By Rev. Joe McCloskey, SJ
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. Acts 10:40-42
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. 1 Corinthians 5:8
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. John 20:6-8
Piety
Jesus is truly risen. He lives in the joy of our companions on a
blossoming, spring day. He lives in the
song of the colorful birds of our life. He
is the richness of a helping hand. He is
the wonder of the newborn babe. He is
the fulfillment of everything that is wonderful about life. He has given us the fullness of his cross as
the most magnificent expression of the mercy and the love of God. Jesus who is the same yesterday, today and
tomorrow is everything beautiful about being alive. Jesus is the aliveness of ever now that
touches the eternal newness of God. Christ
in his resurrection sits at the right hand of God and he is the best part of
ourselves already in heaven in his love for us that draws us ever to our
destiny in God through him. Jesus gives
us the best of ourselves in his resurrection that makes our love his when we
love one another. When we have lost
something and found it again. Jesus is
the forever being found of the God of our hearts. There is no tomorrow in the forever of the
Jesus of the Resurrection. His love is
forever a part of us in the completing of all the "incompletes" of our lives.
Study
Our study is the looking
beyond of the created moments of our lives to see what is pointed at in the
fullness of God’s love for us in each moment. Our study rushes us to the empty tomb of his
burial to find the risen Lord waiting for us in each new moment of our lives. We climb the cross of Christ to see our world
through the eyes of his Resurrection. There
is no moment now that does not hold the fulfillment of every desire. We neatly unwrap the folds of what we have
buried in the hopes of the resurrection. Our study gives us what the Apostles were
witnessing to in their accounts of the risen Christ. We believe because they have given us the
vision of what we are waiting for in our hopes of our own resurrections. We study each encounter of Christ to get
beyond the disguise of his being in each other in the goodness our study
reveals.
Action
We must live the
resurrection. Our lives must reveal the
fullness of our hopes in Christ. He will
not berate us for our faults. We must do
the same for each other. He will comfort
us by his presence in our lives. We must
be beacons of hope for each other by our comfortableness with each other. All the joy of the resurrection we must share
that our world might know in the love we have for one another the source of our
happiness in Christ. He died not knowing
what we now know in his coming back to us in his happiness that our lives have
a forever meaning in his resurrection. Christ
has risen. We will rise that his joy in
his resurrection might be ours.
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