Mary Of The Angelus Association

MEDITITATION FOR EASTER THURSDAY 

based on the readings for to-day's Mass.

The Lord may lead you to pray through these readings from your bible or missal.  He may also have something very special and personal he wants you to know.  Spend some quiet time with him.

First Reading: Acts 3:11-26

"It is faith in that name that has restored this man to health"

"Everyone came running to Peter and John in great excitement, to the Portico of Solomon, as it is called, where the man was still clinging to them"

The man born crippled is now dancing and jumping and laughing and crying, and clinging in amazement to his healers.  Everyone knows him, and it has happened right there in the Temple.  Peter can now speak to the Israelites about Jesus, whom they killed.  He quotes Moses "You must listen to everything he tells you" The healing was not done by Peter or John but by faith in the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

Response: "O Lord our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!"

Psalm 8:2.5-9

What is mortal man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him little less than a god;

with glory and honour you crowned him,

gave him power over the works of your hand,

put all things under his feet.

Gospel: Luke 24:35-48

Clopas and his friend hurried to the Supper Room, at the house in Jerusalem where the Lord instituted the Eucharist.  All the apostles were there and many others.  Then, "Jesus himself stood among them."  "Why are you so agitated, and why are these doubts rising in your hearts? "  "Touch me and see for yourselves; a ghost has no flesh and bones as you can see I have"  "Have you anything here to eat? And they offered him a piece of grilled fish, which he took and ate before their eyes."

The Galileans from the north were mainly held in contempt by the Judeans.  A derogatory term used to describe the Galileans was "they eat grilled fish".  Before his Ascension into Heaven, Jesus' final meal  with his friends on the shores of the Sea of Galilee was grilled fish.