This is the twelfth episode in the 'Cristo vive! 50 días con el Jesús resucitado' series, dated April 12. Host Noemí Guerra, identified as a deaconess, centers the episode on John 21:17, where Jesus asks Peter — for the third time — 'Simon, son of John, do you love me?' The text notes that Peter was sad because this was the third time Jesus had asked. Guerra opens with three self-directed questions about moral failure — echoing Peter's internal state — and asks listeners whether they have experienced similar self-interrogation. She frames guilt and shame as internal wounds distinct from external injury: invisible to others but consuming to the one who carries them. Peter's specific wound is his three denials of Jesus before the crucifixion. Guerra then traces the narrative of John 21: Jesus does not wait for Peter to approach with perfect contrition but takes the initiative himself, leading Peter first to a fire with bread and fish — a scene of physical provision — before addressing the heart. She interprets Jesus's three questions as a structured act of healing, each question corresponding to one denial and each answer functioning as an absolution. The conclusion she draws is that Peter did not restore himself; Jesus raised him with his word of forgiveness. Guerra then refines the theological point: this is not an argument against repentance, but a claim that Peter's repentance was itself guided by Christ's initiative. She extends this logic to present-day listeners: the risen Christ still takes the initiative toward those burdened by guilt, calling them by name and restoring what they cannot repair themselves. She speaks in the first person to model a posture of not allowing guilt to define identity, and of letting the Spirit open the way for the risen Christ to approach and heal. The episode closes with a brief spoken prayer thanking God that the risen Jesus raises people with his word of forgiveness and restores wounds with grace. Two reflection questions follow: how to embrace the truth that restoration depends on Christ's perfect love rather than the believer's perfect repentance, and whether there is someone in the listener's life who needs to hear that Jesus can heal even what feels irreparable.
