{"id":19077,"date":"2020-04-12T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=19077"},"modified":"2020-05-03T10:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T14:11:41","slug":"risen-and-hidden-with-christ-in-god-easter-sunday-april-12-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/risen-and-hidden-with-christ-in-god-easter-sunday-april-12-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Risen and Hidden with Christ in God, Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nEaster Sunday
\nApril 12, 2020
\nActs 10:34.37-43, Ps 118, Col 3:1-4, Jn 20:1-9<\/p>\n

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To listen to an audio\u00a0recording of today’s Mass, please click below:<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

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The following text guided today’s homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This Easter has been a long time coming! Few would have foreseen, as we packed into pews on Ash Wednesday, the Lent we had in store: that our fast would become an involuntary one from the Living Bread, that our almsgiving would feature social distancing from those in need, and that our prayer would occur mostly in the domestic church and in cyberspace. We have all had an extended Lenten meditation on death, on how we are dust and unto dust will return, not knowing the day or the hour when the earthly end will come. We have all been led into the desert, separated from the distractions of sports, late night shows, parties, outside commitments, even face-to-face contact with friends, neighbors and extended family. And many of us have had an experience like St. Mary Magadalene expected she\u2019d find on Easter morning, with our Churches, tabernacles, and confessionals locked as if large stones were rolled before them, wondering who will open them for us. It\u2019s a Lent that we will never forget.<\/p>\n

But if Lent is meant to prepare us for Easter \u2014\u00a0not just what Easter symbolizes, but the death-and-life reality it effects \u2014 then perhaps this Lent might prove to be, for all its vicissitudes and sufferings, one of the most spiritually fruitful of our lives.<\/p>\n

What we celebrate on Easter is far more than a liturgical rite. It\u2019s more than the commemoration of something that happened one early Sunday morning. It is the most consequential event in the history of the world. It is the triumph of resurrection over crucifixion, life over death, light over darkness, love over hatred, faith over fear.<\/p>\n

It is a huge disappointment that we are not able to celebrate this victory together in packed Churches with our family, friends, and fellow Catholics entering sacramentally into the passion, death and resurrection we commemorate and proclaim. But even if the whole Church is not able to celebrate Easter together liturgically, even if all those who are hungry and thirsty are not able to receive Jesus\u2019 risen body and blood in holy Communion, even if we are not able to welcome into the Church as scheduled the new Catholics who have been preparing through baptism to enter into Jesus\u2019 death and resurrection, the reality of what we memorialize on Easter remains.<\/p>\n

And the transformation that Christ\u2019s resurrection is supposed to bring about in us ought to be truly profound, like what happened in the first disciples of Jesus that early Sunday morning. To call Mary Magdalene, Peter John and the rest of his disciples dejected, lost and profoundly saddened only begins to describe what they were going through. Their whole universe had been turned upside down. Not only had they witnessed Jesus, their friend, brutally tortured and massacred, stripped and nailed to a cross as a common criminal, but they also had believed that he was the long-awaited Messiah, that he was God. Therefore, not only were they mourning the death of a loved one \u2014 which is already hard enough, as any of us who have lost a loved one recognize \u2014 but they were also trying to come to grips with whether God indeed had died and whether their friend, in whom they trusted, was, despite all his gifts, ultimately an imposter. Even though he had three times announced what would occur, and they should have been counting down the seconds to the \u201cthird day\u201d on which he said he would be raised, they remained disheartened and disconsolate.<\/p>\n

