2017년 4월 12일 예수 부활 대축일
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제1독서
사도행전. 10,34ㄱ.37ㄴ-43
그 무렵 34 베드로가 입을 열어 말하였다.
“여러분은 37 요한이 세례를 선포한 이래
갈릴래아에서 시작하여 온 유다 지방에 걸쳐 일어난 일과,
38 하느님께서 나자렛 출신 예수님께 성령과 힘을 부어 주신 일을 알고 있습니다.
이 예수님께서 두루 다니시며 좋은 일을 하시고
악마에게 짓눌리는 이들을 모두 고쳐 주셨습니다.
하느님께서 그분과 함께 계셨기 때문입니다.
39 그리고 우리는 그분께서 유다 지방과 예루살렘에서 하신 모든 일의 증인입니다.
그들이 예수님을 나무에 매달아 죽였지만,
40 하느님께서는 그분을 사흘 만에 일으키시어 사람들에게 나타나게 하셨습니다.
41 그러나 모든 백성에게 나타나신 것이 아니라,
하느님께서 미리 증인으로 선택하신 우리에게 나타나셨습니다.
그분께서 죽은 이들 가운데에서 다시 살아나신 뒤에
우리는 그분과 함께 먹기도 하고 마시기도 하였습니다.
42 그분께서는 하느님께서 당신을
산 이들과 죽은 이들의 심판관으로 임명하셨다는 것을
백성에게 선포하고 증언하라고 우리에게 분부하셨습니다.
43 이 예수님을 두고 모든 예언자가 증언합니다.
그분을 믿는 사람은 누구나 그분의 이름으로 죄를 용서받는다는 것입니다.”
제2독서
콜로새서. 3,1-4<또는 1코린 5,6ㄴ-8>
형제 여러분, 1 여러분은 그리스도와 함께 다시 살아났으니,
저 위에 있는 것을 추구하십시오.
거기에는 그리스도께서 하느님의 오른쪽에 앉아 계십니다.
2 위에 있는 것을 생각하고 땅에 있는 것은 생각하지 마십시오.
3 여러분은 이미 죽었고, 여러분의 생명은 그리스도와 함께
하느님 안에 숨겨져 있기 때문입니다.
4 여러분의 생명이신 그리스도께서 나타나실 때,
여러분도 그분과 함께 영광 속에 나타날 것입니다.
복음
요한 20,1-9<또는 마태 28,1-10 또는 저녁 미사에서는 루카 24,13-35>
주간 첫날 이른 아침, 아직도 어두울 때에
마리아 막달레나가 무덤에 가서 보니, 무덤을 막았던 돌이 치워져 있었다.
2 그래서 그 여자는 시몬 베드로와
예수님께서 사랑하신 다른 제자에게 달려가서 말하였다.
“누가 주님을 무덤에서 꺼내 갔습니다. 어디에 모셨는지 모르겠습니다.”
3 베드로와 다른 제자는 밖으로 나와 무덤으로 갔다.
4 두 사람이 함께 달렸는데,
다른 제자가 베드로보다 빨리 달려 무덤에 먼저 다다랐다.
5 그는 몸을 굽혀 아마포가 놓여 있는 것을 보기는 하였지만,
안으로 들어가지는 않았다.
6 시몬 베드로가 뒤따라와서 무덤으로 들어가 아마포가 놓여 있는 것을 보았다.
7 예수님의 얼굴을 쌌던 수건은 아마포와 함께 놓여 있지 않고,
따로 한곳에 개켜져 있었다.
8 그제야 무덤에 먼저 다다른 다른 제자도 들어갔다. 그리고 보고 믿었다.
9 사실 그들은 예수님께서 죽은 이들 가운데에서 다시 살아나셔야 한다는
성경 말씀을 아직 깨닫지 못하고 있었던 것이다.
April 12, 2020
Easter Sunday: Solemnity of the Resurrection of The Lord
The Mass of Easter Day
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
Peter proceeded to speak and said:
“You know what has happened all over Judea,
beginning in Galilee after the baptism
that John preached,
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Spirit and power.
He went about doing good
and healing all those oppressed by the devil,
for God was with him.
We are witnesses of all that he did
both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.
They put him to death by hanging him on a tree.
This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible,
not to all the people, but to us,
the witnesses chosen by God in advance,
who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
He commissioned us to preach to the people
and testify that he is the one appointed by God
as judge of the living and the dead.
To him all the prophets bear witness,
that everyone who believes in him
will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (24) This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.
