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GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 16, 2022 - SATURDAY
GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 16, 2022
Holy Saturday
Gospel: Lk 24:1-12 1 On the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in, they did not find the body. 4 While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. 5 The women were terrified and Holy Saturday bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. 6 Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.” 8 Then they remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. 10Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. 11But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.
Something radically new has taken place early on the first day of the week after the crucifixion of Jesus. The event bears the stamp of God’s fondness for turning upside down the known and accepted human conventions of the time. In the strongly patriarchal Jewish society of the first century, women could not witness in court, for their testimony was not considered valid. And yet the four Gospels testify that it is to women that the greatest truth of the Christian faith — Christ’s resurrection — is first revealed and its proclamation entrusted. New creation has begun its invasion of the old creation, to transform it. The old creation resists, as evidenced by the refusal of the male disciples of Jesus to believe the women’s message. But the power of the new creation, unleashed by the death and resurrection of Jesus, is unstoppable. The empowerment of women to be witnesses and announcers of this truth bears out what St. Paul declares in 1 Cor 1:27, 29: “God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong… so that no one might boast in the presence of God.”
Risen Lord, thank you for giving us the possibility to become new creatures. Alleluia! Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 16, 2022
Holy Saturday
Gospel: Lk 24:1-12 1 On the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in, they did not find the body. 4 While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. 5 The women were terrified and Holy Saturday bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. 6 Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.” 8 Then they remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. 10Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. 11But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.
Something radically new has taken place early on the first day of the week after the crucifixion of Jesus. The event bears the stamp of God’s fondness for turning upside down the known and accepted human conventions of the time. In the strongly patriarchal Jewish society of the first century, women could not witness in court, for their testimony was not considered valid. And yet the four Gospels testify that it is to women that the greatest truth of the Christian faith — Christ’s resurrection — is first revealed and its proclamation entrusted. New creation has begun its invasion of the old creation, to transform it. The old creation resists, as evidenced by the refusal of the male disciples of Jesus to believe the women’s message. But the power of the new creation, unleashed by the death and resurrection of Jesus, is unstoppable. The empowerment of women to be witnesses and announcers of this truth bears out what St. Paul declares in 1 Cor 1:27, 29: “God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong… so that no one might boast in the presence of God.”
Risen Lord, thank you for giving us the possibility to become new creatures. Alleluia! Amen.