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Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

He's to be with you friends on this second Sunday of Easter we have this marvelous inexhaustible reading from the 20

chapter of John. It's one of the accounts of the resurrection appearances of Jesus and

you know I've been preaching on this matter for 38 years, and I just find here after year you come back and something fresh emerges.

These are in many ways the core text of our Christian faith.

Paul says of Christ has not raised, our faith is in vain.

I mean, everything hinges upon the resurrection.

So it behooves us to spend some careful time looking at these texts. So we hear that the doors were locked

where the disciples were for fear of the Jews. This is the day of the resurrection,

but keep in mind their friend, their master,

has been put to death.

They were in danger.

I mean like serious danger.

I'm sure many of the authorities, both Roman and Jewish,

thought, let's go after these guys.

Let's find and track down his

followers so of course they were terrified but despite then Jesus who had

died on the cross and they knew it.

Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them,

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