Let the house of Israel say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.
or:
R. Alleluia.
“The right hand of the LORD has struck with power;
the right hand of the LORD is exalted.
I shall not die, but live,
and declare the works of the LORD.”
R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.
or:
R. Alleluia.
The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
By the LORD has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Reading 2
Brothers and sisters:
If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above,
where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ your life appears,
then you too will appear with him in glory.
or
Brothers and sisters:
Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?
Clear out the old yeast,
so that you may become a fresh batch of dough,
inasmuch as you are unleavened.
For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.
Therefore, let us celebrate the feast,
not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Gospel
On the first day of the week,
Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,
“They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don’t know where they put him.”
So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.
They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter
and arrived at the tomb first;
he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
When Simon Peter arrived after him,
he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
and the cloth that had covered his head,
not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
Then the other disciple also went in,
the one who had arrived at the tomb first,
and he saw and believed.
For they did not yet understand the Scripture
that he had to rise from the dead.
OR
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning,
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
And behold, there was a great earthquake;
for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven,
approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.
His appearance was like lightning
and his clothing was white as snow.
The guards were shaken with fear of him
and became like dead men.
Then the angel said to the women in reply,
“Do not be afraid!
I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified.
He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said.
Come and see the place where he lay.
Then go quickly and tell his disciples,
‘He has been raised from the dead,
and he is going before you to Galilee;
there you will see him.’
Behold, I have told you.”
Then they went away quickly from the tomb,
fearful yet overjoyed,
and ran to announce this to his disciples.
And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them.
They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage.
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid.
Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee,
and there they will see me.”
or (at an afternoon Mass)
That very day, the first day of the week,
two of Jesus’ disciples were going
to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,
and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.
And it happened that while they were conversing and debating,
Jesus himself drew near and walked with them,
but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.
He asked them,
“What are you discussing as you walk along?”
They stopped, looking downcast.
One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply,
“Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem
who does not know of the things
that have taken place there in these days?”
And he replied to them, “What sort of things?”
They said to him,
“The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene,
who was a prophet mighty in deed and word
before God and all the people,
how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over
to a sentence of death and crucified him.
But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel;
and besides all this,
it is now the third day since this took place.
Some women from our group, however, have astounded us:
they were at the tomb early in the morning
and did not find his body;
they came back and reported
that they had indeed seen a vision of angels
who announced that he was alive.
Then some of those with us went to the tomb
and found things just as the women had described,
but him they did not see.”
And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are!
How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!
Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things
and enter into his glory?”
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets,
he interpreted to them what referred to him
in all the Scriptures.
As they approached the village to which they were going,
he gave the impression that he was going on farther.
But they urged him, “Stay with us,
for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.”
So he went in to stay with them.
And it happened that, while he was with them at table,
he took bread, said the blessing,
broke it, and gave it to them.
With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him,
but he vanished from their sight.
Then they said to each other,
“Were not our hearts burning within us
while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?”
So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem
where they found gathered together
the eleven and those with them who were saying,
“The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!”
Then the two recounted
what had taken place on the way
and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread
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«Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and believed»
Mons. Joan Enric VIVES i Sicília Bishop of Urgell
(Lleida, Spain)
Today, «is the day when the Lord has acted», as we shall be singing throughout Easter time. As this is the ｅxpression of Psalm 117 that fills out the celebration of our Christian faith. The Father has resurrected Jesus Christ, His beloved Son, whom He indulges in because He has loved to the point of giving his life for all of us.
Let us live this Easter with plenty of joy. Christ has risen: so let us celebrate it full of joy and love. Death, sin and sadness, have today been defeated by Jesus Christ... and He has opened the doors to a new life, the real life, the life we owe to the grace of the Holy Spirit. Nobody should be sad. Christ is our Peace and our Path forever and ever. Today, He «fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear» (Vatican Council II, Gaudium et Spes 22).
The great sign the Gospel gives us today is that Jesus' tomb is empty. We have to look no more among the dead for He who is alive has risen. And his disciples, that later on will see him risen, that is, will experience him alive in a wonderful meeting in faith, also realize his tomb is empty. An empty tomb and apparitions will be the great signs for the believer's faith. The Gospel says that «finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed» (Jn 20:8). Through his faith he realizes that the emptiness and the linen cloths lying flat and the napkin rolled up in its place, were all signs God had been there, signs of the new life. Love can see signals where others cannot and small signs may suffice. «The other disciple whom Jesus loved» (Jn 20:2) was led by the love he had received from Christ.
