2nd Sunday of Easter: Video, Homilies, Images and Multimedia Slides

The following are homilies, images, clipart, video, toon and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the Second Sunday of Easter (Year C). In this Sunday’s gospel, Jesus appears before his disciples and they rejoice upon seeing the Lord. At first Thomas could not believe that Jesus indeed rose from the dead, but when Jesus comes to him, he proclaimed, “My Lord and my God!”.

READINGS

FIRST READING: Acts 5:12-16
PSALM: Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
SECOND READING: Rev 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19
GOSPEL: Jn 20:19-31

VIDEO

The following video can be downloaded here. If you don’t know how to download videos from YouTube then follow this link to watch a tutorial.

HOMILIES

• Forgiveness; the Ultimate Proof of Love [www.bible.claret.org]
  To be loved after failure is to be loved for yourself and for who you are. In a sense it is only the one who has failed who can be loved. There is no testing in being positive towards those who please us all the time. But knowing that they have failed and are forgiven the disciples can go out full of confidence not in their sinful selves, but in the Lord who sent them. Their confidence comes from being sent. “As the Father has sent me, so I also send you.” Read more…
• Unless I See in His Hands the Prints of the Nails [dailyscripture.net]
  When Thomas recognized his Master, he believed and exclaimed that Jesus was truly Lord and truly God! Through the gift of faith we, too, proclaim that Jesus is our personal Lord and our God. He died and rose that we, too, might have new life in him. The Lord offers each of us new life in his Holy Spirit that we may know him personally and walk in this new way of life through the power of his resurrection. Read more…
• 2nd Sunday of Easter [www.catholicmatters.com]
  We can thank the Apostles and especially Thomas, the last to give in, that our faith in the resurrection and divine glorification of Christ is that much the stronger. Our Christianity which would have ended before the first Easter week had passed, if Christ had not risen in glory, spread rapidly to the then known world and is still spreading, because its author was none other than Christ “our Lord and our God.” Read more…

SLIDE PRESENTATION

The following presentation can be downloaded here.

GOSPEL TOON

By ReverendFun

IMAGES

To view and download their full size versions, please click on the images or the names of the artists/sources.

CLIPART