Lk 24:41 “Their joy was so great that they still could not believe it,”

MASS

Thursday of the Octave of Easter, April 28th.

We hear the Gospel, Luk 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see . . .

This morning, in the appearance to the eleven Apostles, the conversation is a flowing and  , good humouredly exchange of Jesus and the disciples.

The preamble of the distress and anguish moves to a very different mood.

Sometimes people speak their opposite meaning, uplifted to say, “I don’t believe it.”

(NJB Lk 24:41) “Their joy was so great that they still could not believe it", the resonating and reverberating response.   Casually Jesus goes on

Jesus and the Apostles are in communion of faith and love and joy.

As we offer this Mass, we enter the same communion of ‘the Mystery of Faith’ as we proclaim it in the Eucharist Prayer. 

The Amplified Bible

Harmony 178. The appearance to the astonished disciples (Thomas absent) with a commission and their failure to convince Thomas

Mar 16:14	Luk 24:36-43	Joh 20:19-25
14  Afterward He appeared to the Eleven [apostles themselves] as they reclined at table; and He reproved and reproached them for their unbelief (their lack of faith) and their hardness of heart, because they had refused to believe those who had seen Him and looked at Him attentively after He had risen [from death].	36  Now while they were talking about this, Jesus Himself took His stand among them and said to them, Peace (freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin) be to you! 37  But they were so startled and terrified that they thought they saw a spirit. 38  And He said to them, Why are you disturbed and troubled, and why do such doubts and questionings arise in your hearts? 39  See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself! Feel and handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have. 40  And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. 41  And while [since] they still could not believe it for sheer joy and marveled, He said to them, Have you anything here to eat? 42  They gave Him a piece of broiled fish, 43  And He took [it] and ate [it] before them.	19  Then on that same first day of the week, when it was evening, though the disciples were behind closed doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace to you! 20  So saying, He showed them His hands and His side. And when the disciples saw the Lord, they were filled with joy (delight, exultation, ecstasy, rapture). 21  Then Jesus said to them again, Peace to you! [Just] as the Father has sent Me forth, so I am sending you. 22  And having said this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit! 23  [Now having received the Holy Spirit, and being led and directed by Him] if you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained. 24  But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25  So the other disciples kept telling him, We have seen the Lord! But he said to them, Unless I see in His hands the marks made by the nails and put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe [it].