The “seeing and believing” of the disciples must also be our aim. We renew our paschal faith. That Christ be our Lord in everything we do. Let his Life revitalize ours and let us renew the grace of the baptism we have received. Let us become his apostles and disciples. Let us be guided by love and announce to all our happiness to believe in Christ. Let us be hopeful witnesses of his Resurrection.
VIGIL MASS (A) (Mt 28:1-10): «He is not here, for He is risen»
Fr. Josep Mª MASSANA i Mola OFM
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, in the Easter Vigil Gospel, there throbs a great dynamism: two women run towards the tomb, suddenly a violent earthquake occurs, an angel rolls the stone from the entrance, the guards tremble in fear and become like dead men. And Jesus, alive and resurrect, meets those women on the way...
Those women are the first ones to experience the resurrection of Jesus, and this, just by looking at the empty sepulcher and at the angel that tells them: «Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for He is risen as He said...» (Mt 28:5-6). They are also the first ones to bear witness of their experience: «Go at once and tell his disciples: He is risen...!» (Mt 28:7).
And they believe right away. Their faith, though, is a mixture of holy fear and great joy. They feared greatly the angel's words, announcing a message that goes far beyond all the human expectations. And they felt the joy because of the certainty of our Lord's resurrection, because the Scriptures had been fulfilled, because they had been privileged by the immense joy of experiencing that Paschal mystery. Therefore, faith, while producing a great intimate joy, does not exclude fear.
They run to announce their experience of the Resurrected, which they have felt without actually seeing him. And Jesus rewards this faith by meeting them on the way.
The core of all experience of faith, in the first place, is neither a doctrine nor any dogma. It is the person of Jesus. The faith of the two women in today's Gospel is centered in him, in his person, and in nothing more. They have experienced him alive and they run to proclaim him alive!
Another woman, St. Clare of Assisi, wrote to the St. Agnes of Prague, that she should be centered on the resurrected Jesus: «Gaze upon, examine, contemplate Jesus Christ (…). If you suffer with him, with him you will reign, grieving with him, with him you will rejoice, dying with him on the cross of tribulation, with him you will possess mansions in Heaven...».
VIGIL MASS (B) (Mk 16:1-7): «Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified; he has been raised»
+ Mons. Ramon MALLA i Call Emeritus Bishop of Lleida
(Lleida, Spain)
Today, the Church celebrates with joy the main festivity: the triumph of its Head, Jesus Christ. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a reality of which we cannot have any doubt. It is not infrequent, and it is understandable, that a heavenly event, like a risen body, cannot be assimilated by our earthly means. Soon enough, though, Mary of Magdala and St. James’ mother would receive straightforward evidence, later authenticated with many appearances, and carried out in such a way that excluded any suspicion of eventual hallucinations: «Don’t be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified; he has been raised and is not here. This is, however, the place where they laid him» (Mk 16:6).
Above and beyond the bliss consequence of Christ’s Resurrection, this occurrence also brings us the happiness of being able to rely upon a clear cut and joyful answer to man’s queries: what is awaiting us at the end of life? What is the point of the suffering on earth? We cannot doubt that, after death, a new eternal life awaits us: «you will see Him there just as He told you» (Mk 16:7). St. Paul avows with great conviction: «Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him» (Rm 6:8-9). To the question about the end of life, the Christian logically answers with a happy expectation.
Today’s Gospel emphasizes that the young man —the angel— that speaks to the women, joins the two concepts of pain and glory: He who has risen is the same one that was crucified. St. Leo de Great says: «… (The power of the Cross) the believers receive strength for weakness, glory for shame, life for death»; our everyday Cross is, therefore, the path of Resurrection.
VIGIL MASS (C) (Lk 24:1-12) «Why look for the living among the dead? You won’t find him here. He is risen»
Fr. Austin NORRIS
(Mumbai, India)
Today, we behold the glory of the Lord shining in its victory over suffering and death. New life is promised to those who search and believe the Truth of Jesus. No one will be disappointed, neither were the women «who went to the tomb with perfumes and ointments» (Lk 24,1).
The perfumes and ointments that we are to carry through our life are our life spreading the Word of God when Jesus enfleshed said: «I am the resurrection; whoever believes in me (…) shall live, [and] will never die» (Jn 11,25-26).
In the midst of our confusion and pain we seem to become myopic in vision, because we cannot look beyond our immediate environment. And the «why do you look for the living among the dead?» (Lk 24,5) is a call to follow Jesus and to search the presence of the Lord in the "here and now"; in the midst of Lord's people and their suffering and pain. In his letter for Lent the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI mentions how «salvation, in fact, is a gift, it is God's grace, but to have effect in my existence it requires my consent, an acceptance demonstrated in deeds, that is, in the will to live like Jesus, to walk after him».