When Mary Magdalene, Salome and Mary, the mother of James, went to the tomb on Sunday morning, they were going reverently to anoint Jesus\u2019 corpse. Little did they realize what a great metamorphosis had already occurred and what a great personal transformation awaited them. The stone had already been rolled away. The tomb was empty. A dazzling angel told them that Jesus had been raised. Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene in the Garden and filled her with exhilarating goose bumps when he called her name! He appeared to the ten in the Upper Room, filled them with his joy and peace, and gave them his own mission. He appeared to the disciples on the Road to Emmaus and made their hearts burn as he described how the Son of Man\u2019s cruxifixion was not a contradiction but a confirmation of the messianic prophecies, and then revealed himself to them in the \u201cbreaking of the bread.\u201d Their whole universe<\/em>, which had been turned upside down two days before, was now turnedright-side up again<\/em>. And what incredible joy must have raced through all the cells of their body, the type of joy to which words cannot even do justice! Everything for them changed \u2026 forever. The resurrection was the answer to their questions, the resolution to their doubts, the definitive peace to their angst, the joy to their sadness, God\u2019s ultimate response to the mystery of suffering and death.\u00a0 Life in general \u2014 and their life in particular \u2014 not only was no longer a tragedy; their life now had immeasurable meaning. They were the disciples and intimate friends of the one who had conquered even sin and death \u2014 and they were now empowered and emboldened by him to take that greatest news ever told to the ends of the earth. No amount of disdain, threats, persecutions, torture or even death could dissuade them, because the resurrection taught them, unmistakably and unforgettably, that the Lord of Life wins and makes good on his promises.<\/p>\n

Jesus wants to bring about a similar revolution in us today. He wants to give us the same joy he gave his first disciples. He who is the \u201cResurrection and the Life\u201d wants us to experience in the present the full meaning of that resurrection and that life, but for that to happen, we have to recognize and structure our lives in correspondence to the fact that Jesus truly is alive<\/em>. Almost every Christian knows that Jesus is alive theoretically, but many Christians do not behave as if Jesus is alive practically. We can treat Jesus like a distant relative, someone whom we respect and care for, but whom for the most part in our day-to-day lives we ignore. Or we can treat him like our best high school teacher, who has obviously had an impact in making us the people we are today, but who is no longer practically involved in guiding our decision making. Or we can treat Jesus like a good doctor, to whom we go when we have problems, but, outside of those times, with whom we really have no relationship at all. The point is this: while few Christians treat the Risen Jesus as if he is dead<\/em>, many treat him as if he is barely alive<\/em>. Today, on this Easter, Jesus wants to change that. He came, as he himself said, \u201cso that [we] might have life and have it to the full\u201d (Jn 10:10), but for us to come fully alive, we need first to allow Jesus to become fully alive in us. We need to rise with him, and live a resurrected life with him! St. Paul talks about this in his Letter to the Romans, which the Church hears at the Easter Vigil: \u201cJust as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, too, [must] live in newness of life. \u2026\u00a0Consequently you too must think of yourselves as being dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus\u201d (Rom 6:4,11). We need to stop treating Jesus as a concept, or as someone we turn to at our convenience \u2014 or only at times of great inconvenience \u2014 but rather base our whole lives on him. For the first disciples, the joy of that first Easter didn\u2019t end the day after Easter, because they knew that Jesus, risen from the dead, would be with them \u201cuntil the end of time\u201d (Mt 28:20). And they structured their whole lives on a deep personal relationship with the Risen Jesus, grounding all of the aspects of their lives on the basis of this living communion of love. This is even more important for us \u2014\u00a0as disciples of Jesus, called to proclaim him to the world \u2014 at this time of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

How is our life supposed to change? Today we can ponder five different ways.<\/p>\n

The fact of Jesus\u2019 triumph should first make us courageous. We see the dramatic metamorphosis the resurrection had on the apostles, changing them from those who would leave the Cenacle on Holy Thursday to betray and abandon Jesus to those who would leave the same room 53 days later intrepidly to bear witness to him. When the same Sanhedrin who had gotten Jesus crucified had Peter and John scourged and had instructed them never to speak again about Jesus, they rejoiced at suffering on account of Jesus\u2019 name and said they could not but speak of what they have seen and heard. They were undaunted because they realized that even should they be crucified like Jesus, they, like Jesus, would be raised. They were no longer afraid of death or suffering. The resurrection of Jesus should fill us with similar courage not just in the face of the coronavirus but in general.<\/p>\n

