Back to St. Joe’s, to the early mass, 8:30 a.m. It’s lightly attended and there’s no music, which oddly enough makes it so very solemn and lovely.<\/p>\n
The Gospel reading is from St. John, where Mary of Magdala discovers the empty tomb and runs to tell everyone. Peter and another, un-named disciple come running. Poor St. Peter, always the schlub, loses the race, of course.<\/p>\n
But somehow, to me, thinking of poor St. Peter the schlub, thinking about he so often gets it wrong but keeps going, it just makes Acts or his epistles so much more real to me. To think that likely St. Paul never met Jesus, pace that encounter on the road to Damascus. But St. Peter really was there<\/em> so much of the time. And so he can say,<\/p>\n We are witnesses of all that he did and he’s being so entirely literal<\/em>, you know? “We are witnesses to all that he did.”<\/p>\n Happy Easter, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back to St. Joe’s, to the early mass, 8:30 a.m. It’s lightly attended and there’s no music, which oddly enough makes it so very solemn and lovely. The Gospel reading is from St. John, where Mary of Magdala discovers the empty tomb and runs to tell everyone. Peter and another, un-named disciple come running. Poor … Continue reading Easter Sunday<\/span>
\nboth in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.
\nThey put him to death by hanging him on a tree.
\nThis man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible,
\nnot to all the people, but to us,
\nthe witnesses chosen by God in advance,
\nwho ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
\nHe commissioned us to preach to the people
\nand testify that he is the one appointed by God
\nas judge of the living and the dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n