Today we celebrated the Divine Mercy Sunday and the Gospel is centered on the appearance of the Risen Christ to His disciples and to Thomas. The hearts of the disciples are more tightly closed than the room itself. They had seen their teacher arrested, tortured and crucified. everything they believed in seemed shattered. They were not waiting in hope - they were hiding in fear. And into that fear, Jesus comes, not with anger, not with accusation, not with disappointment but with peace.

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The Gospel begins in darkness, in uncertainty, in the quiet ache of the human heart. Mary discovers that the stone has been rolled away. Immediately, she runs - not yet with faith, but with alarm. "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb," she says. Her first conclusion is not resurrection, but removal. Even those closest to Jesus were not expecting Easter. This detail is important. It reminds us that resurrection- faith is not wishful thinking, it is something surprising, something that breaks into human expectations.

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