1st Week of Easter – Saturday A
In today's Gospel, we get a glimpse of faith under duress—faith that is tested, faith that wanes, faith that struggles. And it is safe to say that we all go through it, though perhaps in less dramatic ways. Yet, in a very striking manner, we see how even the Apostles went through it. These same Apostles who saw all the miracles, who lived with the Lord Jesus, who at the Last Supper heard Him prophesy that all of them would lose faith, quoting the prophet Zechariah: “The shepherd shall be struck, and the sheep will be scattered” (Zec 13:7).