{"id":28937,"date":"2024-04-01T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=28937"},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:16:59","slug":"god-raised-jesus-of-this-we-are-all-witnesses-easter-monday-april-1-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/god-raised-jesus-of-this-we-are-all-witnesses-easter-monday-april-1-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"God Raised Jesus: Of This We Are All Witnesses, Easter Monday, April 1, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nEaster Monday<br \/>\nApril 1, 2024<br \/>\nActs 2:14.22-33, Ps 16, Mt 28:8-15<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to a recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28937-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today on this beautiful Easter Monday, we encounter a huge contrast in the readings about how to respond to the startling fact of Jesus\u2019 resurrection.<\/li>\n<li>The chief priests and the elders of the people responded with denial. It wasn\u2019t enough for them to use betrayal to arrest Jesus, illegality to try him, slander to accuse him before Pilate and malice to whip up the crowd to choose a murderer Barabbas over him. Now when the guards they had requested be placed at the tomb returned to them to tell them what happened during the night \u2014 that angels appeared, that there was a burst of light, that the stone was rolled back, that Jesus wasn\u2019t there but his garments were left \u2014 the chief priests and the elders reacted once again with evil. They bribed the guards &#8220;with a large sum of money&#8221; to lie, to say that while they were asleep, Jesus\u2019 disciples came and stole his body and somehow carried him naked while the Sabbath was still occurring to some other part of the city. Of course if they were asleep, they would have had no idea what happened to Jesus\u2019 body! But once people have become accustomed to living a lie, they\u2019ll begin to wrap it with many other lies not even grasping the implausibility. There are still many who want to deny the reality of the resurrection but as St. Thomas Aquinas once wrote, if the Resurrection didn\u2019t happen, then the fact that a bunch of barely literate fishermen and nobodies from Galilee could convince so many down-to-earth people throughout the ancient world falsely that it did and all be willing to lay down their lives for that invented reality would be a greater miracle than the miracle of the Resurrection itself!<\/li>\n<li>There are some who deny the resurrection asserting that Jesus had just risen from the dead in disciples\u2019 hearts, as a thing of faith. St. Paul responded very sharply to these ideas that were prevalent in ancient Corinth. If Christ didn\u2019t rise from the dead then our faith is worthless. It\u2019s all based on a lie. There are others who, while not denying the fact of the resurrection, want to deny its consequences. They don\u2019t want to live with the Risen Jesus. They choose to remain down in the dumps. They choose not to seek the things that are above with the Risen and living Jesus, as we heard St. Paul urge the Colossians yesterday morning, instead choosing the things of darkness, sadness, sin and death. We need to be alert to these signs even in ourselves, that there are parts of us that want to deny the power of Jesus\u2019 resurrection because we prefer not to be transformed in the dramatic way that the resurrection transformed Jesus\u2019 dead body!\u00a0Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic exhortation\u00a0<em>The Joy of the Gospel\u00a0<\/em>that many Catholics behave as if life is a long Lent without Easter, as if they\u2019re perpetually returning from a funeral. Not even the fact of Jesus\u2019 resurrection can brighten their day because the prefer to focus their attention and live in the negative. There are also other Catholics, far more common, who likewise don\u2019t live in practical denial of the Resurrection, who don\u2019t behave as if they\u2019re perpetually returning from the cemetery, but who don\u2019t comport themselves as if their life is much influenced by the reality of the Resurrection. To the extent that Easter is a transformative experience for them, it means mainly that they can eat chocolate or drink wine and beer again after the Lenten Season! The resurrection is meant to transform us at the depth of our being just like it did Christ&#8217;s first disciples. One of the questions I always ask myself is: how would I behave today if today were the day of Jesus\u2019 physical resurrection? Would the various challenges I\u2019m facing today really seem all that daunting if I encountered Jesus Christ come to me from the tomb? Most of our lives would change dramatically if today were the day of the Resurrection. That\u2019s the type of transformation we are supposed to experience because the risen Lord Jesus is still very much alive and seeks to come to meet us every day. Rather than people perpetually returning from a funeral or from the various mundane tasks and pleasures, Christians should be people who seem always to be conscious of presence of the Risen Lord!<\/li>\n<li>The type of response that God wants us to have to Jesus\u2019 resurrection we see in the women today and in St. Peter. Mary Magdalene and Mary the wife of Clopas run away from the empty tomb both \u201cfearful and overjoyed,\u201d fearful because they had never confronted a reality like that and overjoyed because they sensed that it meant that Jesus had in fact risen. Note that they weren\u2019t merely joyful, but \u201coverjoyed,\u201d because they couldn\u2019t contain their joy. They were almost assuredly not ancient track stars, but nevertheless were <em>running\u00a0<\/em>away from the tomb and toward the apostles because they were exceedingly excited and couldn\u2019t wait to share the news. Jesus surprises them on the journey, greets them and tells them not to be afraid. Their reaction was humbly to\u00a0<em>adore\u00a0<\/em>him, falling down at his feet. St. Matthew says they embraced his feet; St. John will tell us tomorrow that Jesus will tell Mary not to embrace his feet, a conflict that seems to be able to be resolved more easily if Jesus allowed them to embrace him for a short time before reminding them that they had a mission: \u201cGo and tell my brothers to go to Galilee and there I will see them.\u201d And off they went!<\/li>\n<li>We see one of those brothers 50 days later telling others about Jesus\u2019 resurrection. St. Peter on Pentecost bluntly told the crowds, that Jesus of Nazareth \u201cdelivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God,\u00a0you killed, using lawless men to crucify him.\u00a0<em>But God raised him up<\/em>, releasing him from the throes of death,\u00a0because it was impossible for him to be held by it. \u2026\u00a0God raised this Jesus;\u00a0of this we are all witnesses.