Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter, also know as the Easter Octave, Divine Mercy Sunday, and more. Reflections on Faith, the Resurrection, Thomas the Apostle, Caravaggio's amazing painting and our new project of adding more beauty and wonder to our school.
Hopeful this sermon brings some fresh eyes to Holy Thursday and also to the whole Paschal Mystery and Easter Triduum.
[Note: You can really hear me stumble around 7:30 and that because my notes had a typo I couldn't decipher in real time. But actually it was an important point I wanted to get in: We honestly don't know if Jesus would have had the Dayenu. It doesn't appear in Jewish sources until later. That actually was kind of an important qualifier before me mentioning that "The Chosen" series used it in a cool way. Anyway...]
One of the coolest things I saw in Spain was the Cathedral of Toledo, but the coolest thing about it (at least for me as a priest) was the image and history of the El Greco painting "The Tears of St. Peter" in its voluminous sacristy. The homily today is a reflection on Peter's anguish and on the cool story about the painting.
(After giving the homily linked here, I was looking up more details, and wikipedia listed eight editions of it made by El Greco himself, but the two in Toledo are in museums. So I thought I must've remembered wrong and that we saw the sacristy alone and heard the story there, but only saw the painting at a museum later. That's even what I told the next two Masses. But no, there is still a copy of the original in the sacristy to replace the time-worn original which they repaired and moved to a museum.)
I substituted in Holdrege last Sunday while Fr. Buhman preached a day of renewal and a miniature parish mission here in Beatrice. So like any wise preacher, I pulled up the notes from a previous year in order to share it in Holdrege.
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