Receiving Resurrected Breath

Jesus Breathes on Them (New Meditation)

As you prepare to enter this story with your imagination, I invite you to take a few deep breaths. Noticing the air as it goes through your nose, windpipes, and into your lungs.

Notice how you feel as you enter this story. What do you notice in your body? Where do you feel tension, pressure, stress?

When you are ready, read the passage slowly. If you would like to listen to a version of this practice combined with next week’s, check out this meditation I posted on Insight Timer:

Insight Timer: Receiving Resurrected Breath

Ignatian Meditation: John 20: 19-23

19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

21 Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone's sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."