For forty days we have been celebrating the marvel and the mystery of the Easter event. Some of our number spent Lent as a time of special preparation for baptism and confirmation, while the rest of us prepared to remember our baptisms and renew our baptismal vows. We all participated in the death and resurrection of Christ through our baptism. Since then we have been exploring some of the meanings of that dying and rising for the Christian life. Now we are almost at the end of the Great Fifty Days. In a few more days we will celebrate God's gift of the Spirit to the church, and the time of special concentration and liturgical play which we began on Ash Wednesday will be over. What then?

That is the question the lessons for today are seeking to answer. The disciples have all participated …