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Back to the Future – A Meditation on the Gospel for the Third Sunday of Easter Msgr. Charles Pope • April 9, 2016 • Today’s Gospel is really quite remarkable. For despite the fact that the apostles have seen the resurrected Jesus several times now, they seem to be retreating into the past. They’re headed backwards and Jesus must summon them, if you’ll pardon the expression, “back to the future.”They were going back to fishing but the Lord calls them away from fishing and points them to the future, a future that includes going to all the nations and...

Archdiocese of Washington Becoming Witnesses of the Resurrection and the Truth of the Gospel. A homily for the third Sunday of Easter. By: Msgr. Charles PopeThe Gospel for this Sunday speaks to the necessity of becoming witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus. It begins with the necessary foundation of the proclamation of the Church: “The Lord is risen indeed, he has appeared to Simon!” This solemn declaration of the Church forms the doctrinal certitude of the resurrection. But on this foundation of the truth the personal witness of every Catholic must be built. In this gospel we see how the...

Sunday April 29, 2001 Third Sunday of Easter Reading I (Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41) Reading II ( Revelation 5:11-14) Gospel (St. John 21:1-19) In the Gospel reading today, at the very end of the Gospel, we hear this conversation between Peter and Jesus. Jesus looks at Peter and says to him, "Peter, do you love Me?" The Lord looks at each one of us and asks the exact same thing: "Do you love Me?" We, of course, are going to answer "Yes." We love Our Lord, after all, we would not be here if we did not love Our Lord. Peter...