In the first reading we hear that the people “acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did.” Ignorance seems to abound even to this day, even among our “leaders”. Are we willing to let go of our ignorance, or do we dig in our heals and say, “it is my way or the highway!”?
The psalm asks God to answer us and relieve us from distress. It asks that God lets the “light of your countenance shine upon us!” Yet are we willing to let God’s light shine on all our deeds and thoughts?
Why were some of the scriptures written? “So that you may not commit sin.” Do we pay attention? Yet the focus is not on the sin but on the fact that we “have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one.”
In the Gospel we hear of others experience of the Risen Jesus. The Breaking of the Bread is a key factor in this Gospel. Jesus is made know to us each time we receive the Eucharist at the Divine Liturgy, the mass.
Do we recognize Jesus as we go forward to receive him. Do we reply “My Lord and my God” as Thomas did?
Countenance of God 