«Returning from the tomb…» (Lk 24,9) of our misery and doubt and confusion, we are in turn, able to give others hope and certainty in their vale of tears. The darkness of the tomb «gives way to the bright promise of immortality» (Preface for Funeral Masses). May the glory of the Lord Jesus hold us up facing heavenwards and may we be an Easter People always. May we rise up from being a Good Friday people to an Easter people.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
As we complete the Holy Triduum (Three Days) and Celebrate the Mystery of the Resurrection we are invited to consider deeply the reality of our human existence and the astounding mercy of our Creator God. The banquet of Scripture texts, prayers, hymns and sacramental enactments of the Easter Festival provide numerous doors by which we can enter the paschal mystery and contemplate joyfully what God has done and is doing for us. Perhaps never in our collective lifetimes have we needed those doors as we do this year of 2020 when we seek to celebrate Easter in a pandemic of viral disease that has upended nearly every semblance of the patterns of ordinary life.
Scripture scholars have shared the wisdom that the ancient biblical writers understood water to not only be a source of life and refreshment, but the location for chaos, disorder and radical change. In the Creation stories of Genesis God separated the waters and brought forth land upon which all kinds of creatures could live and thrive. Land can host conflict but land itself does not appear to change greatly. It is orderly and stable.
Water, however, refers to various forms of chaos, change, disruption and danger. Water itself is restlessly changing from minute to minute, and bodies of water were seen to be the borders of human life where the greatest change took place. To go into the deep water was to enter into radical change or even re-birth, since it was known and understood that the very nature of human life emerged out of the waters carried in a pregnant woman’s body.
As we listen to the readings of the Liturgy for the Easter Vigil and Easter Day, we hear the consistent message about entering upon, or passing through, waters. By becoming human God subordinated the Divine Self to the chaos of human life – and the ultimate chaos of human death.
In the creation story God breathes over the waters and fills them with the Divine Spirit to overcome the spirit of darkness and chaos, in the Exodus story God lead’s the people through the waters of the Reed Sea to dry land on the other side. Finally, by crossing the waters of the Jordan River, God’s people come into a place where humans will flourish: the garden of God’s Reign.
Today, in a time of sickness and death, a time of economic chaos and disruption, a time when ordinary patterns of human interaction – even the patterns of worship of God – have all been disordered by a global pandemic. It is as if the whole of humanity has entered a boat together, but each along, to sail through an unpredicted storm, on an ocean that was already deep, dangerous, and seems to have no boundaries. Pope Francis pointed this out several weeks ago when he granted the special blessing to the “city and the world.” We are a people lost at sea.
Where do we look for meaning and consolation in such a frightening time?
The Christian Tradition sees this moment in the paradigm of Jesus’ Passion and Death. This is a moment when the body of humanity is enduring the ultimate chaos that signals a way of death; signals the passing away of what has “always” been. We are, frankly, at sea without stars to guide us.
Jesus, the Second Person of God, entered the human experience in the body of a human woman, was born into humanity out of the chaos of the waters, and then lived into the soul wrenching, body destroying murder of that same human life by the agents of sin and death – injustice and violence, lying and cruelty, corruption and greed. The leadership structures of societies colluded with sin. Weak and frightened humans, denied, lied and betrayed Jesus. He who was God-become-human lived into our radical vulnerability and lived through death itself. Just as he chose to be born in water, He chose to allow the chaos of evil to drown his human life. Making both choices as one choice, trusting that God is ultimately in charge of all creation and will bring victory from what appears to be certain defeat.
Easter is the ultimate reality. At whatever point we are in creation history, the mystery we celebrate in Easter is what (finally) IS. Easter promises those who have entered the waters of baptism the ultimate outcome of victory if we choose to believe and live into God’s Reign on earth, as it is in Heaven. Jesus challenges us to not be afraid; even COVID 19 is subordinate to the will and plans of the Father. The waters of chaos, filled with the Breath of God, have become the waters of baptismal life through the death and resurrection of the God/human, Jesus the Christ.
He is Risen! He is Risen, indeed! Alleluia! Alleluia!
