23 April 2019, Easter Wednesday
BUT OF HIM THEY SAW NOTHING.
(Luke 24:13-35)
Our readings this Easter week, both from the Acts and from the gospels,
provide a feast of reflections. But we
have to focus in on particular thoughts if we are not to be confused by the multitude
of events. Cleophas gives a long speech about how ‘we had hoped’ he was the one
to set Israel free but now he is dead and he ends with a wild word about some
of ‘our women going to the tomb and found it empty’. They saw angels but ‘of
him they saw nothing’. So they give up and leave for Emmaus. You would think they
would have been curious and stayed around investigate further. But for them and
all the disciples there was a blanket of numbness. They were ‘so slow to believe’. Why was
that? Could they not have pondered the signs?
And can we ponder the signs today?
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