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Barcelona, Quasimodogeniti (First Sunday after Easter), April 15, 1928.
Bonhoeffer preached this sermon and the next while serving as a pastoral assistant (German: Vikar) in a Lutheran congregation in Barcelona, Spain, as part of his training for ordination. Even though he was speaking in German to German-speaking people, Bonhoeffer found preparing and delivering his first sermons challenging. But he was eager for the experience, and his supervising pastor was happy to let him preach frequently. On this first Sunday after Easter, the twenty-two-year-old preacher began with thoughts of the ancient world, the study of which was then not far behind him: the world of legends and myths, in which most people traveled on foot and might meet divine beings on the road. It was also the world of the Bible: the Old Testament, which tells of people who had such encounters with God, and the New Testament when Jesus walked the roads of Palestine with his disciples. But as the congregation that walked with Bonhoeffer through this sermon discovered, the possibility of a walk with God exists still, even today.