27 April 2025 - 2nd Sunday of Easter ‘C
Acts 5:12-16; Rev 1:9...19; Jn 20:19-31
Homily
Before becoming an organized religion, with its rites of celebration, its rules and its administrative structures, the Church founded by Christ was first of all what it is in its deepest essence, a vast movement of faith. The fresh accounts that the first Christians have left us of their early experience are the founding texts of this spiritual movement. Each of the authors of the New Testament recounts this experience with his or her own sensitivity and based on personal experience. In today's Gospel, John, the beloved disciple, recounts Jesus' meeting with his disciples on the evening of the first day of the first week of the new creation and on the evening of the eighth day. Then, many years later, John, exiled to Patmos for having followed his master to the end, writes to the seven Churches of Asia Minor at a time when this spiritual movement born on Easter morning has already become a communion between many local Churches.