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FROM PANIC TO PART

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  Scripture Text "They saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat, and they were frightened/panicked" Jn 6: 19 Theme    -              “FROM PANIC TO PART”   I w ould start my sharing with the expression  "When a friend becomes a stranger, it feels like a part of me is missing". In today's gospel, Jesus becomes a stranger to the disciples  who thought Jesus was a ghost  and they were unable to recognize him.  A stranger  Jesus  made them panic.  Herod was panicked about  Jesus’  birth which  would result in the deaths of many infants . Followers became panicked about his authority in words and deeds .  Peter , James, and John became panicky at hi s transfiguration in Tabor (Mt 17, 1-9).  From the time the Pascal mystery occurred until the first day of his resurrection, the disciples experienced panic. Later, they experienced panic again when they witnessed the miraculous  catch of  fish/haul of fish in Tiberias (the Gospel on Friday of the last wee