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Thread is #3 are for your reference. They are both finished.
From: Acts 2:14, 22-33
Peter's Address
From: Matthew 28:8-15
Jesus Appears To The Women
FEAST OF THE DAY
St. Guntramnus, also spelled Gontran, was the grandson of King
Clovis I of the Franks and was born around the year 525. In 561
Guntramnus was crowned king of Burgundy and Orleans. As king,
Guntramnus always strove to find balance between his public life
and his spiritual life. He was well known for his generosity with royal
funds; he used them to help the poor, especially in times of famine
and also used them to build many churches and monasteries.
Guntramnus worked to always rule his kingdom justly and used the
virtues taught in the gospel to guide his subjects. As king,
Guntramnus saw to the spiritual welfare of his people by
encouraging reform of the clergy and supporting several synods.
On the other hand, the public was aware of various sins he
committed as king. He divorced one wife and executed the
unsuccessful physicians to his dying wife. Guntramnus realized his
need for repentance and practiced public penance and displayed
great zeal for encouraging the Faith. The highlight of Guntramnus'
career as king happened when his kingdom was swept with a
contagious disease. He used his wealth to ease the sufferings of the
sick and personally went out to minister to his people. While doing
this, God worked many miracles of healing through his hands.
King Guntramnus died on March 28, 593 and was buried in the
church of St. Marcellus, which he had built. He was revered by his
people as a just and holy ruler and was soon regarded as a saint.
During the sixteenth century most of his relics were lost when the
Huguenots destroyed his tomb.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Then the angel said to the women in reply, "Do not be afraid! I know
that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has
been raised just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.
Then go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has been raised from the
dead, and he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him.'
Behold, I have told you." -Mt 28:6-7
TODAY IN HISTORY
1799 New York State abolished slavery
1960 Pope John XXIII names the 1st Japanese, 1st African and 1st Filipino
cardinals
TODAY'S TIDBIT
During the Octave of Easter, all feasts and solemnities are either
suppressed or moved. This helps focus the attention of the faithful on
the Easter Mysteries and encourages us to let them penetrate our
lives beyond the celebration of Easter Sunday. The Octave of Easter
uses many of the prayers of Easter Sunday to extend the feast and
to point our attention back to this event. A final example of how the
Octave of Easter continues the Easter celebration is the word
"alleluia." This word is added to the beginning and end of many
common prayers to show our great joy at the Resurrection of the
Savior.
Monday, March 28, 2005 Monday in the Octave of Easter |
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The Lord is risen! Alleluia!
As the hymn says, "Christ the Lord is Risen Today, Alleluia, This triumphant Holy Day, Alleluia."
Lukes Resurrection Narratives
Now, after the long narrative of Jesus crucifixion and burial, comes the resurrection.
No one knows exactly when Christs resurrection took place, only that it was sometimes between his burial late of Friday and the discovery of the empty tomb early Sunday morning. There were no eyewitnesses to describe the resurrection itself. Instead, there are descriptions of appearances of the Risen Lord after the resurrection.
The account of the Passion is one continuous narrative, very similar in all four Gospels. Not so with the narratives of the resurrection appearances. There are isolated scenes and, while there are some similarities, each Gospel has its own stories to tell.
Lukes Gospel account can be divided into five episodes all taking place on Easter Sunday:
(1) the finding of the empty tomb at dawn.
(2) the appearance of the Risen Christ to two disciples walking to Emmaus.
(3) the appearance to the disciples gathered in Jerusalem.
(4) the commissioning of these disciples to witness and preach in his name.
(5) the end of the visible appearances as Christ.
I bet most of us sang that song in church yesterday!
Beautiful!