The second great consequence of Jesus\u2019 resurrection is a vibrant faith in eternal life. Each of us can say with Job, \u201cI know that my Redeemer lives!\u201d (Job 19:25). Each of us can echo St. Paul, \u201cWhere, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? \u2026\u00a0God gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!\u201d (1 Cor 15:55-57). At a time when many have been stung by the sudden death of those we know and love, when it seems the coronavirus has triumphed, we know that an imperishable crown awaits for those who believe, live and die in Christ (1 Cor 9:25). That\u2019s why Christians \u201cdo not grieve like the rest who have no hope\u201d (1 Thes 4:13). We grieve differently, because God not only so loved the world that he gave his only Son that we might not perish, but raised his Son as the first fruits of those who have died (Jn 3:16; 1 Cor 15:20). The resurrection gives us that indomitable hope.<\/p>\n

The third impact is a vivid awareness that, even if we are socially isolated, even if we might be solitarily hooked up to a ventilator, we are not alone. The same risen Jesus who walked through the closed doors of the Upper Room can traverse the doors of our house or the most highly guarded hospital quarantines. He who appeared to the disciples heading to Emmaus wants to accompany us, join our conversation, and make our hearts burn by relating present events to what God has revealed (Lk 24). He who called Mary Magdalene by name and pierced her sorrow seeks to call each of us and transform our fear and sorrow. The essence of the Gospel, as Pope Francis wrote in Evangelii Gaudium<\/em>, is, \u201cJesus Christ loves you, he gave his life to save you, and now he is living at your side every day to enlighten, strengthen and free you\u201d (164). Jesus has not left us orphans or abandoned, but is present, as the Good Shepherd, to lead us through the dark valley to verdant pastures (Ps 23). He is very much alive and is with us, loving and wanting to strengthen us.<\/p>\n

The fourth consequence of Jesus\u2019 resurrection is that our minds and hearts must be uplifted. \u201cIf you were raised with Christ,\u201d St. Paul proclaims to us this morning in the second reading, \u201cseek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God\u201d (Col 3:1-3). The resurrection lifts us from obsessing about worldly things and helps us to view everything increasingly from God\u2019s perspective. We recognize that certain fixations that occupy our time and attention \u2014 many of the distractions that have been stripped from our life over the past month \u2014 don\u2019t really matter and place our treasure, and our heart, in the things that truly last (Mt 6:21). We prioritize prayer and worship, charity, and growing in faith through reading Sacred Scripture and taking advantage of the great spiritual resources now available. As social distancing has made all of us, to some degree, \u201chidden with Christ in God,\u201d we are all called nevertheless to \u201clive in newness of life\u201d (Rom 6:4) with our hearts and minds set above.<\/p>\n

The final consequence I\u2019ll mention is that we should be filled with joy, even in the midst of all of the various hardships that we and others must endure. Joy is meant to be our fundamental response to the reality of Easter. Last night, in the Exultet<\/em>of the Easter Vigil, we prayed, \u201cLet this holy building shake with joy, filled with the mighty voices of the peoples.\u201d In the hymns we sing, we should burst with that building-shaking gladness. In The Strife is Over<\/em>we sing, \u201cO let us swell the joyful strain.\u201d In Christ the Lord is Risen Today<\/em>, we tell each other, \u201cRaise your joys and triumphs high.\u201d In the great Marian antiphon sung each of the 50 days of the Easter season, the Regina Caeli, <\/em>we chant, \u201cBe Joyful, Mary, Heavenly Queen!\u201d The entire season is an Ode to Joy<\/em>given to God at the gift he gives us today. The Eucharistic Preface of the Easter Mass most effectively summarizes this Easter attitude: \u201cOvercome with paschal joy<\/em>, every land, every people exults in your praise\u201d as with all the angels and heavenly powers we praise and thank God \u201cyet more gloriously\u201d on this day \u201cabove all.\u201d Jesus came into the world, as he said to us on Holy Thursday, so that \u201cmy joy may be in you and your joy be complete!\u201d Today is the day in which he wants to restore us to that fullness and help us keep it throughout the Easter season and beyond.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis reminded us in Evangelii Gaudium<\/em>(EG 276), \u201cChrist\u2019s resurrection is not an event of the past but contains a vital power that has permeated this world.\u201d That life-giving power is meant to permeate our day-to-day, giving us courage, reinforcing our faith in eternal life, strengthening our awareness of God, filling us with joy, and renewing our entire life. It\u2019s meant to make us ultimately what St. John Paul II called \u201cliving signs of the resurrection,\u201d burning tapers bringing the light of Christ\u2019s resurrection to the darkness that envelops so many.\u00a0 This Lent has prepared us to recognize our need for that vital power even more. Today the Risen Jesus comes to give us that life-giving power as we prepare to receive his risen Body and Blood. And our gratitude for turning life rightside up should be greater this year than ever! Christ has risen! Christ has truly risen! And this changes everything! Alleluia!<\/p>\n

