Fourth Sunday of Easter
Acts 2:14 & 36-41; 1 Pet 2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10 (year a)
The life that Jesus had lived with his disciples before his death on the Cross was changed radically in his Resurrection. St Paul tells us that through his Resurrection Jesus was “proclaimed Son of God in all his power”.
Christ’s disciples of Jesus were also changed as the power of his Resurrection transformed their hearts. The Acts of the Apostles record the multitudes that turned to Christ. Their baptism was something more than a superficial, quickly forgotten initiation. For those first converts, as for ourselves, baptism was a conscious decision to follow in the footsteps of their Lord. It demanded a repentance that changed their most fundamental attitudes to life.
