Easter Sunday
Readings: Acts 10:34a,37-43; Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8; Jn 20:1-9 or Lk 24:1-12 or (evening Mass) Lk 24:13-35
From the Gospel: “Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away” (Jn 20:1).
Thought for the day: The risen Lord, who conquered sin and death, shows forth a kind of hope that can arise even in humanly speaking hopeless situations and has stability even in our finiteness, weakness, and culpability. Maybe we are tempted to say, “I surely would like to be able to believe, but this kind of profound faith escapes me.” We say this as if such a faith were possible only for especially gifted persons.
The meetings of the disciples with Jesus are instructive. Mary Magdalene goes back to the tomb. She goes back to the place of her longing. St. Catherine of Siena especially pointed out the significance of longing for the development and growth of Christian life. It is good and proper that we have a longing for faith, a longing to meet Christ, to get acquainted with him, a longing for inner peace, change of life, a greater love. Perhaps it is also important for us to search out the place of our longing, to return to ourselves, possibly in tears, as Mary Magdalene did.
Bishop DDr. Klaus Küng
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