Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Let There Be Light

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 04.17.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

John 20:1-9

Friends, our Easter Gospel contains St. John’s magnificent account of the Resurrection.
It was, says John, early in the morning on the first day of the week.
It was still dark—just the way it was at the beginning of time before God said,
"Let there be light."
But a light was about to shine, and a new creation was about to appear.

The stone had been rolled away. That stone, blocking entrance to the tomb of Jesus, And this is why we weep at death—not just in grief but in a kind of existential frustration.

But for Jesus, the stone had been rolled away.
Undoubtedly, the first disciples must have thought a grave robber had been at work.
But the wonderful Johannine irony is that the greatest of grave robbers had indeed been at work.
The Lord says to the prophet Ezekiel, "I will open your graves and have you rise from them."

What was dreamed about, what endured as a hope against hope,
has become a reality.
God has opened the grave of his Son,
and the bonds of death have been shattered forever.

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+++On the first day of the week,
Mary of Magdala came to the tomb
early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus
loved, and told them,
“They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don’t know where they put him.”
So Peter and the other disciple went
out and came to the tomb.
They both ran, but the other
disciple ran faster than Peter
and arrived at the tomb first;
he bent down and saw the burial
cloths there, but did not go in.
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.
For they did not yet understand the Scripture
that he had to rise from the dead.+++