MY LORD AND MY GOD
According to the ways of the world, mercy does not really make sense, but this is the very faith Paul in the Second Reading speaks of as that which ‘conquers the world’: forgiveness begets forgiveness, mercy begets mercy, love begets love.
The Acts of the Apostles in the First Reading shows that the mercy of the risen Lord continues to be poured out through the ministry of his apostles, while in the Gospel we see Jesus himself being the model for mercy for his fearful and doubtful friends.
God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose Spirit they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have been redeemed.
Source: Excerpted from the Scripture reflection courtesy of St Beuno’s Outreach in the Diocese of Wrexham, UK available at www.australiancatholics.com.au