Sunday Week 6 of Easter Year A
“I will not leave you orphaned,” says Jesus in today’s gospel. “I will not leave you orphaned; I will come back to you.” He is going away.
Jesus went away a first time in his death on the cross. And though he came back from the dead, he came back changed. He didn’t just come back to life, he came to a new life that kept startling the disciples. In our Resurrection stories Jesus is always coming and going through locked doors, appearing and disappearing, and his own friends don’t quite recognise him or are afraid to ask who he is. And yet he’s quite real: he eats fish, and holds out his hands to touch and be touched. Above all he is present with a job to do—a simple job—to console his friends.
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