The liturgy these days of joy
During the eighth of Easter, the liturgy of the word is characterized by keeping the Sunday spirit of the day of the resurrection, which is evidenced in the sequence of passages taken from the gospels, to be proclaimed day by day.
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At the same time, key moments of the life of the apostles are underlined after the resurrection of Christ. The disciples, who mostly felt dejected by the death of the teacher and were prey to fear, now appear impregnated with a new spirit, full of unusual spiritual force. That impulse has only one explanation: it springs from the most significant event in history: the God-man-man has returned to life! And he has turned fear in value, sadness in joy. This can be seen in the first reading of the eighth, because they are taken from the Acts of the Apostles.
Easter Eighth Tuesday
Today, Tuesday, April 22, we celebrate the third day of the Eighth Pascual. The reading of the Gospel is taken from the story of St. John, who presents the moment of the Meeting of Mary Magdalena with Risen Jesus (Jn 20, 11-18). It is only eight verses, but whose eloquence is shocking.
Mary is crying in front of the sepulcher and the idea that Jesus has been stolen through her mind by plunging her into the bewilderment. Without tears stopping sprouting from their eyes, he approaches the sepulcher and looks out to see the interior. Suddenly he realizes that he is in the presence of two angels. They asked him: “Why are you crying, woman?” She replied: “Because they have taken my lord and I don’t know where they will have put it.” The woman looks back and runs into Jesus, whom she does not recognize and believes the gardener of the place. Jesus asks him the same question as angels: “Woman, why are you crying?”, And she insists on the suspicion that someone has taken the body of the Lord. Then the final sweet is precipitated. Jesus calls her by his name “Mary!” And as if her eyes had just opened, the woman recognizes him and instantly replies: Teacher! The resurrected Lord departs and Mary Magdalena enlumbs where the apostles are to tell them that Christ, the Lord has resurrected.
San Anastasio de Antioquía in the sixth century said: “The Messiah, then, had to suffer, and his passion was totally necessary, as he himself said when he described as without intelligence and short of understanding of those disciples who ignored that the Messiah had to suffer to enter his glory. Because he, in truth, came to save his people (…) And we see, in a way, how that glory that he possessed as only one, and the one that had resigned by us … is restored through the cross (…) the evangelist (Saint John) identifies glory with the death in the cross. ”
Gospel according to St. John (Jn 20, 11-18)
On the day of the resurrection, Mary had been crying next to the sepulcher of Jesus. While crying, the sepulcher looked out and saw two angels dressed in white, sitting in the place where Jesus had been, one in the head and the other next to the feet. The angels asked him: “Why are you crying, woman?” She replied: “Because they have taken my lord and I don’t know where they will have put it.”
That said, he looked back and saw Jesus standing, but he didn’t know it was Jesus. Then he said: “Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?” She, believing that she was the gardener, replied: “Lord, if you took it, tell me where you have put it.” Jesus said: “Mary!” She turned and exclaimed: “Rabbuní!”, Which in Hebrew means ‘teacher’. Jesus said: “Leave me now, because I have not yet risen to the Father. Go to my brothers: ‘I go up to my Father and his Father, my God and his God.”
María Magdalena went to see the disciples to tell them that he had seen the Lord and to give them his message.
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