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Second Reading: Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19

I was dead, but now I am alive for ever and ever.

  

 

I, John, your brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus. I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet, which said, “Write on a scroll what you see.” Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest.

 

When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead. He touched me with his right hand and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld. Write down, therefore, what you have seen, and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.”

 

 

Questions for Reflection

 

1.      What does it mean to you that Christ, in all His splendor and majesty, made the effort to calm John when he was frightened?

 

2.      How difficult do you think it was for John to describe what he was seeing?

 

3.      How might you have felt in John’s place? 

  

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