‘The Gospel readings for both the Vigil and the Mass of Easter Day report the utter confusion of Jesus’ followers. No one seems to have expected anything like a resurrection.
‘We are not unlike those first followers. Though we know well the Easter story, we never seem fully to grasp its meaning. Like them, we so often continue to live burdened with our dashed hopes and with our misunderstanding of God’s mysterious power. Like them, we come to the tomb and expect to find death, but instead we find signs of a new life that we cannot even begin to comprehend. Like them, we do not realize that our history has been broken open and is now filled with the resurrected presence of Christ.
‘Our faith assures us that the tomb is empty because Jesus has risen; it assures us that death has been swallowed up by life. Easter is a time to celebrate life, to value life in all of its forms and at all of its stages. A wondrous world of mystery has opened up before us, inviting us to step into it.’
Excerpt from a commentary by Sr Dianne Bergant
‘We are not unlike those first followers. Though we know well the Easter story, we never seem fully to grasp its meaning. Like them, we so often continue to live burdened with our dashed hopes and with our misunderstanding of God’s mysterious power. Like them, we come to the tomb and expect to find death, but instead we find signs of a new life that we cannot even begin to comprehend. Like them, we do not realize that our history has been broken open and is now filled with the resurrected presence of Christ.
‘Our faith assures us that the tomb is empty because Jesus has risen; it assures us that death has been swallowed up by life. Easter is a time to celebrate life, to value life in all of its forms and at all of its stages. A wondrous world of mystery has opened up before us, inviting us to step into it.’
Excerpt from a commentary by Sr Dianne Bergant
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