Greetings on this the Tuesday in the Octave of Easter
Readings: Acts 2:36-41; Psalm 33:4-5, 18-19, 20 and 22; John 20:11-18
Summary
The Angels asked:
And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “They have taken my Lord,
and I don’t know where they laid him.”
Jesus asked:
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you looking for?”
She thought it was the gardener and said to him,
“Sir, if you carried him away,
tell me where you laid him,
and I will take him.”
Reflection
Moved by Grief
Woman, why are you weeping? Tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.
Each of us, reading the heartbreak of grief, the grief of a woman who loved the sinless one.
Moved by Conviction
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart,
and they asked Peter and the other Apostles,
“What are we to do, my brothers?”
Peter said to them,
“Repent and be baptized, every one of you,
in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins;
and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Moved by grief or moved by guilt for the grief?
Each of us must save ourselves from this corrupt generation.
Personal Reflection
I don’t know about you but at times I am Mary Magdalene (reflexive love) and other times receiving the Pentecost truth (conviction and repentance) – this Jesus whom you crucified.
I would like to be like Peter and the other Apostles – living and proclaiming liberty and freedom from this evil generation (meaning: a life wasted without a spiritual dimension). But what I want most of all, is on the lips of Jesus who said, “Mary!” to say “Gerry!“
Sacred Readings full text: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040726.cfm
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry