Gospel: Luke
24:1-12
At daybreak
on the first day of the week the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus
took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone
rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of
the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling
garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed their faces to the
ground. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He
is not here, but he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was
still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and be
crucified, and rise on the third day.” And they remembered his words. Then they
returned from the tomb and announced all these things to the eleven and to all
the others. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of
James; the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles, but
their story seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them. But Peter got
up and ran to the tomb, bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone; then he
went home amazed at what had happened.
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Reflection:
How would you
react if you were with the women who went to the burial site of Jesus? You
surely would also be amazed and perhaps you would also ask where is the body of
my Lord?
There was no
physical manifestation of Jesus’ resurrection except for the stone rolled away
from the tomb and Jesus’ burial cloths. Where was Jesus then? Where can we find
the Lord? We should not look far for the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ is not
far from us.
Many of us
look for Jesus most especially when we are being buffeted by problems. Some of
us may even ask, where are you Lord while I was going through the storms of my
life? Since our baptism the Lord Jesus Christ has always been with us and He is
an ever-present component in our lives. Yet we have no awareness of it.
Many of us
have no awareness of His presence in our lives for the reason that we don’t
call upon Him as often as we can. Yet, Jesus is always there for us. If we would only try to call on Jesus we
surely would find Him. We surely would be enlightened about His ever present
presence in our lives.
Let us try to
always be connected to our Lord instead of always being connected to our
gadgets and smart phones. And we would find that our resurrected Lord Jesus
Christ is always there for us. – Marino
J. Dasmarinas
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