The period between Christ’s Resurrection and his Ascension into Heaven was a time of remembrance. The apostles spent it turning over in their minds all that the Lord had said and done to draw this into a coherent whole in the light of his paschal victory.

By means of the liturgy, the Church draws us into this apostolic work of assimilation. It moves me that she, our Mother, lets us re-read in Eastertide words Jesus spoke on the eve of his Passion. The teaching of the thirteenth chapter of St John strikes chords then that differ from those struck when we heard it last on Maundy Thursday.

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