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SUMMARY:Easter Monday
DESCRIPTION:THE LORD’S RESURRECTION \nFrom a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux2 \n◊◊◊ \nThis wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign\, and no sign will be \ngiven it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. Do you ask for the sign of his \ncoming down? I will not give you that\, but the sign of his resurrection instead. \nThere you were\, saying\, “Let him come down from the cross and we will believe \nin him”\, and here he is\, having done greater things than this\, much greater \nthings. Is it not greater to leave a sealed tomb than to come down from the \ncross? \nBut perhaps you ask how I know that he came forth from a closed tomb. \nYesterday you heard that as the holy women were coming to the tomb an \nearthquake occurred\, an angel came down from heaven and rolled back the \nstone about which they were complaining and sat upon it\, saying that he whom \nthey sought was not there but had already risen. Obviously then\, the great \nstone… had not yet been rolled back when the Savior came forth. Certainly this \nwas a greater miracle than if he had come down from the cross. He did a much \nmore marvelous thing when he rose from the dead. \nTrue\, other resurrections had taken place earlier\, but they were \npreambles to this one\, and they were surpassed by this one in two respects. \nFirst\, they rose to die again\, but Christ being raised now dies no more. Hence \nChrist is the first fruits of those who arise\, because he was the first to rise after \ndying… Christ died once for all and rose once for all. \nThe Lord’s resurrection surpasses all the others in another way. Some had \nbeen restored to life by others\, but none before Christ had been able to restore \nthemselves to life. Elisha\, who had restored the dead to life\, has long lain dead \nand has not risen. Christ alone has been able to restore himself to life\, he who \nalone was first among the dead. What will he be able to do\, he who is living \neternally and saying to the Father\, “I have risen\, and I am still with you”\, he \nwho alone with respect to all the dead was so powerful? \nIt was absolutely fitting for him to rise on the third day because of the text \n“after two days he will revive us\, and on the third day he will raise us up”. \nThus should it happen to us as to our Head before us. The first day he was on \nthe cross\, the second in the tomb\, and on the third day he was glorified by the \ntriumph of the resurrection. So we also\, if we are his members and if we choose \nto follow our Head\, on the first day – that is\, while we are in this mortal flesh – \nwe will persevere on the cross of our penitence\, concerning which he himself \nsaid\, “if any want to come after me\, let them take up their cross and follow \nme”. We will not come down\, as Christ did not come down. \nRighteous men took him down when he was already dead; may the holy \nangels take us down! Thus with the day successfully finished\, the second\, which \nis after death\, we will spend in the tomb\, sleeping in peace and resting from all \nlabor. “Henceforth now\, says the Spirit\, they may rest from their labors”. \nOn the third day we will rise again to be forever in glory and eternal life. \n  \n2 Bernard of Clairvaux – Sermons for Lent and Easter – Cistercian Fathersd Series #52 –Liturgical Press – \nCollegeville\, MN – 2013 – pg 153.5 \n  \n 
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