The Gospel for Saturday of the second week of Easter is taken from John 6:16 21st verse when it was evening, the disciples of Jesus went down to the sea, embarked in a boat and went across the sea to Capernaum. It had already grown dark and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea was stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. And when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat. And they began to be afraid. But he said to them, it is I do not be afraid.

They wanted to take him into the boat, but the boat immediately arrived at the shore to which they were heading. Nothing is repeated more in the scriptures in the words of Jesus when he says, do not be afraid. Fear is the awareness of something that is so strange and different that when we experience it, there is a sense that we are not in a place where we are in charge or in control. He invites us into a world that is so beyond our imagining. We’re on a journey across the sea of darkness. And God has promised if we do not fall into fear when we are in a place where what is happening to us doesn’t make any sense in it’s not something familiar, it’s then that we are offered the chance to believe and to trust.

And we reach our goal through faith. Closing PRAYER Father, that which is not understandable, that which is mysterious, is always a struggle for us to surrender to. And it’s strange that there is something in us that when we don’t live in a world that we know, we’re afraid, we’re uneasy, we’re unsure, we lose our confidence. Help us through those moments of fear to trust in you. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.