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE RESURRECTION | ||
| "Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away." �John 20:1 | ||
Jesus is risen from the dead! Alleluia! "This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it" (Ps 118:24). I am writing this teaching for Easter with an IV in my arm, as I await having a tube put down my throat. This may be followed by other tortures, which may lead to surgery. What kind of Easter celebration is this!? "While it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb" (Jn 20:1). Easter often begins when it's dark. Possibly you are still in the night of a broken heart, painful marriage, shattered family, severe sickness, or pervasive pain. However, without the darkness of night, we would never see the sun rise. Without Jesus' death on Calvary, He would not have risen. If you begin this Easter season struggling to hope against hope (Rm 4:18), renew your baptismal promises and have faith in the Father through Jesus and in the Spirit. "Walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor 5:7). Jesus is risen! He has victory over the darkness, and He will manifest it in your life. "At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing" (Ps 30:6). Rejoice in the risen Christ! Rejoice by faith! Rejoice when you are still in your night, for Jesus is the Light Who is sure to dawn (see 2 Pt 1:19; cf Rv 22:16). Alleluia forever! | ||
| Prayer: Father, should anyone ask me the reason for this hope of mine, may I "be ever ready to reply" (1 Pt 3:15). | ||
| Promise: "Are you not aware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Through baptism into His death we were buried with Him, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live a new life." �Rm 6:3-4 | ||
| Praise: Praise the risen Jesus! Alleluia! |
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"John saw the empty tomb and believed"
What was it like for the disciple who had stood at the cross of Jesus and then laid him in a tomb on Good Friday, to come back three days later and discover that the sealed tomb was now empty? John, along with Peter, was the first apostle to reach the tomb of Jesus on Easter Sunday morning. Like Mary Magdalene and the other disciples, John was not ready to see an empty tomb and to hear the angel's message, Why do you seek the living among the dead (Luke 24:5)?
What did John see in the tomb that led him to believe in the resurrection of Jesus? It was certainly not a dead body. The dead body of Jesus would have disproven the resurrection and made his death a tragic conclusion to a glorious career as a great teacher and miracle worker. When John saw the empty tomb he must have recalled Jesus' prophecy that he would rise again after three days. Through the gift of faith John realized that no tomb on earth could contain the Lord and giver of life. John saw and believed (John 20:8).
John had to first deal with the empty tomb before he could meet the risen Lord later that evening along with the other apostles who had locked themselves in the upper room out of fear of the Jewish authorities (John 20:19-23). John testified as an eye-witness to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ: What we have seen, heard, and touched we proclaim as the eternal word of life which existed from the beginning (1 John 1:1-4). John bears witness to what has existed from all eternity. This "word of life" is Jesus the word incarnate, but also Jesus as the word announced by the prophets and Jesus the word now preached throughout the Christian church for all ages to come.
One thing is certain, if Jesus had not risen from the dead and appeared to his disciples, we would never have heard of him. Nothing else could have changed sad and despairing men and women into people radiant with joy and courage. The reality of the resurrection is the central fact of the Christian faith. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Lord gives us "eyes of faith" to know him and the power of his resurrection. The greatest joy we can have is to encounter the living Christ and to know him personally as our Lord and Savior. Do you accept the good news of Jesus' death and resurrection with skeptical doubt and disbelief or with trusting faith and joyful wonderment?
"Lord Jesus Christ, you have triumphed over the grave and you have won for us new life and resurrection power. Give me the eyes of faith to see you in your glory. Help me to draw near to you and to grow in the knowledge of your great love for us and your great victory over sin and death."
Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17,22-23
1 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever!
2 Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."
16 the right hand of the LORD is exalted, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!"
17 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD.
22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.
23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
A Daily Quote for the Easter season: The Womb of the Earth Gives Birth, by Hesychius of Jerusalem, died around 450 A.D.
"Hidden first in a womb of flesh, he sanctified human birth by his own birth. Hidden afterward in the womb of the earth, he gave life to the dead by his resurrection. Suffering, pain and sighs have now fled away. For who has known the mind of God, or who has been his counselor if not the Word made flesh who was nailed to the cross, who rose from the dead and who was taken up into heaven? This day brings a message of joy: it is the day of the Lord's resurrection when, with himself, he raised up the race of Adam. Born for the sake of human beings, he rose from the dead with them. on this day paradise is opened by the risen one, Adam is restored to life and Eve is consoled. on this day the divine call is heard, the kingdom is prepared, we are saved and Christ is adored. on this day, when he had trampled death under foot, made the tyrant a prisoner and despoiled the underworld, Christ ascended into heaven as a king in victory, as a ruler in glory, as an invincible charioteer. He said to the Father, 'Here am I, O God, with the children you have given me.' And he heard the Father’s reply, 'Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool' (Psalm 110:1)." To him be glory, now and for ever, through endless ages. Amen. [excerpt from EASTER HOMILY 5–6]
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