On this 3rd Sunday of Easter, we are invited to witness an intimate conversation between the Resurrected Christ and Peter, the Apostle. As Tony explains, this exchange teaches us that conversion always simultaneously coincides with a call to mission, and that it is by faithfully living out the mission God calls each of us to that we become the singular image of God we have each been created to be.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13
Reading 2: Revelation 5:11-14
Gospel: John 21:1-19
Endnotes:
See Luke 24:12 & John 20:3
Luke 24:12
Luke 24:10
John 20:2b
John 20:4
John 19:26-27
Luke 22:33
Luke 22:24
Luke 22:54-60
Luke 22:31-32
John 20:22-23
John 20:19
Francis Martin & William M. Wright IV, The Gospel of John, 349 in Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture series.
John 8:12
John 15:5
John 1:9
Luke 5:4-5
Luke 5:6
Brendan Byrne, Life Abounding: A Reading of John’s Gospel, 346.
John 18:18
Luke 5:9-10
Eusebius, The History of the Church, 2.25.
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.