Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

This Sunday, the Gospel gives us a simple but demanding mark of discipleship: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (Jn 14:15). Jesus does not reduce discipleship to feelings or good intentions. Love becomes concrete—lived, embodied, visible. And He promises that we will not live this alone: the Father will send the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, who remains with us and within us.

Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

In this Fifth Sunday of Easter, the Gospel brings us into the intimacy of the Last Supper, where Jesus says: “Do not let your hearts be troubled … I am the way, the truth, and the life.” These are not just comforting words — they are a path of discipleship and an invitation for all of us to dive into mystagogy, into the deep mystery we have begun to live, especially to our neophytes who received the Sacraments of Initiation.

Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

On this Fourth Sunday of Easter — Good Shepherd Sunday — the Church gives us one of the most tender images of discipleship: “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”

Discipleship begins with listening. Before we do anything for Christ, we learn to recognize His voice. In a noisy world, full of competing voices, the disciple is the one who learns the quiet, faithful art of hearing the Shepherd.

Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

In today’s Gospel, two disciples are walking away — from Jerusalem, from hope, from the Cross. They are discouraged, confused, and disappointed. And yet, it is precisely there, on the road, that the Risen Jesus comes near.

He walks with them. He listens. He explains the Scriptures. And finally, they recognize Him in the breaking of the bread.

Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

Today, on Divine Mercy Sunday, the Church places us in the Upper Room with the disciples—still marked by fear, still wounded by the memory of the Cross. And into that locked room, Jesus comes—not with reproach, but with peace:

“Peace be with you.”

This is the first message of mercy: God does not come to condemn, but to restore.

Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

Today the Church proclaims the greatest truth of our faith: Christ is risen! Alleluia!

The Gospel tells us that early in the morning Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and found the stone rolled away. Peter and the beloved disciple ran to the tomb. They saw the empty tomb and they began to believe.