In that first reading we heard from the Acts of the Apostles, we heard that the early church community in Jerusalem felt so close to one another that they did something amazing, they shared all their property as if it were all common property, the idea being that if anyone needed anything, they would be taken care of. The question is, where did they get this idea? It’s not as if Jesus told them that private property had been abolished, or really said anything at all about how his followers were supposed to organize themselves, or even if they were going to be very organized at all. But the resurrection…
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There are a lot of things about Jesus it’s relatively easy to believe. For example, we can believe that of all good people, he was the best. We can believe that no one else in history embodied the love of God so completely. We can believe that of all the great saints the world has produced, he is the one most worth following. But what is hard to believe is this: When Thomas the disciple says that he can’t believe Jesus is alive unless he sees him with his own eyes, I think we all know in our hearts the frustration he is talking about. We wish we could see…