Acts 2:14,22-33 / Mt 28:8-15 Since the beginning of time, the mortality rate for the human race has been a perfect 100%. The only question for each of us is when not whether. But just to make sure we dont forget our mortality, life has a way of reminding us from time to time. We get sick, we get depressed, we lose our loves, we experience dramatic reversals of fortune. And we feel as if we may die, or even wish that we would. Into all of those circumstances, the resurrection of Jesus speaks eloquently: Though it may feel like it, this is not the end. You were made for something much more than suffering and death. God does not inflict troubles and sufferings upon us, but in ways that we often cannot fully understand, God allows these things for a larger purpose yet to be revealed. Somehow, everything that happens can in the long run be made to work for the good, if we trust the Lords promise of life and then lay ourselves open to working through lifes inevitable pains and disasters with his help. There is no predicting how long it will take. Only God knows that. But it will happen. If we go with God, there is a purpose in every event and in every day. Trust that and your own entrance into the Lords resurrection will begin now and will draw nearer day by day. |
March 28, 2005 Monday Within the Octave of Easter
Reading (Acts 2:14, 22-33) Gospel (St. Matthew 28:8-15)
As we see this point about the fact that Our Lord had risen from the dead Mary Magdalene had seen the vision of the angels, and as she was going to tell the apostles, Our Blessed Lord appears to her and to the other Mary; they bow down, they worship Him, and He instructs them on what to do the interesting thing in juxtaposition is to see what happens with the guards. Like the high priest, rather than having faith, the guards run simply to tell what happened and then get caught into a lie. The point that is of great interest here is that only a few days earlier the high priest was willing to give thirty pieces of silver to put Our Lord to death; but when it comes to hiding the Resurrection, they were willing to give a very large sum of money. We are not told how big it was, just that it was large. And so Our Lord in life was worth thirty pieces of silver to them, but Our Lord in death was worth an immense amount.
First of all, they had put a guard at His tomb, the only person in history that we know of who had to be guarded so that he did not come out of the tomb! It did not work anyway. Then the fact that the soldiers would pocket the money, that they would buy into this lie, and that they would circulate this story so that people would not believe, we see the extent to which Satan is willing to go to try to undermine our faith. Money is not a problem for him. Power is not a problem for him. He uses anything that he can to try to lure us away, to try to put little ideas into our heads, or to play upon our selfishness or our greed so that we will not believe. What we have to be able to do is reject everything that is not of God.
When we talk about the Resurrection, there is no doubt that Our Lord has risen from the dead. We have eyewitnesses who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead. We have the witness of the Gospels. Someone could say, Well, these were written by Christian people, so there is really no idea that they are historical. It is funny that when we read pagan historians from the time, everybody bows down and says, This is true; this is history, but when we read history that is inspired by the Holy Spirit, then we say, Maybe that wasnt real. This is more historical and there is more evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead than there is of most historical personalities that have ever lived. No one would ever say, Caesar didnt live because there isnt all that much written about him, or this one or that one or whomever it may be. So there is no reason for us not to believe.
What that Resurrection means is not fully understood, and it will not be fully understood until our bodies rise from the dead. But we do know that the body of Jesus Christ was reunited with His soul, and His body shares in the glory of the eternal life of God. His body now is in a glorified form so that it is not held bound by any of the limitations that our bodies are. We cannot walk through the walls He can. On the day of the resurrection, we will be able to as well. People wonder how we are going to get out of a grave that is six feet deep. Not a problem. Your body is not going to be held bound by any of the physical limitations. When you rise from the dead, all of the inherent weaknesses and problems of the body will no longer be a problem. The body is going to be freed from all of those things. The body is going to be freed from everything that keeps it bound, and it will share fully in the freedom of the children of God. Our Lords Resurrection is the guarantee of that; it is the foreshadowing of what is going to happen to us.
While it is imperative that we never take our eyes off of the Cross, it is also imperative that we never forget that the Cross is not the endpoint; there is much beyond it. In fact, the Cross, in Our Lords life and in ours, was very brief by comparison to the glory which is eternal. And so while we continue through our lives on earth, it is living in this vale of tears, it is sharing in the Passion of Christ, it is still to walk up Calvary; yet it is because we know that there is something that is beyond Calvary. As Saint Paul said, For the joy that lay before Him, Christ accepted the Cross, heedless of its shame. It is the Resurrection that is possible only through the Crucifixion. It is eternal life that is possible only through sharing in the death of Christ. For us, it is to be able to listen to the words of Our Lord when He told the man: Doubt no longer but believe, and to believe wholeheartedly in the Resurrection and to know that the life, the victory, that Our Lord has won for us is guaranteed to us as long as we remain faithful. So as we keep our eyes on the Cross, keep it focused on what the Cross leads to. The Cross is the key to heaven. The Cross is the opening to eternal life. We go to Calvary, we go to be crucified with Our Lord, not merely for the purpose of dying, but for the sole purpose of eternal life.
* This text was transcribed from the audio recording with minimal editing.
They just mentioned that on FoxNews Channel tonight too.
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