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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Monday
DESCRIPTION:From a homily by \nPOPE BENEDICT XVI \n◊◊◊ \n“You seek Jesus of Nazareth\, who was crucified. He is risen. He is not \nhere.” With these words\, God’s messenger\, robed in light\, spoke to the women \nwho were looking for the body of Jesus in the tomb. \nBut the evangelist says the same thing to us: Jesus is not a character of the \npast. He lives and He walks before us as one who is alive; he calls us to follow \nhim\, the Living One\, and in this way to discover for ourselves the path of life. \nAt Easter we rejoice because Christ did not remain in the tomb\, his body \ndid not see corruption; he belongs to the world of the living\, not to the world of \nthe dead; we rejoice because he is the Alpha and also the Omega\, as we proclaim \nin the Rite of the Paschal candle; he lives not only yesterday\, but today and for \neternity. \nBut somehow the Resurrection is situated so far beyond our horizon\, so \nfar outside all our experience that\, returning to ourselves\, we find ourselves \ncontinuing the argument of the disciples: Of what exactly does this “rising” \nconsist? What does it mean for us\, for the whole world\, and the whole of history? \nA theologian once said that the miracle of a corpse returning to life would \nbe ultimately irrelevant precisely because it would not concern us. In fact if it \nwere simply that someone was once brought back to life\, and no more than that\, \nin what way would that concern us? But the point is that Christ’s Resurrection is \nsomething more\, something different… It is the…most crucial leap into a totally \nnew dimension that there has ever been in the long history of life and its \ndevelopment: a leap into a completely new order which does concern us\, and \nconcerns the whole of history. \nThe crucial point is that this man Jesus was not alone\, he was not an “I” \nclosed in upon itself. He was one single reality with the living God\, so closely \nunited with him as to form one Person with him. He found himself\, so to speak\, \nin an embrace with him who is life itself\, an embrace not just on the emotional \nlevel\, but one which included and permeated his being. His own life was not just \nhis own\, it was an existential and essential communion with God\, a “being taken \nup” into God\, and hence\, it could not in reality be taken away from him. \nOut of love\, he could allow himself to be killed\, but precisely by doing so \nhe broke the definitiveness of death\, because in him the definitiveness of life \nwas present. He was one single reality with indestructible life\, in such a way that \nit burst forth anew through death… \nHis death was an act of love\, of self-giving. At the Last Supper he \nanticipated death and transformed it into self-giving. His existential \ncommunion with God was concretely an existential communion with God’s \nlove\, and this love is the real power against death\, it is stronger than death. \nThe Resurrection was like an explosion of light\, an explosion of love which \ndissolved the hitherto indissoluble compenetration of “dying and becoming”. It \nushered in a new dimension of being. A new dimension of life in which\, in a \ntransformed way\, matter too was integrated and through which a new world \nemerges.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-easter-monday-2/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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