How not to understand the Resurrection
On Easter Sunday morning I go to the tomb in the company of faith-filled women who have followed Jesus with the greatest devotion throughout these days of his suffering and death. I am once again privileged to celebrate the Triduum and Easter Sunday with the Benedictine nuns of the Abbey of St Cecilia’s on the Isle of Wight.
With loving reverence, by devoutly proclaiming the Scriptures and celebrating Christ’s action in the liturgy, we have re-lived with powerful intensity the saving events of Christ’s Passover and our redemption and received an outpouring of grace. Now the Gospel narrates how first the women and then Peter and John come to the empty tomb on the morning of the first day.
