You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. Easter Friday, Jesus appears at the seaside.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.

After these things, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberius. He showed himself in this way.

Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas called the twin, Nathaniel of Cana and Galilee,

and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. Simon Peter said to them,

I am going fishing. They said to him, we will go with you.

They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just after daybreak,

Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, children, you have no fish,

have you? They answered him, no. He said to them, cast the net to the right side of the boat,

and you will find some. So they cast it. And now they were not able to haul it in because there were so many fish.

The disciple to whom Jesus loves said to Peter,

It is the Lord.

When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord,

he put on some clothes for he was naked and jumped into the sea.

But the other disciples came in the boat dragging the net full of fish,

for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards off. When they had gone ashore,

they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it and bread. Jesus said to them, bring some of the fish that you have just caught. So Simon

Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And though there were so

many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, come and have some breakfast. Now none of the disciples

dared to ask him, who are you? Because they knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread

and gave it to them and did the same with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was

raised from the dead. The Gospel of the Lord. Look at the image of Jesus appearing at the seaside.

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