When we go through a life changing event, it can be a dramatic change that takes place in an instant. Or it can be a gradual change that effects our lives. We have just come out of the experience of Lent and Holy Week. We may have had a dramatic one-time experience during those weeks. Or, more likely, the different disciplines of prayer, fasting, and works of charity during the season of Lent helped create a change in us that will carry over to our present daily lives, something that happened gradually. Before our passage today in John’s Gospel, Jesus had already appeared to Mary Magdalene once and the disciples in the locked room twice. A group of disciples go back to fishing, their occupation before they became followers of Jesus. In the daily routine of the ordinary lives of those disciples, Jesus appeared to them again. The risen Lord will appear to us to in different ways in our ordinary lives. He will appear to us in great momentous occasions. He will appear to us subtly and gradually. The changes that the Lord will help enact in our lives may seem gradual and slow, but the Lord will not give up on us. The disciples we hear about in the first reading from Acts are some of those we hear about in the Gospel. But we can see a change in them. The reality of the resurrection slowly but surely changed their lives. May all of us allow our eyes to be opened and our lives to be transformed and changed by the reality of the risen Lord in our midst.
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