The Lord’s body that made its entrance to the disciples through closed doors was the same as that which issued before the eyes of people from the Virgin’s closed womb at His birth.
Is it surprising that He who was now going to live forever made His entrance through closed doors after His resurrection who on His coming in order to die made His appearance from the unopened womb of a virgin?
But because the faith of those who beheld it wavered concerning the body they could see, He showed them at once His hands and His side, offering them the body that He brought in through the closed doors to touch.
By this action, He revealed two wonderful and, according to human reason, quite contradictory things.
He showed them that after resurrection His body was both incorruptible and yet could be touched.
By showing us that it is incorruptible, He would urge us on toward our reward, and by offering it as touchable He would dispose us toward faith.
He manifested Himself as both incorruptible and touchable to show us that His body after His resurrection was of the same nature as ours but of a different sort of glory.
Saint Gregory the Great
Saint Gregory the Great lived from 540 to 604 becoming pope in 590. The Gregorian chant is attributed to him.