The readings for today’s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reading 1 ACTS 10:34A, 37-43<\/a><\/h4>\n
Peter proceeded to speak and said:
\n“You know what has happened all over Judea,
\nbeginning in Galilee after the baptism
\nthat John preached,
\nhow God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
\nwith the Holy Spirit and power.
\nHe went about doing good
\nand healing all those oppressed by the devil,
\nfor God was with him.
\nWe are witnesses of all that he did
\nboth in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.
\nThey put him to death by hanging him on a tree.
\nThis man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible,
\nnot to all the people, but to us,
\nthe witnesses chosen by God in advance,
\nwho ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
\nHe commissioned us to preach to the people
\nand testify that he is the one appointed by God
\nas judge of the living and the dead.
\nTo him all the prophets bear witness,
\nthat everyone who believes in him
\nwill receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Responsorial Psalm PS 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23.<\/a><\/h4>\n
R. (24) This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.<\/strong>
\nor:
\nR. Alleluia.<\/strong>
\nGive thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
\nfor his mercy endures forever.
\nLet the house of Israel say,
\n\u201cHis mercy endures forever.\u201d
\nR. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.<\/strong>
\nor:
\nR. Alleluia.<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe right hand of the LORD has struck with power;
\nthe right hand of the LORD is exalted.
\nI shall not die, but live,
\nand declare the works of the LORD.\u201d
\nR. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.<\/strong>
\nor:
\nR. Alleluia.<\/strong>
\nThe stone which the builders rejected
\nhas become the cornerstone.
\nBy the LORD has this been done;
\nit is wonderful in our eyes.
\nR. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.<\/strong>
\nor:
\nR. Alleluia.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Reading 2 COL 3:1-4<\/a><\/h4>\n
Brothers and sisters:
\nIf then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above,
\nwhere Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
\nThink of what is above, not of what is on earth.
\nFor you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
\nWhen Christ your life appears,
\nthen you too will appear with him in glory.<\/p>\n

Sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes<\/h4>\n

Christians, to the Paschal Victim
\nOffer your thankful praises!
\nA Lamb the sheep redeems;
\nChrist, who only is sinless,
\nReconciles sinners to the Father.
\nDeath and life have contended in that combat stupendous:
\nThe Prince of life, who died, reigns immortal.
\nSpeak, Mary, declaring
\nWhat you saw, wayfaring.
\n\u201cThe tomb of Christ, who is living,
\nThe glory of Jesus\u2019 resurrection;
\nbright angels attesting,
\nThe shroud and napkin resting.
\nYes, Christ my hope is arisen;
\nto Galilee he goes before you.\u201d
\nChrist indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining.
\nHave mercy, victor King, ever reigning!
\nAmen. Alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alleluia CF. 1 COR 5:7B-8A<\/a><\/h4>\n

R. Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong>
\nChrist, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed;
\nlet us then feast with joy in the Lord.
\nR. Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gospel JN 20:1-9<\/a><\/h4>\n
On the first day of the week,
\nMary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,
\nwhile it was still dark,
\nand saw the stone removed from the tomb.
\nSo she ran and went to Simon Peter
\nand to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,
\n\u201cThey have taken the Lord from the tomb,
\nand we don\u2019t know where they put him.\u201d
\nSo Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.
\nThey both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter
\nand arrived at the tomb first;
\nhe bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
\nWhen Simon Peter arrived after him,
\nhe went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
\nand the cloth that had covered his head,
\nnot with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
\nThen the other disciple also went in,
\nthe one who had arrived at the tomb first,
\nand he saw and believed.
\nFor they did not yet understand the Scripture
\nthat he had to rise from the dead.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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