Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 24, 35-48

The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way,
and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.

While they were still speaking about this,
he stood in their midst and said to them,
“Peace be with you.”
But they were startled and terrified
and thought that they were seeing a ghost.
Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled?
And why do questions arise in your hearts?
Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.
Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones
as you can see I have.”
And as he said this,
he showed them his hands and his feet.
While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed,
he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
They gave him a piece of baked fish;
he took it and ate it in front of them.

He said to them,
“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And he said to them,
“Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer
and rise from the dead on the third day
and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,
would be preached in his name
to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things.”

Touch Jesus and recognize Him. He is alive and well

1) “Peace be with you”. This is Jesus’s traditional greeting, and we say it during each mass. Today, do you have peace? What takes your peace away? You must never lose sight of the peace in your heart and everything you do must be done peacefully. Peace is one of the keys to know if you are doing what God asks of you. Seek peace and also strive for it.

2) Touch him and see. Today Jesus asks you to see him again, not only in the poor and the sick, but also in your family, in your children, in your friends. That’s where you see and touch him. But you can also find him in the tabernacle. Today visit a chapel and visit him, stay a while in silence in front of him so that He may touch your heart and you may recognize him. If you can’t go to a church, take a moment, sit down, close your eyes and talk to him.

3) He opened their minds. Today we must ask Jesus to open our minds so that we might fully understand his words and that we might go out and proclaim. Let’s not be hard-headed or narrow-minded. We are witnesses of Jesus, we must go out and proclaim him, get involved in the life of others, while also taking care of ours and, in the process, of Christ, who is always with us.

May God bless you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And remember that something good is on the way!