By Beth DeCristofaro
“Moreover, all the prophets who spoke, from Samuel and
those afterwards, also
announced these days. You are the children of the
prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he said to
Abraham, in your offspring all the
families of the earth shall be blessed. For you first, God raised up his
servant and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.” (Acts 3:24-26)
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Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And
he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from
the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would
be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are
witnesses of these things.” (Luke
24:45-48)
Piety
Praise the LORD, all
you nations!
Extol him, all you
peoples!
His mercy for us is
strong;
the faithfulness of
the LORD is forever.
Hallelujah!
(Psalm 117)
Study
Hallelujah! The Easter Vigil, filled with Hallelujahs,
readings that span our sacred history, the darkness blown away by lighting of
candles. Walking out of church amid all
who have renewed our baptismal promises and seeing the transformed faces of the
newly Baptized I get just a tiny sense of what the Apostles might have been
feeling on the road to Emmaus and in the upper room when Jesus appeared.
This Easter weekend
we enjoyed meals with friends from high school and grade school, catching up on
our lives, sharing what is important to us now and what has been meaningful
throughout the years. Jesus’ friends mourned
his leaving them. We also miss those who
have left our lives whether by distance, temperament or death. But Jesus’ Resurrection tells us clearly that
He does not need our sorrow He wants our consent to be with Him as He remains
with us. His Resurrection opened us to
understanding and our consent points us to walk in His footsteps as witness and
hallelujah people.
Action
How do we preach in
his name? Jesus came in accordance to
fulfill the Scriptures.
The Scriptures tell
us through the mouths of prophets, poets, believers, sinners, and the Son of
God to follow: “Do not be daunted by the
enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly,
now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to
abandon it.” (Interpretive
translation of Talmudic texts, from Gratefulness, Word for the Day)[i]
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