\u201d That\u2019s what\u2019s supposed to happen with the resurrection. Just as during the Easter Vigil Jesus from the Paschal Candle lit our tapers through a minister and we lit others\u2019 tapers, so Jesus announces to us the resurrection and then we\u2019re called to run overjoyed to tell others, and they in turn are called to share that good news in a chain of love stretching all the way back to this morning\u2019s Gospel scene and stretching forward to Jesus\u2019 second coming.<\/li>\n<li>In response to those who deny the resurrection, either the fact or the practical consequences, Christ is calling all of us to affirm it, to be witnesses to the resurrection, not just as an historical fact that passes every historical test of common sense, but as a lived reality, because people see in us those who live a truly redeemed life. Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th century German Philosopher who coined the phrase \u201cGod is dead\u201d and whose writings on the will-to-power were at the heart of Nazism, once said that he might have been able to believe in a Redeemer if he had ever met anyone redeemed. We might paraphrase him to say he might have been able to believe in Jesus and his Resurrection if he had ever met someone who radiated Jesus\u2019 risen life. That\u2019s what\u2019s supposed to happen whenever anyone meets a Christian. There may be days when this is more challenging, but if we\u2019re ever going to be living signs of Jesus risen then, we have to begin by being risen signs of Jesus on Easter, on Easter Monday, throughout the Easter Octave and the Easter Season. And we need to let that risen joy overflow naturally toward others, just like the women did, just like St. Peter did.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0way we enter more deeply into Jesus\u2019\u00a0risen life is here in Holy Communion, where we receive his\u00a0Risen body and blood. As we prepare not only to drop down on our knees and pay him homage, not only to grasp his feet, but receive him within so that his Body and Blood will go from our brains to our toes, we ask him to strengthen us with the joy of this encounter that we, like the two Marys and Peter, will\u00a0<em>run<\/em> to tell others this good news. This is the day the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Alleluia!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/2:14\">ACTS 2:14, 22-33<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>On the day of Pentecost, Peter stood up with the Eleven,<br \/>\nraised his voice, and proclaimed:<br \/>\n\u201cYou who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem.<br \/>\nLet this be known to you, and listen to my words.<br \/>\n\u201cYou who are children of Israel, hear these words.<br \/>\nJesus the Nazorean was a man commended to you by God<br \/>\nwith mighty deeds, wonders, and signs,<br \/>\nwhich God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know.<br \/>\nThis man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God,<br \/>\nyou killed, using lawless men to crucify him.<br \/>\nBut God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death,<br \/>\nbecause it was impossible for him to be held by it.<br \/>\nFor David says of him:<br \/>\n<em>I saw the Lord ever before me,<br \/>\nwith him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.<br \/>\nTherefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted;<br \/>\nmy flesh, too, will dwell in hope,<br \/>\nbecause you will not abandon my soul to the nether world,<br \/>\nnor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption.<br \/>\nYou have made known to me the paths of life;<br \/>\nyou will fill me with joy in your presence.<br \/>\n<\/em>My brothers, one can confidently say to you<br \/>\nabout the patriarch David that he died and was buried,<br \/>\nand his tomb is in our midst to this day.<br \/>\nBut since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him<br \/>\nthat he would set one of his descendants upon his throne,<br \/>\nhe foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ,<br \/>\nthat neither was he abandoned to the netherworld<br \/>\nnor did his flesh see corruption.<br \/>\nGod raised this Jesus;<br \/>\nof this we are all witnesses.<br \/>\nExalted at the right hand of God,<br \/>\nhe poured forth the promise of the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nthat he received from the Father, as you both see and hear.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/16:1\">PS 16:1-2A AND 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (1)\u00a0Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nKeep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;<br \/>\nI say to the LORD, \u201cMy Lord are you.\u201d<br \/>\nO LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,<br \/>\nyou it is who hold fast my lot.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nI bless the LORD who counsels me;<br \/>\neven in the night my heart exhorts me.<br \/>\nI set the LORD ever before me;<br \/>\nwith him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nTherefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices,<br \/>\nmy body, too, abides in confidence;<br \/>\nBecause you will not abandon my soul to the nether world,<br \/>\nnor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nYou will show me the path to life,<br \/>\nfullness of joys in your presence,<br \/>\nthe delights at your right hand forever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/28:8\">MT 28:8-15<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went away quickly from the tomb,<br \/>\nfearful yet overjoyed,<br \/>\nand ran to announce the news to his disciples.<br \/>\nAnd behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them.<br \/>\nThey approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage.<br \/>\nThen Jesus said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cDo not be afraid.<br \/>\nGo tell my brothers to go to Galilee,<br \/>\nand there they will see me.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>While they were going, some of the guard went into the city<br \/>\nand told the chief priests all that had happened.<br \/>\nThe chief priests assembled with the elders and took counsel;<br \/>\nthen they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,<br \/>\ntelling them, \u201cYou are to say,<br \/>\n\u2018His disciples came by night and stole him while we were asleep.\u2019<br \/>\nAnd if this gets to the ears of the governor,<br \/>\nwe will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.\u201d<br \/>\nThe soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed.<br \/>\nAnd this story has circulated among the Jews to the present day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/resurreccion.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28938\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/resurreccion.jpg.webp?resize=300%2C221&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1913\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28937-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=28937-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"4.1.24_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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