Easter Sunday

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Easter Sunday

• Easter Season (B)

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• For you have died.(?)

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• Easter morning begins with an empty tomb

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• The first witnesses to the empty tomb were women.

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• In all four Gospel accounts of the empty tomb,
  women are listed as the primary witnesses. In
  both Jewish and Roman cultures women were not
  esteemed and their testimony was not admissible.

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But for John the apostle?

• He also saw the empty tomb and he wrote the
  Gospel we have just read today. He wrote and he
  saw and believed.

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• People who have died to themselves, who have died
  to something else and began anew with their
  lives have in some way experienced a form of
  resurrection they are the ones who believe in
  The Resurrection.

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• Mary Magdalene, the other women, John, Peter, and
  the other disciples all died when Jesus died.
  Death was real to them, so too Jesus
  resurrection was also real to them.

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• Have you died to yourself during Lent? Or maybe
  during the Holy Week?
• Then you are one of those who believe in the
  empty tomb!