The story of the resurrected Jesus on the shore intoday’s Gospel highlights the personality of the fer-vent, impassioned Peter. Peter, impulsive, the first to approach the Lord; Peter the first to enter the gravesite and behold the cloth wrappings that had embraced our Lord.

We ask ourselves, who is this apostle Peter, once informed of the Gospel presence, who rushes to approach the mystery? It is that part of me that, at the urging of another, will rise to greet the Lord, as Peter did also at the beginning of the Gospel when hisbrother Andrew had informed him of Jesus’ presence.Peter is that part of you or me that would readily shake off the business of this world, momentarily he is so involved in the task at hand that his vision is clouded. At times, the clamminess of the labor and the stodginess of our companions dulls our ability to recognize or respond to our Lord. Then we ask, who is this disciple, whose keen vision is ever ready to perceive and announce the Lord?

It is my intuition and better instinct. Even after the routine of my Christian life may have numbed me, this beloved disciple is sensitive and alert to the Gospel, and is not timid to confess an eternal longing to meet the Master.

“Lord, thank you for the gift of boldness. Help me to remain confident in you today.”