Sundays after Resurrection

  • Fifth Sunday After the Resurrection – He Set His Face Toward Jerusalem

    ByJobin

    Fifth Sunday After the Resurrection – He Set His Face Toward Jerusalem | Luke 9:51-62

    Three would-be followers. Three costs.

    “I will follow You wherever.” Christ: foxes have holes; the Son of Man does not. The cost: no home.

    “Let me first bury my father.” Christ: let the dead bury their dead. The cost: no delay.

    “Let me first say goodbye.” Christ: no one at the plough who looks back is fit for the kingdom. The cost: no backward glance.

    St. Cyril: one teaching in three movements. The cost. The urgency. The direction. Forward.

    The Ascension is ahead. The face is set. The plough is moving.

    What are we looking back at?

    Full reflection at Seeking Theosis

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    Third Sunday After Resurrection – New Wine, New Wineskins: St. Mark 2:13-22

    ByJobin

    Third Sunday After the Resurrection – New Wine, New Wineskins:Mark 2:13-22

    The resurrection is new wine. It demands new containers.

    The old categories of who belongs and who does not. The old assumptions about how God works and who God calls. The old frameworks that held the old wine perfectly but cannot hold what God is doing now.

    St. Ephrem: the wine of the resurrection is still fermenting. The Church must keep stretching. The moment it says “we have expanded enough, included enough, grown enough,” the wineskin hardens. And the wine will burst it.

    Three weeks after Pascha, the wine is still expanding. Is your wineskin still stretching?

    For our journey today:
    – Look at who Christ is calling
    – Sit at the mixed table
    – Stretch the wineskin

    Full reflection at Seeking Theosis

  • Second Sunday After the Resurrection – Come and Have Breakfast

    ByJobin

    Second Sunday After the Resurrection: The Shore, the Net, and the Charcoal Fire: John 21:1-14.

    All night: nothing. Professional fishermen on their home water. Every cast. Every adjustment. Zero fish.

    One instruction from a stranger on the shore: “Cast on the right side.” And the net was too full to pull in. 153 large fish. The net did not break.

    St. Ephrem: the night of human effort without divine direction is always empty. The morning of divine direction changes everything. Same lake. Same boat. Same net. Different result. Because the voice spoke.

    The fast is over. The ordinary is back. And sometimes the night produces nothing. But the voice from the shore is still speaking. Cast on the right side.

    For our journey today:
    – Cast on the right side
    – Come to the fire
    – find Him in the ordinary

    Full reflection at Seeking Theosis