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GOSPEL POWER l APRIL 19, 2022 - TUESDAY
GOSPEL POWER l APRIL 19, 2022
Tuesday within the Octave of Easter
Gospel: Jn 20:11-18
11Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 12and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). 17Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
The “holding on” that Jesus prohibits does not only have to do with touching him (as in the Latin translation “Noli me tangere.”) nor with clinging physically to his risen body. Rather, Jesus corrects the misconception that, now that he is back to life, Mary and the other disciples can resume the kind of relationship they had with him before his passion and death. The whole process of Jesus’ glorification includes his ascension to where he was before with his Father. The process cannot be impeded by any attempt to restore the old Master-disciple relationship of his pre-crucifixion ministry. A new mode of relationship, not subject to the earthly limitations of space and time, will be forged with the risen Christ when he sends his Holy Spirit. But the Spirit can come only if Jesus departs. He has been preparing his disciples for this departure even before Calvary.
Lord Jesus, let your Holy Spirit breathe on us the breath of resurrectionlife and banish the culture of death promoted by those who persistently oppose God. Amen
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GOSPEL POWER l APRIL 19, 2022
Tuesday within the Octave of Easter
Gospel: Jn 20:11-18
11Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 12and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). 17Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
The “holding on” that Jesus prohibits does not only have to do with touching him (as in the Latin translation “Noli me tangere.”) nor with clinging physically to his risen body. Rather, Jesus corrects the misconception that, now that he is back to life, Mary and the other disciples can resume the kind of relationship they had with him before his passion and death. The whole process of Jesus’ glorification includes his ascension to where he was before with his Father. The process cannot be impeded by any attempt to restore the old Master-disciple relationship of his pre-crucifixion ministry. A new mode of relationship, not subject to the earthly limitations of space and time, will be forged with the risen Christ when he sends his Holy Spirit. But the Spirit can come only if Jesus departs. He has been preparing his disciples for this departure even before Calvary.
Lord Jesus, let your Holy Spirit breathe on us the breath of resurrectionlife and banish the culture of death promoted by those who persistently oppose God. Amen