So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
Then the other disciple also went in,
the one who had arrived at the tomb first,
and he saw and believed."
John 20:1-8
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people, and hallelujah is our song."
John Paul II
"Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection."
Hans Urs von Balthasar
"He went about doing good
and healing all those oppressed by the devil,
for God was with him. We are witnesses of all that he did
both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.
They put him to death by hanging him on a tree.
This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.
To him all the prophets bear witness,
that everyone who believes in him
will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Acts of the Apostles 10:37-43
"Let us feel what we really are— sinners attempting great things. Let us simply obey God’s will, whatever may come. He can turn all things to our eternal good. Easter day is preceded by the forty days of Lent, to show us that they only who sow in tears shall reap in joy."
John Henry Newman
He is truly risen.
The tomb is empty, and death is overthrown, and we are the heirs to eternal life.
'May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all.' Rev 22:21
Alleluia, Alleluia.
