Easter Sunday The Lord is Risen

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Gospel Reading Lk 24:1-12

At daybreak on the first day of the week
the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus
took the spices they had prepared
and went to the tomb.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb;
but when they entered,
they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

While they were puzzling over this, behold,
two men in dazzling garments appeared to them.
They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground.



They said to them,
“Why do you seek the living one among the dead?
He is not here, but he has been raised.

Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee,
that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners
and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”
And they remembered his words.

Then they returned from the tomb
and announced all these things to the eleven
and to all the others.

The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James;
the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles,
but their story seemed like nonsense
and they did not believe them.

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb,
bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone;
then he went home amazed at what had happened.

The Gospels assure us that, like his birth, the resurrection was physical, real, not just some alteration inside the consciousness of believers.


After the resurrection, we are assured, Jesus's tomb was empty, people could touch him, he ate food with them, he was not a ghost. 

Read more on Seeing the Resurrection by Ron Rolheiser here