Third Sunday of Easter: "Repent, Therefore, and Be Converted, That Your Sins May Be Wiped Away."
The Easter season readings often repeat readings from daily Masses. The first reading today again takes up the words of Peter as he holds forth with great eloquence after Pentecost: “the Author of life you put to death,” he castigates the listeners. The Psalmist asserts his innocent hope and trust in the Lord: “As soon as I lie down, I fall peacefully asleep”. St. John raises our hope for redemption: “but if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one.” Luke’s Gospel tells the next chapter, a familiar one, in the disciples on the road to Emmaus. After they astound the apostles, Jesus appears to them, and they all take fright, until he calms them with good sense, and later, with the lessons from Scripture.