Commentary on the Gospel of
Starting Afresh
In the movie on the final days of Mother Mary, Full of Grace, Peter confides in Mary his confusion and loss of direction. Mary advices him: “Perhaps remembering where it all began will help you figure out where it will all end.” When things go awfully wrong, how we long to start all over again, from where we had once begun! Things had gone wrong for the disciples after the death of Jesus. The story of the missing body of the Master only further confounded them. What does Peter do? He goes back to where it all started. To Tiberias. To fishing. Fishing was what he was always good at. It is while fishing Master first caught him. Sure enough, the Master comes again, right where he had first met Peter. This time Peter wouldn’t say, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man” (Lk 5:8). This time he would jump off the boat, almost naked, into the sea, to swim towards him, to break bread with the Lord.
