I have a growing love and admiration for John's Gospel - and regret that it only makes star appearances in the Anglican lectionary alongside the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew Luke and Mark.
We should really have had a four year lectionary with an additional year founded on John - then the full glory and diversity of the Gospel would have been revealed week by week.
Tomorrow's Gospel is a gift: revealing as it does that the Risen Lord made his appearances not in some magical state but in the everyday working environment of the fisherman disciples.
They had not yet understood the demands and implications of the Resurrection, and so had returned to their former occupation. It is there in the nets full with overflowing that the secret of the Resurrection is revealed - Jesus is concerned with all aspects of everyday life, and how people earn their living.
But it is in "Eucharistic" breaking of bread during breakfast that their awareness of Jesus is was fully confirmed.
So too when Christian gather in our age, The Eucharist is not some remote event, disconnected from everyday life, but a sacrament integral to and consistently revealing of everyday life.
When we read and talk of Jesus as "Saviour of the World", he is Saviour of everything about the world including our workplaces.Saviour for Jesus means transforming not escaping from the everyday.
He is risen. He is risen indeed.
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Posted by: maggi | 24 April 2007 at 20:29
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