Repetition is the key to success.

Whether it’s learning a new soccer move, or a tennis swing, memorizing a poem, or learning a new language, we have to do it over and over again. We have to get the golf swing or the yoga move into our muscle memory. We have to learn just the right touch for sanding wood or kneading bread dough. We have to remember how to edit a video or play a song. It works with music, manners and art.

Repetition is part of building faith, too.

In this Easter season, one sighting of the resurrected Jesus isn’t enough.

One conversation between him and the disciples won’t work.

He kept showing up and showing up so the disciples could — and we can really understand this new reality. It takes a while for this to sink in.

Luke’s gospel story finds us on Sunday evening, the day of re…