these days of Easter, each day at Mass we have moved through the Acts of the Apostles and witnessed the growth of the Church in those early days after Pentecost. The disciples are transformed, changed. They speak boldly and with conviction. They face authority without fear and spread the message that Jesus is risen from the dead. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit has enlivened and transformed them. They are a new Creation.
This New Creation is at the heart of that secret conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus under cover of darkness when Jesus talks of the need to be born again through water and the Spirit. As the Spirit of God hovered over the waters of Creation bringing order from chaos so too he fills the hearts of believers, gives them a new birth. The Spirit of God shows us who Jesus is and leads us closer to him. The Spirit fills our hearts and lives, praying in and through us, like a deep sigh too deep for words.
The disciples have moved out from beyond the closed doors of that upper room into the streets of Jerusalem, but their journey has only just begun. Soon they will leave the confines of the city walls, move out into the country and beyond. Today, as Peter and John return to their brothers and sisters, we hear them pray, and join our prayer to theirs, as they raise their voices to say, ‘Master it is you who made heaven and earth and sea, and everything in them.’ Soon, they will cross boundaries and venture into other countries, to take the message far and wide around the world, and witness to a New Creation.
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