Easter Sunday

 The morning of the Resurrection, as related by the Gospel of John, has a great deal of movement. Mary Magdalene runs to Peter and the Beloved Disciple who in turn run together to the tomb. One could almost think of a panic. The absence of the body was not expected despite all of the predictions made by Jesus. Nevertheless, the tomb itself is quiet and empty. The only evidence is the linen wrappings with, significantly, the cloth that had been on his head rolled up in a place by itself. We can imagine that Jesus was taught by Our Lady when he was growing up to always leave his bedroom tidy and so, rising from the dead, the linen wrappings and the head cloth are placed tidily! I suggest that we need on this Easter Day to take time to contemplate the quietness of the tomb and not be overtaken by busyness and movement. It is in reflecting of the tomb and the cloths with the silence of the garden that we can experience the insight of the Beloved Disciple for ourselves: "Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed." (Jn 20: 8)